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Drug Therapy for Heart Valve Diseases. [PDF]

Circulation, 2015
Valvular heart diseases (VHDs) are among the most predictable causes of heart failure and sudden cardiac death.1 Observational studies suggest that a relatively high proportion of asymptomatic subjects manifest hemodynamically apparent VHDs varying from mild to severe.1 VHDs comprise 2 overarching groups: primary, involving intrinsic abnormalities of ...
Borer JS, Sharma A.
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Cost of illness of Heart Valve Diseases (HVDs): A real-world analysis in Italy [PDF]

Global & Regional Health Technology Assessment
Introduction: Heart valve diseases constitute a significant public health challenge with substantial clinical and economic implications. The ageing population, coupled with advancements in surgical techniques, has led to increased hospitalizations for ...
Paolo Sciattella, Matteo Scortichini
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Natriuretic peptides in heart valve disease [PDF]

Heart, 2005
Synthesis and release of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) are increased in heart failure, and plasma concentrations provide important therapeutic and prognostic information. Recent studies have shown that BNP concentrations are also increased with disease of the mitral and aortic valves.
SG Ray
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Usefulness of FRAIL Scale in Heart Valve Diseases [PDF]

Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2020
Piotr Duchnowski,1 Piotr Szymański,1 Mariusz Kuśmierczyk,2 Tomasz Hryniewiecki1 1Institute of Cardiology, Department of Acquired Cardiac Defects, Warsaw, Poland; 2Institute of Cardiology, Department of Cardiosurgery and Transplantology, Warsaw ...
Duchnowski P, Szymański P, Kuśmierczyk M, Hryniewiecki T   +3 more
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Efficacy and safety of mechanical pulmonary valve replacement: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Background Pulmonary valve replacement (PVR) is the most common valve replacement procedure for pulmonary valve dysfunction in congenital heart diseases (CHD).
Ali Rafati, Sina Rashedi, Yeganeh Pasebani, Milad Vahedinejad, Hamed Ghoshouni, Yaser Toloueitabar, Mostafa Mousavizadeh, Sedigheh Saedi, Amirhosein Jalali, Zahra Khajali, Hassan Tatari, Fahimeh Farrokhzadeh, Hooman Bakhshandeh, Maziar Gholampour Dehaki, Behshid Ghadrdoost, Parham Sadeghipour   +15 more
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Hypothermia-induced accelerated idioventricular rhythm after cardiac surgery; a case report

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2023
Background Accelerated idioventricular rhythm (AIVR) is a slow ventricular arrhythmia, commonly due to myocardial ischemia in coronary artery disease.
Saeid Hosseini, Soheila Salari, Sepideh Banar, Yousef Rezaei, Atieh Tajik, Ali Zahedmehr, Zahra Emkanjoo   +6 more
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Editorial: Women in heart valve disease

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023
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Veulemans, Verena, Billaud, Marie, Nunes, Maria Carmo P., Goettsch, Claudia, Aikawa, Elena   +4 more
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Incidence of Bacterial Endocarditis after Heart Valves Replacement Surgery in Mashhad (from 2012 to 2016) [PDF]

Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine, 2022
Introduction: Bacterial endocarditis is one of the high mortality complications after the valve surgery. Despite the medical advancements, the mortality rate of Bacterial Endocarditis has not been decreased.
Atefeh Ghorbanzadeh, Gholamreza Safarpoor, Hamid Hoseinikhah, Omid Javdanfar, Soroush Mir, Zahra Moeinipour, Aliasghar Moeinipour   +6 more
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Non-toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae infective endocarditis with embolic events: a case report

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background Corynebacterium diphtheriae (C. diphtheriae) infections, usually related to upper airways involvement, could be highly invasive. Especially in developing countries, non-toxigenic C.
Antonio de Santis, Rinaldo Focaccia Siciliano, Roney Orismar Sampaio, Masahiko Akamine, Elinthon T. Veronese, Francisco Monteiro de Almeida Magalhaes, Maria Rita Elmor Araújo, Flavia Rossi, Marcelo M. C. Magri, Ana Catharina Nastri, Tarso A. D. Accorsi, Vitor E. E. Rosa, David Provenzale Titinger, Guilherme S. Spina, Flavio Tarasoutchi   +14 more
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Multimodality imaging in heart valve disease [PDF]

Open Heart, 2016
In patients with heart valve disease, echocardiography is the mainstay for diagnosis, assessment and serial surveillance. However, other modalities, notably cardiac MRI and CT, are used if echocardiographic imaging is suboptimal but can also give complementary information to improve assessment of the valve lesion and cardiac compensation to aid the ...
Chambers, John B, Myerson, Saul G, Rajani, Ronak, Morgan-Hughes, Gareth J, Dweck, Marc R   +4 more
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