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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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Editorial: Women in heart valve disease
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023 Published by Frontiers Media ...
Veulemans, Verena +4 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 +4 more
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Rheumatic Heart Disease and Myxomatous Degeneration: Differences and Similarities of Valve Damage Resulting from Autoimmune Reactions and Matrix Disorganization. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Autoimmune inflammatory reactions leading to rheumatic fever (RF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) result from untreated Streptococcus pyogenes throat infections in individuals who exhibit genetic susceptibility.
Carlo de Oliveira Martins +9 more
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JTCVS Open, 2022 Objective: Bioprosthetic surgical aortic valve replacement remains an important treatment option in the era of transcatheter interventions. Real-world outcomes are not well characterized because of limited prospective follow-up studies. We present the 10-
Robert J. Wiechmann, MD +5 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 +6 more
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Electrcardiographic Changes in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Part 2. Frequency of Electrocardiographic Changes in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Other Diseases [PDF]
, 1963 As reported in Part 1 of this paper, the author observed a variety of electrocardiographic aberrations in 27 patients with rheumatoid arthritis. This report will compare the frequency of electrocardiographic aberrations in 45 such cases with the ...
Kitayama, Minoru
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View, 2021 Heart diseases caused by structure and function degradation is troubling millions of people all over the world. With the extension of human lifespan, the demand for heart valve replacement is rapidly increasing.
Ziyu Shao +10 more
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Surgery for valvular heart disease: a population-based study in a Brazilian urban center. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BACKGROUND:In middle income countries, the burden of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains high, but the prevalence of other heart valve diseases may rise as the population life expectancy increases.
Guilherme S Ribeiro +6 more
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Marine Drugs, 2021 Cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis and aortic valve sclerosis involve inflammatory reactions triggered by various stimuli, causing increased oxidative stress.
Yi-Fen Chiang +11 more
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