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Quality of Life in Patients with Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators

open access: yes, 2006
Background: The implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is a life saving device for individuals with life threatening ventricular arrhythmias. There is no doubt that it is a cost effective therapy in various congenital and acquired arrhythmogenic ...
Niehaus, Michael   +2 more
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Connecting the dots: A narrative review of the relationship between heart failure and cognitive impairment

open access: yesESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 1119-1131, April 2025.
Abstract Large clinical data underscore that heart failure is independently associated to an increased risk of negative cognitive outcome and dementia. Emerging evidence suggests that cerebral hypoperfusion, stemming from reduced cardiac output and vascular pathology, may contribute to the largely overlapping vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease ...
Mauro Massussi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Woman with Electrocardiographic ST-segment Elevation After a Road Traffic Accident

open access: yesIndian Journal of Clinical Cardiology
We present the case of a woman in her mid-50s with suspected arrhythmic syncope while she was driving owing to fever-induced Brugada syndrome. The patient was appropriately managed with prompt antipyretic treatment and an implantable cardioverter ...
Andreas Y. Andreou   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Heart failure in two male patients with late‐onset Fabry mutation (IVS4 + 919G > A)

open access: yes
ESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 1508-1513, April 2025.
Xufei Yang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

FDG PET/CT imaging and circulating biomarkers of inflammation in desmoplakin cardiomyopathy

open access: yesESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 1485-1489, April 2025.
Abstract Aims Inflammation has been implicated in the pathogenesis of desmoplakin (DSP) cardiomyopathy, and retrospective studies have described abnormal myocardial fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) findings in symptomatic patients eventually diagnosed with DSP cardiomyopathy.
Sanjay Divakaran   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intelligence-based medicine

open access: yes, 2009
Despite seven hundred thousand new medical references last year, the relationship between a given set of medical features and specific pathophysiology, treatment, and criteria of improvement is often weak.
Didier Journois, Pierre Squara
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The treatment of patients with infected implantable cardioverter-defibrillator systems

open access: yes, 1997
Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the treatment of patients with infected implantable cardioverter-defibrillator systems. Methods: Retrospective analysis was done of the cases of 21 patients treated for implantable cardioverter ...
Torchiana, David F.   +9 more
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Genetic Biomarkers in the Risk Assessment of Sudden Cardiac Events: A Personalized Approach

open access: yesiNew Medicine, EarlyView.
Genetic insights into the risk assessment of sudden cardiac events. ABSTRACT Sudden cardiac events are the leading cause of death worldwide. Conventional risk stratification methods, which largely depend on clinical history, imaging, and electrocardiography, are usually inadequate for identifying high‐risk individuals, especially those without visible ...
Shrikant Verma   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unusual migration of implantable cardioverter defibrillator that clinically mimicking breast cancer: A case report

open access: yesRadiology Case Reports
Pacemaker and implantable cardioverter defibrillator migration to the breast are an extremely rare complication. The rarity of this phenomenon and its potential to mimic breast cancer emphasize the importance of reporting such cases.
Abdulwahid M. Salih   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Rare, Late Complication after Automated Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Placement

open access: yes, 2004
This article describes an interesting case of automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD) extrusion fifteen months after implantation.
Shapiro, Michael   +5 more
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