Infective endocarditis with embolic renal infarct presenting as acute abdomen [PDF]
Infective endocarditis (IE) is a disease that is rare but potentially fatal and challenging to diagnose. A 28-year-old man with sickle cell trait and a history of intravenous drug use presented with abdominal pain and hematuria mimicking a surgical ...
Mustafa Mahmood Eid
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Comparative and integrated analysis of plasma extracellular vesicle isolation methods in healthy volunteers and patients following myocardial infarction [PDF]
Plasma extracellular vesicle (EV) number and composition are altered following myocardial infarction (MI), but to properly understand the significance of these changes it is essential to appreciate how the different isolation methods affect EV ...
Daniel C. Anthony +41 more
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BackgroundIMPROVE‐IT (Improved Reduction of Outcomes: Vytorin Efficacy International Trial) showed that adding the nonstatin ezetimibe to statin therapy further reduced cardiovascular events in patients after an acute coronary syndrome. In a prespecified
Eri Toda Kato +9 more
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Long-term mortality after first Acute Myocardial Infarction in the light of changing therapeutic guidelines and diagnostic criteria between 1995 and 2003 [PDF]
Background: The introduction of new invasive therapies for acute myocardial infarction and new medication schemes for secondary prevention is thought to increase life expectancy in 28-day survivors of a first myocardial infarction.
Kandler, Ulla
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Outcome after acute myocardial infarction: a comparison of patients seen by cardiologists and general physicians [PDF]
Background: The management of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has improved over the last 50 years with the more frequent use of effective medicines and procedures. The clinical benefit of the speciality of the attending physician is less clear.
Abubakar, Ibrahim +9 more
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BACKGROUND: The presence of psoriasis is currently considered by the European Society of Cardiology cardiovascular prevention guidelines of 2016 as one possible cardiovascular risk factor.
Zbigniew Siudak +6 more
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Cerebral Infarction in Acute Anemia
There are few previous studies on the relationship between cerebral infarction and acute anemia. This study presents patients with cerebral infarction in acute anemia due to marked blood loss and aims to clarify the stroke nature and possible mechanism ...
蔡忠芬;葉炳强;葉馨喬;鄭建興 +1 more
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Incidence and prevalence of unrecognized myocardial infarction in people with diabetes: a substudy of the rosiglitazone evaluated for cardiac outcomes and regulation of glycemia in diabetes (RECORD) study [PDF]
<p>OBJECTIVE: To examine the prevalence and incidence of unrecognized myocardial infarction in a contemporary population with type 2 diabetes.</p> <p>RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: We performed a retrospective analysis of the ...
Michael R. MacDonald +34 more
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Not Just Fat: Imaging in Abdominal Fat Pathology
Fat in abdomen has diverse distribution and function. Insult to fat due to several causes can result in infarction or necrosis and present as acute abdomen clinically.
Aruna R. Patil +3 more
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Ozone-based chemiluminescence detection (CLD) has been widely applied for determining nitric oxide (•NO) and its derived species in many different fields, such as environmental monitoring and biomedical research.
Junjie Li +3 more
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