Frontiers in Neurology, 2022 ObjectiveTo determine the different clinical features of patients with vertigo attacks alone and of those with weakness accompanying vertigo attacks before the vertebrobasilar ischemic stroke.MethodsIn this 4-year retrospective study, we manually ...
Yalan Deng +5 more
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Infective endocarditis with embolic renal infarct presenting as acute abdomen [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2021 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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A case of repetitive myocardial infarction with unobstructed coronaries due to Churg-Strauss syndrome [PDF]
, 2019 © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology.BackgroundMyocardial infarction is most commonly caused by thrombosis occurring on a background of coronary atherosclerosis, resulting in reduced ...
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2017 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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Which diagnostic tests are most useful in a chest pain unit protocol? [PDF]
, 2005 Background The chest pain unit (CPU) provides rapid diagnostic assessment for patients with acute, undifferentiated chest pain, using a combination of electrocardiographic (ECG) recording, biochemical markers and provocative cardiac testing.
Angelini, K. +4 more
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The Controversial Role of Irisin in Clinical Management of Coronary Heart Disease
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2021 Irisin, a PGC1α-dependent myokine, was once believed to have beneficial effects induced by exercise. Since its first discovery of adipose browning in 2012, multiple studies have been trying to explore the metabolic functions of irisin, such as glucose ...
Wen-Lu Ou-Yang +10 more
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Rheumatic heart disease predisposing to embolic myocardial infarction: a multimodality imaging approach [PDF]
, 2016 We report a clinical case of a 45-year-old male with a diagnosis of inferior myocardial infarction and previous history of rheumatic fever during his childhood. Coronary angiography demonstrated normal coronary arteries.
Canali, Emanuele +4 more
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Prognostic value of the myocardial salvage index measured by T2-weighted and T1-weighted late gadolinium enhancement magnetic resonance imaging after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: A systematic review and meta-regression analysis [PDF]
, 2020 In all patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, risk stratification should be performed before discharge. The measurement of therapy efficiency with magnetic resonance imaging has been proposed as part of the risk assessment, but it has ...
Dewey, Marc, Kendziora, Benjamin
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2017 Background: The effects of capsaicin on obesity and glucose homeostasis are still controversial and the mechanisms underlying these effects remain largely unknown.
Jun-Xian Song +23 more
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The effects of hourly differences in air pollution on the risk of myocardial infarction: case crossover analysis of the MINAP database. [PDF]
, 2011 OBJECTIVES: To investigate associations between air pollution levels and myocardial infarction (MI) on short timescales, with data at an hourly temporal resolution.
Armstrong, Ben +6 more
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