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Cerebrovascular complications and infective endocarditis. impact of available evidence on clinical outcome [PDF]
, 2018 Infective endocarditis (IE) is a life-threatening disease. Its epidemiological profile has substantially changed in recent years although 1-year mortality is still high.
De Bellis, Antonio +8 more
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Veterinary Record Case Reports, EarlyView.Abstract This report describes a case of refractory ionised hypercalcaemia, of 12 months duration, in an 11‐year‐old, male, neutered beagle diagnosed with metastatic histiocytic sarcoma at postmortem examination. In this case, the parathyroid hormone levels were at the lower end of the reference interval, the parathyroid hormone‐related peptide was ...
Kerry E. Rolph +5 more
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Left ventricular mechanical dispersion predicts arrhythmic risk in mitral valve prolapse
Heart, 2019 Objective Bileaflet mitral valve prolapse (MVP) with either focal or diffuse myocardial fibrosis has been linked to ventricular arrhythmia and/or sudden cardiac arrest. Left ventricular (LV) mechanical dispersion by speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE)
S. Ermakov +8 more
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SA Heart, 2017 Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is the most common valvular abnormality, affecting 2.4% of the population. Usually MVP is a benign disease and remains asymptomatic. The diagnosis of MVP is based on clinical presentation, physical examination and echocardiography.
Willem Flameng +2 more
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Perforation of anterior mitral leaflet aneurysm: A rare cause of severe mitral regurgitation
The Egyptian Heart Journal, 2016 Mitral valve perforation is a rare cause of severe mitral regurgitation. Infective endocarditis, connective tissue disease, cardiac surgery and aortic regurgitation jet are blaming causes of mitral valve perforation.
Ahmet Seyfeddin Gurbuz +7 more
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Relationship Between Left Atrial Coupling Index and Atrial High‐Rate Episodes
Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to explore the role and compare the accuracy of the left atrial coupling index (LACI) with other efficient traditional parameters for predicting atrial high‐rate episodes (AHREs) in patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs).
Ayca Arslan +7 more
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Swiss Medical Weekly, 2018 BACKGROUND The term “predisposition” is used as an indication of antimicrobial prophylaxis to prevent infective endocarditis and as a criterion for diagnosing infective endocarditis according to the modified Duke criteria.
Annina E. Buechi +4 more
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Early results after mitral valvuloplasty for pure mitral regurgitation [PDF]
, 2017 In this study we present the results of 105 consecutive patients with pure mitral regurgitation who underwent surgical treatment. In all patients mitral regurgitation was associated with mitral valve prolapse: 54 patients underwent mitral valvuloplasty ...
EGLOFF, L. +8 more
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The role of experience in echocardiographic identification of location and extent of mitral valve prolapse with 2D and 3D echocardiography [PDF]
, 2016 Contradiction exists on the incremental value of two-dimensional (2D) and 3D transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) over 2D transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) for the detection of mitral valve (MV) prolapse in readers with different echocardiographic ...
Akin, S. (Şakir) +9 more
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Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2016 Mitral valve cleft associated with secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) is uncommon. We report a 39-year-old male patient manifesting symptoms of congestive heart failure 3 months before admission. Echocardiography showed typical mitral valve prolapse and
Shi-Min Yuan +2 more
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