Gender differences on healthcare accessibility and outcomes of a electronic inter‐clinician consultation program at the cardiology department in a Galician Health Area [PDF]
Clinician‐to‐clinician electronic consultation programmes (characterized by asynchronous communication between healthcare professionals) has the main objective reducing the excessive waiting times to obtain a specialist consultant's expert opinion. We analyse our e‐consult model that includes 61,306 patients (30,312 women and 30,994 men) referred from ...
Pilar Mazón‐Ramos +7 more
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Idiopathic Dilatation of the Right Atrium: Diagnosis and Management. [PDF]
Idiopathic dilatation of the right atrium is a rare condition with an unknown etiology. It is characterized by a significant enlargement of the right atrium without the presence of other valvopathies, intracardiac shunts, or pulmonary hypertension.
Rankovic-Nicic L +5 more
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Circulating Levels of Ferritin, RDW, PTLs as Predictive Biomarkers of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation Risk after Cardiac Surgery in Extracorporeal Circulation. [PDF]
Postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) is the most common arrhythmia after cardiac surgery in conventional extracorporeal circulation (CECC), with an incidence of 15-50%. The POAF pathophysiology is not known, and no blood biomarkers exist. However, an
Altieri C +10 more
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Which breathlessness dimensions associate most strongly with fatigue?-The population-based VASCOL study of elderly men. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Breathlessness and fatigue are common symptoms in older people. We aimed to evaluate how different breathlessness dimensions (overall intensity, unpleasantness, sensory descriptors, emotional responses) were associated with fatigue in elderly
Cristea L +5 more
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Type A Aortic Dissection in a Previously Healthy Pregnant Patient: A Challenging Dilemma, Case Report, and Literature Review. [PDF]
Aortic dissection (AoD) is a rare fatal condition in which tearing in the intima causes a false channel in the aorta and can lead to rupture. AoD is classified as the DeBakey classification (Types I, II, III) and Stanford classification (Types A and B).
Bateni E, Dehghan M, Ahmadikia Z.
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The COVID-19 pandemic effect on the prehospital Madrid stroke code metrics and diagnostic accuracy [PDF]
Background Only very few studies have investigated the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prehospital stroke code protocol. During the first wave, Spain was one of the most affected countries by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus disease pandemic.
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Acute Modification of Hemodynamic Forces in Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation [PDF]
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is the established first-line treatment for patient with severe aortic stenosis not suitable for surgery.
Airale, Lorenzo +14 more
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Arterial stiffness and atrial fibrillation: A review [PDF]
Arterial stiffness has been investigated as part of the physiopathology of arterial hypertension since the 1970s. Its role in increasing the “pulsatile load” imposed over the Left Ventricle (LV) has been intensely studied recently and has helped in ...
Bortolotto, Alexandre Lemos +4 more
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Key Clinical Message Patients with septic shock complicated by septic cardiomyopathy (SCM) can be extremely ill and at high risk for mortality. If early assessment of cardiac function is neglected during treatment, sepsis may be further exacerbated.
Hui Gu, Lei Yang
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Introduction. Tricuspid valve (TV) disease is substantially less common than mitral or aortic valve disease, and it is commonly missed due to the tolerability of stenosis or regurgitation. Adults seldom have primary tricuspid valve regurgitation, which is linked to rheumatic heart disease, infectious endocarditis, myxomatous valve disease, congenital ...
Elnaz Shahmohamadi +9 more
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