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MDLinx Cardiology – on this page: Articles from over 2,000 of the peer-reviewed medical journals, pre-sorted and ranked by what’s most relevant to your day-to-day practice, and summarized to save you precious time. From vascular disorders and stroke to valvular disorders, coronary artery disease and arrhythmias, our physician editors make sure that all members of your heart health team can be current on the literature in 5 minutes or less every day.
Also on this page: Bonus content exclusive to MDLinx, clinical pearls from The Smartest Cardiologist daily quiz competition and Cardiology Physician Review. Plus, the “must-read” articles related to cardiology, personally chosen by our physician editor, D. Scott Cunningham, MD, PhD.
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Latest (2) Full Text Articles (254) Focus on Intervention901 Two-Dimensional Longitudinal Strain Assessment in the Presence of Myocardial Contrast Agents Is Only Feasible with Speckle-Tracking after Microbubble Destruction Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, November 14, 2012
902 Short-Term Effects of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation on Left Atrial Mechanics and Left Ventricular Diastolic Function Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, November 14, 2012
903 Transthoracic Doppler Echocardiography for Detection of Stenoses in the Left Coronary Artery by Use of Poststenotic Coronary Flow Profiles: A Comparison with Quantitative Coronary Angiography and Coronary Flow Reserve Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, November 14, 2012
904 Perioperative Serum Aspartate Aminotransferase Level as a Predictor of Survival After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Annals of Thoracic Surgery, November 14, 2012
905 Comparative Assessment of 2-Dimensional Echocardiography vs Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Measuring Left Ventricular Mass in Patients With and Without End-Stage Renal Disease Canadian Journal of Cardiology, November 13, 2012
906 Ultrasound-guided femoral vein catheterization in neonates with cardiac disease Pediatric Critical Care, November 12, 2012 Clinical Article
907 Effect of atorvastatin on dynamic parameters of myocardial repolarization in healthy subjects Journal of Electrocardiology, November 9, 2012 Clinical Article
908 T-wave inversion and diastolic dysfunction in patients with electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy Journal of Electrocardiology, November 9, 2012 Clinical Article
909 Intermittent capture of the right ventricular outflow tract by atrial pacing in a patient with a dual-chamber pacemaker Journal of Electrocardiology, November 9, 2012 Clinical Article
910 Atrioventricular delay programming in cardiac resynchronization therapy devices: fixed or adaptive? A randomized monocenter trial Journal of Electrocardiology, November 9, 2012
911 Role of Ankyrin-G in the Preservation of Intercellular Junctions. Visualization in the Nanoscale Using Direct Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy Heart Rhythm, November 9, 2012
912 A New Pace Mapping Algorithm for Accurate Localization of VT and Accessory Pathway Origins Using the Standard 12Lead ECG Heart Rhythm, November 9, 2012
913 Does Rubidium-82 PET Have Superior Accuracy to SPECT Perfusion Imaging for the Diagnosis of Obstructive Coronary Disease JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, November 8, 2012 Clinical Article
914 Coronary angiographic scoring systems: An evaluation of their equivalence and validity American Heart Journal, November 8, 2012 Clinical Article
915 Discrepancy between mitral valve areas measured by two-dimensional planimetry and three-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography in patients with mitral stenosis Heart, November 8, 2012 Clinical Article
916 The Future REvascularization Evaluation in patients with Diabetes mellitus: Optimal management of Multivessel disease (FREEDOM) trial: Clinical and angiographic profile at study entry American Heart Journal, November 8, 2012 Clinical Article
917 Aortic annulus area assessment by multidetector computed tomography for predicting paravalvular regurgitation in patients undergoing balloon-expandable transcatheter aortic valve implantation: A comparison with transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography American Heart Journal, November 8, 2012
918 Performing magnetic resonance imaging in patients with implantable pacemakers and defibrillators: results of a European Heart Rhythm Association survey EP Europace, November 8, 2012 Clinical Article
919 Chronic Total Occlusions in Sweden – Report from the Swedish Coronary Angiography and Angioplasty Registry (SCAAR) JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, November 7, 2012
920 Cardiac tamponade due to rupture of coronary artery fistula to the coronary sinus with giant aneurysm of coronary artery: usefulness of transthoracic echocardiography Heart and Vessels, November 7, 2012 Clinical Article
Clinical Pearls in Cardiology
- Intracoronary abciximab when compared to intravenous abciximab significantly reduces the risk of death among patients with STEMI undergoing PCI
- Thrombolysis in MI (TIMI) scores between 5-14 on admission place patients at high risk for 30-day mortality and should be transferred to a monitored inpatient unit or CCU
- High-sensitivity cardiac troponin T is superior to contemporary sensitive cardiac troponin I in early diagnosis of non-STEMI and the prediction of MI and mortality among patients with suspected ACS
Highlights in Cardiology
Heart failure risk associated with adiponectin level
As published in Obesity, a J-shaped association between adiponectin level and heart failure exists. The study involved 787 males with heart failure and 787 healthy controls from the Physicians’ Health Study. The relative risk of heart failure from lowest to highest quintile of adiponectin level was 0.74, 0.67, 0.70, and 0.92.
Read the article summaryApo B-48 is a marker for CAD
As published in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, fasting serum apo B-48 levels were elevated in patients with Coronary Artery Disease (n=96; 6.9 µg/mL) compared to patients without CAD (n=67; 3.9 µg/mL). Along with other cardiac risk factors, an apo B-48 level > 4.34 µg/mL was predictive of CAD.
Read the article summaryPost-exercise heart rate recovery predicts cardiac autonomic neuropathy in T2DM
As published in Diabetic Medicine, cardiac autonomic neuropathy can be predicted in patients with T2DM and negative exercise echocardiograms based on post-exercise heart rate recovery. Of the 135 study subjects, 27 (20%) had cardiac autonomic neuropathy, the criteria for which included > 2 of 7 autonomic function markers (4 cardiac reflex tests and 3 indices of short-term heart rate variability). The optimal cut-offs for post-exercise heart rate recovery at 1-, 2-, and 3-minutes were < 28, < 50, and < 52 beats per minute, respectively.
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