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Cardiology - Myocardium/Pericardium News & Articles
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.
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Latest (3) Full Text Articles (423) Focus on Hypertension181 Value of Adding Natriuretic Peptides and Electrocardiographic Findings to Assess the Presence of Cardiac Dysfunction in Patients ≥80 Years of Age The American Journal of Cardiology, April 5, 2013 Clinical Article
182 U-Shape Association Between Hemoglobin A1c and Late Mortality in Patients With Heart Failure After Cardiac Surgery The American Journal of Cardiology, April 5, 2013 Clinical Article
183 Impact of Traumatic Muscle Crush Injury as a Cause of Cardiomyocyte-specific Injury Heart, Lung, and Circulation, April 5, 2013 Clinical Article
184 The Role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Heart, Lung, and Circulation, April 5, 2013 Review Article
185 Early Haemodynamic Changes in Cerebral Blood Flow After Cardiac Resychronisation Therapy Heart, Lung, and Circulation, April 5, 2013 Clinical Article
186 Precordial R Wave Height Does Not Correlate with Echocardiographic Findings in Boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Congenital Heart Disease, April 5, 2013 Clinical Article
187 Noncompaction of the Myocardium Coexistent with Bronchiectasis and Polycystic Kidney Disease Heart, Lung, and Circulation, April 5, 2013
188 Primary Pleural Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma Compressing the Myocardium Journal of Cardiac Surgery, April 5, 2013
189 Imaging of an Atypical Pericardial Cyst Heart, Lung, and Circulation, April 5, 2013
190 Tissue Doppler Myocardial Velocity Imaging in Infants and Children—a Window into Developmental Changes of Myocardial Mechanics Echocardiography, April 5, 2013 Review Article
191 Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators for Children and Adolescents at High Risk for Sudden Death From Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy ? JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 4, 2013 Clinical Article
192 Relation of Triiodothyronine to Subclinical Myocardial Injury in Patients With Chest Pain The American Journal of Cardiology, April 4, 2013 Clinical Article
193 Acute myocarditis in vivax malaria: an extremely rare complication Full Text Tropical Doctor, April 4, 2013
194 Improved Accuracy of Myocardial Perfusion SPECT for the Detection of Coronary Artery Disease Using a Support Vector Machine Algorithm The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, April 4, 2013 Clinical Article
195 Effect of Metoprolol Versus Carvedilol on Outcomes in MADIT-CRT (Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial With Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy) JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 3, 2013 Clinical Article
196 Prognostic Value of Cardiac Troponin I Measured With a Highly Sensitive Assay in Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 3, 2013 Clinical Article
197 B-Type Natriuretic Peptide and Prognosis in Heart Failure Patients With Preserved and Reduced Ejection Fraction Full Text JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 3, 2013 Clinical Article
198 Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death With Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators in Children and Adolescents With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 3, 2013 Clinical Article
199 An electrocardiographic scoring system for distinguishing right ventricular outflow tract arrhythmias in patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy from idiopathic ventricular tachycardia Heart Rhythm, April 3, 2013 Clinical Article
200 Effect of evidence-based drug therapy on long-term outcomes in patients discharged after myocardial infarction: a nested case–control study in Italy Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, April 3, 2013 Evidence Based Medicine 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.
Read the article summaryMost Popular Cardiology Articles
Last month's top read Top Articles of 20121 Rate versus rhythm control for management of atrial fibrillation in clinical practice: Results from the Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (ORBIT-AF) registry American Heart Journal, April 1, 2013
2 Meat consumption and mortality - results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition BMC Medicine, March 12, 2013 Free full text Review Article
3 The influence of atorvastatin on parameters of inflammation left ventricular function, hospitalizations and mortality in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy -- 5-year follow-up Lipids in Health and Disease, April 11, 2013 Free full text
4 A Novel Approach to Cardiac Troponins to Improve the Diagnostic Work-up in Chest Pain Patients Critical Pathways in Cardiology, February 1, 2013
5 Trends in Predicted 10-Year Risk of Coronary Heart Disease and Cardiovascular Disease among US Adults from 1999 to 2010 JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 12, 2013
6 Malignant Pericardial Effusion Cardiology, April 8, 2013
7 Infective Endocarditis New England Journal of Medicine, April 12, 2013
8 Incidence of myocardial infarction in Swedish chimney sweeps 1991-2005: a prospective cohort study Occupational and Environmental Medicine, April 23, 2013
9 U-Shape Association Between Hemoglobin A1c and Late Mortality in Patients With Heart Failure After Cardiac Surgery The American Journal of Cardiology, April 5, 2013
10 Temporal Relationship of Conduction System Disease and Ventricular Dysfunction in LMNA Cardiomyopathy Journal of Cardiac Failure, April 18, 2013
11 Myocardial dysfunction during H1N1 influenza infection Journal of Critical Care, April 9, 2013
12 Enalapril And Carvedilol for Preventing Chemotherapy-Induced Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction in Patients with Malignant Hemopathies. The OVERCOME Trial JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 12, 2013
13 Acute myocarditis in vivax malaria: an extremely rare complication Tropical Doctor, April 4, 2013 Free full text
14 Prevalence of Migraine and Raynaud Phenomenon in Women With Apical Ballooning Syndrome (Takotsubo or Stress Cardiomyopathy) The American Journal of Cardiology, April 29, 2013
15 Differences in clinical profile of african-american women with peripartum cardiomyopathy in the United States Journal of Cardiac Failure, April 16, 2013
16 B-Type Natriuretic Peptide and Survival in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 26, 2013
17 Efficacy and safety of dabigatran etexilate and warfarin in real world patients with atrial fibrillation: A prospective nationwide cohort study JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 15, 2013
18 Late Outcomes of Mitral Valve Repair for Mitral Regurgitation Due to Degenerative Disease Circulation, April 10, 2013
19 Antihypertensive Therapy in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy The American Journal of Cardiology, March 22, 2013
20 A controlled trial of a nurse follow-up dietary intervention on maintaining a heart-healthy dietary pattern among patients after myocardial infarction Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, April 26, 2013
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