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521 Somatostatin treatment of a persistent chyloperitoneum following abdominal aortic surgery Journal of Vascular Surgery, September 28, 2012
522 Pulmonary hypertension is associated with worse early and late outcomes after aortic valve replacement: Implications for transcatheter aortic valve replacement The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, September 28, 2012
523 Association of serum fetuin-A levels with heart valve calcification and other biomarkers of inflammation among persons with acute coronary syndrome Full Text Clinical and Investigative Medicine, September 26, 2012
524 Fever of unknown origin (FUO) due to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) presenting as pericarditis Heart & Lung; The Journal of Acute and Critical Care, September 26, 2012
525 Single center comparative outcomes of the edwards sapien and medtronic melody transcatheter heart valves in the pulmonary position Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, September 26, 2012
526 Transcatheter access route options for treatment of degenerated mitral valve prosthesis with a balloon-expandable biological valve Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, September 26, 2012
527 Transeptal approach for the management of paravalvular regurgitation after transcatheter aortic valve replacement Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, September 26, 2012
528 Cost-effectiveness and budget impact analyses of a long-term hypertension detection and control program for stroke prevention Journal of Hypertension, September 25, 2012 Clinical Article
529 Aortic dimensions in patients with bicuspid and tricuspid aortic valves The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, September 25, 2012
530 Tricuspid regurgitation and right ventricular function after mitral valve surgery with or without concomitant tricuspid valve procedure The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, September 25, 2012
531 Morbidity and mortality of nonagenarians undergoing CoreValve implantation BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, September 25, 2012
532 Successful application of a PressureWire retrogradely across an ATS prosthetic aortic valve to diagnose constrictive pericarditis Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine, September 25, 2012
533 Magnetic resonance velocity mapping of transtricuspid velocity profiles in dilated cardiomyopathy Heart and Vessels, September 24, 2012 Clinical Article
534 Early Improvement of the Regional and Global Ventricle Function Estimated by Two-Dimensional Speckle Tracking Echocardiography after Percutaneous Aortic Valve Implantation Speckle Tracking after CoreValve Implantation Echocardiography, September 24, 2012 Clinical Article
535 Commissural Mitral Regurgitation Detected by Abnormal Blood Flow Pattern in the Left Atrial Appendage Echocardiography, September 24, 2012
536 A noninvasive method of measuring wave intensity, a new hemodynamic index: application to the carotid artery in patients with mitral regurgitation before and after surgery Heart and Vessels, September 24, 2012
537 Infective Endocarditis in the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Era: Comprehensive Review of a Rare Complication Full Text Clinical Cardiology, September 21, 2012
538 Cardiovascular risk assessment in diabetes mellitus: comparison of the general framingham risk profile versus the world health organization/ international society of hypertension risk prediction charts in arabs-clinical implications Angiology, September 21, 2012
539 The Syndrome of Degenerative Calcific Aortic Stenosis: Prevalence of Multiple Pathophysiologic Disorders in Association with Valvular Stenosis and Their Implications Echocardiography, September 20, 2012
540 Imaging in the context of replacement heart valve development: Use of the Visible Heart methodologies Full Text Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy, September 20, 2012
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 summaryAs 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 summaryAs 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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