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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 (147) Focus on Hypertension801 Assessment of an iterative reconstruction algorithm (SAFIRE) on image quality in pediatric cardiac CT datasets Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, June 22, 2012
802 Primary hypertension and neurocognitive and executive functioning in school-age children Pediatric Nephrology, June 21, 2012
803 Perspectives in interventional electrophysiology in children and those with congenital heart disease: electrophysiology in children Heart, Lung, and Circulation, June 21, 2012
804 Cardiac juvenile xanthogranuloma in an infant presenting with pericardial effusion Congenital Heart Disease, June 20, 2012
805 Short-term neurodevelopmental outcomes in neonates with congenital heart disease: the era of newer surgical strategies Congenital Heart Disease, June 20, 2012
806 Functional critical aortic stenosis with transient retrograde flow in a neonate with left diaphragmatic hernia Congenital Heart Disease, June 20, 2012
807 Decreased Right Ventricular Function in Healthy Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Patients Versus Non-Cystic Fibrosis Patients Pediatric Cardiology, June 19, 2012
808 Use of Milrinone to Treat Cardiac Dysfunction in Infants with Pulmonary Hypertension Secondary to Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia: A Review of Six Patients Neonatology, June 18, 2012
809 Treatment of Patent Ductus Arteriosus and Neonatal Mortality/Morbidities: Adjustment for Treatment Selection Bias The Journal of Pediatrics, June 18, 2012
810 A strategy for atrial septal defect closure in small children that eliminates long term wall erosion risk Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, June 14, 2012
811 First experience with AndraStent XL implantation in children and adolescents with congenital heart diseases Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, June 14, 2012
812 Transcatheter closure of persistent ductus arteriosus in adults Journal of Interventional Cardiology, June 13, 2012
813 Prevalence, morbidity, and mortality of heart failure–related hospitalizations in children in the united states: a population-based study Journal of Cardiac Failure, June 13, 2012
814 An Anomalous Left Superior Venacava Draining into Left Atrium in association with Fetal Valproate Syndrome The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, June 12, 2012
815 Carotid extra-medial thickness in childhood: Early life effects on the arterial adventitia Atherosclerosis, June 12, 2012
816 Reduced cardiac output and its correlation with coronary blood flow and troponin in asphyxiated infants treated with therapeutic hypothermia European Journal of Pediatrics, June 11, 2012
817 Physician counseling, informed consent and parental decision making for infants with hypoplastic left-heart syndrome Journal of Perinatology, June 11, 2012
818 Oxidative stress in hypertensive children before and after 1 year of antihypertensive therapy Pediatric Nephrology, June 8, 2012 Clinical Article
819 Iatrogenic Aortopulmonary Fistula Occurring After Pulmonary Artery Balloon Angioplasty: A Word of Caution Pediatric Cardiology, June 8, 2012
820 Giant Cardiac Fibroma: An Unusual Cause of Failure to Thrive Pediatric Cardiology, June 8, 2012
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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Last month's top read Top Articles of 20121 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
2 Applicability of the modified Duke criteria for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis in children with and without heart disease Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, April 15, 2013
3 Commencement of warfarin therapy in children following the Fontan procedure Thrombosis Research, April 17, 2013
4 Treatment of Obesity-Related Hypertension in Children and Adolescents Current Hypertension Reports, April 3, 2013 Review Article
5 Speckle Tracking Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Echocardiography, April 5, 2013
6 Modified Blalock Taussig shunt: a not-so-simple palliative procedure European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, April 12, 2013 Review Article
7 Percutaneous Intraperitoneal Catheters in Neonates Following Open Heart Surgery Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, April 3, 2013
8 A composite outcome for neonatal cardiac surgery research The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, April 22, 2013
9 Social impact on families of children with complex congenital heart disease Annals of Saudi Medicine, April 16, 2013 Free full text Review Article
10 Risk of cancer associated with cardiac catheterization procedures during childhood: a cohort study in France BMC Public Health, March 25, 2013 Free full text
11 The effect of preoperative nutritional status on postoperative outcomes in children undergoing surgery for congenital heart defects in San Francisco (UCSF) and Guatemala City (UNICAR) The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, April 22, 2013
12 Tissue Doppler Myocardial Velocity Imaging in Infants and Children—a Window into Developmental Changes of Myocardial Mechanics Echocardiography, April 5, 2013 Review Article
13 Phrenic nerve injury after paediatric heart surgery: is aggressive plication of the diaphragm beneficial? European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, March 21, 2013
14 Short-Term Outcome of Neonates With Congenital Heart Disease and Diaphragmatic Hernia Treated With Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Annals of Thoracic Surgery, April 12, 2013
15 Effect of prostaglandin E1 inhalation on pulmonary hypertension following corrective surgery for congenital heart disease Experimental and Clinical Cardiology, April 17, 2013 Free full text
16 Epidemiology and outcome analysis of children with traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest compared to nontraumatic cardiac arrest Pediatric Surgery International, April 15, 2013 Review Article
17 Pulse oximetry home monitoring in infants with single-ventricle physiology and a surgical shunt as the only source of pulmonary blood flow Cardiology in the Young, March 15, 2013
18 Percutaneous Retrograde Recanalization of a Chronic Total Coronary Artery Occlusion in a 7 Year Old Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine, April 2, 2013
19 Berlin Heart EXCOR Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device for Bridge to Heart Transplantation in US Children Circulation, April 24, 2013
20 Structural congenital brain disease in congenital heart disease: Results from a fetal MRI program European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, March 22, 2013
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