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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 (36) Full Text Articles (3243) Focus on Arrhythmias1 Benefit of early statin therapy in patients with acute myocardial infarction who have extremely low low-density lipoprotein cholesterol Full Text JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, October 8, 2012 Original Publication Date: October 7, 2011 Clinical Article
2 Validity of the 6 min walk test in prediction of the anaerobic threshold before major non-cardiac surgery Full Text British Journal of Anesthesia, October 8, 2012 Original Publication Date: October 7, 2011
3 Analysis of Survival in 300 High-Risk Patients up to 2.5 Years After Transapical Aortic Valve Implantation Full Text Annals of Thoracic Surgery, October 8, 2012 Original Publication Date: October 10, 2011
4 Hepatic steatosis, carotid plaques and achieving MDA in psoriatic arthritis patients starting TNF-alpha blockers treatment: a prospective study Full Text Arthritis Research & Therapy, October 8, 2012 Clinical Article
5 Induced Interleukin-19 Contributes to Cell-Mediated Immunosuppression in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting With Cardiopulmonary Bypass Full Text Annals of Thoracic Surgery, October 8, 2012 Original Publication Date: October 10, 2011
6 Age-Specific Differences in Outcomes After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests Full Text Pediatrics, October 8, 2012 Original Publication Date: October 7, 2011
7 The I405V and Taq1B polymorphisms of the CETP gene differentially affect sub-clinical carotid atherosclerosis Full Text Lipids in Health and Disease, October 8, 2012
8 Diverse effects of a low dose supplement of lipidated curcumin in healthy middle aged people Full Text Nutrition Journal, October 8, 2012
9 Outcome Comparison of 600- and 300-mg Loading Doses of Clopidogrel in Patients Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Full Text JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, October 7, 2012 Original Publication Date: October 6, 2011 Clinical Article
10 Impact of the Everolimus-Eluting Stent on Stent Thrombosis: A Meta-Analysis of 13 Randomized Trials Full Text JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, October 7, 2012 Original Publication Date: October 7, 2011 Evidence Based Medicine Clinical Article
11 Isolated Diastolic Hypotension and Incident Heart Failure in Older Adults Full Text Hypertension, October 7, 2012 Original Publication Date: October 10, 2011
12 Mechanisms Involved in Cardioprotective Effects of Pravastatin Administered during Reoxygenation in Human Myocardium In Vitro Full Text Anesthesiology, October 7, 2012 Original Publication Date: April 6, 2012 Clinical Article
13 Coronary β2-adrenoreceptors mediate endothelium-dependent vasoreactivity in humans: novel insights from an in vivo intravascular ultrasound study Full Text European Heart Journal, October 7, 2012 Original Publication Date: October 7, 2011
14 Left Atrial Contractile Function Following a Successful Modified Maze Procedure at Surgery and the Risk for Subsequent Thromboembolic Stroke Full Text JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, October 7, 2012 Original Publication Date: October 7, 2011
15 Biventricular pacing: current trends and future strategies Full Text European Heart Journal, October 7, 2012 Original Publication Date: October 7, 2011
16 Left Atrial Compression and the Mechanism of Exercise Impairment in Patients With a Large Hiatal Hernia Full Text JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, October 7, 2012 Original Publication Date: October 7, 2011
17 SYNTAX score and Clinical SYNTAX score as predictors of very long-term clinical outcomes in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions: a substudy of SIRolimus-eluting stent compared with pacliTAXel-eluting stent for coronary revascularization (SIRTAX) trial Full Text European Heart Journal, October 7, 2012 Original Publication Date: October 7, 2011 Clinical Article
18 The impact of the coronary collateral circulation on mortality: a meta-analysis Full Text European Heart Journal, October 7, 2012 Original Publication Date: October 7, 2011 Evidence Based Medicine
19 Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Transfemoral Versus Transapical Approach Full Text Annals of Thoracic Surgery, October 7, 2012 Original Publication Date: October 7, 2011
20 Chronic kidney disease and risk for presenting with acute myocardial infarction versus stable exertional angina in adults with coronary heart disease Full Text JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, October 7, 2012 Original Publication Date: October 7, 2011
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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