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Coronary artery calcium scoring in patients with hypertension
Coronary artery calcium (CAC) is increased by high blood pressure (BP), predicts new-onset hypertension, and is a powerful predictor of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events in patients with and withou...
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Secondary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease
The secondary prevention of coronary artery disease can be defined as a long-term management strategy for patients who have sustained an acute coronary syndrome or have chronic coronary heart disease. Goals of...
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Primary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease
The advances in the detection and management of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have resulted in a 31% decline in the death rates attributable to CVD in the United States from 2001 to 2011 [1]. Coronary, or isc...
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Pulmonary Embolism
Pulmonary embolism (PE) and deep venous thrombosis (DVT) are two manifestations of one disease, venous thromboembolism (VTE). DVT is confirmed by venography in more than 80% of patient with PE that is proven b...
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Open AccessDiagnosis of acquired generalized lipodystrophy in a single patient with T-cell lymphoma and no exposure to Metreleptin
Metreleptin, a recombinant methionyl -human -leptin, was approved to treat patients with generalized lipodystrophy (GL) in February 2014. However, leptin therapy has been associated with the development of lym...
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Doxorubicin-induced cardiac dysfunction in unselected patients with a history of early-stage breast cancer
Cardiomyopathy is a known complication of anthracycline-based adjuvant chemotherapy and is more commonly reported in population-based studies of breast cancer survivors than in clinical trials. This study pro...
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HDL Cholesterol and Cardiovascular Outcomes: What Is the Evidence?
The relationship between low concentrations of high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and heightened risk for cardiovascular (CV) disease has been known for decades. Despite the consistent inverse relati...
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Diagnostic value of resting tricuspid regurgitation velocity and right ventricular ejection flow parameters for the detection of exercise induced pulmonary arterial hypertension
Our objectives were to evaluate resting tricuspid regurgitation velocity (TRV) and right ventricular outflow tract velocity curve (RVOTvc) profiles as markers for development of exercise induced pulmonary arteria...
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Natural History of Experimental Myocardial Ischemia. Observations in Acute and Chronic Studies
Introduction of ST segment map** to experimental (Maroko et al., 1971) and clinical investigations (Awan et al., 1976; Madias et al., 1975 and 1976) on the effects of interventions intended to reduce ischemi...
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Epicardial St-Segment Map** in Acute Myocardial Ischemia. Examples of Coincidental Experimental Interventions which may Affect Interpretation
The technique of multi-electrode epicardial recording of electrical activity of the heart is now commonly used for evaluation of the ischemic injury in experimental studies (Maroko et al., 1971). Its ability t...
