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Endothelialization and Inflammatory Reactions After Intracardiac Device Implantation
Background: Due to the advances in catheter-based interventional techniques, a wide range of heart diseases can now be treated with a purely interventional approach. Little is yet known regarding biological effec...
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Open AccessDisease-specific characteristics of vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 levels in patients with peripheral artery disease
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is one of the most common manifestations of systemic atherosclerosis. The prevalence of unrecognized PAD is high, leading to a lack of opportunity to detect subjects at a high...
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Open AccessVisualization and appearance of artifacts of leadless pacemaker systems in cardiac MRI
Leadless pacemaker systems are an important upcoming device in clinical rhythmology. Currently two different products are available with the Micra system (Medtronic) being the most used in the clinical setting...
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Open AccessMicroparticles in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)
Degenerative aortic stenosis (AS) is the most frequent form of acquired valvular heart disease. AS is known to entail endothelial dysfunction caused by increased mechanical shear stress leading to elevated cir...
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Stem Cell Therapy for Myocardial Infarction 2001–2013 Revisited
Stem cell therapy for ischemic heart disease was an emerging concept in the early 2000s. First hopes were largely overshadowed by rather inconsistent results in human trials conducted in the middle of the deca...
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