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Impact of osteoporotic risk in men undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement: a report from the LAPLACE-TAVI registry
Low body weight and advanced age are among the best predictors of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis Self-Assessment Tool (OST) values are calculated by a simple formula [(body weight in kilograms – age in years) × 0....
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Impact of osteoporotic risk in women undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement
Low body weight and advanced age are reported to be among the best predictors of osteoporosis, and osteoporosis self-assessment tool (OST) values are calculated using a simple formula to identify postmenopausa...
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Dynamic aortic changes during the cardiac cycle in patients with aortic valve disease analyzed by computed tomography combined with PhyZiodynamics software
Endovascular therapy for the ascending aorta is expected in the future, but the dynamic changes in the ascending aorta are unclear.
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Usefulness of the predicted percentage ventilatory efficiency for carbon dioxide output during exercise in patients with chronic heart failure
The ventilatory efficiency for carbon dioxide output ( \({\dot{\text{V}}}\) V ...
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Open AccessDeep learning-based age estimation from chest X-rays indicates cardiovascular prognosis
In recent years, there has been considerable research on the use of artificial intelligence to estimate age and disease status from medical images. However, age estimation from chest X-ray (CXR) images has not...
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Open AccessCoronary ostial angioplasty for juvenile Takayasu arteritis involving the coronary artery using external iliac artery grafts
Takayasu arteritis can affect the coronary ostia, leading to myocardial ischemia. Coronary ostial angioplasty effectively treats coronary artery ostial lesions associated with Takayasu arteritis. We present a cas...
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Prevalence and impact of fracture on postmenopausal women with aortic stenosis who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement
Information regarding fracture in patients with transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is limited. We investigated the prevalence and impact of fracture in patients with severe aortic stenosis who had u...
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Current conditions and significance of outpatient cardiac rehabilitation and home nursing-care services in heart failure patients with mid-range or preserved ejection fraction: post-hoc analysis of the REAL-HF registry
The effects of outpatient cardiac rehabilitation (OCR) implementation and home nursing-care services (HNS) use are not well defined in patients with heart failure (HF) with mid-range or preserved left-ventricu...
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Prognostic predictors and echocardiographic time course after device replacement in patients treated chronically with cardiac resynchronization therapy devices
The prognostic predictors of death or heart failure hospitalization and the echocardiographic response after initial cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) device replacement (CRT-r) remain unclear. We evalua...
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Open AccessPlasma apolipopotein C-2 elevation is associated with Takayasu arteritis
Takayasu arteritis (TAK) is an autoimmune systemic arteritis of unknown etiology. Although a number of investigators have attempted to determine biomarkers for diagnosing TAK, there exist no specific serologic...
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Open AccessThe use of geographical analysis in assessing the impact of patients’ home addresses on their participation in outpatient cardiac rehabilitation: a prospective cohort study
Geographical analysis is becoming a powerful tool for evaluating the quality of medical services and acquiring fundamental data for medical decision-making. Using geographical analysis, we evaluated the impact...
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Transcatheter aortic valve implantation-related futility: prevalence, predictors, and clinical risk model
Futility denotes failure to achieve the projected outcome. We investigated the prevalence, predictors, and clinical risk model of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)-related futility. We included 46...
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Open AccessAssociated factors of poor treatment outcomes in patients with giant cell arteritis: clinical implication of large vessel lesions
Relapses frequently occur in giant cell arteritis (GCA), and long-term glucocorticoid therapy is required. The identification of associated factors with poor treatment outcomes is important to decide the treat...
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Clinical features of potential after-effects of percutaneous coronary intervention in the treatment of silent myocardial ischemia
Clinical predictors for later adverse cardiovascular events in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for silent myocardial ischemia remain undetermined. We investigated clinical features...
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Physical performance as a predictor of midterm outcome after mitral valve surgery
The usefulness of performing physical function assessments for evaluating clinical outcomes after all cardiac surgeries has been reported. However, no studies have evaluated the relationship between physical f...
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Open AccessTakayasu arteritis: clinical importance of extra-vessel uptake on FDG PET/CT
[F-18]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography is routinely used for assessing Takayasu arteritis patients. However, extra-vessel [F-18]fluorodeoxyglucose uptake has not been evaluated ...
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Right ventricular dysfunction is associated with exercise intolerance and poor prognosis in ischemic heart disease
Right ventricular (RV) function is a prognostic factor in ischemic heart disease (IHD) patients, although its correlations with exercise capacity and cardiac rehabilitation (CR) efficacy are unknown. We aimed ...
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Obesity paradox in the era of percutaneous coronary intervention with 2nd-generation drug-eluting stents: an analysis of a multicenter PCI registry
Being overweight has been identified as independent risk factors for coronary artery disease. However, overweight patients have been reported frequently to have better mortality outcomes, and there is little d...
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Repeat transcatheter aortic valve replacement using a 23 mm Evolut R in a small patient with a failed 20 mm SAPIEN XT
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Outcomes of patients requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a clinical case series
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has been established as a low-invasive therapy for aortic stenosis, but circulatory collapse necessitating mechanical circulatory support could occur during TAVI ...
