OBJECTIVES: To develop a resilience assessment tool for cardiac care pathways in Europe, informed by stakeholder insights on the impact of COVID-19, emerging innovations and recommendations to enhance...
OBJECTIVES: To develop a resilience assessment tool for cardiac care pathways in Europe, informed by stakeholder insights on the impact of COVID-19, emerging innovations and recommendations to enhance...
BACKGROUND: Given the high prevalence of mental health challenges, the field of paediatric cardiology has increasingly recognised the need for integrated and embedded psychosocial programming in cardi...
Functional capacity improvement and cardiovascular events after lower extremity revascularization.
BACKGROUND: Functional status predicts outcomes in peripheral artery disease (PAD), but the relevance of changes in functional capacity after lower extremity revascularization (LER) and long-term even...
Superior cervical gangliectomy exacerbates the aortic dissection in mice.
BACKGROUND: Sympathetic innervation is fundamentally required for physiological aortic homeostasis. Though it plays a vital important role in aortic function, its specific role in aortic dissection (A...
Retinal neurovascular and mitochondrial function signatures related to cognition improvement following yoga exercise in older adults.
PURPOSE: To investigate the associations between retinal neurovascular and mitochondrial function signatures and cognitive performances following a 24-week yoga intervention in healthy older adults. M...
Patients' perspectives on pulmonary rehabilitation for pulmonary hypertension in high-altitude areas: a mixed-methods study.
BACKGROUND: Chronic hypoxia at high altitudes worsens pulmonary hypertension (PH), leading to earlier symptom onset, more frequent exacerbations, and diminished quality of life. While pulmonary rehabi...
Refractory Kawasaki Disease in Infants Complicated with Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysms and Takayasu Arteritis: A Rare Case Report and Literature Review.
Kawasaki disease (KD) is a common acute systemic vasculitis in children.10% to 20% of children present with refractory KD, and a few critically ill children may develop Kawasaki disease shock syndrome...
Mortality and cardiovascular risk of triglyceride-glucose and derived indices in cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome stages 0-3: a dose-response meta-analysis.
BACKGROUND: The associations of the triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index and its derived indices with the progression of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome remain poorly elucidated. METHODS: W...
Intraoperative transit-time flowmetry of the superficial temporal artery directly predicts and may mitigate risk of postoperative hyperperfusion syndrome in moyamoya bypass surgery.
OBJECTIVE: To obtain perioperative cerebral blood flow measurements and assess the role of intraoperative blood flow evaluation in predicting postoperative complications. METHODS: We conducted a retro...
Cross-Trait Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Shared Genetic Architecture Between COPD and Retinal Vascular Phenotypes.
BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is accompanied by systemic vascular dysfunction and microcirculatory impairment. Retinal vascular traits provide a non-invasive window into mic...
[Factors associated with the progression of mild cognitive impairment in patients with atrial fibrillation].
OBJECTIVE: To identify factors associated with the progression of vascular moderate cognitive impairment (MCI) over 36 months, based on analyses of clinical, demographic, neuropsychological, laborator...
[Molecular and systemic mechanisms of cognitive impairment associated with coronavirus infection].
Cognitive dysfunction represents a prevalent and long-lasting non-respiratory symptom following a protracted course of coronavirus infection, yet its molecular basis remains inadequately characterized...
Unmasking silent atherosclerosis in type 2 diabetes: the emerging role of adipocyte fatty acid-binding protein.
Objectives. Atherosclerosis contributes to higher mortality and morbidity in people with diabetes. Preventing future complications largely depends on the early detection of imminent atherosclerosis. T...
Predictive value of non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio for in-stent restenosis after drug-eluting stent implantation in patients with coronary heart disease.
BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: In-stent restenosis (ISR) remains a major obstacle after drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), in which dyslipidemia play importa...
Comparative Performance of Calcium-Modification Strategies for Coronary Lesions: A Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials.
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: Calcified coronary lesions are associated with an increased risk of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) failure. Despite the availability of several calcium-modificat...
Bidirectional impact between cardiovascular comorbidities and heart failure: an updated position paper from the Italian society of cardiology (SIC) working group on heart failure.
Heart failure (HF) and cardiovascular (CV) diseases (CVD) are closely interconnected through a complex and bidirectional relationship. HF frequently represents the final common pathway of several CV c...
Extracellular Vesicles in the Heart-Organ Axis: From Inter-Organ Communication to Precision Nanomedicine for Heart Diseases.
BACKGROUND: Heart diseases, including myocardial infarction and heart failure, remain the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, underscoring an urgent need for innovative diagnostic and...
Diagnosis and management of very rare primary arrhythmia syndromes in children and adults: a Clinical Consensus Statement of the European Heart Rhythm Association of the ESC and the Association of Cardiovascular Nursing & Allied Professions of the ESC, endorsed by the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology.
Very rare and ultra-rare primary inherited arrhythmia syndromes (IAS) represent a heterogeneous group of disorders associated with a significant risk of sudden cardiac death, often manifesting from fo...
Red blood cell distribution width is associated with coronary artery disease in latent tuberculosis infection: a machine learning-based study.
BACKGROUND: Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is associated with an increased risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), potentially mediated by systemic inflammation. Traditional lipid-based risk mode...
Frailty and nutritional status as prognostic factors in older adults with heart failure: a public health perspective.
BACKGROUND: Heart failure is a common cardiovascular disease among older adults. Combined with frailty, it may aggravate the patient's condition and affect the prognosis. Nutritional status is importa...