Publications by authors named "Joerg Hermann"

Background: Evidence regarding the effect of long-term exposure to particulate matter (PM) 2.5 and comorbid cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality is limited.

Objectives: In this study, the author report the association between long-term exposure to PM 2.

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Among 301 newly diagnosed patients with acute myeloid leukaemia receiving venetoclax and a hypomethylating agent, 23 (7.6%) experienced major cardiac complications: 15 cardiomyopathy, 5 non-ST elevation myocardial infarction and/or 7 pericarditis/effusions. Four patients had more than one cardiac complication.

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Background: Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) myocarditis is associated with significant mortality risk. Electrocardiogram (ECG) changes in ICI myocarditis have strong prognostic value. However the impact of complete heart block (CHB) is not well defined.

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Background: Surgical therapy has been a long-standing option for valvular heart disease, in patients with history of cancer, it carries an increased risk of complications.

Objectives: Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) for mitral regurgitation, represents a less invasive option. However, patients with history of cancer have generally been excluded from trials.

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Background: Racial and social disparities exist in outcomes related to cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Objectives: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to study the impact of social vulnerability on mortality attributed to comorbid cancer and CVD.

Methods: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research database (2015-2019) was used to obtain county-level mortality data attributed to cancer, CVD, and comorbid cancer and CVD.

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Background: There is a paucity of data regarding the association between radiation exposure of heart substructures and the incidence of major coronary events (MCEs) in patients with esophageal cancer (ESOC) undergoing chemoradiation therapy. We studied radiation dosimetric determinants of MCE risk and measured their impact on patient prognosis using a cohort of ESOC patients treated at a single institution. Methods: Between March 2005 and October 2015, 355 ESOC patients treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy were identified from a prospectively maintained and institutional-regulatory-board-approved clinical database.

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Arc magma acquires continental crust-like trace element signatures through selective recycling of incompatible elements from the subducted slab. The long-standing model of element recycling through aqueous fluid from altered oceanic crust (AOC) and sediment melt has been challenged by the resurgence of mélange diapir (a mix of AOC, sediment, and serpentinite) and saline aqueous fluid models. Here, we present experimental data for near-solidus sediment melts and a framework for calculating trace element concentrations in subduction fluids from metamorphosed sediment and oceanic crust.

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Background: The high incidence rate of cardiovascular (CV) events had led to a comprehensive appraisal for identifying patients who are at risk for CV disease. However, CV traditional risk factors, such as Framingham risk score (FRS), failed exhaustively to predict CV events.

Methods: 402 participants (mean age, 58 [12] years; 45% male) using fingertip peripheral artery tonometry at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, were recruited in the present study.

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Autoimmune rheumatic diseases can affect the cardiac vasculature, valves, myocardium, pericardium, and conduction system, leading to a plethora of cardiovascular manifestations that can remain clinically silent or lead to substantial cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Although the high risk of cardiovascular pathology in patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatological diseases is not owing to atherosclerosis alone, this particular condition contributes substantially to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality-the degree of coronary atherosclerosis observed in patients with rheumatic diseases can be as accelerated, diffuse, and extensive as in patients with diabetes mellitus. The high risk of atherosclerosis is not solely attributable to traditional cardiovascular risk factors: dysfunctional immune responses, a hallmark of patients with rheumatic disorders, are thought to cause chronic tissue-destructive inflammation.

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The deeply eroded West Gondwana Orogen is a major continental collision zone that exposes numerous occurrences of deeply subducted rocks, such as eclogites. The position of these eclogites marks the suture zone between colliding cratons, and the age of metamorphism constrains the transition from subduction-dominated tectonics to continental collision and mountain building. Here we investigate the metamorphic conditions and age of high-pressure and ultrahigh-pressure eclogites from Mali, Togo and NE-Brazil and demonstrate that continental subduction occurred within 20 million years over at least a 2,500-km-long section of the orogen during the Ediacaran.

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Large-scale tectonic processes introduce a range of crustal lithologies into the Earth's mantle. These lithologies have been implicated as sources of compositional heterogeneity in mantle-derived magmas. The model being explored here assumes the presence of widely dispersed fragments of residual eclogite (derived from recycled oceanic crust), stretched and stirred by convection in the mantle.

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Background: Hemoglobin solutions combine volume effect, oxygen-carrying capacity, and vasoactive properties, the latter facilitating restoration of global hemodynamics but endangering microvascular resuscitation. Hemoglobin-evoked vasoconstriction probably is due to nitric oxide scavenging, which can be reduced by genetic modifications of the heme pocket. This study compares resuscitation with a nonhemoglobin colloid and two recombinant hemoglobin solutions with wild-type and reduced nitric oxide-scavenging capacity.

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The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) is involved in the removal of damaged proteins and the activation of transcription factors, such as nuclear-factor-kappaB. Recent reports, however, questioned the functional activity of the UPS under conditions of increased oxidative stress, such as experimental hypercholesterolemia, which was the objective of our study. Pigs were placed on a normal chow diet (N) or on a hypercholesterolemic diet without (HC) or with vitamin C and E supplementation (HC+VIT) for 12 weeks.

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