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Med Clin (Barc)
January 2025
Servicio Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, España.
Cureus
December 2024
Department of Cardiology, Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital, Maebashi, JPN.
When encountering severe hypoxemia that does not respond to oxygen supplementation, it is essential to consider underlying right-to-left shunting. Among various diagnostic approaches, the microbubble test via transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is a simple, noninvasive method for detecting pulmonary arteriovenous shunts, particularly in hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS). Although microbubbles are usually administered peripherally, using a Swan-Ganz (SG) catheter to inject microbubbles directly into the pulmonary artery may provide even more definitive diagnostic information.
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November 2024
Research Support Center, Shizuoka General Hospital, 4-27-1 Kita-Ando, Aoi, Shizuoka 420-8527, Japan.
Heart failure is a major manifestation of vitamin B deficiency; beriberi. We have previously reported that even vitamin B insufficiency, milder than deficiency, is a risk for heart failure in the institutionalized elderly. Then in this cross-sectional study, sixty-eight cardiology outpatients were evaluated for their whole blood vitamin B and plasma brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) concentrations, a sensitive marker of heart failure, as well as their dietary intake.
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April 2024
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo.
Int Heart J
March 2024
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Kanazawa University.
Shoshin beriberi is a fulminant form of wet beriberi, but there are no large-scale studies detailing the clinical features of this disease. We investigated the clinical features and outcomes of Shoshin beriberi using data from a nationwide database in Japan.Using the Diagnosis Procedure Combination database, we identified patients with Shoshin beriberi between July 2010 and March 2021.
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