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Echocardiography
January 2025
Department of Hospitalization, National Institute of Cardiology Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico.
A 43-year-old woman presented with dyspnea and cough, initially misdiagnosed as respiratory syncytial virus. Persistent symptoms led to pulmonary thromboembolism treatment, but worsening issues revealed recurrent pericardial effusion. Imaging and biopsy confirmed pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma, mimicking thromboembolism, and autoimmune disease, underscoring diagnostic challenges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKardiol Pol
December 2024
Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Cardiogenic shock (CS) in women is a serious cardiovascular (CV) event associated with a high mortality rate. Non-ischemic etiologies are the most common etiologies in women, such as stress-induced cardiomyopathy, peripartum/postpartum cardiomyopathy, heart failure-related CS, or CS due to myocarditis or valvular heart disease. Although not being the most common etiology in women, acute myocardial infarction is still an important one.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGuidelines recommend risk stratification of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) patients to guide management. There are currently several risk stratification scores available, which have largely been validated in various pulmonary hypertension registries in the West but not in Asia. We aim to study the performance of these different risk scores in PAH patients from a multi-ethnic Asian population.
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November 2024
Cardiology, Mount Sinai West Hospital, New York, USA.
The mechanism and severity of mitral valve (MV) regurgitation (MR) play a critical role in guiding treatment decisions. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is the primary diagnostic modality for evaluating MV disease. Discordant findings on TTE can be further quantified through transesophageal echocardiography (TEE).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Behav Nutr Phys Act
December 2024
The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Level 18, International Towers 3, 300 Barangaroo Ave, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia.
Background: Online grocery shopping is a growing source of food purchases in many countries. We investigated the effect of nudging consumers towards purchases of lower sodium products using a web browser extension.
Methods: This trial was conducted among individuals with hypertension who shopped for their groceries online in Australia.
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