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BMC Cardiovasc Disord
January 2025
Department of Internal Medicine, Collage of Medicine and Health Science, Debre Markos University, Debre Markos, Ethiopia.
Background: In developing countries evidences regarding pulmonary hypertension (PH) in rheumatic heart disease (RHD) patients are lacking, despite being responsible for significant morbidity and mortality. As a result, identifying the factors that influence PH is crucial to improve the quality of care.
Objective: To determine prevalence of pulmonary hypertension and its associated factors among rheumatic heart disease patients at the public hospitals of Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia.
Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis
December 2024
Department of Radiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria. Electronic address:
Background And Aims: The interaction of serum uric acid (SUA) with atherogenesis is incompletely understood. Aim of our study was to investigate the association of SUA levels with coronary plaque composition including high-risk-plaque (HRP) features by coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) and for the prediction of major adverse cardiac events (MACE).
Methods And Results: 1242 patients (age 66.
ESC Heart Fail
January 2025
GREAT Network, Rome, Italy.
Aims: This study aimed to conduct a phase 2 proof-of-concept and safety study to evaluate the effect of ENIBARCIMAB (EN), a non-neutralizing humanized monoclonal antibody targeting the N-terminus of adrenomedullin (ADM), administered immediately after stabilization with standard of care (SoC) treatment, in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure (AHF).
Methods And Results: This prospective, open-label, controlled, interventional, multicenter, dose-escalation study was conducted at two cardiology sites in Indonesia. Patients were divided into two interventional groups sequentially receiving 0.
BMJ Case Rep
January 2025
Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Cardio-Thoracic Sciences Centre, New Delhi, Delhi, India
A young man presented with complaints of angina on exertion and dyspnoea on exertion for the last 3 months. On evaluation, he was found to have a cystic mass in the left ventricle with severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction. A cardiac MRI revealed a multiloculated mass in the left ventricle with multiple septa with internal enhancement and CT coronary angiography revealed compression of a coronary artery by the cystic mass.
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January 2025
Department of Physical Education and Sports, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Sport and Health University Research Institute (iMUDS), University of Granada, Carretera de Alfacar, S/N 18071, Granada, Spain.
Background And Aims: Individuals with coronary artery disease have poorer mental health, health-related quality of life (HR-QoL), and cognition compared with (age-matched) controls. Exercise training may attenuate these effects. The aim is to systematically review and meta-analyse the effects of different exercise types and settings on brain structure/function, cognition, HR-QoL, mental health (e.
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