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Eur Heart J
January 2025
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tohoku University Hospital, Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8574, Japan.
BMJ Open
January 2025
British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Purpose: Bangladesh has experienced a rapid epidemiological transition from communicable to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in recent decades. There is, however, limited evidence about multidimensional determinants of NCDs in this population. The BangladEsh Longitudinal Investigation of Emerging Vascular and nonvascular Events (BELIEVE) study is a household-based prospective cohort study established to investigate biological, behavioural, environmental and broader determinants of NCDs.
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January 2025
Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital, Dallas, TX; Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX. Electronic address:
Background: There are limited comparative data on real-world outcomes of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of the left main (LM) and non-LM coronary arteries.
Methods: 873 consecutive patients undergoing LM PCI (n=256) and non-LM PCI (n=617) were enrolled between September 2019-March 2023 in the Excellence in Coronary Artery Disease (XLCAD) Registry. Primary outcome was 1-year incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), a composite of all-cause death, non-fatal myocardial infarction, clinically driven repeat revascularization and ischemic stroke.
Toxicon
January 2025
Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG); Interdisciplinary Research Center in Intensive Care Medicine (NIIMI). Electronic address:
Scorpion stings have a fatality rate of 0.16%, with the majority of deaths occurring in children. The resources currently available for diagnosing cardiac dysfunction caused by scorpion stings, the most common cause of death, are echocardiograms and laboratory tests, such as troponin, creatine phosphokinase-MB (CKMB), and Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Rhabdomyoma is the most common cardiac tumor in fetal life. It has frequent association with tuberous sclerosis complex and may lead to heart failure, a potentially fatal condition. The use of transplacental sirolimus, a mTOR inhibitor, has emerged as a novel treatment in symptomatic fetal rhabdomyomas, there are, though, only few cases described.
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