A woman in her early 40s, diabetic, presented with severe right-sided chest pain radiating to her right hand of 2 hours’ duration. She did not have history of any previous episodes of chest pain, ...

Computed tomography angiography (CTA) tends to overestimate restenosis after cervical carotid stenting because of the substantial blooming artifacts from metallic stent materials. Hence, we propose a ...

Disrupting the Status Quo: Reimagining How We Use Troponin for Diagnosing Myocardial Infarction ...

BACKGROUND: Lipoprotein kinetics are a crucial factor in understanding lipoprotein metabolism because a prolonged time in circulation can contribute to the atherogenic character of B-lps ...

Studies suggest percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) guided by intracoronary imaging (ICI) results in larger balloon/stent diameters and longer stents. Whether this occurs in real-world PCI is ...

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This individual participant data meta-analysis aimed to determine whether time to treatment influences the effect of intraarterial thrombolysis (IAT), intravenous thrombolysis, and conservative ...

BACKGROUND: Surgery is an essential treatment for selected patients with infective endocarditis (IE). Despite indications for surgery, not all patients undergo surgery. Most previous IE cohorts have ...

Sarcopenia is associated with adverse outcomes in patients with end-stage heart failure. Muscle mass can be quantified via manual segmentation of computed tomography images, but this approach is ...

Vessel-lining endothelial cells (ECs) rely on heparan sulfate (HS) proteoglycans to regulate vascular permeability and to maintain vascular homeostasis. Hpa2 (heparanase 2) is a little-known, ...