To determine mechanisms of myocardial toxicity of radiopaque media and to correlate specifically induced changes in the composition of coronary artery blood with changes in the surface ...

A patient who reports arrhythmia symptoms or a perceived shock should be promptly evaluated with an ICD interrogation to determine whether the event was truly a ventricular arrhythmia, rather than an ...

Cx40 (connexin 40) was reported to be a molecular modulator of the renal baroreflex. 6 Connexins are transmembrane gap junction proteins involved in cell-to-cell communication. Renin cell-specific ...

Hypertension is one of the main risk factors for the development of many cardiovascular diseases. Despite significant progress in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension, approximately only half ...

The 3 core attributes of the standard-ACO model include organized care, performance measurement, and payment reform, all aligned to promote value-based healthcare delivery. 2 The proposed Turbo-ACO ...

With the advancements of molecular genetics and the identification of mutations in the genes encoding the cardiac ryanodine receptor and cardiac calsequestrin 2 in patients with CPVT, the central role ...

This chapter summarizes the management of acute stroke in the adult patient. It summarizes out-of-hospital care through the first hours of therapy. For additional information about the management of ...

Nurses play a pivotal role in all phases of patient care. Also, they frequently are on the front line regarding TIA and stroke education of patients/families, recognition of signs/symptoms, assessment ...

New medical therapies are needed to improve walking performance and to prevent the adverse outcomes associated with PAD-related functional impairment such as mobility loss and the ability to continue ...

A principal obstacle to such interpretation is the difficulty in distinguishing abnormal patterns from physiological effects of training. Many clinical and ECG findings that may be a cause of concern ...

The identification of a previously unsuspected molecule in platelets inevitably leads to questions about its role in either platelets or megakaryocytes. Platelets have limited synthetic capability.

All of our cases of abnormal pulmonary venous connections collected to the middle of 1965 and verified at surgery or autopsy have been reviewed by means of diagrams and tabulations, using a specially ...