Cardiac Migration of Endogenous Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Patients with Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy by Caroline Schmidt-Lucke, Felicitas Escher, Sophie Van Linthout, Uwe Kühl, Kapka Miteva, Jochen Ringe, Thomas Zobel, Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Carsten Tschöpe

“…The presence of MSC in EMB, cardiac inflammation, and SDF-1α mRNA expression were detected via immunohistochemistry and real-time PCR. …”
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Rare Intracardiac Tumor: Primary Cardiac Lymphoma Presenting as Atypical Angina by Karthigesu Aimanan, K. Saravana Kumar, M. N. Mohd Arif, Md Noor Zuraini, Md Jamil Ramdzan, L. Hamdan

“…Primary lymphomas of the heart are extremely rare, accounting for 2% of all primary cardiac tumors. Due to the rare presentation, there is no proper consensus available on treatment strategy. …”
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Role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Detecting Biventricular Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy by Nathan Zaher, Hammam Shereef, Rashid Al Hussain, John Dawdy, Diane Levine, M. Chadi Alraies

“…ApHCM with right ventricular involvement (BiApHCM) is largely unreported and may not be detected with conventional transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) alone. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) has been demonstrated to be a proficient imaging modality to diagnose BiApHCM. …”
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Initial bystander response to a simulated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by Fran Wyffels, Geert Brône, Nathalie Charlier, Peter Iserbyt, Stijn De Beugher, Tessy Boedt, Toon Goedemé

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A Protocol for Diagnosis and Management of Aortic Atherosclerosis in Cardiac Surgery Patients by Wouter W. Jansen Klomp, George J. Brandon Bravo Bruinsma, Arnoud W. J. Van ’t Hof, Jan G. Grandjean, Arno P. Nierich

“…In patients undergoing cardiac surgery, use of perioperative screening for aortic atherosclerosis with modified TEE (A-View method) was associated with lower postoperative mortality, but not stroke, as compared to patients operated on without such screening. …”
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Evaluation of Inflammatory, Cardiac and Hematological Parameters in Hospitalized Children with COVID-19 by Damla Geçkalan, Rahmi Özdemir, Zülal Yılmaz, Onur Sivas, Yasin Yılmaz, Cemile Hilal Çelik

“…In addition, a detailed cardiac assessment is required in patients without COVID-19 pneumonia due to elevated troponin levels.…”
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Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Cardiac Patients with Overweight and Obesity by I. V. Logacheva, T. A. Ryazanova, V. R. Makarova, O. V. Surnina

“…In this research, we set out to study organic changes in the heart and blood vessels of obese men suffering from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) combined with cardiac pathology in the metabolically unhealthy phenotype (MUHP). …”
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The Role of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Heart Failure: A Narrative Review by Olivier Uwishema, Ece Karabulut, Dalal Sheikhah, Burhan Kantawala, Misgana Gallo, Fatima Soufan, Magda Wojtara

“…ABSTRACT Introduction Structural and functional cardiac defects leading to inadequate tissue oxygenation is known as Heart failure (HF) which is characterized by extensive morbidity and mortality. …”
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Nurses’ Knowledge Regarding Cardiac Catheterization at General Hospital in Rania City by Bayan O. Sharif, Shara H. Salih, Niga A. Sailh, Bahar I. Salim

Subjects: “…Nurses, Knowledge, cardiac catheterization, General Hospital at Rania city.…”
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Hemopericardium and Cardiac Tamponade Secondary to Migrated Inferior Vena Cava Filter by Jeet J. Mehta, Benjamin DeMarco, John P. Vavalle, Khola S. Tahir, Joseph S. Rossi

“…A 73-year-old female presented with cardiogenic shock secondary to hemopericardium and cardiac tamponade. Imaging revealed two fractured legs of an inferior vena cava filter, with one leg within the anterior myocardium of the right ventricle and another penetrating the inferior septum through the middle cardiac vein. …”
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Cardiac Troponin T and Illness Severity in the Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infant by Danielle N. Lopes, José M. Moraes Ramos, Maria Elizabeth Lopes Moreira, Jofre A. Cabral, Manoel de Carvalho, José Maria de Andrade Lopes

“…Respiratory distress are very common in Very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants and Myocardial injury may play a role in the disease outcome. Cardiac troponin T (cTnT) is the most useful marker of injury in adult population, but has not been extensively studied in this population. …”
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Local Thrombolysis for Successful Treatment of Acute Stroke in an Adolescent with Cardiac Myxoma by Natig Gassanov, Amir M. Nia, Kristina M. Dahlem, Stefan Ederer, Inga Wedemeyer, Evren Caglayan, Erland Erdmann, Fikret Er

“…Intracardiac myxomas are the most common benign cardiac tumors in adults. They are a rare source of cardiogenic embolisms and sudden death, especially in young patients. …”
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Image Processing Techniques for Assessing Contractility in Isolated Adult Cardiac Myocytes by Carlos Bazan, David Torres Barba, Peter Blomgren, Paul Paolini

“…We describe a computational framework for the comprehensive assessment of contractile responses of enzymatically dissociated adult cardiac myocytes. The proposed methodology comprises the following stages: digital video recording of the contracting cell, edge preserving total variation-based image smoothing, segmentation of the smoothed images, contour extraction from the segmented images, shape representation by Fourier descriptors, and contractility assessment. …”
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A standardized definition for right ventricular failure in cardiac surgery patients by Habib Jabagi, Alex Nantsios, Marc Ruel, Lisa M. Mielniczuk, André Y. Denault, Louise Y. Sun

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Evaluation of diastole by echocardiography for detecting early cardiac dysfunction: an outcome study by Tatiana Kuznetsova, Nicholas Cauwenberghs, František Sabovčik, Yukari Kobayashi, Francois Haddad

“…In contrast, the adjusted risks of adverse cardiac events (HR = 1.28; P = 0.0045) were significantly elevated in participants with LVDDF when classified according to the population‐derived criteria. …”
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Renal function and clinical outcomes in survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by Hao-Wei Lee, Ming-Jen Kuo, Pai-Feng Hsu, I-Hsin Lee, Chih-Yu Yang, Teh-Fu Hsu, Chorng-Kuang How, Yenn-Jiang Lin, Chin-Chou Huang

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European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation II and Liver Dysfunction by Andreea Ludusanu, Adelina Tanevski, Bogdan Mihnea Ciuntu, Razvan Lucian Bobeica, Dragos Andrei Chiran, Cristinel Ionel Stan, Viorel Dragos Radu, Vasile Lucian Boiculese, Grigore Tinica

“…<b>Background:</b> The importance of liver dysfunction in predicting mortality in patients undergoing cardiovascular surgery is an important topic due to the general desire to improve current risk scores such as EUROSCORE II (European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation), with EUROSCORE III being currently under development. …”
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Formation, Contraction, and Mechanotransduction of Myofribrils in Cardiac Development: Clues from Genetics by Javier T. Granados-Riveron, J. David Brook

“…It is a leading infant mortality factor worldwide, caused by defective cardiac development. Mutations in transcription factors, signalling and structural molecules have been shown to contribute to the genetic component of CHD. …”
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Survival from Maternal Cardiac Arrest Complicating Coronavirus Disease 2019 by Andrea D. Shields, John J. Byrne, Meghan Munisteri, Michael Wood

“…Little is known about the cardiac complications, specifically cardiac arrest, of COVID-19 during pregnancy and postpartum periods. …”
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T2-Weighted Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Edema in Myocardial Diseases by Yasuo Amano, Masaki Tachi, Hitomi Tani, Kyoichi Mizuno, Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Shinichiro Kumita

“…The purpose of this paper is to describe imaging techniques and findings of T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of edema in myocardial diseases. T2-weighted cardiac MRI is acquired by combining acceleration techniques with motion and signal suppression techniques. …”
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