Transcriptomic signatures of subcutaneous adipose tissue in patients with diabetes and coronary artery disease: a pilot study by Ilias P. Doulamis, Bernard Pan, Aspasia Tzani, Jorge Plutzky, G. William Wong, Ahmet Kilic, Risa M. Wolf

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Broviac Catheter–Related Aortic Valve Infective Endocarditis Complicated With Massive Aortic Regurgitation Requiring Emergency Surgery: A Case Report by Małgorzata Wilawer, Waldemar Elikowski, Natalia Fertała, Arkadiusz Włodarski, Patryk Szczęśniewski, Paulina Anna Ratajska, Paweł Bugajski

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Use of Continuous Negative Pressure Around the Chest Increases Exercise Performance in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients: A Pilot Study by Rakesh K Chaturvedi, Arnold Zidulka

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Everolimus in Heart Transplantation: An Update by Stephan W. Hirt, Christoph Bara, Markus J. Barten, Tobias Deuse, Andreas O. Doesch, Ingo Kaczmarek, Uwe Schulz, Jörg Stypmann, Assad Haneya, Hans B. Lehmkuhl

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Dexmedetomidine alleviates acute kidney injury in a rat model of veno‐arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation by Min Yu, Shilin Wei, Xueyang Shen, Junjie Ying, Dezhi Mu, Xiangyang Wu, Yongnan Li

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Nutrition before and during Surgery and the Inflammatory Response of the Heart: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Marlieke Visser, Hans W. M. Niessen, Wouter E. M. Kok, Riccardo Cocchieri, Willem Wisselink, Paul A. M. van Leeuwen, Bas A. J. M. de Mol

“…Therefore, we studied the effect of nutrition before and during cardiac surgery on myocardial inflammatory response. …”
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Risk factors for long-term severe tricuspid regurgitation following mitral valve replacement: a retrospective study by Shan-Shan Li, Ling-Zhi Dou, Bing Han, Bing-Rong Miao, Sen Wang, He Jiang, Yu-Li Zheng, Jian-Ming Li, Hong-Yun Ruan

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Transcatheter edge to edge compared with surgery in older patients with degenerative mitral valve regurgitation by Gaspard Suc, Rebecca Hadjedj, Jules Mesnier, Skerdi Haviari, Marylou Para, Gregory Ducrocq, Dominique Himbert, Eric Brochet, My Lien Nguyen, Sophie Provenchere, Marina Urena, Bernard Iung

“…Factors independently associated with the combined outcome were residual MR > 2 (aHR 4.31 (95% CI: 1.51–12.25)), history of cardiac surgery (aHR 6.24 (95%CI: 2.16–18.05)), BMI (aHR 0.88 (95% CI: 0.77–0.98)), TR > 2 at baseline (aHR: 2.47 (95% CI: 1.03–5.91)). …”
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lncRNA NEAT1 Downregulation Ameliorates the Myocardial Infarction of Mice by Regulating the miR-582-5p/F2RL2 Axis by Zhenhua Wu, Yunpeng Bai, Yujuan Qi, Chao Chang, Yan Jiao, Yaobang Bai, Zhigang Guo

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Caseous Calcification of the Mitral Annulus: A Rare Cause of Intracardiac Mass by Anxo Martinez-de-Alegria, Jose Rubio-Alvarez, Sandra Baleato-Gonzalez

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Noncoding RNAs and Stem Cell Function and Therapy by Yaoliang Tang, Wei Lei, Yanfang Chen, Xiaolong Wang, Mark W. Hamrick, Mi Zhou

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Traumatic Bilateral Pneumothoraces due to Sternal Wire Migration by Umar Imran Hamid, Scott Gillespie, Colum Lynchehaun, Haralabos Parissis

“…Sternal wound complications after cardiac surgery are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. …”
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Chemoradiation-Induced Superior Vena Cava Syndrome: A Case Report by Mathieu Castonguay, George Rodrigues, Mark Vincent, Richard A Malthaner, Lin-Ruo Guo

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Development and validation of an EHR-based risk prediction model for geriatric patients undergoing urgent and emergency surgery by Edward N. Yap, Jie Huang, Joshua Chiu, Robert W. Chang, Bradley Cohn, Judith C. F. Hwang, Mary Reed

“…Methods Patients 65-years and older undergoing urgent or emergency non-cardiac surgery within 21 hospitals 2017–2021 were used to develop the model (randomly split: 80% training, 20% test). …”
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Combined Kidney-Liver, Heart-Liver, and Kidney-Pancreas Transplantations from a Single Deceased Donor by Matteo Ravaioli, Matteo Serenari, Matteo Cescon, Sofia Martin Suarez, Alessandro Cucchetti, Giorgio Ercolani, Massimo Del Gaudio, Fausto Catena, Cristina Morelli, Giorgio Arpesella, Antonio Daniele Pinna

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Surgical techniques and prognostic nomogram for patients with supravalvular aortic stenosis by Yuekun Sun, Lizhi Lv, Xinyue Lang, Aihua Zhi, Simeng Zhang, Cheng Wang, Qiang Wang

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Pulmonary Artery Intimal Sarcoma Diagnosed Preoperatively by Endovascular Biopsy and Treated via Right Pneumonectomy and Pulmonary Arterioplasty by Daiki Kato, Shohei Mori, Eriko Harada, Rintaro Shigemori, Takamasa Shibazaki, Hideki Matsudaira, Jun Hirano, Hirokazu Ashida, Hiroko Kimura, Michio Yoshitake, Takashi Kunihara, Takashi Ohtsuka

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Balloon Occlusion Types in the Treatment of Coronary Perforation during Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Xiangfei Wang, Junbo Ge

“…Optimal balloon occlusion methods should reduce the amount of bleeding and ameliorate subsequent myocardial ischemia injury, even during cardiac surgery.…”
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The Use of N-Terminal-Pro-BNP in Preterm Infants by Afif EL-Khuffash, Eleanor Molloy

“…Their role in prognosis following cardiac surgery has also been identified. In preterm infants NTpBNP is becoming increasingly recognised as a potential screening tool for patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), and a marker for myocardial performance. …”
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Immediate postoperative cardiac tamponade following robotic lung resection surgery: a case report by Kathryn M. Jan, Anthony Q. Dao, Ravi Joshi, Sreekanth Cheruku, Suzanne Dellaria, Kunal Karamchandani

“…Development of cardiac tamponade following non-cardiac surgery is rare, and diagnosis may often be overlooked due to low suspicion. …”
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