Classification and Regression Trees on Aggregate Data Modeling: An Application in Acute Myocardial Infarction by C. Quantin, L. Billard, M. Touati, N. Andreu, Y. Cottin, M. Zeller, F. Afonso, G. Battaglia, D. Seck, G. Le Teuff, E. Diday

“…Cardiologists are interested in determining whether the type of hospital pathway followed by a patient is predictive of survival. …”
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Cost-Effectiveness of the Prenatal Detection of Congenital Heart Diseases: A Systematic Literature Review by Darío Londoño Trujillo, Paula A. Castro García, Kristian K. Rojas López, Karen J. Moreno-Medina, María T. Dominguez Torres, Rodolfo J. Dennis Verano, Nestor F. Sandoval Reyes

“…Screening with only 4-chamber views interpreted by general practitioners or cardiologists were dominant strategies compared with screening with 4-chamber plus outflow views interpreted by a general practitioner. …”
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Impact of a Virtual Clinic in a Paediatric Cardiology Network on Northeast Brazil by Juliana Sousa Soares de Araújo, Adalberto Vieira Dias Filho, Renata Grigório Silva Gomes, Cláudio Teixeira Regis, Klecida Nunes Rodrigues, Nicoly Negreiros Siqueira, Fernanda Cruz de Lira Albuquerque, Felipe Alves Mourato, Sandra da Silva Mattos

“…Despite that, there is a shortage of paediatric cardiologists in Brazil, mainly in the northern and northeastern regions. …”
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Case studies in heritable vascular disease: Proceedings of the UTHealth Houston Multidisciplinary Aortic Conference by Milan Jaiswal, BA, Lucas Ribe, MD, Rana O. Afifi, MD, Yuki Ikeno, MD, Alana C. Cecchi, MS, Bihong Zhao, MD, PhD, Akiko Tanaka, MD, PhD, Gustavo S. Oderich, MD, L. Maximilian Buja, MD, Dianna M. Milewicz, MD, PhD, Siddharth K. Prakash, MD, PhD, Anthony L. Estrera, MD

“…McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston convenes a regular conference that includes cardiothoracic and vascular surgeons, cardiologists, geneticists, radiologists, and pathologists to formulate multidisciplinary approaches for the management of complex heritable thoracic aortic disease cases. …”
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Redo Aortic Valve Replacement After Prior Transcatheter versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights from Western Experience by Arber Aliu, Klodiana Durici, Ira Lazo, Altin Veshti

“…This trend underscores the need for this informative article, which aims to provide insights into the risks and outcomes of aortic valve reoperations, particularly in light of efforts by interventional cardiologists to expand the indications for TAVR to younger and lower-risk patients. …”
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Anatomy-Informed Multimodal Learning for Myocardial Infarction Prediction by Ivan-Daniel Sievering, Ortal Senouf, Thabo Mahendiran, David Nanchen, Stephane Fournier, Olivier Muller, Pascal Frossard, Emmanuel Abbe, Dorina Thanou

“…<italic>Results:</italic> The results of our framework on a clinical study of 445 patients admitted with acute coronary syndromes confirms that multimodal learning increases the predictive power and achieves good performance (AUC: <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.67\pm 0.04$</tex-math></inline-formula> &amp; F1-Score: <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.36\pm 0.12$</tex-math></inline-formula>), which outperforms the prediction obtained by each modality independently as well as that of interventional cardiologists (AUC: 0.54 &amp; F1-Score: 0.18). <italic>Conclusions:</italic> To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt towards combining multimodal data through a deep learning framework for future MI prediction. …”
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Clinical Practice Guidelines of the Russian Scientific Liver Society, Russian Gastroenterological Association, Russian Association of Endocrinologists, Russian Association of Geron... by V. T. Ivashkin, M. V. Maevskaya, M. S. Zharkova, Yu. V. Kotovskaya, O. N. Tkacheva, E. A. Troshina, M. V. Shestakova, I. V. Maev, V. V. Breder, N. I. Gheivandova, V. L. Doshchitsin, E. N. Dudinskaya, E. V. Ershova, Kh. B. Kodzoeva, K. A. Komshilova, N. V. Korochanskaya, A. Yu. Mayorov, E. E. Mishina, M. Yu. Nadinskaya, I. G. Nikitin, N. V. Pogosova, A. I. Tarzimanova, M. Sh. Shamkhalova

“…Aim: present clinical guidelines, aimed at general practitioners, gastroenterologists, cardiologists, endocrinologists, comprise up-to-date methods of diagnosis and treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.Key points. …”
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Geographic and socioeconomic variation of sodium and potassium intake in Italy: results from the MINISAL-GIRCSI programme by Simona Giampaoli, Francesco P Cappuccio, Chen Ji, Luigi Palmieri, Diego Vanuzzo, Chiara Donfrancesco, Renato Ippolito, Pasquale Strazzullo

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Gender differences in efficiency of the telemedicine care of heart failure patients. The results from the TeleEduCare-HF study by Agata Bielecka-Dąbrowa, Dariusz Trzmielak, Agata Sakowicz, Kamil Janikowski, Maciej Banach

“…Based on regular measurements of weight and blood pressure HF patients were telemonitored by nurses, primary care physicians and referred to cardiologists when necessary. The questionnaire was conducted in all patients at baseline after enrollment to the study and after 3 months of telemonitoring and extensive educational process. …”
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Cluster randomised controlled trial of screening for atrial fibrillation in people aged 70 years and over to reduce stroke: protocol for the pilot study for the SAFER trial by Martin R Cowie, Stephen Morris, Gregory Lip, Richard J McManus, Stephen Sutton, Jonathan Mant, Simon J Griffin, Sarah Hoare, Jenni Burt, Rachel Johnson, Mark Lown, Alison Powell, Natalie Armstrong, FD Richard Hobbs, Trudie Lobban, Rakesh Narendra Modi, Ben Freedman, David A Fitzmaurice, Stephen Kaptoge, Jenny Lund, Duncan Edwards, Kate Williams, H Thom, Francesco Fusco, Michael J Sweeting, Andrew Dymond, The SAFER Authorship Group

“…Participants are asked to record four traces every day for 3 weeks on a hand-held single-lead ECG device. Cardiologists remotely confirm episodes of AF identified by the device algorithm, and general practitioners follow-up with anticoagulation as appropriate. …”
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Multi-dimensional outcomes following extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation by Tharusan Thevathasan, Vanessa Wahl, Joshua Boettel, Megan Kenny, Julia Paul, Sophie Selzer, Abdulla Al Harbi, Eva-Maria Dorsch, Heinrich Audebert, Matthias Rose, Christoph Paul Klapproth, Sonia Lech, Katharina Schmitt, Steffen Desch, Ulf Landmesser, Ralf Westenfeld, Fabian Voss, Carsten Skurk

“…A multidisciplinary post-ECPR outpatient care program was developed at two centers, involving cardiologists, neurologists, psychologists and medical sociologists to assess seven key health dimensions. …”
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Prehospital triage of patients with acute cardiac complaints: study protocol of HART-c, a multicentre prospective study by Jan Bosch, Charles JHJ Kirchhof, Mark J Boogers, Enrico de Koning, Tom E Biersteker, Saskia Beeres, Barbra E Backus, Reza Alizadeh Dehnavi, Helen AM Silvius, Martin Schalij

“…All data are transferred to a newly developed platform for the triage cardiologist. Prehospital data, in-hospital medical records and real-time admission capacity are evaluated. …”
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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

“…Caseous calcification of the mitral annulus is a rare form of periannular calcification with a mass-like appearance, that has to be in the differential of the cardiologist and radiologist. It classically looks like a round or semilunar hyperdense mass with an even denser peripheral rim, located in the posterior mitral annulus and having in general no clinical significance.…”
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Multimodality Imaging Overview in Active Cardiac Sarcoidosis with Systemic Manifestations by Kakoudaki Tania

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Transtelephonic Electrocardiographic Transmission in the Preparticipation Screening of Athletes by Theodoros Samaras, Savvato Karavasiliadou, Evangelia Kouidi, John N. Sahalos, Asterios Deligiannis

“…Only in about half (𝑛 = 74) of the transmitted ECGs did the cardiologist confirm “abnormal” findings, although in 16, they were considered to be clinically insignificant. …”
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Feasibility of Remote Real-Time Guidance of a Cardiac Examination Performed by Novices Using a Pocket-Sized Ultrasound Device by Tuan V. Mai, David T. Ahn, Colin T. Phillips, Donna L. Agan, Bruce J. Kimura

“…Real-time remote audiovisual guidance and interpretation by the cardiologist were performed using the iPhone 4/iPod (FaceTime, Apple, Inc.) attached to the PUD and transmitted data wirelessly. …”
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In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory: Effective Transition from an ICU- to CCU-Led Resuscitation Team by Rajat Sharma, Hilary Bews, Hardeep Mahal, Chantal Y. Asselin, Megan O’Brien, Lillian Koley, Brett Hiebert, John Ducas, Davinder S. Jassal

“…Objectives. (1) To examine the incidence and outcomes of in-hospital cardiac arrests (IHCAs) in a large unselected patient population who underwent coronary angiography at a single tertiary academic center and (2) to evaluate a transitional change in which the cardiologist is positioned as the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) leader in the cardiac catheterization laboratory (CCL) at our local tertiary care institution. …”
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Perioperative anesthetic management in total abdominal hysterectomy due to uterine fibroid in a patient with severe aortic stenosis. A case report by Yuliel Varona Rodríguez, José Carlos Acosta Abad, Adonis Cintra Dornes, Liliam María Castillo Manresa

“…The anesthesiologist, during the preoperative consultation, verified the aforementioned murmur, so it was decided to postpone surgery and consult with a cardiologist. The echocardiographic examination showed that the patient had severe aortic stenosis with preserved ejection fraction, stress test: functional class I, without ischemia. …”
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Case study: Multifocal atrial tachycardia during cataract surgery: to operate or not to operate by Jesús Nieves-Alonso, Rosa Méndez Hernández, Fernando Ramasco Rueda

“…Conclusions: When MAT occurs in the preoperative period, it can be challenging to decide whether to proceed with the surgical procedure or to perform prior evaluation by a cardiologist. Anamnesis, physical examination, and FoCUS are useful tools in making this decision.…”
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The Use of Succinylcholine in Brugada Syndrome: A Case Report and Discussion of Literature by Marcus M. de Wolf, Nellie M. Rus, Guus H. Beljaars, Hanno L. Tan

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