Ginkgolide B Blocks Vascular Remodeling after Vascular Injury via Regulating Tgfβ1/Smad Signaling Pathway by Quan Wang, Shuai Ni, Li Ling, Siqi Wang, Hanbin Xie, Zhanhong Ren

“…Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most prevalent cardiovascular disease worldwide, resulting in myocardial infarction (MI) and even sudden death. Following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), restenosis caused by vascular remodeling is always formed at the stent implantation site. …”
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PPARs, Cardiovascular Metabolism, and Function: Near- or Far-from-Equilibrium Pathways by Yves Lecarpentier, Victor Claes, Jean-Louis Hébert

“…Dysfunction of clock genes and PPARγ may lead to hyperphagia, obesity, metabolic syndrome, myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death, In pathological conditions, regulatory processes of the cardiovascular system may bifurcate towards new states, such as those encountered in hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and heart failure. …”
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Fractional-Order PI Control of First Order Plants with Guaranteed Time Specifications by F. J. Castillo-Garcia, A. San Millan-Rodriguez, V. Feliu-Batlle, L. Sanchez-Rodriguez

“…CDCs have been tested safely in an initial phase-1 clinical trial in patients after myocardial infarction. Whether or not CDCs are superior to purified populations, for example, c-kit+ cardiac stem cells, or to gene therapy approaches for cardiac regeneration remains to be evaluated.…”
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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

“…In acute myocardial diseases, such as acute myocardial infarction and myocarditis, the edema is larger than myocardial scarring, whereas the edema can be smaller than the scarring in some types of nonischemic cardiomyopathy, including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. …”
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IMPACT-CABG Trial: Implantation of CD133+ Stem Cells in Patients Undergoing Coronary Bypass Surgery—Presentation of the First Treated Patient by Jessica Forcillo, Louis-Mathieu Stevens, Samer Mansour, Ignacio Prieto, Denis-Claude Roy, Nicolas Noiseux

“…The IMPACT-CABG study is the first Canadian randomized-controlled phase II clinical trial aiming to assess the effect of intramyocardial (IM) injections of CD133+-selected stem cells in patients referred for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) with a “chronic” myocardial infarction and persistent left ventricular dysfunction. …”
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Acute Coronary Syndrome: An Unusual Consequence of GERD by Chui Man Carmen Hui, Santosh K. Padala, Michael Lavelle, Mikhail T. Torosoff, Xinjun Cindy Zhu, Mandeep S. Sidhu

“…He was diagnosed with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction based on the electrocardiographic changes and cardiac biomarker elevation. …”
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Unique ECG Findings in Acute Pulmonary Embolism: STE with Reciprocal Changes and Pathologic Q Wave by Amanda Grant-Orser, Brennan Ballantyne, Wael Haddara

“…He received thrombolytic therapy for a presumptive diagnosis of ST elevation myocardial infarction. Return of spontaneous circulation was achieved and he underwent a coronary angiogram. …”
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Pharmacological Therapy in the Heart as an Alternative to Cellular Therapy: A Place for the Brain Natriuretic Peptide? by Nathalie Rosenblatt-Velin, Suzanne Badoux, Lucas Liaudet

“…To illustrate such approach, we present recent results showing that the exogenous administration of the natriuretic peptide BNP triggers “endogenous” cardiac regeneration, following experimental myocardial infarction.…”
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Heart-on-a-chip: a revolutionary organ-on-chip platform for cardiovascular disease modeling by Beiqin Liu, Shuyue Wang, Hong Ma, Yulin Deng, Jichen Du, Yimeng Zhao, Yu Chen

“…Then we introduce the current proceedings of in vitro models for studying cardiovascular diseases (CVD) based on the HoC platform, including ischemia and myocardial infarction, cardiac fibrosis, cardiac scar, myocardial hypertrophy and other CVD models. …”
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Clinical Outcomes of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Nonagenarians: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Yan Liu, Yu Du, Mingjie Fu, Yue Ma, Deguang Wang, Jinglin Zhang, Wei Liu, Yingxin Zhao, Yujie Zhou

“…There were no significant differences in the rate of myocardial infarction, stage 2 or 3 acute kidney injury, new pacemaker implantation, or conversion to surgical aortic valve replacement. …”
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Synaptotagmin-1 attenuates myocardial programmed necrosis and ischemia/reperfusion injury through the mitochondrial pathway by Teng Sun, Jialei Li, Shuang Wang, Yu Han, Xiangyu Tao, Min Yuan, Zhijie Jing, Ting Liu, Yuehong Qi, Siqi Liu, Yanlin Feng, Jiasong Chang, Lan Zhou, Lijuan Gao, Jianyun Shi, Ruihong Ning, Jimin Cao

“…Abstract Programmed necrosis/necroptosis greatly contributes to the pathogenesis of cardiac disorders including myocardial infarction, ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury and heart failure. …”
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Japanese Patients’ and Physicians’ Preferences for Anticoagulant Use in Atrial Fibrillation: Results from a Discrete-choice Experiment by Ken Okumura, Hiroshi Inoue, Masahiro Yasaka, Juan Marcos Gonzalez, A. Brett Hauber, Bennett Levitan, Zhong Yuan, Jean Baptiste Briere

“…Random-parameters logit models were used to estimate importance weights for treatment-related changes in the annual risk of stroke, myocardial infarction, embolism, and bleeding. **Results:** Japanese patients (N=152) and physicians (N=164) showed different preferences. …”
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A Case of Early Stage Bladder Carcinosarcoma in Late Recurrence of Urothelial Carcinoma after Transurethral Resection by Daisaku Hirano, Toshiyuki Yoshida, Daigo Funakoshi, Fuminori Sakurai, Shou Ohno, Yoshiaki Kusumi

“…Although he has received no additional intervention due to the occurrence of myocardial infarction at three weeks after the TUR, he has been alive with no evidence of recurrence of the disease 27 months after the TUR. …”
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Potential impact of coronaviruses upon cardiovascular system under COVID-19 pandemic by L.O. Tkachenko, O.A. Yepanchintseva, B.M. Todurov

“…The issues of routing, surgical and therapeutic treatment of patients with cardiovascular diseases, especially emergencies (acute myocardial infarction, decompensation of heart failure on the background of valvular heart disease) have become difficult. …”
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Microtissues in Cardiovascular Medicine: Regenerative Potential Based on a 3D Microenvironment by Julia Günter, Petra Wolint, Annina Bopp, Julia Steiger, Elena Cambria, Simon P. Hoerstrup, Maximilian Y. Emmert

“…In particular, patients who suffer from myocardial infarction may be affected by ongoing adverse remodeling processes of the heart that may ultimately lead to heart failure. …”
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Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Candidate Loci Associated with Platelet Count in Koreans by Ji Hee Oh, Yun Kyoung Kim, Sanghoon Moon, Young Jin Kim, Bong-Jo Kim

“…Platelet activation is known to affect genes associated with vascular risk factors, as well as with arteriosclerosis and myocardial infarction. Here, we performed a genome-wide association study with 352,228 single-nucleotide polymorphisms typed in 8,842 subjects of the Korea Association Resource (KARE) project and replicated the results in 7,861 subjects from an independent population. …”
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First Experience Using the Sheathless Hyperion Guiding Catheter System Designed for Direct Insertion by Andrew Borrie, Sarah Fairley, Scott A. Harding

“…Periprocedural myocardial infarction occurred in 5 (4.2%) patients. There was no in-hospital urgent revascularisation or death and no major bleeding or vascular complications. …”
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Evidence for Transfer of Membranes from Mesenchymal Stem Cells to HL-1 Cardiac Cells by Robert A. Boomsma, David L. Geenen

“…These results demonstrate that MSC and HL-1 cells exchange membrane components which may account for some of the beneficial effect of MSC in the heart after myocardial infarction.…”
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Invasive Pneumococcal Disease: Still Lots to Learn and a Need for Standardized Data Collection Instruments by T. J. Marrie, G. J. Tyrrell, Sumit R. Majumdar, Dean T. Eurich

“…Almost half of the patients had alteration of mental status at the time of admission and 22% required mechanical ventilation. Myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism, and new onset stroke occurred in 1.7, 1.3, and 1.1% of the patients, respectively; of those who had echocardiograms, 35% had impaired ventricular function. …”
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Elevated Cardiac Troponin T in Patients with Lupus Myositis Presenting with Noncardiac Chest Pain by Guy Katz, Sharon L. Kolasinski, Baskaran Sundaram, Giorgos Loizidis

“…The most common biomarkers for myocardial injury are cardiac troponin T and I (cTnT and cTnI) due to their high sensitivity for the early detection of myocardial infarction. In the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, cTnT is commonly elevated, and this reflects skeletal muscle breakdown rather than myocardial damage. …”
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