Atrial Fibrillation Types and Chronic Kidney Disease are Independent Predictors of Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence After Radiofrequency Ablation by Mo P, Fan C, Chen J, Wang Y, Xiao W, Peng Z, Lin XZ, Luo CF, Zhang C

“…Cardiac functional parameters, such as left atrial (LA), ventricular (LV), and pulmonary artery diameters, as well as ejection fraction (EF) and end-diastolic/systolic diameter ratio, were measured using echocardiography. …”
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INCREASED PULMONARY BLOOD FLOW IN NEWBORNS WITH CYANOTIC CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS AND DUCTUS-DEPENDENT PULMONARY BLOOD FLOW: RESULTS AND FEATURES OF OUTPATIENT POSTOPERATIVE FOLLOW... by Anzhelika Mykhailovska, Olga Borodinova, Raad Tammo

“…Before the subsequent stage of surgical correction, sufficient growth of pulmonary artery branches was noted (Nakata index increased from 156.9±33.3 mm2/m2 to 277±35.9 mm2/m2 in the SPAS group and from 142.7±55.2 mm2/m2 to 289.1±149.2 mm2/m2 in the PDA st. group, and the left ventricular end-diastolic dimension index increased from 51.2±32.4 mm2/m2 to 67.5±15.5 mm2/m2 in the SPAS group and from 50.8±24.9 mm2/m2 to 56.7±28.5 mm2/m2 in the PDA st. group. …”
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Genetic deletion of the sodium phosphate cotransporter NaPi2a ameliorates heart failure in mice by Hiroko Yamauchi-Sawada, Tomoharu Ida, Masashi Nakamura, Minato Umehara, Natsuko Okuno-Ozeki, Itaru Nakamura, Yayoi Matoba, Atsushi Minamida, Yasuto Sunahara, Tomohiro Nakata, Kunihiro Nakai, Aya Yagi-Tomita, Noriko Uehara-Watanabe, Noriyuki Yamashita, Yuhei Kirita, Keiichi Tamagaki, Benjamin D. Humphreys, Satoaki Matoba, Tetsuro Kusaba

“…In the TAC and Dox models, the left ventricular ejection fraction was preserved in NaPi2a-KO mice, while FGF23 levels did not correlate with cardiac hypertrophy. …”
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Prognoses and risk stratification of thrombus‐associated events in heart failure patients without atrial fibrillation by Yanxuan Li, Zihan Li, Daoyuan Si, Ping Yang

“…Methods and results This retrospective study included 450 patients (median age 64.0 years, interquartile range [55.0, 75.0]; 31.6% women) hospitalized for HF without AF and atrial flutter, but with a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≤ 55% and New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class of III–IV. …”
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