ALLMedicine™ Heart Failure Center

Jan 22nd, 2022 - Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis is a clinical syndrome caused by a cytokine storm and phagocytosis of blood cells. Acute kidney injury is typically associated with a poor prognosis in hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. In the present study, a ...

Jan 22nd, 2022 - Little information is available on sex differences in coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). We investigated sex-specific proteomic profiles associated with CMD in patients with HFpEF. U...

Jan 22nd, 2022 - Cardiac involvement in systemic amyloidosis is a marker of particularly poor prognosis. Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is characterized by extracellular amyloid deposits inducing heart failure and symptoms of cardiac microvascular disease. While amyloid...

Jan 22nd, 2022 - While 99m Tc-pyrophosphate scintigraphy is clearly useful in diagnosing transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), it is necessary to know the pitfalls of this test for proper use. We present a rare case of concurrent ATTR-CM and amyloid ligh...

Jan 22nd, 2022 - Doxorubicin is an effective chemotherapeutic agent prescribed to treat solid tumors (e.g., ovary, breast, and gastrointestinal cancers). This anti-cancer drug has various side effects, such as allergic reactions, cardiac damage, hair loss, bone ma...

Oct 9th, 2021 - Despite significant improvements in reperfusion strategies, acute coronary syndromes all too often culminate in a myocardial infarction (MI). The consequent MI can, in turn, lead to remodeling of the left ventricle (LV), the development of LV dysf...

Jul 18th, 2021 - 2021: The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Expert Consensus Document: Coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy and heart failure.|2021|Bakaeen FG,Gaudino M,Whitman G,Doenst T,Ruel M,|standards,diagnostic im...

Jun 9th, 2021 - To develop updated guidelines for the pharmacologic management of rheumatoid arthritis. We developed clinically relevant population, intervention, comparator, and outcomes (PICO) questions. After conducting a systematic literature review, the Grad...

Apr 28th, 2021 - Hypertension is a prevalent condition that affects approximately 45% of the adult US population and is the most commonly diagnosed condition at outpatient office visits. Hypertension is a major contributing risk factor for heart failure, myocardia...

Apr 27th, 2021 - The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to provide clinical recommendations on the appropriate use of point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) in patients with acute dyspnea in emergency department (ED) or inpatient settings...

Jan 21st, 2022 - Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among people living with HIV. Recent studies have demonstrated that patients with HIV experience a 50-100% increased risk of myocardial infarction and stroke compared to HIV-uninfe...

Jan 21st, 2022 - This study will look at how participants' daily life is affected by their heart failure. The study will also look at the change in participants' body weight. This study will compare the effect of semaglutide (a new medicine) compared to "dummy" me...

Jan 21st, 2022 - Influenza leads to significant morbidity and mortality, particularly in patients with cardiovascular disease. Influenza-related death is more common in patients with cardiovascular disease than any other chronic health condition. Influenza infecti...

Jan 21st, 2022 - Background：About 50% of subclinical heart failure (Sub-HF) patients might have residual lung ultrasound B-lines (LU-BL). Sub-HF is insensitive to widely used imaging examinations, like x-ray or echocardiography, but lung ultrasound (LU) can suffi...

Jan 21st, 2022 - The coronavirus disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 first emerged in early December 2019 and was declared a pandemic on March 2020. SARS-CoV-2 infection is produced by binding to ACE2, which among other sites is highly expressed in the endothelial ce...

Jan 24th, 2022 - Race and gender differences in cardiac structure and systolic function persisted to late life even after accounting for established cardiovascular risk factors, according to an analysis of the aging Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) cohor...

Jan 20th, 2022 - Real-World Experience With Automated Insulin Pumps Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring for T2DM Statin-Induced Adverse Effects Long QT and Cardiac Arrest After Pulmonary Edema And more online • Clinical Impact of U-500 Insulin Initiation • Diabete.

Jan 19th, 2022 - Heart issues due to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) linked to COVID-19 infection generally resolved within 3 months, according to a longitudinal analysis. Among 42 children with MIS-C who presented with evidence of myocardial...

Jan 19th, 2022 - The study covered in this summary was published at researchsquare.com as a preprint and has not yet been peer-reviewed. Key Takeaways A retrospective chart review linked family member participation in the education process at hospital discharge to...

Jan 18th, 2022 - Participants in the Framingham Study showed an increased lifetime risk of heart failure from 1965-1989 to 1990-2014. (Journal of the American College of Cardiology) A history of recent COVID-19 may warrant additional preoperative cardiac assessmen...