Loeffler’s Endocarditis – Unforgiving Eosinophilic Damage to the Endocardium by Ajay Sinha, Pramod Kumar, Saket Sharma, Shraddha Ranjan

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Left ventricular ejection time: its relation to left ventricular systolic function and functional capacity in cardiomyopathic patients by Eman S. El Shahawy, Asmaa A. Hassan

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First report of hypoplastic left heart syndrome in 3p- syndrome and review of candidate genes by Ana Kalise Böttcher, Monique Banik Siqueira, Natasha Malgarezi, Marcela Rodrigues Nunes, Rafaella Mergener, Luisa Pigatto Kalil, Patrícia Trevisan, Paulo Ricardo Gazzola Zen

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The cardiac function characteristics and nursing measures of endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approach for growth hormone-secreting pituitary adenoma complicated with cardiomyopathy (内镜下经鼻蝶入路手术治疗生长激素型垂体瘤合并心肌病患者的心功能特征及相关护理要点) by YAN Ying (闫莹), HE Xin (贺欣)

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Genetically engineered biomimetic ATP-responsive nanozyme for the treatment of cardiac fibrosis by Xueli Zhao, Yuze Qin, Bowen Li, Yue Wang, Jiao Liu, Bo Wang, Jia Zhao, Jiaqi Yin, Lanlan Zhang, Jing Li, Junzhe Huang, Kun Chen, Liwen Liu, Yuanming Wu

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One-year mortality and re-admission rate by disease etiology in National Heart Failure Registry of India by Sivadasanpillai Harikrishnan, Ajay Bahl, Ambuj Roy, Animesh Mishra, Jayesh Prajapati, CN Manjunath, Rishi Sethi, Santanu Guha, Santhosh Satheesh, RS Dhaliwal, Meenakshi Sharma, Sanjay Ganapathy, Panniyammakal Jeemon

“…Ischemic heart disease (71.9%), dilated cardiomyopathy (17.3), rheumatic heart disease (5.4), non-rheumatic valvular heart disease (1.9), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (0.8), congenital heart disease (0.7), peri-partum cardiomyopathy (0.5), restrictive cardiomyopathy (0.4), and infective endocarditis (0.1) were the main disease etiologies. …”
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Easily Missed: A Case Series of New Heart Failure in Young Adults by Eric J. Hall, Jonathan Menachem, Lynne Warner Stevenson, Jessica Huston

“…We present four cases of new diagnosis of HF (due to familial cardiomyopathy, tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy, spontaneous coronary artery dissection, and peripartum cardiomyopathy) to highlight the range of etiologies and presentations requiring recognition in this patient population. …”
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A Case Series on Cardiac and Skeletal Involvement in Two Families with PRKAG2 Mutations by Anita Sri, Piers Daubeney, Sanjay Prasad, John Baksi, Maria Kinali, Inga Voges

“…PRKAG2 is a rare autosomal dominant syndrome that mainly presents with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, ventricular preexcitation, and conduction abnormalities. …”
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Impact of Cardiac Computed Tomographic Angiography Findings on Planning of Cancer Therapy in Patients with Concomitant Structural Heart Disease by Iyad N. Daher, Jose Banchs, Syed Wamique Yusuf, Elie Mouhayar, Jean-Bernard Durand, Gregory Gladish

“…Exclusion of underlying coronary artery disease (CAD) is essential in the diagnosis of chemotherapy-induced cardiomyopathy. Presence and severity of CAD can also impact the choice of therapy in cancer patients. …”
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Perspectives on Adipose Tissue, Chagas Disease and Implications for the Metabolic Syndrome by Fnu Nagajyothi, Mahalia S. Desruisseaux, Linda A. Jelicks, Fabiana S. Machado, Streamson Chua, Philipp E. Scherer, Herbert B. Tanowitz

“…Adiponectin null mice have a cardiomyopathy and thus we speculate that the T. cruzi-induced reduction in adiponectin contributes to the T. cruzi-induced cardiomyopathy. …”
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Seizure Associated Takotsubo Syndrome: A Rare Combination by Htay Htay Kyi, Nour Aljariri Alhesan, Sunil Upadhaya, Samer Al Hadidi

“…Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) is increasingly recognized in neurocritical care population especially in postmenopausal females. …”
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Diabetes Increases Risk of Cardiovascular Events in Patients Receiving Permanent Pacemaker: A Propensity Score-Matched Cohort Study by Huang-Chung Chen, Wen-Hao Liu, Chien-Hao Tseng, Yung-Lung Chen, Wei-Chieh Lee, Yen-Nan Fang, Shaur-Zheng Chong, Mien-Cheng Chen

“…The secondary outcomes of this study included pacemaker infection, pacing-induced cardiomyopathy, cerebrovascular accident, cardiovascular mortality, and all-cause mortality. …”
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Aggressive Cardiac Involvement in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Case Report and a Comprehensive Literature Review by Reza Ashrafi, Pankaj Garg, Ewan McKay, John Gosney, Som Chuah, Gershan Davis

“…We present the case of a 35-year-old gentleman who presented with an aggressive cardiomyopathy with normal coronary arteries. He was later diagnosed with systemic lupus-related cardiomyopathy. …”
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Acute Viral Hepatitis E Is Associated with the Development of Myocarditis by M. Premkumar, Devraja Rangegowda, Chitranshu Vashishtha, Vikram Bhatia, Jelen Singh Khumuckham, Badal Kumar

“…Myocarditis, an inflammatory disease of heart muscle, is an important cause of dilated cardiomyopathy worldwide. Viral infection is an important cause of myocarditis. …”
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Myocardial Viability: From Proof of Concept to Clinical Practice by Aditya Bhat, Gary C. H. Gan, Timothy C. Tan, Chijen Hsu, Alan Robert Denniss

“…Newer trials are currently underway and will hopefully provide a more complete understanding of the pathos and management of ischaemic cardiomyopathy.…”
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Immunological Regulation of Fibrosis During Heart Failure: It Takes Two to Tango by Vinay Kumar, Shyam S. Bansal

“…Incomplete resolution coupled with sustained low-grade inflammation during dilated cardiomyopathy precipitates a “frustrated” immune cell response resulting in unconstrained pro-fibrotic and pro-hypertrophic signaling to induce maladaptive structural and functional changes in the myocardium. …”
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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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Key Cell Types and Biomarkers in Heart Failure Identified through Analysis of Single-Cell and Bulk RNA Sequencing Data by Ying Kong, Ning Yang, Zhiqing Luo, Ruiting Huang, Quhuan Li

“…Here, we identified key cell types and novel biomarkers via an analysis of single-cell and bulk RNA sequencing data obtained from patients with two major HF types of ischemic cardiomyopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy. Myeloid cells were identified as the primary cell population involved in HF through cellular fraction and gene set enrichment analysis. …”
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Mitral and tricuspid stenosis caused by light chain cardiac amyloid deposition by Varinder K. Randhawa, Sneha Vakamudi, Dermot M. Phelan, Christy J. Samaras, Jesse K. McKenney, Mazen Hanna, Antonio L. Perez

“…Worsening infiltrative cardiomyopathy and valvulopathy despite evidence‐based chemotherapy and heart failure pharmacotherapy led to end‐stage disease and death. …”
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Prevalence of Isolated Atrial Amyloidosis in Young Patients Affected by Congestive Heart Failure by Lia Millucci, Lorenzo Ghezzi, Giulia Bernardini, Daniela Braconi, Piero Tanganelli, Annalisa Santucci

“…We provide here the microscopic examination of atrial biopsies from 36 young (mean 40 years) CHF patients distinguished in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DC) affected and hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HC) affected, endorsing the presumptive association of early CHF with IAA. …”
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