Left Ventricular Hypertrabeculation (LVHT) in Athletes: A Negligible Finding? by Rokas Jagminas, Rokas Šerpytis, Pranas Šerpytis, Sigita Glaveckaitė

“…The scientific data show the possibility of the overdiagnosis of this cardiomyopathy in a population of people who have very high levels of physical activity. …”
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A Rare Case of Complete Heart Block in a Young Patient by Zakaria Hindi, Yousef Hindi, Rami Batarseh

“…Uncontrolled hypertension can lead to hypertensive cardiomyopathy, which in turn can cause conduction abnormalities such as CHB. …”
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Identification of Signal Pathways and Hub Genes of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension by Bioinformatic Analysis by Rui-Qi Wei, Wen-Mei Zhang, Zhe Liang, Chunmei Piao, Guangfa Zhu

“…Significant KEGG pathway enrichment included ribosome biogenesis in eukaryotes, RNA transport, proteoglycans in cancer, dilated cardiomyopathy, rheumatoid arthritis, vascular smooth muscle contraction, focal adhesion, regulation of the actin cytoskeleton, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. …”
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Acute correction of electromechanical dyssynchrony and response to cardiac resynchronization therapy by Ghassan Moubarak, Guillaume Viart, Frédéric Anselme

“…The proportion of responders in patients without ischemic cardiomyopathy and with a delta LPEI greater than −16 ms was 85%. …”
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Cardiovascular manifestations in COVID-19 patients by Jyotsna Maddury, Mani Krishna, Achukatla Kumar

“…Stress or takotsubo cardiomyopathy occurred primarily in women with COVID-19 and these women have more severe HF. …”
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Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death in Beta-Thalassemia Major Patients: Noninvasive Diagnostic Tools and Early Markers by Vincenzo Russo, Enrico Melillo, Andrea A. Papa, Anna Rago, Celeste Chamberland, Gerardo Nigro

“…Iron overload is the primary factor of cardiac damage resulting in thalassemic cardiomyopathy, in which diastolic dysfunction usually happens before systolic impairment and overt heart failure (HF). …”
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Exendin-4 Protects against Hyperglycemia-Induced Cardiomyocyte Pyroptosis via the AMPK-TXNIP Pathway by Hong Wei, Rui Bu, Qinghui Yang, Jing Jia, Tao Li, Qiuping Wang, Yanjun Chen

“…Diabetic cardiomyopathy is a common cardiac condition in patients with diabetes mellitus, which results in cardiac hypertrophy and subsequent heart failure. …”
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Roles of retinoic acid-related orphan receptor α in high glucose-induced cardiac fibroblasts proliferation by Wenqing San, Qianyou Zhou, Danning Shen, Danyi Cao, Yun Chen, Guoliang Meng

“…Diabetic cardiomyopathy, characterized by myocardial fibrosis, is a common complication of diabetes. …”
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Atypical presentation of Andersen-Tawil syndrome: heart failure with reduced ejection without periodic paralysis or dysmorphic features by Mustafa Shehzad, Dawood Shehzad, Muhammad Ahmad, Sundus Huma, Shaheer Minhas, Abdul Wassey

“…Ultimately, he was diagnosed with non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy and referred for genetic testing, which revealed a KCNJ2 variant. …”
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Heart in Acromegaly: The Echocardiographic Characteristics of Patients Diagnosed with Acromegaly in Various Stages of the Disease by Agata Popielarz-Grygalewicz, Jakub S. Gąsior, Aleksandra Konwicka, Paweł Grygalewicz, Maria Stelmachowska-Banaś, Wojciech Zgliczyński, Marek Dąbrowski

“…To determine whether the echocardiographic presentation allows for diagnosis of acromegalic cardiomyopathy. 140 patients with acromegaly underwent echocardiography as part of routine diagnostics. …”
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Alcohol-related disease by Tiago Castro Pinto, Susana G. Rodrigues

“…However, pancreatitis, dilated cardiomyopathy, alcohol-related neurological diseases and other topics will be reviewed with detailed pathophysiological mechanisms and unifying concepts. …”
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Cardiovascular outcomes in long COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Ting Zhang, Zhimao Li, Qimin Mei, Joseph Harold Walline, Zhaocai Zhang, Yecheng Liu, Huadong Zhu, Bin Du

“…Pooled risk differences in long COVID cases compared to controls were significantly higher for cardiomyopathy [0.15% (0.06, 0.23)], deep vein thrombosis [0.45% (0.06, 0.83)] and hypertension (0.32%, (0.06, 0.58) but not for thromboembolic disorders, coronary disease, stroke, arrhythmia, cardiomyopathy, myocarditis, hypertension, heart failure or cardiogenic shock.ConclusionThe risk of cardiovascular disease increased significantly four weeks or more after recovering from acute COVID-19. …”
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Cardiac and Systemic Thrombus Caused by Drug Abuse by John Eliveha, Shravani Vindhyal, Mohinder Vindhyal

“…We present a case of ventricular thrombus with systemic emboli in a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy after methamphetamine use.…”
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Guillain-Barré Syndrome due to CMV Reactivation after Cardiac Transplantation by Christina Maria Steger, Herwig Antretter, Daniel Höfer

“…A 40-year-old male patient suffered from end-stage heart failure due to ischemic cardiomyopathy and received orthotopiccardiac transplantation in June 2005. …”
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Dyspnoea at Term in an Obese Mother by Vicky O'Dwyer, Yvonne O'Brien, Nadine Farah, Michael J. Turner

“…Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a serious, potentially life-threatening heart disease of uncertain aetiology in previously healthy women. …”
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Case Report: A rare case of Noonan syndrome with multiple lentigines manifesting as cardiac enlargement by Linghua Fan, Jie Jiang, Yan Zhang, Xiaoning Han, Wenhui Ding, Xiaodi Xue, Yimeng Jiang

“…Characterized by multiple lentigines, hypertelorism, short stature, and hearing loss, its common cardiac manifestations include pulmonary stenosis, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), atrial septal defect, and left-sided heart lesions. …”
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Pulmonary Edema in Myasthenic Crisis by Uttara Swati Anand, Stalin Viswanathan, Jayanthi Arulneyam

“…This is the first report in English-language medical literature describing the association between myasthenic crisis and likely takotsubo cardiomyopathy-related pulmonary edema following intravenous immunoglobulin administration.…”
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Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation with Concomitant Aortic Valve and Ascending Aortic Replacement by Katharina Huenges, Bernd Panholzer, Jochen Cremer, Assad Haneya

“…We present the case of a 74-year-old male patient who was admitted to our center with terminal heart failure in dilated cardiomyopathy and ascending aortic aneurysm with aortic valve regurgitation. …”
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Automated electronic health record-based screening for Fabry disease in unexplained left ventricular hypertrophy (FAPREV-HCM) by Christoph Wanner, Peter Nordbeck, Lora Lorenz, Nurcan Üçeyler, Claudia Sommer, Kolja Lau, Victoria Sokalski, Georg Fette

“…Background and aims Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) has various aetiologies, including genetic conditions like Fabry disease (FD), a lysosomal storage disorder. …”
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A Case of Right Ventricular Endomyocardial Fibrosis Presenting with Right Ventricular Failure in an Immunocompromised Patient by Ratul Ghosh, Biswajit Majumder, Shibsankar Sarkar, Somnath Maji

“…Endomyocardial fibrosis is a rare disease in India but an important cause of restrictive cardiomyopathy. A middle-aged nondiabetic nonhypertensive male presented to us with features of right heart failure. …”
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