Partial Nephrectomy in a Patient with a Left Ventricular Assist Device by Jules P. Manger, John A. Kern, Tracey L. Krupski

“…We present the case of a 40-year-old woman with idiopathic cardiomyopathy necessitating LVAD who underwent left partial nephrectomy for a renal mass. …”
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A Rare Cause of Acute Kidney Injury in a Female Patient with Breast Cancer Presenting as Renal Colic by Roxana Jurubita, Bogdan Obrisca, Gener Ismail

“…Given the rarity of the disease and the paucity of the reported cases in the previous literature a high index of suspicion must be maintained not only in the classical cardiac sources of systemic emboli (atrial fibrillation, dilated cardiomyopathy, or endocarditis), but also in the situations when a hypercoagulable state is presumed. …”
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A Case of a 50-Year-Old Woman with Typical Fabry Disease Who Showed Serial Electrocardiographic and Echocardiographic Changes over a 17-Year Period by Su Nam Lee, Gee-Hee Kim, Ki-Dong Yoo

“…Cardiac involvement includes left ventricular hypertrophy, arrhythmia, endothelial dysfunction at vascular wall, and cardiomyopathy. The diagnosis of FD can be difficult and there is often a long lag time between symptoms and diagnosis. …”
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Triple Threat: Significant Concomitant Aortic Stenosis, Mitral Stenosis, and Systolic Anterior Motion of the Mitral Valve Causing Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction in Card... by Katelyn Glines, J. W. Awori Hayanga, Christina Gibson, Mohamad El Churafa, Lawrence Wei, Heather K. Hayanga

“…While SAM is typically observed in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or following mitral valve repair, it may be seen in any setting in which the anatomy and function of the left ventricle has been altered. …”
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Recurrent Pleural Effusions Occurring in Association with Primary Pulmonary Amyloidosis by Lauren Tada, Humayun Anjum, W. Kenneth Linville, Salim Surani

“…Recurrent pleural effusions occurring in association with immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis and not associated with amyloid cardiomyopathy are rare. These portend an overall poor prognosis with mean survival time of approximately 1.8 months. …”
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Traumatic Tension Pneumothorax as a Cause of ICD Failure: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Ehtesham Ul Haq, Bassam Omar

“…She had history of mitral valve replacement for severe mitral regurgitation and biventricular implantable cardioverter defibrillator inserted for nonischemic cardiomyopathy. Shortly after arrival, she developed sustained ventricular tachycardia, causing repetitive unsuccessful ICD shocks. …”
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A review of COVID-19 vaccination and the reported cardiac manifestations by Jamie Sin Ying Ho, Ching-Hui Sia, Jinghao Nicholas Ngiam, Poay Huan Loh, Nicholas Wen Sheng Chew, William Kok-Fai Kong, Kian-Keong Poh

“…Reports of other events such as acute myocardial infarction, arrhythmia and stress cardiomyopathy were rare. Outcomes of post-vaccine myocarditis and pericarditis were good. …”
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Myocardial functional recovery following durable ventricular assist device in children by Bhavikkumar Langanecha, Osami Honjo, Alyssa Power, Oshri Zaulan, Christoph Haller, Kristen George, Linda Fazari, Andrea Maurich, David Chiasson, Aamir Jeewa

“…Five patients had dilated cardiomyopathy, 3 with anomalous left coronary artery from pulmonary artery and 1 with tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy. …”
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A Rare Case of Watery Vaginal Discharge due to Caesarean Scar Dehiscence following Brace Suture and Balloon Tamponade for the Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage by Krystal Koh, Devendra Kanagalingam, Rajeswari Kathirvel

“…Investigations confirmed ascites on computed tomography (CT) of her abdomen and cardiomyopathy on echocardiogram. She was readmitted on the 22nd POD with watery vaginal discharge. …”
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Iatrogenic Pulmonary Nodule in a Heart Transplant Recipient by Atul C. Mehta, Juan Wang, Jarmanjeet Singh, Joseph Cicenia

“…A 58-year-old female with a history of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and end-stage nonischemic cardiomyopathy from Adriamycin toxicity underwent orthotic heart transplantation during June 2013. …”
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Sorafenib-Associated Heart Failure Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock after Treatment of Advanced Stage Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Clinical Case Discussion by Candace Wu, Kamal Shemisa

“…A 76-year-old man with a past medical history of systolic heart failure due to ischemic cardiomyopathy and stage IIIC hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) presented with symptoms of decompensated heart failure. …”
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Generation of two isogenic control lines by correcting the BAG3 P209L mutation of human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) lines from patients with myofibrillar myopathy-6 by Kerstin Filippi, Martin Wiemann, Bernd K. Fleischmann, Michael Hesse

“…A point mutation (p.P209L; c.626C>T) in the BAG3 gene causes severe myofibrillar myopathy-6 (MFM6), restrictive cardiomyopathy and polyneuropathy leading to muscle weakness and heart failure. …”
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Differential microvascular endothelial cell responses in the retina in diabetes compared to the heart and kidneys, a spatial transcriptomic analysis. by Eric Wang, Biao Feng, Shali Chen, Zhaoliang Su, Subrata Chakrabarti

“…Endothelial cells and high glucose-induced endothelial dysfunction are the common origin of chronic diabetic complications such as retinopathy, nephropathy, and cardiomyopathy. Yet their common origins, the vascular manifestations of such complications are different. …”
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Early Renal Involvement in a Girl with Classic Fabry Disease by Fernando Perretta, Norberto Antongiovanni, Sebastián Jaurretche

“…Typical acroparesthesia in hands and feet, gastrointestinal symptoms, angiokeratomas, dyshidrosis, hearing loss, arrhythmias, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, cerebrovascular accidents, and renal failure can be observed. …”
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Myocardial Viability: What We Knew and What Is New by Adel Shabana, Ayman El-Menyar

“…We used key words: myocardial viability, hibernation, stunning, and ischemic cardiomyopathy. Recent studies showed that the presence of viable myocardium was associated with a greater likelihood of survival in patients with coronary artery disease and LV dysfunction, but the assessment of myocardial viability did not identify patients with survival benefit from revascularization, as compared with medical therapy alone. …”
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Acute Pancreatitis after Colonoscopy: A Case Presentation and Literature Review by Sahil D. Doshi, Yelina Alvarez, Shria Kumar, Octavia Pickett-Blakely

“…A 51-year-old male with a left ventricular assist device for end-stage nonischemic cardiomyopathy and a family history of colorectal cancer was admitted for an expedited heart transplant evaluation. …”
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Invasive Heart Rate Control as a Salvage Therapy in Amiodarone-induced Thyroid Storm by Emin Evren OZCAN, Mustafa DOGDUS, Resit Yigit YILANCIOGLU, Suleyman Cem ADIYAMAN, Oguzhan Ekrem TURAN

“…This association may put both AF and thyrotoxicosis treatment into a vicious circle, leading to AI cardiomyopathy. Herein, we aimed to present atrioventricular node ablation as a salvage therapy in a patient with AIT who had AF-causing hemodynamic impairment, resistance to medical therapy, and cardioversion.…”
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Outcomes of patients after successful left ventricular assist device explantation: a EUROMACS study by Christiaan F.J. Antonides, Felix Schoenrath, Theo M.M.H. deBy, Rahatullah Muslem, Kevin Veen, Yunus C. Yalcin, Ivan Netuka, Jan Gummert, Evgenij V. Potapov, Bart Meyns, Mustafa Özbaran, David Schibilsky, Kadir Caliskan, the EUROMACS investigators

“…Aetiologies of HF were dilated cardiomyopathy in 36%, myocarditis in 32%, and ischaemic in 14% of the patients, and 18% had miscellaneous aetiologies. …”
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Severe neonatal hypotonia due to SLC30A5 variant affecting function of ZnT5 zinc transporter by Vadim Dolgin, Pauline Chabosseau, Jacob Bistritzer, Iris Noyman, Orna Staretz‐Chacham, Ohad Wormser, Noam Hadar, Marina Eskin‐Schwartz, Bibi Kanengisser‐Pines, Ginat Narkis, Ramy Abramsky, Eilon Shany, Guy A. Rutter, Kyla Marks, Ohad S. Birk

“…There was no evidence of hydrops fetalis, cardiomyopathy or multi‐organ involvement. Affected infants required nasogastric tube or gastrostomy feeding, suffered from various degrees of respiratory compromise and failure to thrive and died in infancy. …”
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Generation and characterization of an isogenic control line by correcting the BAG3 P209L mutation of a human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) line from a patient with myofibri... by Kerstin Filippi, Isabelle Riße, Luke M. Judge, Bruce R. Conklin, Bernd K. Fleischmann, Michael Hesse

“…This function is affected by a point mutation (p.P209L; c.626C>T) in the BAG3 gene, leading to myofibrillar myopathy-6 (MFM6), restrictive cardiomyopathy and polyneuropathy, which manifests as severe skeletal muscle weakness and heart failure. …”
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