Cardiac repair using regenerating neonatal heart tissue-derived extracellular vesicles by Hanjing Li, Yining Liu, Yuqing Lin, Sijia Li, Chenlu Liu, Ao Cai, Wei Li, Wanyu Zhang, Xinlu Gao, Zhongyu Ren, Haoyu Ji, Yang Yu, Xiuxiu Wang, Wenya Ma, Ning Wang, Dan Zhao, Tianlong Li, Yu Liu, Benzhi Cai

“…Here, we report that EVs from regenerating neonatal heart tissues, after apical resection surgery (AR-Neo-EVs), exhibit stronger pro-proliferative, anti-apoptotic, and pro-angiogenesis activities than EVs from neonatal mouse cardiac tissues (Neo-EVs), effects which are absent in adult mouse heart-derived EVs (Adu-EVs). …”
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Accuracy of Established Prognostic Staging Systems for Cardiac Transthyretin Amyloidosis in the Tafamidis Era by Maximilian Leo Müller, MD, Sebastian Spethmann, MD, Daniel Messroghli, MD, Anna Brand, MD, Isabel Mattig, MD, Katrin Hahn, MD, Ulf Landmesser, MD, Bettina Heidecker, MD

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Regenerative Therapies Using Cell Sheet-Based Tissue Engineering for Cardiac Disease by Yuji Haraguchi, Tatsuya Shimizu, Masayuki Yamato, Teruo Okano

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Fibronectin and Cyclic Strain Improve Cardiac Progenitor Cell Regenerative Potential In Vitro by Kristin M. French, Joshua T. Maxwell, Srishti Bhutani, Shohini Ghosh-Choudhary, Marcos J. Fierro, Todd D. Johnson, Karen L. Christman, W. Robert Taylor, Michael E. Davis

“…Cardiac progenitor cells (CPCs) have rapidly advanced to clinical trials, yet little is known regarding their interaction with the microenvironment. …”
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Elevated Cardiac Troponin T in Patients with Lupus Myositis Presenting with Noncardiac Chest Pain by Guy Katz, Sharon L. Kolasinski, Baskaran Sundaram, Giorgos Loizidis

“…The most common biomarkers for myocardial injury are cardiac troponin T and I (cTnT and cTnI) due to their high sensitivity for the early detection of myocardial infarction. …”
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Wogonin Inhibits Cardiac Hypertrophy by Activating Nrf-2-Mediated Antioxidant Responses by Xiaowen Shi, Bin Zhang, Zhenliang Chu, Bingjiang Han, Xueping Zhang, Ping Huang, Jibo Han

“…Background. Cardiac hypertrophy is one of the initial disorders of the cardiovascular system and can induce heart failure. …”
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Adjunctive Sitagliptin Therapy in Postoperative Cardiac Surgery Patients: A Pilot Study by Marcia L. Brackbill, Ateequr Rahman, Jeffrey S. Sandy, M. Denton Stam, Arthur F. Harralson

“…A prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study was conducted in diabetic cardiac surgery patients. Patients received sitagliptin or placebo after surgery for 4 days. …”
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Compliance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation during in hospital cardiac arrest in a teaching institution by R. Arun Kumar, S. Chandresh, Ahamed Ashar Ali

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Human Neonatal Thymus Mesenchymal Stem Cells Promote Neovascularization and Cardiac Regeneration by Shuyun Wang, Shan Huang, Lianghui Gong, Zhize Yuan, Joshua Wong, Jeffrey Lee, Ming-Sing Si

“…The purpose of this study was to further evaluate the cardiac regenerative and protective properties of neonatal thymus (nt) MSCs. …”
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Impact of Late Ventricular Arrhythmias on Cardiac Mortality in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction by Takuma Takada, Koki Shishido, Takahiro Hayashi, Shohei Yokota, Hirokazu Miyashita, Hiroaki Yokoyama, Takashi Nishimoto, Tomoki Ochiai, Noriaki Moriyama, Kazuki Tobita, Shingo Mizuno, Futoshi Yamanaka, Masato Murakami, Yutaka Tanaka, Saeko Takahashi, Shigeru Saito

“…They also had a lower 30-day cardiac survival rate than the early VT/VF and non-VT/VF groups (42% vs. 76% vs. 96%, p < 0.001). …”
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Deep Learning Approach for Automatic Classification of Ocular and Cardiac Artifacts in MEG Data by Ahmad Hasasneh, Nikolas Kampel, Praveen Sripad, N. Jon Shah, Jürgen Dammers

“…We propose an artifact classification scheme based on a combined deep and convolutional neural network (DCNN) model, to automatically identify cardiac and ocular artifacts from neuromagnetic data, without the need for additional electrocardiogram (ECG) and electrooculogram (EOG) recordings. …”
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A novel wearable device integrating ECG and PCG for cardiac health monitoring by Junbin Zang, Qi An, Bo Li, Zhidong Zhang, Libo Gao, Chenyang Xue

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Left Ventricle Segmentation in Cardiac MR Images via an Improved ResUnet by Shengzhou Xu, Haoran Lu, Shiyu Cheng, Chengdan Pei

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Using the Cardiac–Electrophysiological Balance Index to Predict Arrhythmia Risk After Colonoscopy by Seyit Ali Volkan Polatkan, Seyda Gunay-Polatkan, Ozgen Isik, Deniz Sigirli

“…Values of the index of cardiac–electrophysiological balance (iCEB) were compared. …”
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Crack Cocaine-Induced Cardiac Conduction Abnormalities Are Reversed by Sodium Bicarbonate Infusion by Carlos Henrique Miranda, Antônio Pazin-Filho

“…We report a dramatic case of a 19-year-old man with crack cocaine overdose with important clinical complications as cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation and epileptics status. …”
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Evaluation of psychosocial work environment among healthcare professionals in cardiac care units by Ralitsa Raycheva, Pavlina Pavlova, Rositsa Dimova

“…Conclusion: The study focused on cardiac units, necessitating tailored approaches to address concerns across other wards. …”
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Clinical Evaluation of Subcutaneous Lactate Measurement in Patients after Major Cardiac Surgery by Martin Ellmerer, Martin Haluzik, Jan Blaha, Jaromir Kremen, Stepan Svacina, Andreas Plasnik, Dimas Ikeoka, Manfred Bodenlenz, Lukas Schaupp, Johannes Plank, Thomas R. Pieber

“…In 40 patients after major cardiac surgery, arterial blood and SAT microdialysis samples were taken in hourly intervals. …”
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Penetrating cardiac injury resulting in a bullet embolus: a case report by Sammy Shihadeh, Anwar Khan, Kristen Walker, Ali Al-Rawi, Alfredo Cordova

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Cardiac-Specific Gene Expression Facilitated by an Enhanced Myosin Light Chain Promoter by Wolfgang Boecker, Oliver Y. Bernecker, Joseph C. Wu, Xinsheng Zhu, Tomohiro Sawa, Luanda Grazette, Anthony Rosenzweig, Federica del Monte, Ulrich Schmidt, Roger J. Hajjar

“…Background: Adenoviral gene transfer has been shown to be effective in cardiac myocytes in vitro and in vivo. A major limitation of myocardial gene therapy is the extracardiac transgene expression. …”
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Prospective Longitudinal Characterization of the Relationship between Diabetes and Cardiac Structural and Functional Changes by Amrit Chowdhary, Nicholas Jex, Sharmaine Thirunavukarasu, Amanda MacCannell, Natalie Haywood, Altaf Almutairi, Lavanya Athithan, Manali Jain, Thomas Craven, Arka Das, Noor Sharrack, Christopher E. D. Saunderson, Anshuman Sengupta, Lee Roberts, Peter Swoboda, Richard Cubbon, Klaus Witte, John Greenwood, Sven Plein, Eylem Levelt

“…The long-term impact of T2D on cardiac phenotype in the absence of cardiovascular disease and other clinical events is unknown. …”
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