The role of cardiac troponins as indicators of irreversible cell injury is well established. 8 Although in myocardial infarction circulating troponins result from continuous degradation of the ...

Hemodynamic changes associated with diastolic hypertension were investigated using 50° head-up for 52 untreated hypertensive patients not in cardiac failure, and for 17 normotensive subjects. Normals ...

We assessed the nutritional status of patients with acute stroke and evaluated it in relation to the patients' dependence on assistance with feeding. Fifty patients aged 70 years or older, admitted ...

Assessment of the clinical potential of a novel biomarker 5 may be structured around 3 fundamental questions (Figure): (1) Can the clinician measure it? (2) Does it add new information? (3) Does it ...

A long-term follow-up study on 46 patients with pulmonary stenosis and intact ventricular septum who survived transventricular pulmonary valvulotomy performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital between ...

A patient who reports arrhythmia symptoms or a perceived shock should be promptly evaluated with an ICD interrogation to determine whether the event was truly a ventricular arrhythmia, rather than an ...

Hypertension is one of the main risk factors for the development of many cardiovascular diseases. Despite significant progress in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension, approximately only half ...

With the advancements of molecular genetics and the identification of mutations in the genes encoding the cardiac ryanodine receptor and cardiac calsequestrin 2 in patients with CPVT, the central role ...

Over the past decade, deciphering the roles of individual miRNAs has relied heavily on the identification of their targets to provide mechanistic context to their cellular function. As Watson-Crick ...

The identification of a previously unsuspected molecule in platelets inevitably leads to questions about its role in either platelets or megakaryocytes. Platelets have limited synthetic capability.