Long-term results of the maze p ...
Although the maze procedure is often performed as a surgical treatment for atrial fibrillation (AF) combined with mitral valve surgery, the long-ter ...
Effects of stent implantation f ...
Stent implantation is an effective alternative to surgery and balloon angioplasty for the treatment of stenotic vascular lesions. However, there is ...
Urocortin-induced cardiomyocyte ...
Urocortin-1 (UCN), a member of the corticotropin- releasing factor, is a cardioprotective peptide, and is also involved in cardiac hypertrophy. The ...
Leptin, leptin gene and leptin ...
Heart failure with a normal ejection fraction (HFNEF) is common in obesity and coronary artery disease (CAD). Both ischemia and reperfusion induce l ...
Lymphocyte count was significan ...
The aim of this study was to investigate the association between leukocyte subtype counts and hyper- LDL cholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, and ...
Association of midregional proa ...
Midregional proadrenomedullin (MR-proADM) is elevated in patients with heart failure and myocardial infarction. The aim of this study was to evaluat ...
Differentiation profile of peri ...
In-stent restenosis is largely due to intimal hyperplasia (IH). The number of vascular progenitor cells (VPCs) mobilized at the acute phase after st ...
Development of a model for pred ...
Monocytes and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) play important roles in the process of coronary atherosclerosis. We hypothesized that a r ...
Computed tomography in patients ...
The presence of cardiac pacemaker systems may significantly limit interpretation of multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) images. In 80 patients (4 ...
Inhibition of cyclooxygenase-2 ...
This study investigates the interactions between cyclooxygenase (COX-2) and vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) phenotypic switching, the two importa ...
Plasma endoglin as a marker to ...
Recent clinical studies have revealed that the expression of endoglin, an accessory protein for the TGF-b receptor, is increased in patients with at ...
Determinants of in-hospital dea ...
Ventricular septal perforation (VSP) is a serious complication associated with acute myocardial infarction (MI). The purpose of this study was to in ...
Coronary sinus ostium: the key ...
There are no research studies that comprehensively analyze, with computed tomography, the coronary sinus (CS) ostium with respect to its importance ...
Platelet and monocyte activity ...
Patients with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) often present with symptoms similar to those of myocardial infarction (MI). We analyzed blood concentrat ...
Coronary sinus ostium: the key ...
There are no research studies that comprehensively analyze, with computed tomography, the coronary sinus (CS) ostium with respect to its importance ...
Two-dimensional strain combined ...
The objective of this study was to explore a new method for the identification of viable myocardium by means of two-dimensional (2D) strain imaging ...
Evaluation of immediate laparos ...
The purpose of this study was to obtain information to aid in deciding the timing of immediate laparoscopic surgery for gynecological disorders. We ...
Ultrasound-guided wired localis ...
The identification and subsequent complete excision of abdominal scar endometriosis is particularly challenging due to the difficulty in defining th ...
Robot-assisted radical hysterec ...
this study, perioperative outcomes and survival data in patients with early cervical cancer operated with three surgical methods: robot-assisted, la ...
A study of cyst rupture rate by ...
Laparoscopy may be suitable for benign ovarian tumors, but the risk of intraoperative cyst rupture may carry serious consequences should the lesion ...
Increasing experience in laparo ...
We assessed the effect of increasing experience of a single surgeon (learning curve) in the laparoscopic staging procedure for women with early ovar ...
Medical debulking with gonadotr ...
Although the superiority of vaginal compared to abdominal hysterectomy is well established, most gynaecologists still prefer the abdominal route for ...
Indications of diagnostic hyste ...
Plenty of authors propose outpatient hysteroscopy as the gold standard diagnostic method for the evaluation of endometrial pathology. This statement ...
The hysteroscopic view of infer ...
The purpose of this study was the analysis of a correlation, in infertile patients, between the quality of the endometrium based on its vascularisat ...
Endometriosis in the African Am ...
in some reports; however, few studies have evaluated African American women. The purpose of this study was to localize the implantation sites of end ...