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  1. Content type: Case report

    Infantile hepatic hemangioma (IHH) is a rare endothelial cell neoplasm, which may be concurrent with severe complications and result in poor outcomes. Moreover, the coexistence of IHH and congenial heart disea...

    Authors: Xin-tong Zhang, Wei-dong Ren, Guang Song, Yang-jie Xiao, Fei-fei Sun and Nan Wang

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:216

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  2. Content type: Research article

    There is limited information regarding left atrial (LA) mechanics in aortic valve stenosis (AS). We assessed LA mechanics in AS through speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) according to severity and prognosis.

    Authors: Patrícia Marques-Alves, Ana Vera Marinho, Rogério Teixeira, Rui Baptista, Graça Castro, Rui Martins and Lino Gonçalves

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:215

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  3. Content type: Research article

    First-degree atrioventricular block (AVB) has traditionally been regarded as a benign condition but recent studies have challenged this conception. Prevalence of 1–2% have been reported in developed countries ...

    Authors: Zhi Du, Liying Xing, Min Lin, Yuanmeng Tian, Li Jing, Han Yan, Boqiang Zhang, Shuang Liu, Shiwen Yu and Yingxian Sun

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:214

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  4. Content type: Research article

    The role of apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) in lipid metabolism has been well established, and APOE is associated with the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes mellitus (DM). However, the relationshi...

    Authors: Sudong Liu, Jing Liu, Ruiqiang Weng, Xiaodong Gu and Zhixiong Zhong

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:213

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  5. Content type: Study protocol

    Smoking is a strong risk factor for cancer and atherosclerosis. Cancer mortality, especially from lung cancer, overtakes cardiovascular (CV) death rate in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Only ...

    Authors: Alexandra Yannoutsos, Manon Fontaine, Alexandre Galloula, Diane Damotte, Gilles Chatellier, Patrizia Paterlini-Bréchot, Guy Meyer, Jean Pastre, Véronique Duchatelle, Valéria Marini, Karl-Léo Schwering, Isabelle Lazareth, Parinaz Ghaffari, Audrey Stansal, Hélène Sanson, Cécile Labrousse…

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:212

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  6. Content type: Research article

    Remote ischemic conditioning (RIC) is a procedure applied in a limb for triggering endogenous protective pathways in distant organs, namely brain or heart. The underlying mechanisms of RIC are still not fully ...

    Authors: Daniel Noronha Osório, Ricardo Viana-Soares, João Pedro Marto, Marcelo D. Mendonça, Hugo P. Silva, Cláudia Quaresma, Miguel Viana-Baptista, Hugo Gamboa and Helena L. A. Vieira

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:211

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  7. Content type: Research article

    The purpose of this study was to analyze cardiopulmonary fitness in Phase I cardiac rehabilitation on the prognosis of patients with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) after percutaneous coronary inter...

    Authors: He Cai, Yang Zheng, Zhaoxi Liu, Xinying Zhang, Rongyu Li, Wangshu Shao, Lin Wang, Lin Zou and Pengyu Cao

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:210

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  8. Content type: Research article

    Heart failure (HF) with mid-range ejection fraction (EF) (HFmrEF) has attracted increasing attention in recent years. However, the understanding of HFmrEF remains limited, especially among Asian patients. Ther...

    Authors: Siqi Lyu, Litian Yu, Huiqiong Tan, Shaoshuai Liu, Xiaoning Liu, Xiao Guo and Jun Zhu

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:209

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  9. Content type: Research article

    Percutaneous coronary intervention for coronary artery bifurcation disease (CABD) remains challenging. In patients of CABD with situations that two-stent strategy is needed, the culotte technique is a widely u...

    Authors: Chih-Feng Chang, Keng-Hao Chang, Chih-Hung Lai, Tzu-Hsiang Lin, Tsun-Jui Liu, Wen-Lieng Lee and Chieh-Shou Su

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:208

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  10. Content type: Research article

    Colchicine has been used as anti-inflammatory agent in pericardial effusion (PE). We sought to perform a meta-analysis of randomized trials assessing the efficacy and safety of colchicine in patients with peri...

    Authors: Leon L. Lutschinger, Angelos G. Rigopoulos, Peter Schlattmann, Marios Matiakis, Daniel Sedding, Christian Schulze and Michel Noutsias

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:207

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  11. Content type: Research article

    Little was known about the different predictive power of blood pressure (BP) parameters (SBP, systolic BP; mean arterial pressure, MAP; pulse pressure, PP; and diastolic BP, DBP) and stroke incidence. This stu...

    Authors: Jia Zheng, Zhaoqing Sun, Xiaofan Guo, Yanxia Xie, Yingxian Sun and Liqiang Zheng

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:206

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  12. Content type: Research article

    Obesity has nearly tripled worldwide during the last four decades, especially in young adults, and is of growing concern since it is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD). We explored how different b...

    Authors: Ulrika Fernberg, Jos op ‘t Roodt, Maria Fernström and Anita Hurtig-Wennlöf

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:205

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  13. Content type: Research article

    Several studies on the growth rates of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in Chinese population have been conducted; however, this issue remains unclear. The aim of this study is to systematically review publishe...

    Authors: Tingting Huang, Shuai Liu, Jianhua Huang, Baohui Xu, Yongping Bai and Wei Wang

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:204

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  14. Content type: Study protocol

    Cellular therapies have been increasingly applied to diverse human diseases. Intracoronary infusion of bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells (BMMNC) has demonstrated to improve ventricular function after acute...

    Authors: Miguel Romero, José Suárez-de-Lezo, Concha Herrera, Manuel Pan, José López-Aguilera, José Suárez-de-Lezo Jr, Flor Baeza-Garzón, Francisco Javier Hidalgo-Lesmes, Olga Fernández-López, Juliana Martínez-Atienza, Eva Cebrián, Vanesa Martín-Palanco, Rosario Jiménez-Moreno, Rosario Gutiérrez-Fernández, Sonia Nogueras, Maria Dolores Carmona…

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:203

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  15. Content type: Research article

    The present study aimed to expound the association between the XK related 6 gene (XKR6) rs7819412 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and serum lipid profiles and the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) and is...

    Authors: Peng-Fei Zheng, Rui-Xing Yin, Guo-Xiong Deng, Yao-Zong Guan, Bi-Liu Wei and Chun-Xiao Liu

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:202

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  16. Content type: Research article

    Using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18FDG) positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging, we examined the effects of ezetimibe/simvastatin 10/10 mg versus rosuvastatin 10 mg on carotid atherosclerot...

    Authors: Minyoung Oh, Hyunji Kim, Eon Woo Shin, Changhwan Sung, Do-Hoon Kim, Dae Hyuk Moon and Cheol Whan Lee

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:201

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  17. Content type: Research article

    This study examines how prevalence and clustering of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors differ by ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) among rural southwest Chinese adults.

    Authors: Li Hui-Fang, Le Cai, Xu-Ming Wang and Allison Rabkin Golden

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:200

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  18. Content type: Research article

    Pregnancy-associated Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is one of the most common causes of maternal morbidity and mortality in developed countries. In this study, we aimed to systematically review and critical appr...

    Authors: Jie Zheng, Qinchang Chen, Jing Fu, Yanling Lu, Tianjun Han and Ping He

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:199

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  19. Content type: Research article

    Premature infants may present with damage to the autonomic nervous system (ANS), which may be related to poorer neurological development. Among the techniques used to evaluate the ANS, heart rate variability (...

    Authors: Luiz Fernando Martins de Souza Filho, Jordana Campos Martins de Oliveira, Mayara Kelly Alves Ribeiro, Marcelo Cozac Moura, Nelson David Fernandes, Rafael Dias de Sousa, Gustavo Rodrigues Pedrino and Ana Cristina Silva Rebelo

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:198

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  20. Content type: Research article

    Cardiac pacing is a growing activity in Sub-Saharan Africa. There is little data on the characteristics of this interventional treatment in our regions. The goal was to evaluate the results of cardiac pacing i...

    Authors: Adama Kane, Simon Antoine Sarr, Juliette Valerie Danièle Ndobo, Alioune Tabane, Kana Babaka, Fatou Aw, Malick Bodian, Serigne Mor Beye, Momar Dioum, Aliou Alassane Ngaidé, Mouhamadou Bamba Ndiaye, Alassane Mbaye, Maboury Diao, Abdoul Kane and Serigne Abdou BA

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:197

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  21. Content type: Case report

    Left atrial appendage closure is increasingly used. LAA closure procedures can rarely be complicated by device embolization, typically towards the aorta. In this case report, we describe the successful percuta...

    Authors: Manik Chopra, Yam-Hong Wong, Lars Søndergaard and Ole De Backer

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:196

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  22. Content type: Research article

    In patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with an unfavorable outcome and may cause loss of biventricular pacing (BivP). An effective delivery of BivP of ...

    Authors: Jonatan Jacobsson, Christian Reitan, Jonas Carlson, Rasmus Borgquist and Pyotr G. Platonov

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:195

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  23. Content type: Research article

    Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRA) are an underutilized therapy for heart failure with a reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), but the current impact of hospitalization on MRA use is not well characteri...

    Authors: Matthew S. Durstenfeld, Stuart D. Katz, Hannah Park and Saul Blecker

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:194

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  25. Content type: Research article

    This study aimed to investigate the effect of long non-coding RNA nuclear enriched abundant transcript 1 (lnc-NEAT1) on cell proliferation and apoptosis in myocardial ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury cells, a...

    Authors: Lingyun Ren, Shanshan Chen, Wei Liu, Pan Hou, Wei Sun and Hong Yan

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:192

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  26. Content type: Case report

    Swallow or deglutition syncope is an unusual type of neurally-mediated syncope associated with life-threatening bradyarrhythmia and hypotension. It is a difficult condition to diagnose with commonly delayed di...

    Authors: Kelvin Shenq Woei Siew, Maw Pin Tan, Ida Normiha Hilmi and Alexander Loch

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:191

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  27. Content type: Research article

    Development of instruments capable of detecting early stage vascular disease has increased interest in employing arterial stiffness (e.g. pulse wave velocity (PWV), augmentation index (AIx)) and endothelial dy...

    Authors: Raissa Perrault, Alexander Omelchenko, Carla G. Taylor and Peter Zahradka

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:190

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  28. Content type: Research article

    Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is an effective therapeutic strategy for coronary heart disease (CHD). Myocardial longitudinal strain echocardiography with 2D speckle tracking could obtain ventricu...

    Authors: Anna Gozdzik, Krzysztof Letachowicz, Barbara Barteczko Grajek, Tomasz Plonek, Marta Obremska, Marek Jasinski and Waldemar Gozdzik

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:189

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  29. Content type: Research article

    Coronary artery aneurysm (CAA) is a rare disease, and there are limited data on prescribing patterns for CAA. The aim of our study was to investigate prescribing patterns for CAA in Taiwan via the National Hea...

    Authors: Chun-Hui Lu, Chih-Wun Fang, Hao-Ming Chen, Yi-Ping Fang, Chein-Tang Fang, Yaw-Bin Huang, Chung-Yu Chen, Kuang-Ming Liao and Shu-Chuan Jennifer Yeh

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:188

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  30. Content type: Research article

    It is uncertain whether the coronary lesion with intermediate stenosis is more likely to cause cardiovascular events than a normal or minimal lesion. We conducted a single-center, prospective cohort study to i...

    Authors: Young Hoon Seo, Yong-Kyun Kim, In Geol Song, Ki-Hong Kim, Taek-Geun Kwon and Jang-Ho Bae

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:187

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  31. Content type: Research article

    The patient self-management (PSM) is an effective approach for controlling the international normalized ratio, INR, within the therapeutic range. Nevertheless, most of the literature derives from randomized cl...

    Authors: Bárbara Menéndez-Jándula, José Antonio García-Erce, Clara Zazo and Luis Larrad-Mur

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:186

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  33. Content type: Research article

    It has been indicated that Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Insertion/Deletion (ACE I/D) polymorphism (rs4646994) could be regarded as a genetic factor that raises the risk of CAD through its impact on the activi...

    Authors: Negar Nouryazdan, Glavizh Adibhesami, Mehdi Birjandi, Rouhollah Heydari, Banafsheh Yalameha and Gholamreza Shahsavari

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:184

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  35. Content type: Research article

    The development of novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) has changed the landscape of non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) management. In this study, the effectiveness and the safety of several NOACs were evalu...

    Authors: Jianchao Zhang, Junnan Tang, Xiaolin Cui, Bo Wang, Mengsen Bu, Yan Bai, Kai Wang, Jiacheng Guo, Deliang Shen and Jinying Zhang

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:182

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  36. Content type: Research article

    Considering vital role of renal arteries in many surgical procedures, diameter of renal arteries seems to be an important measure of kidney perfusion. In this study, we analyzed a new parameter, renal-aortic r...

    Authors: Marcin Majos, Michał Polguj, Ludomir Stefańczyk, Magdalena Derlatka-Kochel, Mariusz Wachowski and Agata Majos

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:181

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  37. Content type: Study protocol

    Cardiovascular (CV) diseases including heart failure are the leading causes of morbidity, with age being the primary risk factor. The combination of age-related organic functional impairment and reduced physic...

    Authors: Jonathan Wagner, Raphael Knaier, Denis Infanger, Konstantin Arbeev, Matthias Briel, Thomas Dieterle, Henner Hanssen, Oliver Faude, Ralf Roth, Timo Hinrichs and Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:180

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  38. Content type: Case report

    Cardiac haemangiomas are exceptionally rare. They are usually solitary growths. Cardiac haemangiomas can be classified as capillary, cavernous, or arteriovenous in nature. They can occur in any chambers of the...

    Authors: Mahmoud Yousef Ibrahim Abuharb, Xiao Ming Bian and Jian He

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:179

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  39. Content type: Case report

    Atrial fibrillation (AF) significantly increases the risk of ischemic stroke depending on various risk factors. The CHA2DS2-VASc score is used widely to improve stratification of AF-related stroke to identify for...

    Authors: Chen-Di Cheng, Xiang Gu, Hong-Xiao Li, Ruo-Yu Duan, Lei Sun, Yi Zhang, Zheng-Yu Bao, Jian-Hua Shen, Fu-Kun Chen and Ye Zhu

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:178

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  40. Content type: Research article

    With aging of the population, screening and prevention health programs for blood donors will increasingly be a priority. We aimed at: assessing the 10 year-cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in blood donors, ac...

    Authors: Francesco Vadini, Francesca Santilli, Giuseppe Casalini, Mario dell’Isola, Ornella Iuliani, Damiano D’Ardes, Luisa Lattanzio, Marta Di Nicola, Giancarlo Di Iorio and Patrizia Accorsi

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:177

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  41. Content type: Research article

    It is well known that the genotype of ALDH2 is associated with coronary artery disease (CAD), and in-stent restenosis (ISR) is a primary complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a primary recomme...

    Authors: Lizhi Lv, Weijie Ye, Peiyuan Song, Yubin Chen, Jing Yang, Congmin Zhang, Xiaoping Chen and Fanyan Luo

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:176

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  42. Content type: Research article

    In-stent restenosis remains an unresolved issue. Inflammation plays a pivotal role in the process of in-stent restenosis. Significant and positive associations were found between red blood cell distribution width...

    Authors: Ning Geng, Guangsheng Su, Shaojun Wang, Deling Zou, Wenyue Pang and Yingxian Sun

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:175

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  43. Content type: Research article

    We aimed to determine the mutation yield and clinical applicability of “molecular autopsy” following sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS) by validating and utilizing low-cost high-throughput technologies: F...

    Authors: Hariharan Raju, James S. Ware, Jonathan R. Skinner, Paula L. Hedley, Gavin Arno, Donald R. Love, Christian van der Werf, Jacob Tfelt-Hansen, Bo Gregers Winkel, Marta C. Cohen, Xinzhong Li, Shibu John, Sanjay Sharma, Steve Jeffery, Arthur A. M. Wilde, Michael Christiansen…

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:174

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  44. Content type: Research article

    An estimated 55% of older adults in Africa have systemic hypertension, a major risk factor for stroke, heart failure and dementia in the region. The risk factors associated with hypertension in this population...

    Authors: William Kofi Bosu, Justice Moses Kwaku Aheto, Eugenio Zucchelli and Siobhan Theresa Reilly

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:173

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  45. Content type: Research article

    To evaluate the outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) without balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) in a real-world setting through a patient-level meta-analysis.

    Authors: Jannik Ole Ashauer, Nikolaos Bonaros, Markus Kofler, Gerhard Schymik, Christian Butter, Mauro Romano, Vinayak Bapat, Justus Strauch, Holger Schröfel, Andreas Busjahn, Cornelia Deutsch, Peter Bramlage, Jana Kurucova, Martin Thoenes, Stephan Baldus and Tanja K. Rudolph

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:172

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  46. Content type: Research article

    Improving clinical practice aimed at controlling hypertension is a pending issue in health systems. One of the methods currently used for this purpose is self blood pressure measurement (SBPM) whose use increa...

    Authors: Arleen De León-Robert, Juan José Gascón-Cánovas, José Joaquín Antón-Botella, Isabel María Hidalgo-García, Carmen López-Alegría, Yoalys Dilvani Pérez-Cabrera and Heidy Merari Campusano-Castellanos

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:171

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  47. Content type: Research article

    Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage is a life- threatening condition with high rate of disability and mortality. Apolipoprotein E (APOE) and Factor XIIIA (F13A) genes are involved in the pathogenetic mechanism of ...

    Authors: S. Arati, G. K. Chetan, M. K. Sibin, Dhananjaya I. Bhat, Vikas Vazhayil and K. V. L. Narasingarao

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:170

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  48. Content type: Case report

    Anthracyclines are highly effective anticancer medication prescribed for the treatment of breast cancer. Nevertheless, the use of anthracyclines as chemotherapeutic agents involves a risk for development of ca...

    Authors: Jock Chichaco Kuruc, Armando A. Durant-Archibold, Jorge Motta, K. S. Rao, Barry Trachtenberg, Carlos Ramos, Hongyu Wang, David Gorenstein, Fredrik Vannberg and King Jordan

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:169

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  49. Content type: Research article

    The prognostic implication of statin in tolerance (SI) in those with stable CAD remains unclear. We hypothesized that SI is of higher prognostic significance in stable CAD patients with elevated high-sensitive...

    Authors: Jo-Jo Hai, Yuen-Kwun Wong, Chun-Ka Wong, Ka-Chun Un, Pak-Hei Chan, Chung-Wah Siu, Kai-Hang Yiu, Chu-Pak Lau and Hung-Fat Tse

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:168

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  50. Content type: Case report

    Autoimmune diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), are associated with thrombosis and atherosclerosis. Presence of lupus anticoagulant is an independent risk factor for atherosclerotic diseases.

    Authors: Kota Murai, Kenji Sakata, Tadatsugu Gamou, Yoji Nagata, Hayato Tada, Masaya Shimojima, Hirofumi Okada, Kenshi Hayashi and Masa-aki Kawashiri

    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:167

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