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Table 1 Results of the OVID (MEDLINE, EMBASE, ACP, Cochrane Library, DARE, CCTR, CMP, HTA, NHSEED) literature search

From: Heart Disease and Left Ventricular Rotation – A Systematic Review and Quantitative Summary

#

Searches (18 December 2010)

Results

Region of Interest Search Term

1

Ventricular

493973

2

Ventricle

341745

3

Heart

2225277

4

Cardiac

871838

5

myocardial

567273

Rotation Characteristic Search Term

6

Rotation

114762

7

Twisting

4910

8

Untwisting

580

9

Recoil

4625

10

Twist

9589

11

Elastic recoil

2019

12

Torsion

29064

13

Torsional

9246

Heart Disease Search Term

14

Heart disease

334979

15

Cardiovascular disease

205473

16

Heart failure

275006

17

Heart transplant

12545

18

Valve stenosis

59694

19

Aortic stenosis

17785

20

Cardiomyopathy

109271

21

Myocardial infarction

298842

22

Transplant

197267

Combined Region of Interest Search Terms

23

1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5

2694602

Combined Rotation Characteristic Search Term

24

6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 or 11 or 12 or 13

164444

Combined Heart Disease Search Term

25

14 or 15 or 16 or 17 or 18 or 19 or 20 or 21 or 22 or 23

1937593

Combined Population of Interest, Outcome Variable, and Intervention Strategy Search Terms

26

23 and 24 and 25

1634

  1. Please note this does not include the results of the EBSCO (PsychINFO, SPORTDiscuss and CINAHL) literature search.