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  1. Numerous studies have reported clinical endpoints following coronary revascularization using bioresorbable vascular scaffolds (BVS), while information about the impact on health-related quality of life is spar...

    Authors: Kathrin Pahmeier, Silke Neusser, Christian Hamm, Johannes Kastner, Jochen Wöhrle, Ralf Zahn, Stephan Achenbach, Julinda Mehilli, Tommaso Gori, Christoph Naber, Holger Nef, Till Neumann, Gert Richardt, Axel Schmermund, Christoph Claas, Thomas Riemer…
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:379
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  2. Insulin resistance is one of the major mechanisms for cardiovascular events. Estimated glucose disposal rate(eGDR) has been demonstrated as a simple, accurate, and cost-effective estimator of insulin resistanc...

    Authors: Jin Xuan, Du Juan, Niu Yuyu and Ji Anjing
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:378
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  3. Both genetic background and diet are important determinants of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Understanding gene-diet interactions could help improve CVD prevention and prognosis. We aimed to summarise the evi...

    Authors: Zayne M. Roa-Díaz, Julian Teuscher, Magda Gamba, Marvin Bundo, Giorgia Grisotto, Faina Wehrli, Edna Gamboa, Lyda Z. Rojas, Sergio A. Gómez-Ochoa, Sanne Verhoog, Manuel Frias Vargas, Beatrice Minder, Oscar H. Franco, Abbas Dehghan, Raha Pazoki, Pedro Marques-Vidal…
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:377
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  4. Left bundle branch pacing (LBBP) is a novel physiological pacing technology. We aim to explore the relation between LBB potential (LBB Po) and left ventricular (LV) electrical/mechanical synchrony in bradycard...

    Authors: Jingjuan Huang, Lina Guo, Weiwei Zhang, Ruogu Li and Ben He
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:376
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  5. Previous studies of left ventricular diastolic function (LVDF) have focused on the decrease in active and passive diastolic function due to ischemic factors but have not investigated if the decrease in complia...

    Authors: Liang Lv, Xianghe Ma, Yannan Xu, Qiong Zhang, Shanshan Kan, Xiaoming Chen, Huajin Liu, Hongwei Wang, Changhua Wang and Jiangwei Ma
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:375
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  6. Appropriate shock therapy is associated with subsequent all-cause death in heart failure (HF) patients who receive an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) for the primary prevention of sudden cardiac d...

    Authors: Michiru Nomoto, Atsushi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Shiga, Morio Shoda and Nobuhisa Hagiwara
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:374
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  7. Myocardial infarction (MI) is characterized by coronary artery occlusion, ischemia and hypoxia of myocardial cells, leading to irreversible myocardial damage. Therefore, it is urgent to explore the potential m...

    Authors: Zhixiang Bo, Shuwen Huang, Li Li, Lin Chen, Ping Chen, Xiaoyi Luo, Fang Shi, Bing Zhu and Lin Shen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:373
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  8. The atherogenic index of plasma (AIP) is a predictor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD), while hyperuricemia is an independent risk factor for a variety of CVD. Apolipoprotein AI has been found to be a protecti...

    Authors: Yan Duan, Xiaona Chang, Xiaoyu Ding, Yu An, Guang Wang and Jia Liu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:372
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  9. This study aims to establish the predictive model of carotid plaque formation and carotid plaque location by retrospectively analyzing the clinical data of subjects with carotid plaque formation and normal peo...

    Authors: Jian Hu, Fan Su, Xia Ren, Lei Cao, Yumei Zhou, Yuhan Fu, Grace Tatenda, Mingfei Jiang, Huan Wu and Yufeng Wen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:371
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  10. Early detection could significantly improve the prognosis of coronary heart disease (CHD). In-invitro diagnostic technique may provide a solution when sufficient biomarkers could be identified. Pertinent assoc...

    Authors: Liya Zhu, Chao Zhu, Jinxin Wang, Rongxi Yang and Xiaojing Zhao
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:370
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  11. Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) survivorship results in unique issues in return to physical and psychological function. The purpose of the study was to compare recovery across the first year between SCA survivors ...

    Authors: Cynthia M. Dougherty, Ana Carolina Sauer Liberato, Megan M. Streur, Robert L. Burr, Ka Yee Kwan, Tao Zheng, Jon P. Auld and Elaine A. Thompson
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:369
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  12. Non-communicable diseases are a growing burden in many African countries; cardiovascular disease is the main disease. Antihypertensive medicines (AHM) are a common treatment option but we know little about com...

    Authors: Samantha A. Hollingworth, Daniel Ankrah, Benjamin S. C. Uzochukwu, Chinyere C. Okeke, Francis Ruiz and Emily Thacher
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:368
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  13. The complement system plays an important role in the development of left ventricular hypertrophy. Complement C1q is an initial component of the classical complement pathway and is related to many inflammatory ...

    Authors: Li Chen, Hong-zhou Duan, Chen Zhang, Gang Li, Yong-tao Wu, Dong Wang and Xiao-yan Li
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:367
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  14. Over 70% of individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) may have metabolic syndrome in sub-Saharan Africa. Evidence about the prevalence, clustering, and determinants of metabolic syndrome components is n...

    Authors: Timothy Agandah Abagre, Delia Akosua Bandoh and Adolphina Addoley Addo-Lartey
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:366
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  15. This study aimed to compare the usefulness of arterial stiffness parameters, cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) and brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV), for evaluating arterial damage and risk of cardio...

    Authors: Taro Saigusa, Kentaro Watanabe, Yurika Hada, Kota Ishii, Wataru Kameda, Shinji Susa, Kenichi Ishizawa and Hisamitsu Ishihara
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:365
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  16. Adherence and completion of programmes in educational and physical exercise sessions is essential in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) to obtain the known benefits on morbidity, mortality, risk factors, lifestyle, a...

    Authors: Charlotte Gjørup Pedersen, Claus Vinther Nielsen, Vibeke Lynggaard, Ann Dorthe Zwisler and Thomas Maribo
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:364
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  17. Early oxygen debt repayment is predictive of successful weaning from veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (V-A ECMO). However, studies are limited by the patient cohort’s heterogeneity. This study...

    Authors: E. R. Kurniawati, S. Teerenstra, N. P. A. Vranken, A. S. Sharma, J. G. Maessen and P. W. Weerwind
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:363
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  18. Systemic immune-inflammation index (SII, platelet × neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio), a new marker of inflammation, is associated with adverse cardiovascular events, but its relationship with coronary slow flow ph...

    Authors: Xin-tong Dai, Tian-zhong Kong, Xiao-jiao Zhang, Bo Luan, Yong Wang and Ai-jie Hou
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:362
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  19. Management of life-threatening arrhythmia can be incredibly challenging in advanced health systems. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), this is likely more challenging because of weak pre-hospital and in-hospital cri...

    Authors: Alfred Doku, Bernard Yeboah-Asiamah Asare, Richard Osei, Christian Owoo, Robert Djagbletey, Joseph Akamah, Ernest Aniteye and Dzifa Ahadzi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:361
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  20. Adaptive cardiac resynchronization therapy (aCRT) is associated with improved clinical outcomes. Left bundle branch area pacing (LBBAP) has shown encouraging results as an alternative option for aCRT. A techni...

    Authors: Xiang-Fei Feng, Ling-Chao Yang, Yan Zhao, Yi-Chi Yu, Bo Liu and Yi-Gang Li
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:360
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  21. Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is a heritable cardiac disease with two main features: electric instability and myocardial fibro-fatty replacement. There is no defined treatment except for preventing arrhy...

    Authors: Samira Kalayinia, Mohammad Mahdavi, Golnaz Houshmand, Mahshid Hesami, Maryam Pourirahim and Majid Maleki
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:359
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  23. There is limited evidence regarding the relationship between lipid parameters and vascular mechanical characteristics in the normotensive population without diabetes mellitus. The aim of this study was to iden...

    Authors: Xianjin Hu, Xin Zhang, Zhipeng Zhang, Xinran Li, Qiling Gou, Runyu Ye and Xiaoping Chen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:357
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  24. Sarcopenia is prevalent in heart failure (HF) patients, contributing to its poor prognosis. Statin use is postulated as a probable risk for developing sarcopenia, but little is known regarding this association...

    Authors: Rui Valdiviesso, Ana Rita Sousa-Santos, Luís F. Azevedo, Emília Moreira, Teresa F. Amaral, José Silva-Cardoso and Nuno Borges
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:356
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  26. National registries reveal significant gaps in medical therapy for patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), but may not accurately (or fully) characterize the population eligible for ...

    Authors: Amrita Mukhopadhyay, Harmony R. Reynolds, Arielle R. Nagler, Lawrence M. Phillips, Leora I. Horwitz, Stuart D. Katz and Saul Blecker
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:354
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  27. The best medical treatment (BMT) for most patients with early stage of peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD) is often limited to gait training and pharmacological therapy besides endovascular surgery. T...

    Authors: Lars Hummitzsch, Luisa Voelckers, Melanie Rusch, Jochen Cremer, Martin Albrecht, René Rusch and Rouven Berndt
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:353
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  28. The KODEX-EPD system is a novel, dielectric three-dimensional mapping system. We aim to illustrate the feasibility, safety, and outcomes of ablation using the KODEX-EPD system.

    Authors: Lei Ding, Xiao Huang, Cong Dai, Hongda Zhang, Sixian Weng, Fengyuan Yu, Yingjie Qi, Shu Zhang, Ruizheng Shi and Min Tang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:352
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  29. Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is an antibody-mediated adverse drug reaction characterized by thrombocytopenia and thromboembolism. Herein, we present a case of HIT with subcutaneous hemorrhage after c...

    Authors: Lishui Shen, Xiaohua Liu, Lian Chen, Xiaofei Gao and Yizhou Xu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:351
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  30. Hyperglycaemia is known to result in oxidative stress tissue injury and dysfunction. Interestingly, studies have reported hepatic and renal oxidative stress injury during prediabetes; however, any injury to th...

    Authors: Nompumelelo Gumede, Phikelelani Ngubane and Andile Khathi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:350
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  31. Percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) represents an alternative stroke prevention method in patients with atrial fibrillation and an increased bleeding risk, chronic kidney disease or contraindic...

    Authors: Ioannis Drosos, Roberta De Rosa, Sebastian Cremer, Philipp C. Seppelt, Katrin Hemmann, Jana Oppermann, Recha Blessing, Silvia Mas-Peiro, Mariuca Vasa-Nicotera, Andreas M. Zeiher and Zisis Dimitriadis
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:349
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  32. As patients with myocardial infarction (MI) survive for a long time after acute treatment, it is necessary to pay attention to the prevention of poor prognosis such as heart failure (HF). To identify the influ...

    Authors: Seon Young Hwang, Sun Hwa Kim, In Ae Uhm, Jeong-Hun Shin and Young-Hyo Lim
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:348
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  33. Patients with ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA) are at high risk of incident cardiovascular events and recurrent stroke. Despite compelling evidence about the efficacy of secondary preventio...

    Authors: Christian Boehme, Lena Domig, Silvia Komarek, Thomas Toell, Lukas Mayer, Benjamin Dejakum, Stefan Krebs, Raimund Pechlaner, Alexandra Bernegger, Christoph Mueller, Gerhard Rumpold, Andrea Griesmacher, Marion Vigl, Gudrun Schoenherr, Christoph Schmidauer, Julia Ferrari…
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:347
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  34. In recent years, abnormalities in serum lipids and lipoproteins have been shown to be associated with cardiovascular disease risk. However, their prognostic value for acute type A aortic dissection is unclear....

    Authors: Yan-Juan Lin, Jian-Long Lin, Yan-Chun Peng, Sai-Lan Li and Liang-Wan Chen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:346
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  35. Arterial stiffness is a common characteristic in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), and arterial tonometric technologies related to arterial stiffness are novel and effective methods and have an import...

    Authors: Xiaodan Gong, Mengwen Hu and Mei Li
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:345
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  37. Management of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in patients with haemophilia is extremely challenging. Therefore, knowing the prevalence of CVD and risk factors in this population is imperative.

    Authors: Thamudika Vithanage, Visaka Ratnamalala, Chandana Wickramaratne, Gaya Katulanda and Chithramali Hasanthika Rodrigo
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:343
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  38. Short term hypothermia has been suggested to have cardio protective properties in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) by reducing infarct size as assessed by troponins. There are limited data on the kinetics of ...

    Authors: Alf Inge Larsen, Anders Morten Grejs, Simon Tilma Vistisen, Kristian Strand, Øyvind Skadberg, Anni Nørgaard Jeppesen, Christophe H. V. Duez, Hans Kirkegaard and Eldar Søreide
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:342
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  39. Blunt chest injury may induce several cardiovascular traumata, requiring immediate care. Right coronary artery dissection (RCA) is an extremely rare sequela in this setting and is associated with high mortalit...

    Authors: Maria Paparoupa, Lenard Conradi, Malte Lennart Warncke, Lennart Well, Christoph Burdelski, Christopher Cramer, Hanno Grahn, Mathias Kubik and Stefan Kluge
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:341
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  40. Myocardial dysfunction is common in septic shock and has long been recognized. Takotsubo syndrome is an acute and usually reversible myocardial injury without evidence of an obstructive coronary artery disease...

    Authors: Chengqiao Jing, Yan Wang, Chunmiao Kang, Daoran Dong and Yuan Zong
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:340
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  41. Coronary atherosclerosis (CA) is the most common type of atherosclerosis. However, the inherent pathogenesis and mechanisms of CA are unclear, and the relationship with ferroptosis-related genes (FRGs) has not...

    Authors: Qingwen Meng, Yiqian Xu, Xuebin ling, Huajiang Liu, Shun Ding, Haolin Wu, Dongming Yan, Xingyue Fang, Tianfa Li and Qibing Liu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:339
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  42. Valve surgery guidelines for infective endocarditis (IE) are unchanged over decades and nationwide data about the use of valve surgery do not exist.

    Authors: Andreas Dalsgaard Jensen, Lauge Østergaard, Jeppe K. Petersen, Peter Graversen, Jawad H. Butt, Henning Bundgaard, Claus Moser, Morten H. Smerup, Ivy S. Modrau, Kasper Iversen, Niels E. Bruun, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Gunnar Gislason, Andrew Wang, Sigurdur Ragnarsson, Jonas A. Povlsen…
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:338
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  43. Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) causes significant morbidity today. Atherosclerosis is evident in the pathophysiological process in most patients, so PAD has similar risk factors as coronary artery disease. ...

    Authors: Nail Burak Ozbeyaz, Gokhan Gokalp, Engin Algul, Haluk Furkan Sahan, Faruk Aydinyilmaz, Ilkin Guliyev, Kamuran Kalkan and Hilal Erken Pamukcu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:337
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  44. Bioprostheses are the most common prostheses used for valve replacement in the Western medicine. The major flaw of bioprostheses is the occurrence of structural valve deterioration (SVD). This study aimed to a...

    Authors: Li Li, Xuejing Duan, Hongyue Wang, Yang Sun, Wei Zhao, Yang Lu, Hongyu Xu, Yiwei You and Qingzhi Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:336
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  45. Intermediate-risk acute pulmonary embolism (APE) patients are usually defined as hemodynamically stable, comprehending a great therapeutic dilemma. Although anticoagulation therapy is sufficient for most inter...

    Authors: Jichun Liu, Yuanyuan Liu, Feilong Zhang, Cong Fu, Yang Ling, Ping Fang, Xiangrong Xie, Xianghai Wang, Hao Yang, Youquan Wei and Jinfeng Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:335
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  46. Refractory hypoxemia after right ventricular myocardial infarction and concomitant SARS-CoV-2 infection represents an uncommon, yet particularly challenging clinical scenario. We report a challenging diagnosti...

    Authors: Francisco Albuquerque, Pedro M. Lopes, Catarina Brízido, Christopher Strong, Maria João Andrade, Pedro de Araújo Gonçalves and António Tralhão
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:334
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  47. Endovascular treatment of patients with Marfan syndrome (MFS) is not recommended. Hybrid procedures such as frozen elephant trunk (FET), which combines stent-graft deployment with an integrated non-stented fab...

    Authors: Kazimierz Jan Widenka, Monika Kosiorowska, Heinz Jakob, Davide Pacini, Wolfgang Hemmer, Martin Grabenwoeger, Thanos Sioris, Anton Moritz and Konstantinos Tsagakis
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:333
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  48. Rumpel Leede sign (RLS) is a clinical presentation observed at the extremities due to pressure applied externally. The appearance ranges from scattered pin-point rashes to an entire arm covered with petechial ...

    Authors: Yang Gui, JingYa Wang, Lifang Ye, GuangXin Pen and Lihong Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:332
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  49. Sleep apnea is a risk factor for atrial fibrillation (AF) but it is underdiagnosed. Whether obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is correlated with thrombotic risk in AF remains unclear. The aim of the present study ...

    Authors: Wei Xu, Yan-min Yang, Jun Zhu, Shuang Wu, Juan Wang, Han Zhang, Xing-hui Shao, Ran Mo, Jiang-shan Tan and Jing-yang Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:331
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  50. More than 50% of patients admitted for acute heart failure are discharged with residual pulmonary congestion. Residual pulmonary congestion at discharge is associated with rehospitalization and death within 6 ...

    Authors: I. Rattarasarn, T. Yingchoncharoen and T. Assavapokee
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2022 22:330
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