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  1. Cardiovascular diseases are still the main cause of death in the western world. However, diminishing mortality rates of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are motivating the need to investigate the process of s...

    Authors: Christian Fischer, Jens Höpner, Saskia Hartwig, Michel Noutsias and Rafael Mikolajczyk
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:18
  2. Hyperbilirubinemia after heart valve surgery (HVS) with cardiopulmonary bypass is frequently observed and associated with worse outcomes. We investigated the characteristics and prognosis of patients with seve...

    Authors: Xiaolan Chen, Ming Bai, Lijuan Zhao, Yan Yu, Yuan Yue, Shiren Sun and Xiangmei Chen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:16
  3. Berry syndrome, a rare combination of cardiac anomalies, consists of aortopulmonary window (APW); aortic origin of the right pulmonary artery; interrupted aortic arch (IAA) or hypoplastic aortic arch or coarct...

    Authors: Wen-jing Bi, Yang-jie Xiao, Yue-jia Liu, Yang Hou and Wei-dong Ren
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:15
  4. Aneurysm is a severe and fatal disease. This study aims to comprehensively identify the highly conservative co-expression modules and hub genes in the abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), thoracic aortic aneurysm ...

    Authors: Siwei Bi, Ruiqi Liu, Linfeng He, Jingyi Li and Jun Gu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:14
  5. The incompetent bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) can be replaced or repaired using various surgical techniques. This study sought to assess the efficacy of external annuloplasty and postoperative reverse remodellin...

    Authors: Marek J. Jasinski, Karol Miszalski-Jamka, Kinga Kosiorowska, Radoslaw Gocol, Izabella Wenzel-Jasinska, Grzegorz Bielicki, Mikolaj Berezowski, Marceli Lukaszewski, Andrzej Kansy and Marek A. Deja
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:13

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:89

  6. Although most cases of atrial septal defect (ASD) are sporadic, familial cases have been reported, which may be caused by mutation of transcription factor GATA binding protein 4 (GATA4). Herein we combined whole-...

    Authors: Haisong Bu, Guowen Sun, Yun Zhu, Yifeng Yang, Zhiping Tan, Tianli Zhao and Shijun Hu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:12
  7. We aimed to use the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care III database to build a nomogram to identify 30-day mortality risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) patients in intensive care unit (ICU).

    Authors: Runnan Shen, Ming Gao, Yangu Tao, Qinchang Chen, Guitao Wu, Xushun Guo, Zuqi Xia, Guochang You, Zilin Hong and Kai Huang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:11
  8. Cardiac vasculitis is recognized as a heterogeneous disease process with a wide spectrum of manifestations including pericarditis, myocarditis, valvular heart disease and less frequently, coronary artery vascu...

    Authors: Shaun Khanna, Kartheek Garikapati, Daniel S. L. Goh, Kenneth Cho, Phillip Lo, Mohan V. Bhojaraja and Surjit Tarafdar
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:7
  9. The relationship between IL-35 genes polymorphism and susceptibility to coronary heart disease has not been tested in the largest Han population in China. The aim of this study was to explore the effect of sin...

    Authors: Hu Li, Ying-Xue Liu, Jin-Yan Huang, Yu-Feng Zhu and Kui Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:6
  10. Inflammatory cells infiltrate into the ischemic and hypoxic myocardial tissue after myocardial infarction. B cells gather at the site of myocardial injury and secrete cytokines to regulate immune inflammation ...

    Authors: Fanrui Mo, Ying Luo, Yuluan Yan, Juan Li, Shayi Lai and Weifeng Wu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:5
  11. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Kamilu M. Karaye, Hadiza Sa’idu, Suleiman A. Balarabe, Naser A. Ishaq, Bushra Sanni, Haruna Abubakar, Baba Lawan Mohammed, Tijjani Abdulsalam, Jamilu Tukur and Idris Y. Mohammed
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:4

    The original article was published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:457

  12. Angiography is a highly effective invasive method for diagnosing coronary artery diseases but can lead to certain psychological problems such as stress, anxiety, and depression. This study aimed to compare the...

    Authors: Camellia Torabizadeh, Sara Rousta, Sakineh Gholamzadeh, Javad Kojouri, Kavoos Jamali and Mohammad Mahdi Parvizi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:3
  13. There are differences of opinion about the beneficial or detrimental effects of opium consumption on cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). So, we aimed to study the association between opium use and CVDs.

    Authors: Parvin Khalili, Fatemeh Ayoobi, Maryam Mohamadi, Ahmad Jamalizadeh, Carlo La Vecchia and Ali Esmaeili-nadimi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:2
  14. Conflicting information exists regarding the association between insulin resistance (IR) and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). We described the associations between obesity, fasting insulinemia, homeostasis ...

    Authors: Bernard Kianu Phanzu, Aliocha Nkodila Natuhoyila, Eleuthère Kintoki Vita, Jean-René M’Buyamba Kabangu and Benjamin Longo-Mbenza
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:1
  15. Population-based levels of the chronic low-grade systemic inflammation biomarker, C-reactive protein (CRP), vary widely among traditional populations, despite their apparent absence of chronic conditions assoc...

    Authors: Pedro Carrera-Bastos, Maelán Fontes-Villalba, Michael Gurven, Frits A. J. Muskiet, Torbjörn Åkerfeldt, Ulf Lindblad, Lennart Råstam, Johan Frostegård, Yinon Shapira, Yehuda Shoenfeld, Yvonne Granfeldt, Kristina Sundquist and Tommy Jönsson
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:524
  16. To explore the clinical benefits of revascularization in patients with different levels of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) from the perspective of quantitative flow ratio (QFR).

    Authors: Jiaxin Zhong, Qin Chen, Long Chen, Zhen Ye, Huang Chen, Jianmin Sun, Juchang Hong, Mingfang Ye, Yuanming Yan, Lianglong Chen and Yukun Luo
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:523
  17. The The Roadmap Using Story Telling project used a narrative medicine (NM) framework to assess the perspectives of people with heart failure (HF), their informal caregivers and HF specialists of the impact of ...

    Authors: Marco Testa, Antonietta Cappuccio, Maura Latella, Silvia Napolitano, Massimo Milli, Massimo Volpe and Maria Giulia Marini
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:522
  18. Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) pathophysiology is a complex, multistage process, usually diagnosed at advanced stages after significant anatomical and hemodynamic changes in the valve. Early detection of...

    Authors: Ishita Tandon, Shelby Johns, Alan Woessner, Jessica Perez, Delaney Cross, Asya Ozkizilcik, Timothy J. Muldoon, Srikanth Vallurupalli, Muralidhar Padala, Kyle P. Quinn and Kartik Balachandran
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:521
  19. Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death and years of life lost worldwide. While effective treatments are available for both acute and chronic disease stages there are unmet needs for effecti...

    Authors: Christoph Herrmann-Lingen, Christian Albus, Martina de Zwaan, Franziska Geiser, Katrin Heinemann, Martin Hellmich, Matthias Michal, Monika Sadlonova, Ralf Tostmann, Rolf Wachter and Birgit Herbeck Belnap
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:520
  20. Eosinophilic myocarditis (EM) is a rare form of myocarditis. Clinical presentation is various, includes cardiogenic shock and can often be fatal. Diagnosis is based on myocardial eosinophilic infiltration in e...

    Authors: Mintje Bohné, Da-Un Chung, Eike Tigges, Hendrick van der Schalk, Daniela Waddell, Niklas Schenker, Stephan Willems, Karin Klingel, Dietmar Kivelitz and Edda Bahlmann
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:519
  21. It has been noted that there is an increase in the incidence of acute cardiovascular events (CVEs) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) during an acute exacerbation (AE), thereby causi...

    Authors: Wei-ping Hu, Tsokyi Lhamo, Feng-ying Zhang, Jing-qing Hang, Yi-hui Zuo, Jian-lan Hua, Shan-qun Li and Jing Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:518
  22. Heart failure (HF) is a global health issue, and coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) is one of the most effective surgical treatments for HF with coronary artery disease. Unfortunately, the incidence of postop...

    Authors: Hongyuan Lin, Jianfeng Hou, Hanwei Tang, Kai Chen, Hansong Sun, Zhe Zheng and Shengshou Hu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:517
  23. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inherited cardiovascular disease that affects approximately one in 500 people. HCM is a recognized genetic disorder most often caused by mutations involving...

    Authors: Lazar Velicki, Djordje G. Jakovljevic, Andrej Preveden, Miodrag Golubovic, Marija Bjelobrk, Aleksandra Ilic, Snezana Stojsic, Fausto Barlocco, Maria Tafelmeier, Nduka Okwose, Milorad Tesic, Paul Brennan, Dejana Popovic, Arsen Ristic, Guy A. MacGowan, Nenad Filipovic…
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:516
  24. The association between different ABO blood groups and mortality of aortic dissection (AD) remains controversial. This study aimed to examine whether different ABO blood groups affect the prognosis of AD.

    Authors: Song Huang, Yequn Chen, Zhaotao Huang, Shiwan Wu, Nianling Xiong, Xiru Huang, Xin Wang, Chang Chen, Bin Wang, Weiping Li, Liangli Hong, Shu Ye and Xuerui Tan
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:515
  25. This study aimed to reveal the association of diabetes mellitus and dialysis-dependent renal failure with the lesion severity and chronic total occlusion (CTO) in patients undergoing femoropopliteal endovascul...

    Authors: Mitsuyoshi Takahara, Yoshimitsu Soga, Masahiko Fujihara, Daizo Kawasaki, Amane Kozuki and Osamu Iida
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:514
  26. Currently, how to accurately determine the patient prognosis after a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remains unclear and may vary among populations, hospitals, and datasets. The aim of this study was ...

    Authors: Nan Gao, Xiaoyong Qi, Yi Dang, Yingxiao Li, Gang Wang, Xiao Liu, Ning Zhu and Jinguo Fu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:513
  27. Patients with Heart Failure (HF) show impaired functional capacities which have been related to their prognosis. Moreover, physical functional performance in functional tests has also been related to the progn...

    Authors: Iván José Fuentes-Abolafio, Brendon Stubbs, Luis Miguel Pérez-Belmonte, María Rosa Bernal-López, Ricardo Gómez-Huelgas and Antonio Ignacio Cuesta-Vargas
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:512
  28. Data on clinical characteristics of acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) in Malaysia especially in East Malaysia is lacking.

    Authors: Hwei Sung Ling, Bui Khiong Chung, Pin Fen Chua, Kai Xin Gan, Wai Leng Ho, Elora Yoke Ling Ong, Cindy Hui San Kueh, Yie Ping Chin and Alan Yean Yip Fong
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:511
  29. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a common treatment for patients with coronary heart disease, and intra-stent restenosis (ISR) is a serious complication after PCI. It’s necessary to identify the pot...

    Authors: Pengfei Wang, Haixia Qiao, RuiJuan Wang, Ruitian Hou and Jingtao Guo
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:510
  30. The ALDH2 rs671 genetic polymorphism has been linked with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), but comprehensive epidemiological studies are lacking. An observational, retrospective big data study was carried out to ...

    Authors: Danchen Wang, Yutong Zou, Songlin Yu, Songbai Lin, Honglei Li, Yicong Yin, Ling Qiu, Tengda Xu and Jie Wu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:509
  31. Acute aortic dissection type A is a life-threatening disease required emergency surgery during acute phase. Different clinical manifestations, laboratory tests, and imaging features of patients with acute aort...

    Authors: Juntao Kuang, Jue Yang, Qiuji Wang, Changjiang Yu, Ying Li and Ruixin Fan
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:508
  32. With the rising number of hip surgeries, simple and cost-effective tools for surgery risk assessment are warranted. The analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) may not only provide critical insights into the ...

    Authors: Regina Csanády-Leitner, Franz J. Seibert, Corinna M. Perchtold-Stefan, Werner Maurer-Ertl, Kathrin Hilgarter and Helmut K. Lackner
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:507
  33. The aim of present study was to examine the preoperative prevalence and distribution of impaired left ventricular global longitudinal strain (LVGLS) in elderly patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS) un...

    Authors: Jonas Agerlund Povlsen, Vibeke Guldbrand Rasmussen, Henrik Vase, Kaare Troels Jensen, Christian Juhl Terkelsen, Evald Høj Christiansen, Mariann Tang, Anders Lehmann Dahl Pedersen and Steen Hvitfeldt Poulsen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:506
  34. Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) complicated by Eisenmenger syndrome (ES) remains to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Giving increasing evidences of benefit from targeted therapies, ES pati...

    Authors: Jing Xu, Liang Wang, Yunli Shen, Liang Geng and Fadong Chen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:505
  35. Annually > 10% of patients with atrial fibrillation on oral anticoagulation undergo invasive procedures. Optimal peri-procedural management of anticoagulation, as judged by major bleeding and thromboembolic ev...

    Authors: M. Unverdorben, C. von Heymann, A. Santamaria, M. Saxena, T. Vanassche, J. Jin, P.  Laeis, R. Wilkins, C. Chen and P. Colonna
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:504

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:91

  36. A high prevalence rate of hypertension (HTN) and its subsequent serious complications made this disease a major health-treatment concern in many societies. The current study aimed to investigate the prevalence...

    Authors: Mostafa Bijani, Saeed Parvizi, Azizallah Dehghan, Massih Sedigh-Rahimabadi, Mahsa Rostami-chijan, Maryam Kazemi, Mohammad Mehdi Naghizadeh, Alireza Ghaemi, Reza Homayounfar and Mojtaba Farjam
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:503
  37. The study was performed to assess the diagnostic capability of ECG on the cardiogenic shock (CS) in acute myocarditis. A new score was derived from the combination of the ECG parameters and the diagnostic valu...

    Authors: Dan Yang, Qing Dai, Han Wu, Jianzhou Chen, Jingmei Zhang and Zhonghai Wei
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:502
  38. Psychiatric disorders are significantly associated with the incidence and prevalence of cardiovascular diseases, mortality, hospital readmissionn. Oral and dental hygiene may play a role in such association. T...

    Authors: Zahra Darabi, Farid Najafi, Roya Safari-Faramani and Yahya Salimi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:501
  39. Inflammation is involved in the pathogenesis and progression of coronary artery diseases (CADs), including acute coronary syndrome. The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) has been identified as a novel marke...

    Authors: Yi Yang, Yanan Xu, Jun Wang, Xueqin Zhai and Haibing Jiang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:500
  40. In recent years, Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) has expanded rapidly in healthcare research but its application specifically to the field of cardiology has been limited. This study presents essential in...

    Authors: François A. M. Jean, Igor Sibon, Mathilde Husky, Thierry Couffinhal and Joel Swendsen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:499
  41. Some studies have reported that nitrate intake from vegetables was inversely associated with many vascular diseases, but few studies have paid attention to the relationship between urinary nitrate and cardiova...

    Authors: Zhuo Wu, Ting Tian, Wang Ma, Wen Gao and Ninghong Song
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:498
  42. Systematic investigation and analysis of cardiovascular health status (CVHS) of Chinese women is rare. This study aimed to assess CVHS and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) burden in the Chinese w...

    Authors: Tian-Wen Han, Yu-Qi Liu, Wei Dong, Xiao-Juan Bai, Yu-Yang Liu, Xi Su, Yu-Ming Li, Ju-Ying Qian, Mei-Xiang Xiang, Lin Cai, Qian Lin, Jing-Bo Hou, Jie Yang, Dan-Dan Li, Huan-Wan Yang, Shan-Shan Zhou…
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:497
  43. To evaluate the prognostic value of peak serum lactate and lactate clearance at several time points in cardiogenic shock treated with temporary mechanical circulatory support (MCS) using veno-arterial extracor...

    Authors: Fernando Luís Scolari, Daniel Schneider, Débora Vacaro Fogazzi, Miguel Gus, Marciane Maria Rover, Marcely Gimenes Bonatto, Gustavo Neves de Araújo, André Zimerman, Daniel Sganzerla, Lívia Adams Goldraich, Cassiano Teixeira, Gilberto Friedman, Carisi Anne Polanczyk, Luis Eduardo Rohde, Regis Goulart Rosa and Rodrigo Vugman Wainstein
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:496
  44. Fear of movement (kinesiophobia) after an acute cardiac hospitalization (ACH) is associated with reduced physical activity (PA) and non-adherence to cardiac rehabilitation (CR).

    Authors: P. Keessen, C. H. M. Latour, I. C. D. van Duijvenbode, B. Visser, A. Proosdij, D. Reen and W. J. M. Scholte op Reimer
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:495
  45. Infective endocarditis has a relevant clinical impact due to its high morbidity and mortality rates. Right-sided endocarditis has lower complication rates than left-sided endocarditis. Common complications are...

    Authors: Rubi Stephani Hellwege and Meinrad Gawaz
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:494
  46. QT dispersion (QTD) represents inhomogeneous ventricular repolarization such that an increased QTD may predispose the heart to malignant ventricular arrhythmias (VAs). This study was conducted to compare QTD i...

    Authors: Abbas Valizadeh, Sahar Soltanabadi, Saeed Koushafar, Maryam Rezaee and Reza Jahankhah
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:493
  47. Clinic blood pressure measurement (CBPM) is currently the most commonly used form of screening for hypertension, however it might have a problem detecting white coat hypertension (WCHT) and masked hypertension...

    Authors: Auttakiat Karnjanapiboonwong, Thunyarat Anothaisintawee, Usa Chaikledkaew, Charungthai Dejthevaporn, John Attia and Ammarin Thakkinstian
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:491
  48. To explore potential value of guard-wire technology during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with ostial coronary lesions.

    Authors: Xiaoqiong Wang, Xuemei Zong, Bingqiang Li, Zhanying Han, Xinjie Duan, Ying Li, Jing Zhang, Yaohui Wang and Yaoli Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:487

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