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  1. Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is an acute cardiac condition with reversible heart failure which is often triggered by psychological and physical stressful events. Although pulmonary embolism (PE) was reported as a ...

    Authors: Qi Jin, Qin Luo, Zhihui Zhao, Qing Zhao, Xue Yu, Lu Yan, Liu Gao and Zhihong Liu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:229
  2. Chest compression is a decisive element of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR). By applying a mechanical CPR device, compression interruptions can be minimised. We examined the efficiency of manual and device...

    Authors: Dóra Ujvárosy, Veronika Sebestyén, Tamás Pataki, Tamás Ötvös, István Lőrincz, György Paragh and Zoltán Szabó
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:227
  3. The prognostic significance of changes in mean platelet volume (MPV) during hospitalization in ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention (...

    Authors: Eyup Avci, Tuncay Kiris, Aykan Çelik, Eser Variş, Fatma Kayaalti Esin, Diyar Köprülü and Hasan Kadi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:226
  4. Physical activity programs (PAP) in patients with cardiovascular disease require evidence of cost-utility. To assess improvement in health-related quality of life (QoL) and reduction of health care consumption...

    Authors: Laurent Bailly, Philippe Mossé, Stéphane Diagana, Marion Fournier, Fabienne d’Arripe-Longueville, Odile Diagana, Jocelyn Gal, Jean Grebet, Mario Moncada, Jean-Jacques Domerego, Rémi Radel, Roxane Fabre, Alain Fuch and Christian Pradier
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:225
  5. Lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) is believed to be involved in reverse cholesterol transport, which is known to play a key role in suppression of atherosclerosis. However, recent investigations have...

    Authors: Katsuaki Yokoyama, Shigemasa Tani, Rei Matsuo and Naoya Matsumoto
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:224
  6. The rate of incidentally diagnosed congenital heart disease (CHD) in adulthood has not been reported. The aim of this study was to investigate the detection rate of CHD in adults by routine, general health che...

    Authors: Eun Min Kwag, Ju Suk Lee and Sung Hoon Kim
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:223
  7. Cardiac Amyloidosis (CA) pertains to the cardiac involvement of a group of diseases, in which misfolded proteins deposit in tissues and cause progressive organ damage. The vast majority of CA cases are caused ...

    Authors: Panagiota Kyriakou, Dimitrios Mouselimis, Anastasios Tsarouchas, Angelos Rigopoulos, Constantinos Bakogiannis, Michel Noutsias and Vasileios Vassilikos
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:221
  8. Cardiac arrhythmias (CA) are very common and may occur with or without heart disease. Causes of these disturbances can be components of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) or deficits of micronutrients especially ma...

    Authors: Elke Parsi, Norman Bitterlich, Anne Winkelmann, Daniela Rösler and Christine Metzner
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:220
  9. Matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP9) and Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) play important roles in aortic pathophysiology. However, there is lacking research on serum TLR4 levels in acute aortic dissection (AAD) patien...

    Authors: Tan Li, Jing-Jing Jing, Jun Yang, Li-Ping Sun, Yue-Hua Gong, Shi-Jie Xin and Yuan Yuan
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:219
  10. Self-administered health-status questionnaires are important tools in epidemiology. The objective of the presented validation study is to measure the agreement between breast cancer patients’ self-reports and ...

    Authors: Hiltrud Merzenich, Maria Blettner, Dorothea Niehoff, Lukas Schwentner, Marcus Schmidt, Margit Schmitt and Daniel Wollschläger
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:218
  11. Ticagrelor has been acknowledged as a new oral antagonist of P2Y12-adenosine diphosphate receptor, as a strategy with more rapid onset as well as more significant platelet inhibition function in acute coronary...

    Authors: Dong Wang, Xiao-Hong Yang, Ji-Dong Zhang, Rui-Bin Li, Min Jia and Xiao-Ran Cui
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:217
  12. To decrease the morbidity burden of cardiovascular disease and to avoid the development of potentially preventable complications, early assessment and treatment of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are important. ...

    Authors: Mats Holmberg, Henrik Andersson, Karin Winge, Camilla Lundberg, Thomas Karlsson, Johan Herlitz and Birgitta Wireklint Sundström
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:216
  13. Sclerostin is known to be a canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway inhibitor, while the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway is proposed to be involved in the development of arterial stiffness. This study aims t...

    Authors: Yu-Chi Chang, Bang-Gee Hsu, Hung-Hsiang Liou, Chung-Jen Lee and Ji-Hung Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:214
  14. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and insomnia are frequent sleep problems that are associated with poor prognosis in patients with coronary heart disease. The mechanisms linking poor sleep with an increased cardi...

    Authors: Roland von Känel, Mary Princip, Jean-Paul Schmid, Jürgen Barth, Hansjörg Znoj, Ulrich Schnyder and Rebecca E. Meister-Langraf
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:213
  15. Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation is associated with driving restrictions which may have profound effects on the patient’s life. However, there is limited patient-reported data on the i...

    Authors: Jenny Bjerre, Simone Hofman Rosenkranz, Anne Mielke Christensen, Morten Schou, Christian Jøns, Gunnar Gislason and Anne-Christine Ruwald
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:212
  16. The objective of our study was to compare resource use and clinical outcomes among atrial fibrillation (AF) patients who underwent catheter ablation versus antiarrhythmic drug (AAD) treatment.

    Authors: Julian W. E. Jarman, Wajid Hussain, Tom Wong, Vias Markides, Jamie March, Laura Goldstein, Ray Liao, Iftekhar Kalsekar, Abhishek Chitnis and Rahul Khanna
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:211
  17. The crista terminalis is a variation of normal anatomical structure within the right atrium which may be misdiagnosed with an abnormal atrial mass normally visualized in the standard views on the transthoracic...

    Authors: Jiang Wang, Gang Wang, Xiao Bi, Ran Zhang and Changfu Liu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:210
  18. The current study evaluated time trends of statin use and incidence of recurrent CVD in secondary prevention from 1999 to 2013 and investigated which factors were associated with statin use in secondary preven...

    Authors: Nele Laleman, Séverine Henrard, Marjan van den Akker, Geert Goderis, Frank Buntinx, Gijs Van Pottelbergh and Bert Vaes
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:209
  19. Hypertension prevalence in young adults has increased and is associated with increased incidence of cerebrovascular and cardiovascular events in middle age. However, there is significant debate regards how to ...

    Authors: Wilby Williamson, Odaro J. Huckstep, Eleni Frangou, Afifah Mohamed, Cheryl Tan, Maryam Alsharqi, Mariane Bertagnolli, Winok Lapidaire, Julia Newton, Henner Hanssen, Richard McManus, Helen Dawes, Charlie Foster, Adam J. Lewandowski and Paul Leeson
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:208
  20. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common complication in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The mechanisms of AF is associated with left atrial (LA) structural remodeling in HCM patients. However, the impac...

    Authors: Hongwei Tian, Jingang Cui, Chengzhi Yang, Fenghuan Hu, Jiansong Yuan, Shengwen Liu, Weixian Yang, Xiaowei Jiang and Shubin Qiao
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:207
  21. Iron deficiency (ID) in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) is considered an adverse prognostic factor. We aimed to evaluate if ID in patients with CHF is associated with increased mortality and hospital...

    Authors: José González-Costello, Josep Comín-Colet, Josep Lupón, Cristina Enjuanes, Marta de Antonio, Lara Fuentes, Pedro Moliner-Borja, Nuria Farré, Elisabet Zamora, Nicolás Manito, Ramón Pujol and Antoni Bayés-Genis
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:206
  22. Standard pharmacological therapy in Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is still debated and there is a lack of prospective data. In their recent work in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders Abanador-Kamper et al. found that str...

    Authors: Francesco Santoro, Thomas Stiermaier, Francesca Guastafierro, Nicola Tarantino, Ingo Eitel and Natale Daniele Brunetti
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:205
  23. Compared to ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients who present at centres with catheterization facilities, those transferred for primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) have subst...

    Authors: Oumin Shi, Anam M. Khan, Mohammad R. Rezai, Cynthia A. Jackevicius, Jafna Cox, Clare L. Atzema, Dennis T. Ko, Thérèse A. Stukel, Laurie J. Lambert, Madhu K. Natarajan, Zhi-jie Zheng and Jack V. Tu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:204
  24. In diabetes, dysregulated substrate utilization and energy metabolism of myocardium can lead to heart failure. To examine the dynamic changes of myocardium, most of the previous studies conducted dynamic myoca...

    Authors: Lijun Hu, Chun Qiu, Xiaosong Wang, Mei Xu, Xiaoliang Shao and Yuetao Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:203
  25. Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP9) has been reported to play a key role in the pathogenesis of aortic aneurysm. However, few studies have assessed serum MMP9 levels in both abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and t...

    Authors: Tan Li, Bo Jiang, Xuan Li, Hai-yang Sun, Xin-tong Li, Jing-jing Jing and Jun Yang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:202
  26. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to investigate whether an additional platelet inhibition with tirofiban would reduce the extent of myocardial damage and prevent periprocedural myonecrosis in patient...

    Authors: Wonjae Lee, Jung-Won Suh, Jin Joo Park, Chang-Hwan Yoon, Young-Seok Cho, Tae-Jin Youn and In-Ho Chae
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:201
  27. Radiofrequency ablation is a common and minimally invasive procedure used to treat liver tumors. However, the potential threat of heat injury to adjacent structures if the hepatic lesion is near the diaphragm ...

    Authors: Jung-Chi Hsu, Han-Lin Tsai, Yu-Ling Lin and Rei-Yeuh Chang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:200
  28. It is known that atherosclerosis is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease. We aimed to study the correlation between components of metabolic syndrome (MS) and subclinical carotid atherosclerosis in a gro...

    Authors: Alina S. Kerimkulova, Olga S. Lunegova, Aibek E. Mirrakhimov, Saamay S. Abilova, Malik P. Nabiev, Ksenia V. Neronova, Erkaiym E. Bektasheva, Ulan M. Toktomamatov, Jyldyz E. Esenbekova and Erkin M. Mirrakhimov
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:199
  29. Few studies have suggested that patients with myocardial infarction (MI) may be at increased risk of cancer, but further large register-based studies are needed to evaluate this subject. The aim of this study ...

    Authors: Morten Malmborg, Christine Benn Christiansen, Michelle D. Schmiegelow, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Gunnar Gislason and Morten Schou
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:198
  30. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are endogenous RNA transcripts longer than 200 nucleotides which regulate epigenetically the expression of genes but do not have protein-coding potential. They are emerging as pot...

    Authors: Tarun Pant, Anuradha Dhanasekaran, Juan Fang, Xiaowen Bai, Zeljko J. Bosnjak, Mingyu Liang and Zhi-Dong Ge
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:197
  31. Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTK) are potential targets for the treatment of ischemic heart disease. The human RTK family consists of 55 members, most of which have not yet been characterized for expression or a...

    Authors: Juho Heliste, Anne Jokilammi, Ilkka Paatero, Deepankar Chakroborty, Christoffer Stark, Timo Savunen, Maria Laaksonen and Klaus Elenius
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:196
  32. Infective endocarditis due to Escherichia coli is a rare disease but is increasing in frequency, especially among older women. In addition, its mortality rate is higher than that of endocarditis due to the HACEK-...

    Authors: Nobuhiro Akuzawa and Masahiko Kurabayashi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:195
  33. Treatment adherence play important roles in blood pressure control leading to reduction in morbidity and mortality. This study therefore assessed adherence to pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies ...

    Authors: Rasaq Adisa, Olumide Ayodeji Ilesanmi and Titilayo Oyelola Fakeye
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:194

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  34. Experimental studies suggest that morphine may protect the myocardium against ischemia-reperfusion injury by activating salvage kinase pathways. The objective of this two-center, randomized, double-blind, cont...

    Authors: Philippe Le Corvoisier, Romain Gallet, Pierre-François Lesault, Etienne Audureau, Muriel Paul, Julien Ternacle, Saïd Ghostine, Stéphane Champagne, Raphaele Arrouasse, Dalila Bitari, Gauthier Mouillet, Jean-Luc Dubois-Randé, Alain Berdeaux, Bijan Ghaleh, Jean-François Deux and Emmanuel Teiger
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:193
  35. The association of sodium intake with the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality is inconsistent. Thus, the present meta-analysis was conducted to summarize the strength of association between sodium i...

    Authors: Yaobin Zhu, Jing Zhang, Zhiqiang Li, Yang Liu, Xing Fan, Yaping Zhang and Yanbo Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:192
  36. The association between pre-operative cardiac catheterization and cardiac surgery associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI) has been reported inconsistently. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect ...

    Authors: Wuhua Jiang, Jiawei Yu, Jiarui Xu, Bo Shen, Yimei Wang, Zhe Luo, Chunsheng Wang, Xiaoqiang Ding and Jie Teng
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:191
  37. Recent studies have shown a significant role of the endocannabinoid system, apelin and S100A6 protein in the regulation of cardiovascular system functioning. The aim of the study was to compare and evaluate th...

    Authors: Irena Kasacka, Żaneta Piotrowska, Anna Filipek and Wojciech Lebkowski
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:190
  38. Shock index(SI) is a conventional predictive marker for haemodynamic state. Its breakpoint varies by different conditions according to previous studies. The current study was performed to evaluate the capabili...

    Authors: Zhonghai Wei, Jian Bai, Qing Dai, Han Wu, Shuaihua Qiao, Biao Xu and Lian Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:188
  39. Ideal cardiovascular health (CVH) metrics have been found to be associated with subclinical vascular abnormalities. However, the relationship between ideal CVH metrics and retinal vessel calibers and retinal n...

    Authors: Qian Zhang, Dandan Wang, Anxin Wang, Shufeng Zhang, Yuesong Pan, Yang Li, Shengyun Chen, Shouling Wu, Wenbin Wei and Xingquan Zhao
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:187
  40. Heart failure (HF) is a highly prevalent chronic disease, for which there is no cure available. Therefore, improving disease management is crucial, with mobile health (mHealth) being a promising technology. Th...

    Authors: Anneleen Baert, Els Clays, Larissa Bolliger, Delphine De Smedt, Mitja Lustrek, Aljoša Vodopija, Marko Bohanec, Paolo Emilio Puddu, Maria Costanza Ciancarelli, Michele Schiariti, Jan Derboven, Gennaro Tartarisco and Sofie Pardaens
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:186
  41. Patients with renal impairment often left out from most major clinical trials assessing the optimal treatment for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Large body of evidence from various cardiovascular ...

    Authors: Muhammad Dzafir Ismail, Maisarah Jalalonmuhali, Zaid Azhari, Jeevitha Mariapun, Zhen-Vin Lee, Imran Zainal Abidin, Wan Azman Wan Ahmad and Ahmad Syadi Mahmood Zuhdi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:184
  42. Individuals with prehypertension are at higher risk of developing hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, while the interaction between factors may aggravate prehypertension risk. Therefore, this study aimed...

    Authors: Jian Song, Xue Chen, Yingying Zhao, Jing Mi, Xuesen Wu and Huaiquan Gao
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:182
  43. Thyroid hormones deeply influence the cardiovascular system; however, the association between the fT3/fT4 ratio and the clinical outcome in euthyroid patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) undergoing ...

    Authors: Tongtong Yu, Chunyang Tian, Jia Song, Dongxu He, Jiake Wu, Zongyu Wen, Zhijun Sun and Zhaoqing Sun
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:181
  44. Despite the epidemiological evidence about the relationship between diabetes, mortality and cardiovascular disease, information about the population impact of uncontrolled diabetes is scarce. We aimed to estim...

    Authors: Jorge Navarro-Pérez, Domingo Orozco-Beltran, Vicente Gil-Guillen, Vicente Pallares, Francisco Valls, Antonio Fernandez, Ana María Perez-Navarro, Carlos Sanchis, Alejandro Dominguez-Lucas, Jose M. Martin-Moreno, Josep Redon and Maria Tellez-Plaza
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:180
  45. Atrial fibrillation (AF) may result in procedure cancellations and emergency department (ED) referrals for patients presenting for outpatient GI endoscopic procedures. Such cancellations and referrals delay pa...

    Authors: Joseph Longino, Ashish Chaddha, Matthew M. Kalscheur, Anne M. Rikkers, Deepak V. Gopal, Michael E. Field and Jennifer M. Wright
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:179

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