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  1. Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is a widely accepted indicator of renal function. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between eGFR and 3-year clinical outcomes among Chinese pati...

    Authors: Huaibin Wan, Juan Wang, Yanmin Yang, Xin Fan, Dongdong Chen and Ning Bian
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:490
  2. Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the commonest birth defect. Studies estimating the prevalence of CHD in school-age children could therefore contribute to quantifying unmet health needs for diagnosis and trea...

    Authors: Yingjuan Liu, Sen Chen, Liesl Zühlke, Sonya V. Babu-Narayan, Graeme C. Black, Mun-kit Choy, Ningxiu Li and Bernard D. Keavney
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:488
  3. Several biomarkers have been proposed as independent predictors of poor outcomes in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). We investigated whether adding information obtained from routine blood te...

    Authors: Pyung Chun Oh, Young Sil Eom, Jeonggeun Moon, Ho-Jun Jang, Tae-Hoon Kim, Jon Suh, Min Gyu Kong, Sang-Don Park, Sung Woo Kwon, Soon Yong Suh, Kyounghoon Lee, Seung Hwan Han, Taehoon Ahn and Woong Chol Kang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:486
  4. The definitions of contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CA-AKI) are diverse and have different predictive effects for prognosis, which are adverse for clinical practice. Few articles have discussed the rel...

    Authors: Zhubin Lun, Li Lei, Dianhua Zhou, Ming Ying, Liwei Liu, Guanzhong Chen, Jin Liu, Yibo He, Huanqiang Li, Zhidong Huang, Yongquan Yang, Jianfeng Ye and Yong Liu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:485
  5. Transcatheter closure (TCC) and surgical closure (SC) are the two main approaches for congenital coronary artery fistula (CCAF), but data on the comparisons of the efficacy and safety of these two approaches a...

    Authors: Xiaoyong Wang, Chengcheng Pang, Xiaobing Liu, Shushui Wang, Zhiwei Zhang, Jimei Chen, Jian Zhuang and Chengbin Zhou
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:484
  6. Lung tumor embolization leading to acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is rare. Previouscases of lung tumor embolization were reported in the coronary artery. We describe here a case of lung tumor embolization l...

    Authors: Jichun Liu, Hao Chen, Xiangrong Xie, Yuwen Yang and Shengxing Tang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:482
  7. Keshan disease is an endemic cardiomyopathy of undefined causes. Being involved in the unclear pathogenesis of Keshan disease, a clear diagnosis, and effective treatment cannot be initiated. However, the rapid...

    Authors: Zhenzhen Li, Jin Wei, Yanping Zhang, Gaopeng Li, Huange Zhu, Na Lei, Qian He, Yan Geng and Jianhong Zhu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:481
  8. Ipsilateral branches of the deep femoral artery (DFA) are qualitatively identified as collateral arteries based on angiography after internal iliac artery (IIA) interruption. The purpose of this study was to q...

    Authors: Satoshi Nishi, Shogo Hayashi, Takuya Omotehara, Shinichi Kawata, Yoshihiro Suematsu and Masahiro Itoh
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:480
  9. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global pandemic. Studies showed COVID-19 affected not only the lung but also other organs. In this study, we aimed to explore the cardiac damage in patients wit...

    Authors: Jing Li, Yinghua Zhang, Fang Wang, Bing Liu, Hui Li, Guodong Tang, Zhigang Chang, Aihua Liu, Chunyi Fu, You Lv, Jing Gao and Jing Li
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:479
  10. The prognostic significance of diabetic retinopathy (DR) for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) remained unclear. Therefore, we performed this meta-analysis to assess whether DR predicted CVD mortality in diabetic ...

    Authors: Xiao-Hong Xu, Bo Sun, Shan Zhong, Dong-Dong Wei, Ze Hong and Ai-Qiang Dong
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:478
  11. Hemoglobin glycation index (HGI) is considered to be a convenient measurable indicator to assess the inter-individual variation of HbA1c. In the present study, we tested the relationship between HGI and risk o...

    Authors: Jing Mi, Jian Song, Yingying Zhao and Xuesen Wu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:477
  12. BRD4 and PIN1 have been described to be involved in inflammation and vascular endothelial cell dysfunction, which in turn may increase pulse pressure.

    Authors: Jin-jia Qiu, Rui-zhi Yang, Yi-jie Tang, Ying-yi Lin, Hao-jie Xu, Na Zhang, Min Liang, Hong-da Cai, Kai Zeng and Xiao-dan Wu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:475
  13. Leptin can have a direct effect on endothelial and vascular smooth muscle cells and high level of leptin is involved in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. This study aimed to determine the relationship betwe...

    Authors: Asghar Rahmani, Yaser Toloueitabar, Yousef Mohsenzadeh, Roholla Hemmati, Kourosh Sayehmiri and Khairollah Asadollahi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:474
  14. Ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm (SVA) is a rare cardiovascular disease in which some patients exhibit aortic valve insufficiency. SVA repair and valve replacement are usually required for treatment. Here, ...

    Authors: Qian Xue, Chun Yang and Xiu Han
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:473
  15. To investigate the midterm postoperative prognosis of patients with severe left heart valvular disease combined with moderate or severe pulmonary hypertension (PAH) using subcutaneous injection of treprostinil.

    Authors: Ning Xu, Shu-Ting Huang, Kai-Peng Sun, Zeng-Chun Wang, Hua Cao and Qiang Chen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:472
  16. Studies have been performed to identify the association between ABO blood groups and coronary artery disease. However, data is scarce about the impact of ABO blood groups on heart rupture (HR) after acute myoc...

    Authors: Yuan Fu, Mulei Chen, Hao Sun, Zongsheng Guo, Yuanfeng Gao, Xinchun Yang, Kuibao Li and Lefeng Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:471
  17. Candida prosthetic endocarditis is associated with high mortality rates and valve replacement surgery, together with antifungal treatment, play a major role in eradicating the fungal infection. Valve reoperati...

    Authors: Antonio de Santis, Guilherme Moratti Gilberto, Sandrigo Mangini, Adalberto Batalha Megale, Fabio Antonio Gaiotto, Ricardo Mingarini Terra and Rodrigo Gobbo Garcia
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:469
  18. This study aimed to evaluate atrium extracellular matrix remodeling in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients with severe aortic stenosis, through histological fibrosis quantification and extracellular matrix gene ...

    Authors: Mariana Fragão-Marques, I. Miranda, D. Martins, I. Barroso, C. Mendes, A. Pereira-Neves, I. Falcão-Pires and A. Leite-Moreira
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:468
  19. Tolvaptan significantly increases urine volume in acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF); serum sodium level increases due to aquaresis in almost all cases. We aimed to elucidate clinical factors associated ...

    Authors: Hidetada Fukuoka, Koichi Tachibana, Yukinori Shinoda, Tomoko Minamisaka, Hirooki Inui, Keisuke Ueno, Soki Inoue, Kentaro Mine, Kumpei Ueda and Shiro Hoshida
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:467
  20. Amyloidosis is a rare systemic disease due to the extracellular tissue deposition of a fibrillar-shaped misfolded protein, called amyloid. Only two types of proteins commonly affect the heart leading to an inf...

    Authors: Nicolò Martini, Stefania Rizzo, Cristiano Sarais and Alberto Cipriani
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:466
  21. Total leukocyte and differential Leukocyte counts are prognostic indictors in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). However, there is no data available regarding their prognostic utility in very old pat...

    Authors: Xiao-Ni Yan, Jing-Lu Jin, Meng Zhang, Li-Feng Hong, Yuan-Lin Guo, Na-Qiong Wu, Cheng-Gang Zhu, Qian Dong and Jian-Jun Li
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:465
  22. Previous studies on radiofrequency catheter ablation of premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) arising from the left ventricle (LV) papillary muscles (PM) show a modest procedural success rate with higher recu...

    Authors: Chi Cai, Jing Wang, Hongxia Niu, Wei Hua, Jianmin Chu and Shu Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:464
  23. Preoperative risk evaluation systems are significant and important to the allocation of medical resources and the communication between doctors and patients. The European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Eval...

    Authors: Xiang Li, Lingtong Shan, Mengwei Lv, Zhi Li, Chunyan Han, Ban Liu, Wen Ge and Yangyang Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:463
  24. Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF-15), a stress responsive cytokine, belongs to transforming growth factor β cytokine superfamily. Some evidence support that it’s involved in inflammation, coagulation, oxi...

    Authors: Zhuo Wang, Fangkun Yang, Menghuai Ma, Qinyi Bao, Jinlian Shen, Feiming Ye and Xiaojie Xie
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:462
  25. The population of adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) is growing, and increasingly more patients with CHD reach older ages. Patients with CHD are at an increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI) with ...

    Authors: Maria Fedchenko, Zacharias Mandalenakis, Görel Hultsberg-Olsson, Helena Dellborg, Peter Eriksson and Mikael Dellborg
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:460
  26. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of regularity in treatment follow-up appointments on treatment outcomes among hypertensive patients attending different healthcare settings in Islamabad, Pakistan...

    Authors: Sajid Mahmood, Zahraa Jalal, Muhammad Abdul Hadi and Kifayat Ullah Shah
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:458
  27. We studied the efficacy and safety of selenium supplementation in patients who had peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) and selenium deficiency.

    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 2020 20:457

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:4

  28. An Advanced Care Planning (ACP) program of health decisions is the result of a process of reflection and relationship-building between the patient, their relatives and health professionals. It is based on resp...

    Authors: Beatriz Sánchez, Carlos Guijarro, María Velasco, María Jesús Vicente, Miguel Galán and Benjamín Herreros
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:456
  29. There is clear evidence that patients with prior myocardial infarction and a reduced ejection fraction benefit from implantation of a cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). It is unclear whether this benefit is alt...

    Authors: Ahmad Alkharaza, Mousa Al-Harbi, Ihab El-sokkari, Steve Doucette, Ciorsti MacIntyre, Christopher Gray, Amir Abdelwahab, John L. Sapp, Martin Gardner and Ratika Parkash
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:455
  30. To explore the lesion outline and thermal field distribution of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and laser ablation (LA) in myocardial ablation in vitro.

    Authors: Wei Li, Jia Liu, Tong-yi Huang, Xian Zhong, Dao-peng Yang, Xiao-hua Xie, Dong-hong Liu, Xiao-yan Xie and Bo-wen Zhuang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:454
  31. An increased osteoprotegerin (OPG) level has been reported in both type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and cardiovascular diease (CVD) that are linked to sympathovagal imbalance (SVI). We explored the link of oste...

    Authors: M. R. Jasmine, Nivedita Nanda, Jayaprakash Sahoo, S. Velkumary and G. K. Pal
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:453
  32. The 2020 annual Congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) was the first ever to be held virtually. Under the spotlight of ‘the cutting edge of cardiology’, exciting and ground-breaking cardiovascula...

    Authors: Enrique Gallego-Colon, Aldo Bonaventura, Alessandra Vecchié, Antonio Cannatà and Ciarán Martin Fitzpatrick
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:448
  33. Epinephrine, in all modes of use, may pose a wide range of cardiotoxic events, ranging from sinus tachycardia to heart failure, life threatening arrhythmias, and even death. Because of daily and extensive use ...

    Authors: Sari Naddaf, Scott Ehrenberg, Rony Hakim, Muhamad Mahamid, Yoav Turgeman and Ofir Koren
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:452
  34. Cigarette smoking harms nearly every organ, including the heart and lungs. A comprehensive assessment of both cardiac and respiratory function is necessary for evaluating the direct effects of tobacco on the h...

    Authors: Yusuke Watanabe, Kazuko Tajiri, Atsuko Suzuki, Hiroyuki Nagata and Masayuki Kojima
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:451
  35. Cumulative evidence has shown that the non-invasive modality of coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) has evolved as an alternative to invasive coronary angiography, which can be used to quantify pla...

    Authors: Xue-Ming Li, Zhong-Zhi Xu, Zhi-Peng Wen, Jiao Pei, Wei Dai, Huai-Ming Wang, Jing Reng, Peng Zhou and Guo-Hui Xu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:450
  36. Cardiovascular (CV) disease is the leading cause of death among United States women. Rural residence and ethnic-minority status are individually associated with increased CV mortality. Managing dyslipidemia is...

    Authors: Erin R. Weeda, Kinfe G. Bishu, Ralph Ward, R. Neal Axon, David J. Taber and Mulugeta Gebregziabher
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:449
  37. Ultrafiltration decreases total body water and improves the alveolar to arterial oxygen gradient. The aims of the study were to investigate the efficacy and safety of early ultrafiltration in acute decompensat...

    Authors: Jingyi Hu, Qianli Wan, Yue Zhang, Jun Zhou, Miaomiao Li, Li Jiang and Fang Yuan
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:447
  38. Type A acute aortic dissection is a life-threatening disease associated with adverse clinical outcomes. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common after surgery. However, the relationship between intraoperative blood...

    Authors: Yanli Liu, Yuqiang Shang, Ding Long and Li Yu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:446
  39. Since the knowledge of the symptoms of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) may reduce the decision time for patients to seek help in case of an AMI, we aimed to summarize evidence on the knowledge of the AMI sym...

    Authors: Benedikt Birnbach, Jens Höpner and Rafael Mikolajczyk
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:445
  40. One-stop occlusion, which is defined as the combination of atrial septal defect [ASD] or patent foramen ovale [PFO] occlusion and left atrial appendage [LAA] closure, in patients with ASD/PFO and atrial fibril...

    Authors: Zhi-hui Zhang, Qing Yao, Hai-yun Huang, Ping Zhu, Xiang Xu, Zhi-Yuan Song and Hua-kang Li
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:444
  41. No-reflow occurs in 3–4% of all percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) and has a strong negative impact on clinical outcomes of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Therefore, the discovery of a biomarker that c...

    Authors: Nian-Peng Song, Xiao-Wen Zhen, Liu-dong Li, Lin Zhong, Hua Wang and Yi An
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:443
  42. We report here on a prospective hospital-based cohort study that investigates predictors of 30-day and 90-day mortality and functional disability among Ugandan stroke patients.

    Authors: Gertrude Namale, Onesmus Kamacooko, Anthony Makhoba, Timothy Mugabi, Maria Ndagire, Proscovia Ssanyu, John Bosco M. Ddamulira, Laetitia Yperzeele, Patrick Cras, Edward Ddumba, Janet Seeley and Robert Newton
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:442
  43. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Qun Lu, Ping Liu, Jian-Hua Huo, Yan-Ni Wang, Ai-Qun Ma, Zu-Yi Yuan, Xiao-Jun Du and Ling Bai
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:441

    The original article was published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:409

  44. Meigs’ syndrome is a rare disease characterized by a triad of presentations, including benign ovarian tumor, ascites, and pleural effusion. However, a clinical diagnosis of Meigs’ syndrome remains challenging ...

    Authors: Yoko Murayama, Yoshiro Kamoi, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Jun Isogai and Takahiro Tanaka
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:436

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