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Author(s):
Allegra Battistoni
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Massimo Volpe
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3 years ago
Cardiovascular and neoplastic diseases are currently the main causes of mortality and morbidity in developed nations.1 These diseases often coexist in the same individual, worsening general condition, complicating therapeutic management and – from a different perspective – raising the issue of possible shared pathophysiological pathways between cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer. Many of the…
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Randall A. Oyer
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Job title: Medical Director, Ann B. Barhshinger Cancer Institute, Lancaster General Hospital, University of Pennsylvania, US
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Eugenio Picano
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3 years ago
Sources of Radiation Exposure
Radiation used in medical examinations and tests is the largest man-made source of radiation exposure. The biological effects of the radiation dose received is expressed in milliSievert (mSv), with the effective dose of 1 mSv corresponding to the radiation dose of 50 chest X-rays. An average of 2.4 mSv per head per year comes from natural sources (see Figure 1).1…
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Author(s):
Harry Crijns
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3 years ago
Atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common type of arrhythmia, is a rapid uncoordinated generation of electrical impulses by the atrial chambers of the heart. Its prevalence increases with age from less than 1% in people aged <60 years to 10% in individuals aged >80 years. AF is a powerful independent risk factor for stroke and mortality, conferring a five-fold and 1.5- to 1.9-fold increase…
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Author(s):
Denis Tack
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3 years ago
The overall increase in patient irradiation caused by the growing use of spiral- and multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) is of particular relevance for thoracic imaging. The number of clinical indications for thoracic CT has steadily increased, and CT has become a first-line imaging tool for diseases previously imaged with chest radiography, ventilation/perfusion scintigraphy and…
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Author(s):
Cesare Rusconi
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3 years ago
Over the last 30–40 years in most Western countries, for the first time the number of people developing coronary artery disease (CAD) and mortality rates from cardiovascular disease has gradually decreased. This reduction has been mainly achieved using nationwide atherosclerotic risk-factor control programmes. Nevertheless, cardiovascular diseases remain the major cause of premature death in the…
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Author(s):
Athanasios Koutsoukis
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Argyrios Ntalianis
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Evangelos Repasos
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et al
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3 years ago
Cardio-oncology is an emerging field of cardiology that focuses on cardiovascular diseases in patients with cancer. The classic cardio-oncology paradigm is the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiotoxicity resulting from chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy. Diagnosis and treatment of primary and metastatic cardiac tumours as well as cardiac amyloidosis can be considered ‘less classical’…
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Testosterone and the Heart
Author(s):
Michael G Kirby
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Geoffrey Hackett
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Sudarshan Ramachandran
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3 years ago
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Author(s):
Domenico D’Amario
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Stefano Migliaro
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Josip A Borovac
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et al
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3 years ago
The ancient rite of smoking dates back thousands of years, and tobacco smoking has been largely ingrained in our civilization since the arrival of Europeans to the Americas in the 16th century. For a long time, cigarette smoking was perceived as a symbol of wealth, glamour and sophistication, whereas nowadays it is largely recognised as the first preventable or modifiable cause of common diseases…
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Author(s):
Anne Mirjam Kerola
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Silvia Rollefstad
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Anne Grete Semb
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2 years ago