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Author(s):
Philippe Amubuomombe Poli
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Elkanah Omenge Orang’o
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Ann Mwangi
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3 years ago
Pregnancy in women with cardiac disease is associated with life-threatening complications. Although there has been progress in the field, cardiac disease in pregnancy remains among the leading causes of maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity.1–3 Many studies have shown correlations between pregnancy-related haemodynamic changes and cardiac events.4–7 However, few studies have investigated…
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Lawrence N. Shulman
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Konstantinos N Aronis
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Brittany Edgar
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Wendy Lin
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3 years ago
Atrial fibrillation (AF) requires complex management to prevent adverse outcomes. To succeed with AF, patients need to learn specialised medical terminology and the self-care skills and activation to interpret and report symptoms. AF care involves long-term adherence to medications with deleterious side-effects, such as antiarrhythmics and anticoagulants. The patient experience of AF is further…
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Author(s):
Guy Van Camp
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Steven Droogmans
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Dirk Kerkhove
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3 years ago
Over the last decades, important efforts have been made to miniaturise echocardiographic machines without losing too much accuracy. The first step was to move from big cumbersome machines to echocardiographic laptops. Recently, hand-held ultrasound machines have been developed (see Figure 1). This evolution should facilitate point-of-care cardiac ultrasound – that is, ultrasonography performed…
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Author(s):
Emmanuel Ako
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Sukhjinder Nijjer
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Abtehale Al-Hussaini
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2 years ago
Author(s):
Bich Lien Nguyen
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Jose L Merino
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Eli S Gang
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3 years ago
Catheter ablation has become the curative treatment for various cardiac arrhythmias. Extending the indications from simple supraventricular tachycardias to complex arrhythmias such as ventricular tachycardia or atrial fibrillation (AF) has led to more challenging procedures. These procedures have prolonged fluoroscopy exposure and the need for stable and reproducible catheter movement. Therefore,…
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Author(s):
Rosa Sicari
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Lauro Cortigiani
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3 years ago
In 2007, the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF), in partnership with the American Society of Echocardiography, published appropriateness criteria for transthoracic echocardiography (TTE)1 and, a year later, appropriateness criteria for stress echocardiography.2 Both sets of criteria have been updated and combined into a single, recently published document.3 It remains a work in…
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Remote Management of Pacemakers and Implantable Defibrillators - Role and Long-term Viability
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Haran Burri
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3 years ago
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Robotic Ablation of Arrhythmias
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Prapa Kanagaratnam
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3 years ago
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José PS Henriques
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3 years ago
Despite considerable improvements in the treatment of acute ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), outcomes have predominantly improved in STEMI patients without cardiogenic shock (CS). Nevertheless, cardiogenic shock occurs in approximately 7–10% of STEMI patients and is the leading cause of death for hospitalised patients. In-hospital mortality rates of STEMI complicated by CS are around…
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