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Carlos Morillo
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William T Abraham
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Job title: Professor of Internal Medicine and Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
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Daniel S Menees
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Eric R Bates
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3 years ago
Nearly one-third of the approximately 30 million people undergoing non-cardiac surgery in the US each year have known coronary artery disease (CAD) or CAD risk factors.1,2 An estimated one million suffer peri-operative cardiac complications accounting for roughly US$20 billion in annual medical costs.3 Peri-operative myocardial infarction (MI) may affect as many as 34% of high-risk individuals…
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Daniel Burkhoff
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3 years ago
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Bobbi Bogaev Chapman
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Manreet Kanwar
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Jane Wilcox
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1 month ago
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Tom Ford
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Colin Berry
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3 years ago
Ischaemic heart disease persists as the leading global cause of death and lost life years in adults.1 Angina is a common clinical presentation of ischaemic heart disease related to a supply:demand mismatch of myocardial blood flow, typically provoked by exertion or stress. Invasive coronary angiography is the reference test for angina and identifies obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) as a…
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Joel P Giblett
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Heerajnarain Bulluck
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3 years ago
The translation to clinical practice of agents or techniques that protect against the effect of ischaemia–reperfusion (IR) injury remains one of the most challenging areas of research in the field of cardiovascular medicine.1–4 This is particularly the case when IR injury follows revascularisation for acute MI (AMI). The publication of the combined Effect of Remote Ischaemic Conditioning on…
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Andreas Baumbach
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Mark CK Hamilton
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3 years ago
Rapid advancement of technology has facilitated computerised tomography (CT) coronary angiography (CTCA) to move from being a research tool to being a clinically important diagnostic entity. Whilst the initial four detector technology required relatively long acquisition times and reconstruction of the images took considerable time, the newer generation scanners easily cover the heart in a single…
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Christoph Gräni
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Philipp A Kaufmann
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Stephan Windecker
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3 years ago
Anomalous origin of the coronary artery from the opposite sinus of Valsalva (ACAOS) is a rare inborn disease that is characterised by an anomalous course and/or termination of a native coronary vessel.1,2 The traditional definition of ACAOS differentiates between benign and malignant variants. Malignant ACAOS has an interarterial course (IAC) of the anomalous vessel between the pulmonary artery…
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Andrew K Roy
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John Keaney
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Niall G Mahon
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3 years ago
The coexistence of heart and kidney disease represents an evolving epidemic in an ageing population, with chronic kidney disease (CKD) incidence rates increasing annually.1 The effect of dysfunction of one kidney mediates profound effects on the other, recently described and defined as five distinctive cardiorenal subtypes by the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative consensus group.2 Much work has…
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