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A bleeding conundrum
03 February 2012
Ee Ling Heng, Rafael Alonso-Gonzalez, Enitan Majekodunmi, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Andrew G. Nicholson, Michael A. Gatzoulis, Lorna Swan
A 33-year-old woman with complex congenital heart disease (CHD) presented with acute pleuritic chest pain, dyspnoea and hypoxia. The patient was pyrexial, tachycardic and hypotensive with only bilater...
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The presence of an atrial electromechanical delay in idiopathic atrial fibrillation as determined by tissue Doppler imaging
03 February 2012
B. Weijs, C.B. de Vos, I. Limantoro, E.C. Cheriex, R.G. Tieleman, H.J.G.M. Crijns
Atrial fibrillation (AF) derives from a complex continuum of predisposing factors. However, the true ‘scene of calamity’ is the atrium. Increased left atrial (LA) size is associated with increased ris...
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Atrial fibrillation, complete atrioventricular block and escape rhythm with bundle-branch block morphologies: An exceptional presentation of Lyme carditis
03 February 2012
Nathalie Wenger, Cyril Pellaton, Philippe Bruchez, Jürg Schläpfer
We report the case of a 51year old patient without significant past medical history admitted to the emergency department with complaints of generalized fatigue, shortness of breath and chest pain. He ...
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Circulating carboxy-terminal propeptide of type I procollagen is increased in rheumatic heart disease
03 February 2012
Tanima Banerjee, Somaditya Mukherjee, Monodeep Biswas, Santanu Dutta, Shelly Chatterjee, Sudip Ghosh, Sanjib Pattari, Navin C. Nanda, Arun Bandyopadhyay
Mitral valve is mostly affected in rheumatic heart disease which is prevalent in developing countries and thousands of new cases are being diagnosed worldwide every year . It is known that extensive ...
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Dual non-responsiveness to antiplatelet treatment is a stronger predictor of cardiac adverse events than isolated non-responsiveness to clopidogrel or aspirin
03 February 2012
Jolanta M. Siller-Matula, Georg Delle-Karth, Günter Christ, Thomas Neunteufl, Gerald Maurer, Kurt Huber, Alexander Tolios, Christa Drucker, Bernd Jilma
Abstract: Background: High platelet reactivity (HPR) under treatment with clopidogrel or aspirin is associated with adverse outcome. We aimed to investigate whether high platelet reactivity (HPR) to b...
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