Background— Therapeutic hypothermia can improve survival and neurological outcomes in cardiac arrest survivors, but its cost-effectiveness is uncertain. We sought to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of ...

Volatile anesthetics provide myocardial preconditioning in coronary surgery patients. We hypothesized that sevoflurane compared with propofol reduces the incidence of myocardial ischemia in patients ...

Graduate Program in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health (R.L.P., G.A.B., K.E.S., D.R.K.), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at ...

Cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death in the more economically developed countries. Ventricular tachycardia associated with myocardial infarct is a prominent cause of cardiac arrest.

Functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR) is increasingly recognized as a source of morbidity. Current repair strategies focus on annular remodeling because annular dilatation is common in patients with ...

Why then, in the article by Reutersberg and colleagues, 1 the increase in mortality for their type A aortic dissection definition (namely, those involving repair of the ascending aorta), but no ...

Changes in left ventricular (LV) diastolic pressure after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) or their relationship with subsequent outcomes remain poorly clarified. Accordingly, we aimed to ...

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) claims millions of lives worldwide each year. OHCA survival from shockable arrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation/ tachycardia) improved in several communities ...

Figure 1. Diagrammatic representation of the different conformations of prorenin and renin, their recognition by the capture and detection antibodies of the renin immunoradiometric assay, and their ...

4. Choosing the Right Pathway With Patient-Centric Algorithms for Acute Chest Pain e343 4.1. Patients With Acute Chest Pain and Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome (Not Including STEMI) e343 4.1.1.

Since its discovery, NO has been recognized as a protective molecule for vascular function via its vasodilatory, antithrombotic, and antiapoptotic effects. The role of NO synthase (NOS) in the ...

Very few reports are available on serial changes in human brain after cardiac arrest. The primary objective of this study is to investigate sequential neuroradiological changes in patients remaining ...