BACKGROUND Bilateral internal mammary arteries(BIMAs)as the most advanced surgical option for coronary artery bypass grafting(CABG)are usually recommended for younger patients without traditional risk factors.This stu...
supported by the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(2017-12M-3-002);the Central High Level Hospital Clinical Research Operating Expenses,China(Zero Balance 2022-GSP-GG-15);the Natural Science Foundation Project of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China(2022LHQN08003).
BACKGROUND Low serum albumin levels are established predictors of adverse outcomes in various cardiovascular conditions.However,the role of serum albumin in mortality among elderly patients with chronic aortic regurgi...
supported by the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(No.2021-I2M-1-008);the National High Level Hospital Clinical Research Funding(No.2023-GSP-GG-2&No.2023-GSP-QN-34&No.2023-GSPRC-05).
BACKGROUND The clinical impact of post-percutaneous coronary intervention(PCI)quantitative flow ratio(QFR)in patients treated with PCI for chronic total occlusion(CTO)was still undetermined.METHODS All CTO vessels tre...
BACKGROUND The correlation between geriatric nutritional risk index(GNRI)and the prognosis of patients with osteoporosis or osteopenia has not been studied.This study aims to explore the relationship between GNRI and ...
The arterial pulse tapping artifact,known as Aslanger’s sign,is an electrocardiographic artifact resulting from the transmission of arterial pulsation onto the limb electrodes of the standard 12-lead electrocardiogra...
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy(HCM)is a primary myocardial disease characterized by myocardial hypertrophy,excluding other cardiovascular or systemic/metabolic causes of ventricular wall thickening.Apical hypertrophic ca...
Cardiac papillary fibroelastoma is a benign heart tumor that,despite its histologically benign nature,can have devastating clinical consequences.Advances in cardiac imaging have made papillary fibroelastoma the most c...
Persistent left superior vena cava(PLSVC)is a congenital anomaly where the left-sided vena cava,which usually regresses during fetal development,persists.Double superior vena cava resulting from a PLSVC is indeed a ra...
Leriche syndrome is a progressive disease distinguished by chronic occlusion of the abdominal aortoiliac arteries.[1]Diabetes mellitus,hypertension,dyslipidemia,and smoking are considered risk factors,and its symptoms...
Vocal cord paralysis that presents as hoarseness due to an underlying cardiovascular pathology is a rare clinical entity known as Ortner’s syndrome(OS).The syndrome was first described in 1897 by Norbert Ortner in a ...