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Author(s):
Katerina Fountoulaki
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Nikolaos Dagres
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Efstathios K Iliodromitis
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3 years ago
Heart failure (HF) is a feared endpoint for most cardiovascular diseases and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The worldwide prevalence of HF is between 2 and 3 % and rises sharply at around 75 years of age, so that the prevalence in 70- to 80-year-old people is between 10–20 %. With a 50 % 5-year survival rate, HF is predicted to be the leading cause of all morbidity by 2020.1,2…
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Author(s):
Petros Kikas
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George Chalikias
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Dimitrios Tziakas
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3 years ago
Sphingolipids are one of the major categories of lipids and beyond their role as structural membrane components they have important functions as signalling molecules in a wide array of biological processes. They are composed of two key lipid building blocks – long-chain bases (usually sphingosine or 1,3-dihydroxy-2-amino-4-octadecene) and fatty acids – and use a glycerol-based backbone to which…
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Start date:
Sep 17, 2014
End date:
Sep 20, 2014
The Congress is focused on “Patient happiness: the Holy Grail of organ substitution” and aims
to discuss the importance of technical, psychological and ethical issue to patient happiness with serious tissue or organ deficits.
to re-define the strategy to design and operate devices and treatments to ensure patient happiness.
to bring together scientists with medical and technical backgrounds…
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Author(s):
Andrew JS Coats
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Giuseppe Rosano
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3 years ago
Article
Author(s):
Penelope A Boyden
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Wen Dun
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Bruno D Stuyvers
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3 years ago
Abnormalities in electrical rhythm were studied by Einthoven at the start of the 20th century. In the 1940s, studies by Bozler et al.1 described contractile signals that appeared to be ‘triggered’ heart beats. Today we use the term delayed afterdepolarisations (DADs) to refer to oscillations in voltage that follow a driven action potential.
In the mid-1970s, progress was made when Lederer and…
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Author(s):
Apostolos Ilias Vouliotis
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Paul Roberts
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Polychronis Dilaveris
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et al
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8 months ago
Coronary Artery Anomalies and Coronary Artery Disease in Adults with Congenital Cardiac Disease
Author(s):
Koichiro Niwa
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3 years ago
Article
App-based Follow-up of ICDs
Author(s):
Paul Richard Roberts
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Mohamed Hassan ElRefai
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4 years ago
Article
Author(s):
Denton A Cooley
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Ross M Reul
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3 years ago
Five years ago, we were asked to speculate on the changes that could be expected to occur in cardiovascular treatment between 2006 and 2011. In the current article, we retrospectively examine our predictions and describe the current status of cardiovascular medicine and surgery in 2011. As we predicted, this field has continued to build on earlier breakthroughs in interventional heart valve…
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Author(s):
Giovanni Torsello
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Konstantinos P Donas
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3 years ago
Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in the developed world.1 More than 750,000 strokes occur in the US annually,1 and one-third of these patients die during the first few months after their strokes. Acute carotid syndrome (ACS) is defined as a set of signs and symptoms linked to neurological deficits (transient ischemic attack [TIA] or ischemic stroke) caused by carotid occlusive…
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