Prevalence and Impact of Myocardial Injury in Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 Infection.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.20.20072702 Authors: Lala, Anuradha; Johnson, Kipp W; Russak, Adam J; Paranjpe, Ishan; Zhao, Shan; Solani, Sulaiman; Vaid, Akhil; Chaudhry, Fayzan; De Freitas, Jessica K; Fayad, Zahi A; Pinney, Sean P; Levin, Matthew; Charney, Alexander; Bagiella, Emilia; Narula, Jagat; Glicksberg, Benjamin S; Nadkarni, Girish; Januzzi, James; Mancini, Donna M; Fuster, Valentin Abstract: The degree of…

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Polymer-based or Polymer-free Stents in Patients at High Bleeding Risk.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1910021 Authors: Windecker, Stephan; Latib, Azeem; Kedhi, Elvin; Kirtane, Ajay J; Kandzari, David E; Mehran, Roxana; Price, Matthew J; Abizaid, Alexandre; Simon, Daniel I; Worthley, Stephen G; Zaman, Azfar; Hudec, Martin; Poliacikova, Petra; Abdul Ghapar, A Kahar Bin; Selvaraj, Kamaraj; Petrov, Ivo; Mylotte, Darren; Pinar, Eduardo; Moreno, Raul; Fabbiocchi, Franco; Pasupati, Sanjeevan; Kim, Hyo-Soo;…

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Target genes, variants, tissues and transcriptional pathways influencing human serum urate levels.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0504-x Authors: Tin, Adrienne; Marten, Jonathan; Halperin Kuhns, Victoria L; Li, Yong; Wuttke, Matthias; Kirsten, Holger; Sieber, Karsten B; Qiu, Chengxiang; Gorski, Mathias; Yu, Zhi; Giri, Ayush; Sveinbjornsson, Gardar; Li, Man; Chu, Audrey Y; Hoppmann, Anselm; O’Connor, Luke J; Prins, Bram; Nutile, Teresa; Noce, Damia; Akiyama, Masato; Cocca, Massimiliano; Ghasemi, Sahar; van der Most,…

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Comparison of Rotational with Orbital Atherectomy During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Coronary Artery Calcification: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Link: https://doi.org/S1553-8389(19)30431-2 Authors: Sawant, Abhishek C; Panchal, Hemang; Radadiya, Dhruvil; Pomakov, Alexander; Tse, Gary; Liu, Tong; Sridhara, Srilekha; Rodriguez, Janelle; Prakash, Meghana Prakash Hiriyur; Kanwar, Nidhi; Kumar, Arnav; Banerjee, Kinjal; Wiesner, Philipp; Pershad, Ashish Abstract: Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) outcomes for patients with significant calcification have been consistently inferior compared to patients without significant calcification.…

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Apolipoprotein L1, Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension: More Questions than Answers.

Link: https://doi.org/S0733-8651(19)30035-9 Authors: Patel, Niralee; Nadkarni, Girish N Abstract: Ethnic disparities in health outcomes exist among multiple complex diseases especially cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and kidney disease. Recent discoveries in genetics have taught us that these disparities go beyond environmental and socioeconomic factors. The discovery of ethnic-specific risk variants in the Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) gene on…

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Increased mortality, morbidities, and costs after heart transplantation in heterotaxy syndrome and other complex situs arrangements.

Link: https://doi.org/S0022-5223(18)32970-2 Authors: Duong, Son Q; Godown, Justin; Soslow, Jonathan H; Thurm, Cary; Hall, Matt; Sainathan, Sandeep; Morell, Victor O; Dodd, Debra A; Feingold, Brian Abstract: Identify pediatric heart transplant (HT) recipients with heterotaxy and other complex arrangements of cardiac situs (heterotaxy/situs anomaly) and compare mortality, morbidities, length of stay (LOS), and costs to recipients…

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Pediatric heart transplantation at adult-specialty centers in the United States: A multicenter registry analysis.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.14930 Authors: Duong, Son Q; Yabes, Jonathan G; Teuteberg, Jeffrey J; Shellmer, Diana A; Feingold, Brian Abstract: Recent Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network bylaw revisions mandate that US transplant programs have an “approved pediatric component” in order to perform heart transplantation (HT) in patients

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National Landscape of Unplanned 30-Day Readmissions in Patients With Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation.

Link: https://doi.org/S0002-9149(18)30852-X Authors: Patel, Shanti; Poojary, Priti; Pawar, Sumeet; Saha, Aparna; Patel, Achint; Chauhan, Kinsuk; Correa, Ashish; Mondal, Pratik; Mahajan, Kanika; Chan, Lili; Ferrandino, Rocco; Mehta, Dhruv; Agarwal, Shiv Kumar; Annapureddy, Narender; Patel, Jignesh; Saunders, Paul; Crooke, Gregory; Shani, Jacob; Ahmad, Tariq; Desai, Nihar; Nadkarni, Girish N; Shetty, Vijay Abstract: The number of patients with…

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