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减盐奋斗中的进展与挑战

阐述了世界不同国家为了减少盐摄入而做出的努力…… More >>

中国减少盐摄入与高血压的研究现状与展望

高血压及其导致的脑卒中、心力衰竭等是一个严重的公共健康问题。 More >>

澳大利亚减少食盐摄入:从倡议到行动

澳大利亚联邦政府已经承诺到2025年人均食盐摄入量减少30%…… More >>

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Original Article

Ethnic and sex-based differences in outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a glimpse of the largest municipal healthcare system in the United States
Sanjana Nagraj, Dimitrios Varrias, Amrin Kharawala, Sheetal V. Mathai, Jiyoung Seo, Hiba Narvel, Weijia Li, Damianos G. Kokkinidis, Paraschos Archontakis Barakakis, Andreas Tzoumas, Wasla Liaqat, Spyros Peppas, Leonidas Palaiodimos, Rosy Thachil
Clinical aspects and targeted inspiratory muscle training in children and adolescents with Fontan circulation: a randomized controlled trial
Rhoia Neidenbach, Sebastian Freilinger, Fabian Stöcker, Peter Ewert, Nicole Nagdyman, Renate Oberhoffer-Fritz, Lars Pieper, Harald Kaemmerer, Alfred Hager
Diagnostic performance of contemporary transesophageal echocardiography with modern imaging for infective endocarditis
Bryce Montané, Johnny Chahine, Andrew Fiore, Jafar Alzubi, Hanan Alnajjar, Jasmine Mutti, Richard A. Grimm, Brian P. Griffin, Bo Xu
Aortic wall shear stress in bicuspid aortic valve disease—10-year follow-up
Michael Hanigk, Elisabeth Burgstaller, Heiner Latus, Nerejda Shehu, Judith Zimmermann, Stefan Martinoff, Anja Hennemuth, Peter Ewert, Heiko Stern, Christian Meierhofer
Feasibility of 3.0 T balanced fast field echo non-contrast-enhanced whole-heart coronary magnetic resonance angiography
Yang Chen, Hao Guo, Peng Dong, Yue Li, Zhongsheng Zhang, Ning Mao, Tongpeng Chu, Zehua Sun, Fang Wang, Zhiqiang Feng, Huaying Wang, Heng Ma

Editorial on Endovascular and Surgical Interventions in the End Stage Renal Disease Population1

Endovascular and surgical interventions in the end-stage renal disease population
Sasan Partovi, Levester Kirksey

Mini Review on Endovascular and Surgical Interventions in the End Stage Renal Disease Population1

Addressing kidney health disparities with new national policy: the time is now
Claudia S. Walker, Crystal A. Gadegbeku

Review Article on Endovascular and Surgical Interventions in the End Stage Renal Disease Population1

Pre-procedure imaging planning for dialysis access in patients with end-stage renal disease using ultrasound and upper extremity computed tomography angiography: a narrative review
Sabine Richarz, Andrej Isaak, Markus Aschwanden, Sasan Partovi, Daniel Staub
Atherosclerotic plaque composition and specific endovascular considerations in the end stage renal disease patients: a narrative review
Christer Ruff, Christoph Artzner, Konstantin Nikoalou, Gerd Grözinger
Surgical creation of upper extremity arteriovenous fistula and grafts: a narrative review
Simon Montelongo, Dylan E. Brooks, Jennifer Klopfenstein, Eric K. Peden
Surgical creation of lower extremity fistula and grafts
Khaled I. Alnahhal, D’Andre B. Williams, Lee Kirksey
The challenging surgical vascular access creation
Khaled I. Alnahhal, Jarrad Rowse, Lee Kirksey
Endovascular creation of hemodialysis arteriovenous fistulae: the current status and future perspective—a literature review
Xin Li, Shilpa N. Reddy, Timothy W. I. Clark, Ansar Z. Vance
The role of hemodialysis access duplex ultrasound for evaluation of patency and access surveillance
Ammar Saati, Debra Puffenberger, Levester Kirksey, Natalia Fendrikova-Mahlay
Multimodality imaging evaluation of arteriovenous fistulas and grafts: a clinical practice review
Tomas V. Gonzalez, Candice A. Bookwalter, Thomas A. Foley, Prabhakar Shantha Rajiah
Choosing the right treatment for the right lesion, part I: a narrative review of the role of plain balloon angioplasty in dialysis access maintenance
Daniel M. DePietro, Scott O. Trerotola
Choosing the right treatment for the right lesion, Part II: a narrative review of drug-coated balloon angioplasty and its evolving role in dialysis access maintenance
Daniel M. DePietro, Scott O. Trerotola
Role of stenting for maintenance of the extremity fistula/graft overview
Gordon McLennan
Thrombectomy approach for access maintenance in the end stage renal disease population: a narrative review
Vincent Wu, Sanjeeva P. Kalva, Jie Cui
Placing an appropriate tunneled dialysis catheter in an appropriate patient including the nonconventional sites
Mukesh Sharma, Wei Lue Tong, Dustin Thompson, Tushar J. Vachharajani
Management of concomitant central venous disease
Khaled I. Alnahhal, Jarrad Rowse, Lee Kirksey
Thoracic central venous occlusion from the interventional radiology perspective
Basem Rashwan, Omar Shwaiki, Sasan Partovi, Karunakaravel Karuppasamy, Amanjit Gill, Sameer Gadani
Image-guided tunneled peritoneal dialysis catheter placement
Gregory Johnston, Gina Jin, Christopher S. Morris

Disclosure:

1.The series “Endovascular and Surgical Interventions in the End Stage Renal Disease Population” was commissioned by the editorial office, Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy without any funding or sponsorship. Sasan Partovi and Lee Kirksey served as the unpaid Guest Editors for the series.

Original Article

Risk factors of prolonged mechanical ventilation following open heart surgery: what has changed over the last decade?
Muhammad-Mujtaba Ali Siddiqui, Iftikhar Paras, Anjum Jalal

Case Report

Kounis syndrome - an atopic monster for the heart
Venkataramanan Gangadharan, Samit Bhatheja, Kais Al Balbissi

Original Article

Reproducibility of myocardial perfusion reserve - variations in measurements from post processing using commercially available software
Pavel Goykhman, Puja K. Mehta, Megha Agarwal, Chrisandra Shufelt, Piotr J. Slomka, Yuching Yang, Yuan Xu, Leslee J. Shaw, Daniel S. Berman, Noel Bairey Merz, Louise E. J. Thomson
3D morphometry using automated aortic segmentation in native MR angiography: an alternative to contrast enhanced MRA?
Matthias Müller-Eschner, Tobias Müller, Andreas Biesdorf, Stefan Wörz, Fabian Rengier, Dittmar Böckler, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Karl Rohr, Hendrik von Tengg-Kobligk
Noninvasive pressure difference mapping derived from 4D flow MRI in patients with unrepaired and repaired aortic coarctation
Fabian Rengier, Michael Delles, Joachim Eichhorn, Yoo-Jin Azad, Hendrik von Tengg-Kobligk, Julia Ley-Zaporozhan, Rüdiger Dillmann, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Roland Unterhinninghofen, Sebastian Ley
Life span of patients with Eisenmenger syndrome is not superior to that of patients with other causes of pulmonary hypertension
Béatrice Bonello, Sébastien Renard, Julien Mancini, Sandrine Huber, Gilbert Habib, Alain Fraisse
Vegetarian diets and glycemic control in diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Yoko Yokoyama, Neal D. Barnard, Susan M. Levin, Mitsuhiro Watanabe

Review Article

Hypoxamirs in pulmonary hypertension: breathing new life into pulmonary vascular research
Andrew E. Hale, Kevin White, Stephen Y. Chan
Bone marrow-derived cell therapy in chagasic cardiac disease: a review of pre-clinical and clinical results
Antonio Carlos Campos de Carvalho, Adriana Bastos Carvalho, Debora Bastos Mello, Regina Coeli dos Santos Goldenberg
Imaging in the context of replacement heart valve development: Use of the Visible Heart® methodologies
Michael G. Bateman, Paul A. Iaizzo
Antioxidant therapies for the management of atrial fibrillation
Tong Liu, Panagiotis Korantzopoulos, Guangping Li
The Popeye domain containing genes: essential elements in heart rate control
Roland F. Schindler, Kar Lai Poon, Subreena Simrick, Thomas Brand
Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging: fundamentals and application to the evaluation of the peripheral perfusion
Yaron Gordon, Sasan Partovi, Matthias Müller-Eschner, Erik Amarteifio, Tobias Bäuerle, Marc-André Weber, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Fabian Rengier
4D flow imaging with MRI
Zoran Stankovic, Bradley D. Allen, Julio Garcia, Kelly B. Jarvis, Michael Markl
Review of MRI-based measurements of pulse wave velocity: a biomarker of arterial stiffness
Andrew L. Wentland, Thomas M. Grist, Oliver Wieben

Brief Report

Correlates of objectively measured physical activity in cardiac patients
Wonwoo Byun, Cemal Ozemek, Katrina Riggin, Scott Strath, Leonard Kaminsky

Original Articles

Left ventricular energy model predicts adverse events in women with suspected myocardial ischemia: results from the NHLBI-sponsored women’s ischemia syndrome evaluation (WISE) study
Mark Doyle, Nicole Weinberg, Gerald M. Pohost, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Leslee J. Shaw, George Sopko, Anthon Fuisz, William J. Rogers, Edward G. Walsh, B. Delia Johnson, Barry L. Sharaf, Carl J. Pepine, Sunil Mankad, Steven E. Reis, Geetha Rayarao, Diane A. Vido, Vera Bittner, Lindsey Tauxe, Marian B. Olson, Sheryl F. Kelsey, Robert WW Biederman
Cardiac risk factors and myocardial perfusion reserve in women with microvascular coronary dysfunction
Megha Agarwal, Chrisandra Shufelt, Puja K. Mehta, Edward Gill, Daniel S. Berman, Debiao Li, Behzad Sharif, Ning Li, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Louise E.J. Thomson
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging myocardial perfusion reserve index assessment in women with microvascular coronary dysfunction and reference controls
Chrisandra L. Shufelt, Louise E. J. Thomson, Pavel Goykhman, Megha Agarwal, Puja K. Mehta, Tara Sedlak, Ning Li, Edward Gill, Bruce Samuels, Babak Azabal, Saibal Kar, Kamlesh Kothawade, Margo Minissian, Piotr Slomka, Daniel S. Berman, C. Noel Bairey Merz
Improved diagnosis and prognosis using Decisions Informed by Combining Entities (DICE): results from the NHLBI-sponsored Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE)
Mark Doyle, Gerald M. Pohost, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Leslee J. Shaw, George Sopko, William J. Rogers, Barry L. Sharaf, Carl J. Pepine, Diane A. Vido-Thompson, Geetha Rayarao, Lindsey Tauxe, Sheryl F. Kelsey, Douglas Mc Nair, Robert W. Biederman

Below are the latest Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy articles published online ahead of print publication.