Low diastolic blood pressure is associated with a high atherosclerotic burden in patients with obstructive coronary artery disease

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Vichai Senthong, Upa Kukongviriyapan, Nongnuch Settasatian, Chatri Settasatian, Nantarat Komanasin

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Adiponectin correlates with body mass index and to a lesser extent with left ventricular mass in dialysis patients

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Afrim Poniku, Gani Bajraktari, Shpend Elezi, Pranvera Ibrahimi, Michael Y. Henein

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Peri-interventional combined anticoagulation and antithrombotic therapy in atrial fibrillation ablation: A retrospective safety analysis

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Katharina Klee, Daniel Widulle, Martin Duckheim, Michael Gramlich, Christian Frische, Meinrad Gawaz, Peter Seizer, Christian Eick, Juergen Schreieck

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Screening hub genes in coronary artery disease based on integrated analysis

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Fei Long, Ling Wang, Lei Yang, Zhou Ji, YaGuang Hu

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Inducible miR-145 expression by HIF-1α protects cardiomyocytes against apoptosis via regulating SGK1 in simulated myocardial infarction hypoxic microenvironment

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Nianzi Sun, Fanyan Meng, Ning Xue, Guanghui Pang, Qingxin Wang, Hongliang Ma

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Novel and heteroplasmic mutations in mitochondrial tRNA genes in Brugada syndrome

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Mahsasadat Fallah Tafti, Mehri Khatami, Shiva Rezaei, Mohammad Mehdi Heidari, Mehdi Hadadzadeh

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Heart failure with recovered ejection fraction: clinical characteristics, determinants and prognosis. CARDIOCHUS-CHOP registry

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Rosa Agra Bermejo, Eva Gonzalez Babarro, J. Nicolás López Canoa, Alfonso Varela Román, Inés Gómez Otero, Marcos Oro Ayude, Pablo Parada Vazquez, Isabel Gómez Rodríguez, Oscar Díaz Castro, Jose Ramón González Juanatey

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Study design and rationale for biomedical shirt-based electrocardiography monitoring in relevant clinical situations: ECG-shirt study

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Paweł Balsam, Piotr Lodziński, Agata Tymińska, Krzysztof Ozierański, Łukasz Januszkiewicz, Renata Główczyńska, Katarzyna Wesołowska, Michał Peller, Radosław Pietrzak, Tomasz Książczyk, Sonia Borodzicz, Łukasz Kołtowski, Mariusz Borkowski, Bożena Werner, Grzegorz Opolski, Marcin Grabowski

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Outcome of implantable loop recorder evaluation

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Peter M. Magnusson, Maciej Olszowka, Marita Wallhagen, Hirsh Koyi

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Occurrence and extraction of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator leads with conductor externalization

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Aleksander Maciąg, Paweł Syska, Maciej Sterliński, Agnieszka Kołodzińska, Artur Oręziak, Krzysztof Kuśmierski, Marta Marciniak-Emmons, Andrzej Przybylski, Łukasz Szumowski, Grzegorz Opolski, Hanna Szwed

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Right ventricular morphology and function is not related with microRNAs and fibrosis markers in dilated cardiomyopathy

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Paweł Rubiś, Justyna Totoń-Żurańska, Sylwia Wiśniowska-Śmiałek, Maria Kołton-Wróż, Paweł Wołkow, Ewa Wypasek, Lucyna Rudnicka-Sosin, Agnieszka Pawlak, Kozanecki Kozanecki, Lidia Tomkiewicz-Pająk, Piotr Podolec

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Comparison of dedicated BIOSS bifurcation stents with regular drug-eluting stents for coronary artery bifurcated lesions: Pooled analysis from two randomized studies

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Robert J. Gil, Jacek Bil, Adam Kern, Luis A. Iñigo Garcia, Radosław Formuszewicz, Sławomir Dobrzycki, Dobrin Vassilev, Agnieszka Segiet

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Left atrial appendage closure for primary primary prevention during percutaneous closure of septal defects in patients with large atria but no atrial fibrillation

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Shingo Kuwata, Juliane Vierecke, Steffen Gloekler, Francesco Maisano, Bernhard Meier, Fabian Nietlispach

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A pilot study with flow mediated skin fluorescence: A novel device to assess microvascular endothelial function in coronary artery disease

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Maria Tarnawska, Karolina Dorniak, Mariusz Kaszubowski, Maria Dudziak, Marcin Hellmann

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Longitudinal relationships between cardiovascular events, risk factors, and time-dependent sleep duration

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Daiki Kobayashi, Nagato Kuriyama, Yasuhiro Osugi, Hiroko Arioka, Osamu Takahashi

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Factors associated with safe early discharge after trans-catheter aortic valve implantation

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Omar Aldalati, Friedon Keshavarzi, Amit Kaura, Jonathan Byrne, Mehdi Eskandari, Ranjit Deshpande, Mark Monaghan, Olaf Wendler, Rafal Dworakowski, Philip Maccarthy

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Echocardiographic parameters versus CHA2DS2-VASc score in prediction of overall cardiac events, heart failure, and stroke in non-valvular atrial fibrillation

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Li-Tan Yang, Wei-Chuan Tsai, Ho-Ming Su

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Simple platelet markers: Mean platelet volume and congestive heart failure coexistent with periodontal disease. Pilot studies

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Maciej R. Czerniuk, Zbigniew Bartoszewicz, Iwona Dudzik-Niewiadomska, Tomasz Pilecki, Renata Górska, Krzysztof J. Filipiak

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Dedicated bifurcation stents or regular drug eluting stents in distal left main stenosis: A retrospective study

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Adam Kern, Robert J Gil, Krystian Bojko, Bartłomiej Rzeszowski, Krzysztof Bednarski, Jerzy Górny, Jacek Bil

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Different postconditioning cycles affect prognosis of aged patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention

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Jie Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yuqi Cui, Misbahul Ferdous, Lianqun Cui, Peng Zhao

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Multimodality imaging of intermediate lesions: Data from FFR, OCT, NIRS-IVUS

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Dariusz Biały, Magdalena Wawrzyńska, Jacek Arkowski, Marcin Rogała, Klaudia Proniewska, Wojciech Wańha, Wojciech Wojakowski, Tomasz Roleder

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Quality of life in patients with coronary artery disease treated with coronary artery bypass grafting and hybrid coronary revascularization

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Karolina Gierszewska, Izabela Jaworska, Michał Skrzypek, Mariusz Gąsior, Robert Pudlo

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Adaptation of global hemostasis to therapeutic hypothermia in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Thromboelastography study

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Aleksander Trąbka-Zawicki, Marek Tomala, Aleksander Zeliaś, Elżbieta Paszek, Wojciech Zajdel, Ewa Stępień, Krzysztof Żmudka

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Decreased admissions and hospital costs with a neutral effect on mortality following lowering of the troponin T cutoff point to the 99th percentile

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Christian Bjurman, Matteus Zywczyk, Bertil Lindahl, Tobias Carlsson, Per Johanson, Max Petzold, Martin Holzmann, Michael LX Fu, Ola Hammarsten

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What determine the quality of life of adult patients after Fontan procedure?

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Monika Smaś-Suska, Natalia Dłużniewska, Piotr Weryński, Jacek Pająk, Wojciech Płazak, Maria Olszowska, Piotr Podolec, Lidia Tomkiewicz-Pająk

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Refined heart failure detection algorithm for improved clinical reliability of OptiVol alerts in CRT-D recipients

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Mate Vamos, Noemi Nyolczas, Zsolt Bari, Peter Bogyi, Balazs Muk, Barna Szabo, Bettina Ancsin, Robert G. Kiss, Gabor Z. Duray

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The impact of proximal cell rewiring compared with distal cell rewiring with single-stent deployment and subsequent kissing balloon inflation in the inadequate jailing of a Kaname stent on the side branch ostium

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Fumiaki Nakao

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Blood urea nitrogen in the prediction of in-hospital mortality of patients with acute aortic dissection

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Jun Liu, Lian-Lian Sun, Jue Wang, Guang Ji

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Link of renal microcirculatory dysfunction to increased coronary microcirculatory resistance in hypertensive patients

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Cong Lin, Pu Zhang, Yangjing Xue, Yinqing Huang, Kangting Ji

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Newly developed post-operative atrial fibrillation is associated with an increased risk of late recurrence of atrial fibrillation in patients who underwent open heart surgery: Long-term follow up

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Yae Min Park, Mi Suk Cha, Chul-Hyum Park, Chang Hu Choi, Yang Bin Jeon, Woong Chol Kang, In Suck Choi, Kook Yang Park

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Effectiveness of Medtronic CareLink Express System in identifying patients with high-energy electrotherapy devices requiring clinically significant intervention

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Marcin Grabowski, Sabina Sadecka, Andrzej Cacko, Marcin Michalak, Leszek Blicharz, Paweł Balsam, Grzegorz Opolski

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Comparison of prognostic values of cardiopulmonary and heart rate parameters in exercise testing in men with heart failure

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Łukasz Czubaszewski, Anna Straburzyńska-Lupa, Jacek Migaj, Ewa Straburzyńska-Migaj

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The value of left atrial strain and strain rate in predicting left atrial appendage stasis in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation

(Original articles - Echocardiography)

Mengruo Zhu, Man Wang, Xinxin Ma, Dongyan Zheng, Yueli Zhang

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Prognostic value of growth differentiation factor-15 in Chinese patients with heart failure: A prospective observational study

(Original articles - Heart failure and cardiac transplant)

Hua Wang, Qingyong Chen, Yingying Li, Xianchao Jing, Jiefu Yang

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Treatment of coronary chronic total occlusion by transradial approach: Current trends and expert recommendations

(Review articles)

Leszek Bryniarski, Michał Zabojszcz, Krzysztof Leszek Bryniarski

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The influence of plasma 25-(OH) vitamin D levels in acute ST elevation myocardial infarction

(Original articles - Interventional cardiology)

Ömer Şen, Mustafa Topuz, Armağan Acele, Oğuz Akkuş, Ahmet Oytun Baykan, Mevlüt Koç

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Safety and efficacy of cryoablation without the use of fluoroscopy

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Edward Kozluk, Dariusz Rodkiewicz, Agnieszka Piątkowska, Grzegorz Opolski

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Improvement of left ventricular diastolic function and left heart morphology in young women with morbid obesity six months after bariatric surgery

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Katarzyna Kurnicka, Justyna Domienik-Karłowicz, Barbara Lichodziejewska, Maksymilian Bielecki, Marta Kozłowska, Sylwia Goliszek, Olga Dzikowska-Diduch, Wojciech Lisik, Maciej Kosieradzki, Piotr Pruszczyk

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Elevated high-sensitivity troponin does not indicate the presence of coronary artery disease in patients presenting with supraventricular tachycardia

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Martin Murer, Florim Cuculi, Stefan Toggweiler, Vanessa Weberndoerfer, Mabelle Young, Richard Kobza

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The approach to coronary bifurcation treatment and its outcomes in Poland: The single center experience

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Adam Kern, Robert J. Gil, Krystian Bojko, Bartłomiej Rzeszowski, Rakesh Jalali, Jerzy Górny, Jacek Bil

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Risk factors of atrial fibrillation recurrence despite successful radiofrequency ablation of accessory pathway: At 11 years of follow-up

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Michał Orczykowski, Piotr Urbanek, Robert Bodalski, Paweł Derejko, Grzegorz Warmiński, Małgorzata Łodyga, Damian Łasocha, Łukasz Mazurkiewicz, Maciej Dąbrowski, Paweł Tyczyński, Joanna Zakrzewska-Koperska, Rafał Baranowski, Artur Oręziak, Maciej Sterliński, Maria Bilińska, Łukasz Szumowski

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Effect of fluid resuscitation with balanced solutions on platelets: In vitro simulation of 20% volume substitution

(Original articles)

Łukasz J. Krzych, Piotr F. Czempik

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Macrophagic enhancement in optical coherence tomography imaging by means of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles

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Juan Luis Gutiérrez-Chico, Milosz Jaguszewski, Miguel Comesaña-Hermo, Miguel Ángel Correa-Duarte, Luis Mariñas-Pardo, Manuel Hermida-Prieto

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Heart failure: Pilot transcriptomic analysis of cardiac tissue by RNA-sequencing

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Concetta Schiano, Valerio Costa, Marianna Aprile, Vincenzo Grimaldi, Ciro Maiello, Roberta Esposito, Andrea Soricelli, Vittorio Colantuoni, Francesco Donatelli, Alfredo Ciccodicola, Claudio Napoli

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Echocardiographic evaluation of right ventricular systolic function: The traditional and innovative approach

(Review articles)

Dorota Smolarek, Marcin Gruchała, Wojciech Sobiczewski

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Comparison of dual antiplatelet therapy versus oral anticoagulation following transcatheter aortic valve replacement: A retrospective single-center registry analysis

(Original articles)

Erik W. Holy, Julia Kebernik, Abdelhakim Allali, Mohamed El-Mawardy, Gert Richardt, Mohamed Abdel-Wahab

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Association between prophylactic hydration volume and risk of contrast-induced nephropathy after emergent percutaneous coronary intervention

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Tongtao Cui, Jianbin Zhao, Weijie Bei, Hualong Li, Ning Tan, Dengxuan Wu, Kun Wang, Xiaosheng Guo, Yuanhui Liu, Chongyang Duan, Shiqun Chen, Kaiyang Lin, Yong Liu

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Clinical profile and management of outpatients with non-ischemic and non-hypertensive systolic heart failure: Analysis of the Polish DATA-HELP registry

(Original articles - Heart failure and cardiac transplant)

Justyna M. Krzysztofik, Beata Kurian, Waldemar Banasiak, Ewa A. Jankowska, Piotr Ponikowski

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Prediction of unstable anticoagulation with acenocoumarol versus warfarin in atrial fibrillation

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Agata H. Bryk, Krzysztof Plens, Anetta Undas

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Prognostic value of red blood cell distribution width in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction: Insights from the COMMIT-HF registry

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Jarosław Wasilewski, Łukasz Pyka, Michał Hawranek, Mateusz Tajstra, Michał Skrzypek, Michał Wasiak, Kamil Suliga, Kamil Bujak, Mariusz Gąsior

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The early variation of left ventricular twisting function in patients with lymphoma received anthracycline therapy assessed by three-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography

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Feiyan Song, Yu Kang, Chujie Zhang, Yuchen Xu, Jing Shi, Ye Guo, Qunling Zhang, Xianhong Shu, Leilei Cheng

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Prediction of coronary artery disease severity in lower extremity artery disease patients: A correlation study of TASC II classification, Syntax and Syntax II scores

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Ertan Vuruskan, Erhan Saracoglu, Mustafa Polat, Irfan Veysel Duzen

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Percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion: New perspectives for the method

(Review articles)

Iwona Gorczyca-Michta, Beata Wożakowska-Kapłon

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Efficacy of nicorandil treatment for prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy in high-risk patients undergoing cardiac catheterization: A prospective randomized controlled trial

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Leili Iranirad, Seyed Fakhreddin Hejazi, Mohammad Saleh Sadeghi, Shahram Arsang Jang

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Immediate and long-term outcomes of percutaneous transcatheter pulmonary valve implantation

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Roland Fiszer, Paweł Dryżek, Małgorzata Szkutnik, Sebastian Góreczny, Alexandra Krawczuk, Jadwiga Moll, Tomasz Moszura, Szymon Pawlak, Jacek Białkowski

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Prognostic importance of central thrombus in hemodynamically stable patients with pulmonary embolism

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Aysegul Senturk, Savas Ozsu, Serap Duru, Ebru Cakır, Sevinc Sarinc Ulaslı, Ezgi Demirdogen, Servet Kayhan, Aygul Guzel, Fatih Yakar, Serdar Berk

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Relationship between past myocardial infarction, periodontal disease and Porphyromonas gingivalis serum antibodies: A case-control study

(Original articles - Ischemic heart disease)

Radosław P. Łysek, Krystyna Szafraniec, Maciej Polak, Piotr Jankowski, Agnieszka Micek, Renata Wolfshaut-Wolak, Danuta Czarnecka, Jan Potempa, Andrzej Pająk

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Impact of CoreValve size selection based on multi-slice computer tomography on paravalvular leak after transcatheter aortic valve implantation

(Original articles - Interventional cardiology)

Piotr Chodór, Krzysztof Wilczek, Roman Przybylski, Jan Głowacki, Tomasz Kukulski, Witold Streb, Tomasz Niklewski, Grzegorz Honisz, Przemysław Trzeciak, Tomasz Podolecki, Łukasz Włoch, Marian Zembala, Zbigniew Kalarus

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Influence of echocardiographic and radiographic characteristics on atrial sensing amplitude in patients with Linox Smart S DX defibrillation leads

(Original articles - Arrhythmias and devices)

Marcin Michalak, Andrzej Cacko, Agnieszka Kapłon-Cieślicka, Monika Budnik, Przemysław Stolarz, Grzegorz Opolski, Marcin Grabowski

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Complications in recipients of cardioverter-defibrillator or cardiac resynchronization therapy: Insights from Silesian Center Defibrillator registry

(Original articles - Arrhythmias and devices)

Mateusz Tajstra, Elżbieta Gadula-Gacek, Anna Kurek, Elżbieta Adamowicz-Czoch, Dawid Olszowski, Mateusz Ostręga, Aneta Ciślak, Łukasz Pyka, Michał Hawranek, Andrzej Lekston, Lech Poloński, Mariusz Gąsior

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Estimation of shear stress by using a myocardial bridge-mural coronary artery simulating device

(Original articles - Heart failure and cardiac transplant)

Hao Ding, Qian Yang, Kun Shang, Hailian Lan, Jie Lv, Zhilin Liu, Yang Liu, Lixing Sheng, Yanjun Zeng

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How does the estimated phase of menstrual cycle or menopause influence the prevalence of vasovagal syncope induced by head-up tilt?

(Original articles - Arrhythmias and devices)

Artur Pietrucha, Joanna Jędrzejczyk-Spaho, Ewa Konduracka, Irena Bzukała, Krzysztof Krawczyk, Olga Kruszelnicka-Kwiatkowska, Jadwiga Nessler

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