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  1. TSH Variations in Chronic Heart Failure Outpatients: Clinical Correlates and Outcomes
  2. Parachute mitral valve assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance
  3. Mitral annular calcification: Can CMR be useful in identifying caseous necrosis?
  4. Hyperacute Hemodynamic Effects of BiPAP Noninvasive Ventilation: To(o) Di(uretics) or Not To(o) Di(uretics)?
  5. Exhaled Nitric Oxide and Exhaled Breath Temperature as Potential Biomarkers in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension
  6. Don’t stop at first glance: pulmonary artery angiosarcoma mimicking chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
  7. Hyperacute Hemodynamic Effects of BiPAP Noninvasive Ventilation in Patients With Acute Heart Failure and Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction in Emergency Department
  8. Fast ‘wandering’ Takotsubo syndrome: atypical mixed evolution from apical to mid-ventricular ballooning
  9. Fenofibrate plus simvastatin in combined dyslipidemia: pros and cons
  10. Telecardiology and its settings of application: An update
  11. Incidental Extracardiac Findings and Their Characterization on Cardiac MRI
  12. Early recurrence of atrial fibrillation after catheter ablation with left atrial fibrosis identified at cardiac magnetic resonance by late gadolinium enhancement
  13. Downgrading mitral regurgitation in the echo laboratory
  14. Atrioventricular 2
  15. Hereditary hypercoagulable state and Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: A possible link
  16. New onset right ventricular enlargement in recent dyspnea: Is echocardiography enough for a diagnosis of pulmonary thrombo-embolism?
  17. Acute chest pain and emergency room echocardiogram assessment of a young woman with a large retrocardiac mediastinic bronchogenic cyst
  18. Cardiovascular sequelae of radiation therapy
  19. Functional Improvement in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Patients Treated With Ivabradine
  20. Lack of Efficacy of Drug Therapy in Preventing Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Recurrence: A Meta‐analysis
  21. Coronary artery ectasia is related to coronary slow flow and inflammatory activation
  22. Hot Spot: Impact of July 2011 Heat Wave in Southern Italy (Apulia) on Cardiovascular Disease Assessed by Emergency Medical Service and Telemedicine Support
  23. Comparative cath-lab assessment of coronary stenosis by radiology technician, junior and senior interventional cardiologist in patients treated with coronary angioplasty
  24. Troponin release after newborns ergot poisoning: Heart, lung or circulation?
  25. Novelty in Treatment of Pulmonary Fibrosis: Pulmonary Hypertension Drugs and Others
  26. Prehospital Telemedicine Electrocardiogram Triage for a Regional Public Emergency Medical Service: Is It Worth It? A Preliminary Cost Analysis
  27. Blunted inflammatory response in STEMI patients timely reperfused
  28. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy associated with urinary sepsis or catheter insertion: What comes first?
  29. Safety and Feasibility of Levosimendan Administration in Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy: A Case Series
  30. Statin Therapy in Heart Failure: For Good, for Bad, or Indifferent?
  31. Urinary sepsis associated with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
  32. Peak Myocardial Acceleration during Isovolumic Relaxation Time Predicts the Occurrence of Rehospitalization in Chronic Heart Failure: Data from the Daunia Heart Failure Registry
  33. Prison break: Remote tele-cardiology support for cardiology emergency in Italian penitentiaries
  34. Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy recurrence in an elderly woman firstly diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction: How many cold cases to be reclassified?
  35. Exercise training and obesity in Italian children directly assessed by primary school teachers with tele-cardiology support: A pilot experience
  36. Potential links between neurological disease and Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy: A literature review
  37. Ultra-fast Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy after local anesthesia for eye surgery: Are we missing the submerged bottom of the iceberg?
  38. Diffuse ST-elevation following J-wave presentation as an uncommon electrocardiogram pattern of Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy
  39. Heart rate control with oral ivabradine in computed tomography coronary angiography: A randomized comparison of 7.5mg vs 5mg regimen
  40. Hyper-acute precipitating mechanism of Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy: In the beginning was basal hyperkinesis?
  41. Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy and spontaneous cardioversion of permanent atrial fibrillation associated with acute hyperkalemia
  42. Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy after influenza vaccination
  43. Nonfluoroscopic mapping reduces radiation exposure in ablation of atrial fibrillation
  44. Atrial fibrillation followed by torsade de pointes degenerated into ventricular fibrillation spontaneously terminated and restored sinus rhythm
  45. Inflammatory activation is related to glucose impairment in diabetics with acute myocardial infarction
  46. Bicuspid aortic valve and lusory artery: an unusual association
  47. Early clinical presentation of diffuse, severe, multi-district atherosclerosis after radiation therapy for Hodgkin lymphoma
  48. Acute renal failure, digoxin toxicity and brady-arrhythmia as possible triggers in Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy
  49. Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy or allergic acute coronary syndrome: that is the question
  50. Recurrent Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy apparently induced by opposite triggers
  51. Cardiac Valve Involvement in Systemic Diseases: A Review
  52. Ivabradine in pulmonary arterial hypertension: can we delay the need for parenteral prostanoid therapy?
  53. Statins in Heart Failure
  54. Paraaortic Thymoma with Pericardial Effusion Diagnosed by Transthoracic Echocardiography in a Woman with Myasthenia Gravis
  55. Ivabradine in systemic sclerosis related pulmonary arterial hypertension
  56. Prevalence of cardiac arrhythmias in pre-hospital tele-cardiology electrocardiograms of emergency medical service patients referred for syncope
  57. Late onset of coronary vasospasm after administration of methyl-ergometrine for gynecologic bleeding
  58. Acute Phase Proteins In Acute Coronary Syndrome: An up-to-date
  59. Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy in a teen girl with pheochromocytoma
  60. Lymphocyte subset characterization in patients with early clinical presentation of coronary heart disease
  61. “Ischemic” ST elevation in a woman with left ventricular hypertrophy
  62. Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy following an allergic asthma attack after cephalosporin administration
  63. Tako–Tsubo Syndrome in a psychiatric woman with bipolar disorder
  64. Tissue Doppler Time Intervals Predict the Occurrence of Rehospitalization in Chronic Heart Failure: Data from the Daunia Heart Failure Registry
  65. Transient apical ballooning accompanying respiratory infection
  66. Incremental value and safety of oral ivabradine for heart rate reduction in computed tomography coronary angiography
  67. Coronary atherosclerosis and a rare combination of congenital coronary anomalies in ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction
  68. How should I treat a “swinging” left main thrombosis complicating coronary angioplasty in an obese, diabetic, elderly woman treated with fondaparinux?
  69. Safe and well-tolerated treatment with ivabradine in systemic sclerosis affected by pulmonary hypertension
  70. Late calcification of the mitral–aortic junction causing transient complete atrio-ventricular block after mediastinal radiation of Hodgkin lymphoma: Multimodal visualization
  71. Coronary angioplasty in an adult with acute myocardial infarction and aortic coarctation diagnosed during catheterization
  72. Tele-Medicine for Cardiovascular Emergencies: Ready for the Prime Time?
  73. Left and Right Ventricular Function, Contractility, Geometry, and Mass
  74. Left ventricular rupture in an anterior wall acute myocardial infarction with severe intra-ventricular gradient
  75. An unusual catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia not inducible at stress test
  76. A Regional Prehospital Electrocardiogram Network with a Single Telecardiology “Hub” for Public Emergency Medical Service: Technical Requirements, Logistics, Manpower, and Preliminary Results
  77. A “strange cough”: 3D-echocardiography for diagnosis of late tricuspid valve endocarditis in a former drug addict with septic pulmonary emboli
  78. Early onset of coronary heart disease in a young woman with familial hypercholesterolemia: coronary findings and effect of short term treatment with high dose atorvastatin
  79. Aortic dissection after cocaine abuse
  80. Inflammatory activation and carbohydrate antigen‐125 levels in subjects with atrial fibrillation
  81. In search of the best prognostic factor in patients with congestive heart failure
  82. A worrisome ‘normal’ ECG: implementation of multislice coronary CT scan in an integrated approach to ST-elevation suspected as not associated with acute coronary syndrome
  83. Natriuretic peptides in heart failure: where we are, where we are going
  84. Rationale and design for a cardiovascular screening and prevention study with tele-cardiology in Mediterranean Italy: The CAPITAL study (CArdiovascular Prevention wIth Telecardiology in ApuLia)
  85. Subacute Inflammatory Activation in Subjects with Acute Coronary Syndrome and Left Ventricular Dysfunction
  86. Inflammatory activation in an unselected population of subjects with atrial fibrillation: links with structural heart disease, atrial remodeling and recent onset
  87. Combined exogenous and endogenous catecholamine release associated with Tako-Tsubo like syndrome in a patient with atrio-ventricular block undergoing pace-maker implantation
  88. Anti-hypertensive drugs and left ventricular hypertrophy: a clinical update
  89. Telecardiology improves quality of diagnosis and reduces delay to treatment in elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction and atypical presentation
  90. Time intervals and myocardial performance index by tissue Doppler imaging
  91. Inflammatory Cytokines Imbalance in the Very Early Phase of Acute Coronary Syndrome: Correlations with Angiographic Findings and In-Hospital Events
  92. Combined Finding of Left Ventricular Non-Compaction and Dilated Cardiomyopathy
  93. Three-vessel coronary artery disease with multi-vessel proximal aneurysms
  94. Concomitant left anterior descending coronary artery and right coronary artery occlusion with typical anterior ST depression and inferior ST elevation
  95. Tei Index Correlates with Tissue Doppler Parameters and Reflects Neurohormonal Activation in Patients with an Abnormal Transmitral Flow Pattern
  96. An unusual case of left anterior descending coronary artery occlusion—anterior ST depression and inferior ST elevation
  97. GLUCOSE IMPAIRMENT IN OLDER ADULTS WITH DIABETES MELLITUS AND NON‐ST ELEVATION ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IS LINKED TO MYOCARDIAL NECROSIS AND SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION
  98. Carbohydrate antigen-125: additional accuracy in identifying patients at risk of acute heart failure in acute coronary syndrome
  99. Alternative presentation of Tako-Tsubo syndrome with spontaneous echo-contrast and “onion” shaped apical ballooning
  100. Systemic inflammation in nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy
  101. A “Bad” case of Tako–Tsubo syndrome
  102. Troponin ratio and risk stratification in subjects with acute coronary syndrome undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention
  103. Acute Phase Proteins In Atherosclerosis (Acute Coronary Syndrome)
  104. Massive pulmonary embolism immediately diagnosed by transthoracic echocardiography and treated with tenecteplase fibrinolysis
  105. Acute phase proteins activation in subjects with coronary atherosclerosis and micro-vessel coronary circulation impairment
  106. Telecardiology applied to a region-wide public emergency health-care service
  107. 24 h and prolonged ambulatory ECG recording in patients with ventricular ectopy: Maybe 24 h are not enough?
  108. Ventricular outflow tract obstruction, systolic anterior motion and acute mitral regurgitation in Tako-Tsubo syndrome
  109. Right heart dysfunction assessed with echography, B-type natriuretic peptide and cardiopulmonary test in patients with chronic heart failure
  110. Th2-dependent cytokine release in patients treated with coronary angioplasty
  111. Intra day ECG variation after general anesthesia in Brugada syndrome
  112. Increased Troponin Levels in Nonischemic Cardiac Conditions and Noncardiac Diseases
  113. Acute phase proteins and systolic dysfunction in subjects with acute myocardial infarction
  114. Improvement in Endothelium Dysfunction in Diabetics Treated with Statins: A Randomized Comparison of Atorvastatin 20 mg versus Rosuvastatin 10 mg
  115. Inflammatory Cytokine Imbalance after Coronary Angioplasty: Links with Coronary Atherosclerosis
  116. A Novel Mutation in Human Ether-a-Go-Go-Related Gene, Alanine to Proline at Position 490, Found in a Large Family With Autosomal Dominant Long QT Syndrome
  117. Acute phase proteins in patients with acute coronary syndrome: Correlations with diagnosis, clinical features, and angiographic findings
  118. Industry or academia: Who leads the research in medicine?
  119. Spontaneous coronary dissection complicating unstable coronary plaque in young women with acute coronary syndrome: Case reports
  120. Early and late determinants of C-reactive protein release in patients with acute coronary syndrome
  121. C-reactive protein in patients with acute coronary syndrome: Correlation with diagnosis, myocardial damage, ejection fraction and angiographic findings