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View article: Refining MASLD Phenotypes: Clinical, Metabolic, and Elastographic Differences Between Adipose Tissue Dysfunction and Obesity-Driven Disease
Refining MASLD Phenotypes: Clinical, Metabolic, and Elastographic Differences Between Adipose Tissue Dysfunction and Obesity-Driven Disease Open
Background/Objectives: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is a heterogeneous condition shaped by metabolic dysfunction, adipose tissue distribution, inflammatory activation, and body composition. Understanding…
View article: Muscle or Heart? Functional Impact of Sarcopenia and Heart Failure in Geriatric Inpatients
Muscle or Heart? Functional Impact of Sarcopenia and Heart Failure in Geriatric Inpatients Open
Objectives: To evaluate the individual and combined impact of sarcopenia (SARC) and heart failure (HF) on functional performance, systemic biomarkers, and structural cardiac changes in hospitalized older adults. A total of 598 patients age…
View article: Muscle or Heart? Functional Impact of Sarcopenia and Heart Failure in Geriatric Inpatients
Muscle or Heart? Functional Impact of Sarcopenia and Heart Failure in Geriatric Inpatients Open
Objectives. To evaluate the individual and combined impact of sarcopenia (SARC) and heart failure (HF) on functional performance, systemic biomarkers, and structural cardiac changes in hospitalized older adults. Patients. A total of 598 pa…
View article: Parkinson's disease and cardiovascular involvement: Edifying insights (Review)
Parkinson's disease and cardiovascular involvement: Edifying insights (Review) Open
Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative illnesses, and is a major healthcare burden with prodigious consequences on life-quality, morbidity, and survival. Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortal…
View article: Gastrointestinal Manifestations and Treatment Options in Fabry Disease Patients. A Systematic Review
Gastrointestinal Manifestations and Treatment Options in Fabry Disease Patients. A Systematic Review Open
Background and Aims: Fabry disease (FD) is a rare chronic genetic disorder that presents under a paucity of symptoms. Gastrointestinal (GI) involvement is a common event and can sometimes be debilitating, but relatively often it is overloo…
View article: Basic cardiovascular risk assessment in naïve patients with colon cancer
Basic cardiovascular risk assessment in naïve patients with colon cancer Open
Cardiovascular assessment of oncological patients suggests that cancer can lead to subclinical damage of the heart. The aim of the present study was to analyze the value of baseline cardiovascular biomarkers in patients with newly diagnose…
View article: Liver Injury and Elevated FIB-4 Define a High-Risk Group in Patients with COVID-19
Liver Injury and Elevated FIB-4 Define a High-Risk Group in Patients with COVID-19 Open
Liver involvement in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been widely documented. However, data regarding liver-related prognosis are scarce and heterogeneous. The current study aims to evaluate the role of abnormal liver tests and inci…
View article: Current status of cardiac manifestations in Fabry disease and their treatment.
Current status of cardiac manifestations in Fabry disease and their treatment. Open
In the present paper, we discuss cardiac symptoms in Fabry patients, the main imaging and laboratory methods to diagnose myocardial involvement in this disease. In the second part, we present the main treatment options in Fabry patients, i…
View article: ECG Markers of Cardiovascular Toxicity in Adult and Pediatric Cancer Treatment
ECG Markers of Cardiovascular Toxicity in Adult and Pediatric Cancer Treatment Open
When a cardiologist is asked to evaluate the cardiac toxic effects of chemotherapy, he/she can use several tools: ECG, echocardiography, coronary angiography, ventriculography, and cardiac MRI. Of all these, the fastest and easiest to use …
View article: Cardiomyopathies and Arrhythmias Induced by Cancer Therapies
Cardiomyopathies and Arrhythmias Induced by Cancer Therapies Open
Cardiology and oncology are two fields dedicated to the study of various types of oncological and cardiac diseases, but when they collide, a new specialty is born, i.e., cardio-oncology. Continuous research on cancer therapy has brought in…
View article: The Association between Peripheral Blood Cells and the Frailty Syndrome in Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases
The Association between Peripheral Blood Cells and the Frailty Syndrome in Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases Open
Background: Frailty syndrome is characterized by multisystem dysregulation frequently found in older individuals or even in younger patients with chronic disabling diseases such as cardiovascular diseases. Objective: To determine whether p…
View article: Transesophageal and intracardiac ultrasound in arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy
Transesophageal and intracardiac ultrasound in arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy Open
Rationale: Two-dimensional echocardiography (2D echo) is a major tool for the diagnosis of Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C). However 2D echo can skip regional localized anomalies of the right ventricular w…