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The Impact of Preeclampsia on Women's Health: Cardiovascular Long-term Implications
No full textImportance: Women with a history of preeclampsia have a 2- to 5-fold increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, which represent almost half of mortality in the female population worldwide. Objective: To summarize the current evidence concerning women's future cardiovascular risk after pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia. Evidence Acquisition: A PubMed and Web of Science search was conducted in English, supplemented by hand searching for additional references. Retrieved articles were reviewed, synthesized, and summarized. Relevant studies on cardiovascular risk after preeclampsia were included. Results: Evidence suggests that the cardiovascular implications of preeclampsia do not cease with delivery, with a significant proportion of women demonstrating persistent asymptomatic myocardial impairment, aortic stiffening, and microcirculatory dysfunction. More severe and early-onset preeclampsia, as well as preeclampsia with concurrent neonatal morbidity, increases the risk of cardiovascular disease later in life. Conclusions and Relevance: As former preeclamptics have been shown to be at increased cardiovascular risk, this identifies a subgroup of women who may benefit from early preventive measures
Direct Oral Anticoagulants for the Treatment of Left Ventricular Thrombus-A New Indication? A Meta-summary of Case Reports.
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The brain-heart connection: A multiple sclerosis relapse presenting as Takotsubo Syndrome. A case report and literature review
No full textWe hereby report a puzzling case of multiple sclerosis (MS) relapse presenting as Takotsubo syndrome (TTS). Female, 42-years old, who presented herself to the Emergency Room of University Hospital “ASST Spedali Civili” of Brescia, Italy, for a severe headache and a non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome. Coronary angiogram showed no signs of coronary atherosclerosis. Upon further neurological evaluation, a diagnosis of MS relapse, related to TTS, was made, and treatment was started accordingly. The patient was discharged after 12 days after the admission, free of symptoms, and without signs of neurological and cardiological active disease. A hallmark of TTS is its association with a preceding stressful event. It may also be connected to a wide variety of diseases, including neurological ones, such as stroke, intracranial bleeding, head trauma, migraine, and seizures. However, up to our knowledge, only few cases of MS-induced TTS were previously described. Whether it is plausible to consider TTS as an uncommon extra-neurological manifestation of MS is still debated, however all the evidence points in that direction, considering the central role of catecholamines in TTS pathogenesis. With this case report the authors hope to encourage research on this field and on the intricate topic of brain-heart connections
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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