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The clinical speciality of cardiological medicine deals with clinical presentation of and all aspects of treatment of heart diseases. Subspeciality areas include interventional cardiology, cardiac electyrophysiology, cardiac implantable device therapies, non-invasive cardiology, heart failure medicine, imaging and congenital heart disease.
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  3. Recommendations for chamber quantification: a report from the American Society of Echocardiography's Guidelines and Standards Committee and the Chamber Quantification Writing Group, developed in conjunction with the European Association of Echocardiography, a branch of the European Society of Cardiology.
    Roberto M Lang, Michelle Bierig, Richard B Devereux, Frank A Flachskampf, Elyse Foster, Patricia A Pellikka, et al. in Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography (2005)
    Echo guidelines 2005
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  4. The effect of cardiac resynchronisation on morbidity and mortality in heart failure
    Jgf Cleland, J Daubert, E Erdmann, N Freemantle, D Gras, L Kappenberger, et al. in The New England Journal of Medicine (2005)
    BackgroundCardiac resynchronization reduces symptoms and improves left ventricular function in many patients with heart failure due to left ventricular systolic dysfunction and cardiac dyssynchrony. We evaluated its effects on morbidity and…
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  5. ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008: the Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure 2008 of the European Society of Cardiology. Developed in collaboration with the Heart
    Kenneth Dickstein, Alain Cohen-Solal, Gerasimos Filippatos, John J V McMurray, Piotr Ponikowski, Philip Alexander Poole-Wilson, et al. in European Heart Journal (2008)
    Acute and chronic heart failure 2008
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  6. Recommendations for the evaluation of left ventricular diastolic function by echocardiography.
    Sherif F Nagueh, Christopher P Appleton, Thierry C Gillebert, Paolo N Marino, Jae K Oh, Otto A Smiseth, et al. in Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography (2009)
    Cardiac fibrosis is an important complication of intestinal carcinoid disease, with resulting valvular and ventricular dysfunction due to endocardial fibrosis. Evaluation of right ventricular (RV) function in these patients has focused on valvular…
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  8. Role of collateral circulation in the acute phase of ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction treated with primary coronary intervention.
    Frans Van De Werf, Jeroen Bax, Amadeo Betriu, Carina Blomstrom-Lundqvist, Filippo Crea, Volkmar Falk, et al. in European Heart Journal (2007)
    AIMS: Varying results have been reported in studies evaluating glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa inhibition in primary coronary stenting of acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), usually with limited clinical follow-up. We performed a…
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  9. Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes.
    Jean-Pierre Bassand, Christian W Hamm, Diego Ardissino, Eric Boersma, Andrzej Budaj, Francisco Fernández-Avilés, et al. in European Heart Journal (2007)
    Guidelines and Expert Consensus Documents summarize and evaluate all currently available evidence on a particular issue with the aimto assist physicians in selecting the best manage- ment strategies for a typical patient, suffering from a given…
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  10. Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism: the Task Force for the Diagnosis and Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
    Adam Torbicki, Arnaud Perrier, Stavros Konstantinides, Giancarlo Agnelli, Nazzareno Galiè, Piotr Pruszczyk, et al. in European Heart Journal (2008)
    Non-thrombotic PE does not represent a distinct clinical syndrome. It may be due to a variety of embolic materials and result in a wide spectrum of clinical presentations, making the diagnosis difficult. With the exception of severe air and fat…
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  13. Recommendations for evaluation of prosthetic valves with echocardiography and doppler ultrasound: a report From the American Society of Echocardiography's Guidelines and Standards Committee and the Task Force on Prosthetic Valves, developed in conjunction with the American College of Cardiology Cardiovascular Imaging Committee, Cardiac Imaging Committee of the American Heart Association, the European Association of Echocardiography, a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology, the Japanese Society of Echocardiography and the Canadian Society of Echocardiography, endorsed by the American College of Cardiology Foundation, American Heart Association, European Association of Echocardiography, a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology, the Japanese Society of Echocardiography, and Canadian Society of Echocardiography.
    William A Zoghbi, John B Chambers, Jean G Dumesnil, Elyse Foster, John S Gottdiener, Paul A Grayburn, et al. in Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography (2009)
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  14. Brugada syndrome: report of the second consensus conference: endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society and the European Heart Rhythm Association.
    Charles Antzelevitch, Pedro Brugada, Martin Borggrefe, Josep Brugada, Ramon Brugada, Domenico Corrado, et al. in Circulation (2005)
    Since its introduction as a clinical entity in 1992, the Brugada syndrome has progressed from being a rare disease to one that is second only to automobile accidents as a cause of death among young adults in some countries. Electrocardiographically…
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  16. 2010 Focused Update of ESC Guidelines on device therapy in heart failure: An update of the 2008 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure and the 2007 ESC guidelines for cardiac and resynchronization therapy Developed with the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association and the European Heart Rhythm Association
    Kenneth Dickstein, Panos E Vardas, Angelo Auricchio, Jean-Claude Daubert, Cecilia Linde, John McMurray, et al. in European Heart Journal (2010)
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  17. Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of syncope (version 2009).
    Angel Moya, Richard Sutton, Fabrizio Ammirati, Jean-Jacques Blanc, Michele Brignole, Johannes B Dahm, et al. in European Heart Journal (2009)
    The precise role of microglia in stroke and cerebral ischemia has been the subject of debate for a number of years. Microglia are capable of synthesizing numerous soluble and membrane-bound biomolecules, some known to be neuroprotective, some…
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  20. Echocardiographic assessment of valve stenosis: EAE/ASE recommendations for clinical practice.
    Helmut Baumgartner, Judy Hung, Javier Bermejo, John B Chambers, Arturo Evangelista, Brian P Griffin, et al. in Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography (2009)
    The detailed simulation of fast transient two-phase flows is a yet a unresolved problem in spite of its practical importance and the progress in research for the last seve ral decades. Indeed, such fast transients appear in many different industrial…
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