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New Radiological, Electrocardiographic and Biochemical Cardiovascular Risk Factors in 2024
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New Radiological, Electrocardiographic and Biochemical Cardiovascular Risk Factors in 2024

A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 1232

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Dr. Paweł Gać

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1. Department of Population Health, Division of Environmental Health and Occupational Medicine, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
2. Centre for Diagnostic Imaging, 4th Military Hospital, 50-367 Wroclaw, Poland
Interests: imaging diagnostics; environmental health; occupational medicine; cardiovascular system; cardiovascular prevention; risk factors and pathophysiology of cardiovascular diseases; hypertension; sleep disturbance
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Dear Colleagues,

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. According to the latest statistics on the structure of deaths in the world, in 2016, cardiovascular diseases were the main cause of death (34.2% of all recorded deaths). Moreover, diseases of the cardiovascular system are characterized by a rapid increase in epidemiological importance, practically since the 1950s, which partially stopped at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Radiology and imaging diagnostics, electrophysiology and biochemistry are currently recognized diagnostic methods for cardiovascular diseases. They have gained a further increase in clinical importance in recent years. It is already impossible to imagine modern medicine without the aforementioned diagnostic methods, and the perspective for the next few years will only strengthen this tendency.

We invite you to publish original articles and review papers on the significance and predictive value of new radiological, electrocardiographic and biochemical risk factors for cardiovascular diseases.

Dr. Paweł Gać
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • cardiovascular medicine
  • risk factors
  • heart and vascular biology
  • imaging diagnostics
  • electrocardiogram
  • biochemistry
  • toxicology
  • experimental medicine

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Kidney Dysfunction, Hepatic Impairment, and Lipid Metabolism Abnormalities in Patients with Precapillary Pulmonary Hypertension
by Dragos Gabriel Iancu, Andreea Varga, Liviu Cristescu, Robert Adrian Dumbrava, Florin Stoica, Diana Andreea Moldovan, Radu Adrian Suteu and Ioan Tilea
Diagnostics 2024, 14(16), 1824; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics14161824 - 21 Aug 2024
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Background: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a global health issue that has profound medical and research implications. Methods: This retrospective study examined changes in renal and liver function, as well as lipid metabolism, over a 12-month period in 49 adult patients with pulmonary arterial [...] Read more.
Background: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a global health issue that has profound medical and research implications. Methods: This retrospective study examined changes in renal and liver function, as well as lipid metabolism, over a 12-month period in 49 adult patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). All cases were admitted, managed, and followed up with in the PH Center, County Emergency Clinical Hospital of Targu Mures, Romania. Results: Kidney dysfunction was observed in 12.24% of cases at baseline, decreasing to 8.16% at 12 months, and CTEPH patients were more affected. In particular, CTEPH patients exhibited an improvement in renal function, confirmed by an increase in their glomerular filtration rates. Hepatic impairment was present in 57.14% of subjects at baseline, declining to 42.86% at 12 months, with significant improvements noted in the PAH group. Lipid metabolic dysregulations were experienced by 22.45% of all patients at baseline, decreasing to 16.33% at 6 months, with a slow elevation to 24.49% at 12 months, but with no statistically significant differences. Pharmacological regimens were adjusted in accordance with the PH groups, a patient’s functional and clinical response, and laboratory tests. Conclusions: Our results demonstrate the multi-organ damage in PH and the importance of individualized treatment approaches. Full article
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Early Diagnosis of Problems Related to the Self-Organization of the Cardiovascular System Based on the Interplay between RR and JT Cardiac Intervals
by Naseha Wafa Qammar, Minvydas Ragulskis, Loreta Saunoriene, Rasa Smidtaite, Alfonsas Vainoras and Gediminas Jaruševičius
Diagnostics 2024, 14(13), 1410; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics14131410 - 2 Jul 2024
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The dynamics of the collapse of complexity observable in the performance of the cardiovascular system during the stress test is investigated in this paper. For this purpose, the interplay between the RR and JT cardiac intervals is measured and assessed for each participant. [...] Read more.
The dynamics of the collapse of complexity observable in the performance of the cardiovascular system during the stress test is investigated in this paper. For this purpose, the interplay between the RR and JT cardiac intervals is measured and assessed for each participant. This case study involves a modest sample size of eight individuals with normal and elevated blood pressure. Although it is anticipated that the interaction between the RR and JT intervals is rather complex during the stress test, the existence of interpretable time delays between those cardiac intervals is demonstrated using the time delayed patterns algorithm. The assessment of the cardiovascular mobilization taking place during the stress test is also an integral part of this study. The velocity of adaptation index Ad and the newly formulated modified adaptation index Ar (computed only for the recovery phase) are used to quantify the healthy mobilization of the cardiovascular system for each participant. The time frequency analysis of the difference signal between the RR and JT intervals is used to quantify the collapse of complexity around the load termination point. Finally, a semi-gauge indication tool is constructed to assess the overall goodness of the self-organization of the cardiovascular system during the stress test. Full article
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