Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

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The findings suggest that hospice support for non-cancer patients with a deteriorating health trajectory needs to precede patient and family recognition that end-of-life care is needed.

211) between the responses of patients concerning the cleaning method of the appliance.

This fact can lead to an enormous rise in the prevalence of premature cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its consequences, but at the same time, it presents an enormous public health and societal burden, also due to the effects of advancing age and comorbidities.

CONCLUSIONS While NaTS failed to retard abdominal aortic calcification progress, it positively affected calcification progress in iliac arteries and heart valves as well as several other cardiovascular functional parameters.

Intermediate (“submassive”) pulmonary embolism (PE) is proven acute PE without shock but with elevated troponin, BNP, or NT-proBNP, with either contrast-enhanced chest CT or echocardiographic evidence for right ventricular (RV) dysfunction, usually enlargement.

Barco and Konstantinides3 discuss evolving concepts of risk-adapted management of acute thromboembolic diseases as one example where improvements in diagnosis and therapeutic management will ultimately allow for tailored therapies.