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Chronic Heart Failure: The Roles of the Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Axis and Left-Atrial Structural and Functional Remodeling
DownloadFall 2014
Heart failure (HF) is a global epidemic, with a substantial burden on healthcare systems. Effective therapies have emerged for patients suffering from HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFREF), but not for those with preserved ejection fraction (HFPEF). Recently, systemic inflammation, driven by...
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Fabry Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure: The Roles of Inflammation and Valvular Heart Disease
DownloadSpring 2021
Fabry disease (FD) is an X-linked recessive multisystem disorder and an underrecognized secondary cause of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. A gene variant encoding the enzyme α-galactosidase A results in deficient or absent hydrolase activity, resulting in the accumulation of glycosphingolipids in...
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Fall 2022
Background The discovery of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) introduced an alternative protective arm of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS), the ACE2/Angiotensin 1-7 (Ang 1-7)/Mas receptor axis, to counterbalance the more renowned pathogenic angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE)/Angiotensin...
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Fall 2022
Background Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a group of inherited neuromuscular disorders with heart disease as a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Dystrophinopathies such as Duchenne and Becker MD, limb-girdle MD, type 1 myotonic dystrophy (DM1), and facioscapulohumeral MD are most associated...
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Understanding Heart Failure in Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy: A Direct Tissue Analysis from Explanted Human Hearts
DownloadFall 2022
Background Chronic heart failure (HF) remains a rising global epidemic that affects both adults and children population. The causes of HF are heterogeneous, and syndromes are often complicated by concomitant disorders such as iron deficiency (ID) and diabetes. Comorbidities not only complicate...