Twenty-five years of research on syncope

A Fedorowski, P Kulakowski, M Brignole… - Europace, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Over the last 25 years, the Europace journal has greatly contributed to dissemination of
research and knowledge in the field of syncope. More than 400 manuscripts have been …

The intrinsic cardiac nervous system: from pathophysiology to therapeutic implications

G Giannino, V Braia, C Griffith Brookles, F Giacobbe… - Biology, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The cardiac autonomic nervous system (CANS) controls all cardiac
functions in physiology and pathology. The first intracardiac level of this system, namely the …

Cardiac vagal afferent neurotransmission in health and disease: review and knowledge gaps

VYH van Weperen, M Vaseghi - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The meticulous control of cardiac sympathetic and parasympathetic tone regulates all facets
of cardiac function. This precise calibration of cardiac efferent innervation is dependent on …

Circulating noradrenaline leads to release of neuropeptide Y from cardiac sympathetic nerve terminals via activation of β‐adrenergic receptors

VYH van Weperen, JD Hoang, NR Jani… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Cardiac disease is marked by sympathoexcitation and elevated levels of noradrenaline (NA)
and cotransmitter neuropeptide Y (NPY). Increased NPY levels are associated with a greater …

Myocardial infarction causes sex-dependent dysfunction in vagal sensory glutamatergic neurotransmission that is mitigated by 17β-Estradiol

A Devarajan, K Wang, ZA Lokhandwala… - JCI …, 2024 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Parasympathetic dysfunction after chronic myocardial infarction (MI) is known to predispose
ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VT/VF). VT/VF after MI is more common in males than females …

Anti-Arrhythmic Mechanisms of Epidural Blockade After Myocardial Infarction

JD Hoang, VYH van Weperen, KW Kang… - Circulation …, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND: Thoracic epidural anesthesia (TEA) has been shown to reduce the burden
of ventricular tachycardia in small case series of patients with refractory ventricular …

Molecular and cellular neurocardiology in heart disease

BA Habecker, DM Bers, SJ Birren… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper updates and builds on a previous White Paper in this journal that some of us
contributed to concerning the molecular and cellular basis of cardiac neurobiology of heart …

Neuronal sympathetic block for ventricular arrhythmias: one size may not fit all

V Dusi, M Vaseghi - Europace, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the Editors of Europace or
of the European Society of Cardiology.* Corresponding author. Tel:+ 390116336022. E-mail …

Establishment and reliability evaluation of prognostic models in diabetic foot

Q Chen - Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, 2023 - search.proquest.com
Purpose* To study the risk factors affecting amputation and survival in patients with diabetic
foot (DF) and to construct a predictive model using the machine learning technique for DF …

Weathering the Storm With Intercostal Blockade: Repurposing an Old Approach for a Novel Application

Y Krokhaleva, M Vaseghi - Clinical Electrophysiology, 2024 - jacc.org
Electrical storm (ES) is a life-threatening condition defined as $3 episodes of ventricular
tachycardia (VT), ventricular fibrillation (VF), and/or appropriate implantable …