Cardiac complications are common after non‐cardiac surgery. Peri‐operative myocardial
infarction occurs in 3% of patients undergoing major surgery. Recently, however, our …

Transthoracic echocardiography has become increasingly popular in clinical practice. It is
used for the functional evaluation of patients with various cardiovascular diseases. Its use …

Purpose Previous study has well documented the anti-apoptotic effects of miR-590 on
oxidized low-density lipoprotein (ox-LDL)-treated endothelial cells (ECs). However, the …

Methods: Patients with hip fracture undergoing total hip arthroplasty, hemiarthroplasty, or
open/closed reduction with internal and external fixation from January 2005 to December …

Purpose Ever-increasing noncardiac surgeries are performed in patients aged 80 years or
over with coronary artery disease (CAD). The objective of the study was to explore the …

(1) Importance: Abnormal left ventricular (LV) diastolic function, with or without a diagnosis of
heart failure, is a common finding that can be easily diagnosed by intra-operative …

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is currently untreated. Therapeutics
development demands effective diagnosis of diastolic dysfunction in animal models …

Background Diastolic dysfunction (DD) is a risk factor for cardiovascular events in patients
undergoing non-cardiac surgeries. Investigators aimed to assess the effect of physical …

BACKGROUND Induction of general anaesthesia has many potential triggers for peri-
operative myocardial ischaemia including the acute disturbance of blood gases that …

Background Temporal trends and risk factors of perioperative cardiac events (PCEs) in
patients over 80 years old with coronary artery disease (CAD) undergoing noncardiac …