Circulation
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Preliminary experience with social media for community consultation and public disclosure in exception from informed consent trials.
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Multicenter Study Clinical Trial
Ambulatory blood pressure changes after renal sympathetic denervation in patients with resistant hypertension.
Catheter-based renal sympathetic denervation (RDN) reduces office blood pressure (BP) in patients with resistant hypertension according to office BP. Less is known about the effect of RDN on 24-hour BP measured by ambulatory BP monitoring and correlates of response in individuals with true or pseudoresistant hypertension. ⋯ RDN reduced office BP and improved relevant aspects of ambulatory BP monitoring, commonly linked to high cardiovascular risk, in patients with true-treatment resistant hypertension, whereas it only affected office BP in pseudoresistant hypertension.
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Multicenter Study
Good prognosis for pericarditis with and without myocardial involvement: results from a multicenter, prospective cohort study.
The natural history of myopericarditis/perimyocarditis is poorly known, and recently published studies have presented contrasting data on their outcomes. The aim of the present article is to assess the prognosis of myopericarditis/perimyocarditis in a multicenter, prospective cohort study. ⋯ The outcome of myopericardial inflammatory syndromes is good. Unlike acute coronary syndromes, troponin elevation is not a negative prognostic marker in this setting.