Anatomic versus physiologic repair in congenitally corrected transposition: a propensity-matched european multicentre study

Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2026 Apr 13:ezag148. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezag148. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTOBJECTIVES: Patients with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (ccTGA) may undergo physiologic repair, leaving the right ventricle systemic, or anatomic repair, correcting th

J Jelena Pabst Von Ohain

Biological Sex Differences in the US-CTEPH-R

Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2026 Apr 13:aaoag098. doi: 10.1093/annalsats/aaoag098. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTRATIONALE: Biological sex underpins phenotypic differences in many cardiopulmonary conditions. In pulmonary hypertension, most studies have focused on the 'sex paradox' in pulmonary arterial hyper

M Meghan M Cirulis

European Reference Networks - a flagship activity of the EU in the field of rare and complex diseases: from 2017 to 2025

No abstractOrphanet J Rare Dis. 2026 Apr 14;21(1):149. doi: 10.1186/s13023-026-04341-2.NO ABSTRACTPMID:41981625 | DOI:10.1186/s13023-026-04341-2

H Holm Graessner

Tea intake as a dietary factor for cardiovascular health: global estimates of potentially preventable ischemic heart disease

No abstractNutr J. 2026 Apr 14. doi: 10.1186/s12937-026-01322-w. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:41981570 | DOI:10.1186/s12937-026-01322-w

L Longkun Liu

Influencing factors and predictive model construction of perioperative blood glucose fluctuations in patients with coronary heart disease complicated with type 2 diabetes mellitus undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention

No abstractBMC Endocr Disord. 2026 Apr 14. doi: 10.1186/s12902-026-02265-3. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:41981540 | DOI:10.1186/s12902-026-02265-3

X Xuemei Zhao

Cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome stages 0-3 and cognitive decline in Chinese adults: a longitudinal analysis from the China health and retirement longitudinal study

No abstractBMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2026 Apr 14. doi: 10.1186/s12872-026-05835-4. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:41981474 | DOI:10.1186/s12872-026-05835-4

Z Zhihao Chen

Diabetes does not attenuate the benefit of physiology-guided complete revascularization in older patients with myocardial infarction

No abstractCardiovasc Diabetol. 2026 Apr 14. doi: 10.1186/s12933-026-03165-5. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:41981421 | DOI:10.1186/s12933-026-03165-5

A Alberto Sarti

Association of uric acid-to-HDL cholesterol ratio and coronary atherosclerotic heart disease in patients with and without CKD

BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2026 Apr 15. doi: 10.1186/s12872-026-05838-1. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The ratio of uric acid to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (UHR) is a novel comprehensive indicator related to dyslipidemia. However, the association between UHR and coronary artery dis

C Chang-Hao Sun

Small and medium/large glioblastoma extracellular vesicles differentially regulate endothelial and mitochondrial function in blood-brain barrier and peripheral vasculature models

No abstractJ Neurooncol. 2026 Apr 14;177(2):103. doi: 10.1007/s11060-026-05555-x.NO ABSTRACTPMID:41981366 | DOI:10.1007/s11060-026-05555-x

D Deimantė Kulakauskienė

Severity and duration-dependent aortic stiffening in a rabbit coarctation model identifies constitutive material parameters as promising regional biomarkers for hypertension progression

No abstractSci Rep. 2026 Apr 14. doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-47753-7. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:41981096 | DOI:10.1038/s41598-026-47753-7

A Arash Ghorbannia

Evaluating real-world deployment of an HL7-CDA-aligned LLM for ICD-10-CM coding

NPJ Digit Med. 2026 Apr 14. doi: 10.1038/s41746-026-02541-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTReliable ICD-10-CM coding remains a major operational burden in hospitals, and the real-world performance of AI systems for this task is poorly understood. We developed and deployed a modular, clinically groun

H Hong-Jie Dai

Correction: Association between TyG-BMI and early-onset hypertension: evidence from NHANES

No abstractSci Rep. 2026 Apr 14;16(1):12362. doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-48555-7.NO ABSTRACTPMID:41981072 | DOI:10.1038/s41598-026-48555-7

W Wushuang Li

Hi-Compass: a depth-aware deep learning framework for predicting cell-type-specific 3D genome organization from single-cell to spatial resolution

Nat Commun. 2026 Apr 14. doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-71877-z. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThree-dimensional genome organization controls cell-type-specific gene expression through chromatin interactions, yet systematic analysis across diverse cellular contexts remains limited by experimental constrain

Y Yuan-Chen Sun

Theoretical modelling and optimization design of PMUT arrays for enhanced acoustic performance

Microsyst Nanoeng. 2026 Apr 14;12(1):133. doi: 10.1038/s41378-026-01159-7.ABSTRACTTheoretical models are essential for performance analysis and structure optimization design of large-scale piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUT) arrays. However, current models have rarely incorpora

Z Zixuan Li

Correlates of 5-year decline in 6-min walk distance in the COPDGene cohort

Thorax. 2026 Apr 14:thorax-2025-224183. doi: 10.1136/thorax-2025-224183. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Change in 6-min walk distance (6MWD) over time serves as a measure of change in functional exercise performance. We analysed a large cohort of current or former tobacco smokers over a 5

A Aladin M Boriek

Triglyceride deposit cardiomyovasculopathy: A new class of cardiovascular disease

J Cardiol. 2026 Apr 12:S0914-5087(26)00075-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jjcc.2026.04.003. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTriglyceride (TG) deposit cardiomyovasculopathy (TGCV) was first identified in Japanese patients with homozygous mutations in PNPLA2 encoding adipose triglyceride lipase. TGs and fatty acids

T Tatsuya Mori

Effectiveness of text messaging intervention for blood pressure control and medication adherence among patients with uncontrolled hypertension in India: Design and rationale of the SMS4BP randomized controlled trial

Contemp Clin Trials. 2026 Apr 12:108314. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2026.108314. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: High blood pressure (BP) significantly increases the risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes. Most adults with hypertension live in South Asia, yet only a small proportion have controll

I Imnameren Longkumer

Generational changes in cardiometabolic disease incidence by risk factor strata in the UK Biobank

Prev Med. 2026 Apr 12:108578. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2026.108578. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTOBJECTIVE: We assessed generational changes in the incidence of coronary artery disease (CAD), acute myocardial infarction (AMI), ischemic stroke, peripheral artery disease (PAD), and type 2 diabetes (T2D)

D Denghui Hu

DXA-measured truncal adiposity in adolescence but not in childhood longitudinally predicts worsening cardiac outcomes

Eur J Endocrinol. 2026 Apr 6;194(4):454-466. doi: 10.1093/ejendo/lvag044.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Longitudinal evidence on the dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry measures of body composition from childhood with changes in cardiac structure and function in youth is scarce.OBJECTIVES: This study examined whe

A Andrew O Agbaje

Coronary Artery Bypass Graft as a Bridge to Kidney Transplantation

J Surg Res. 2026 Apr 13;321:662-672. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2026.03.009. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: Severe coronary artery disease is often a barrier to kidney transplant (KT) evaluation. Coronary artery bypass graf (CABG) as a bridge to KT eligibility is not well studied. This analysis

Z Zachary W Sollie

Pericoronary fat attenuation index is a potential indicator for the prognosis of coronary heart disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Clin Radiol. 2026 Mar 12;97:107310. doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2026.107310. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAIM: The aim of this comprehensive updated systematic review and meta-analysis was to evaluate the prognostic value of the pericoronary fat attenuation index (FAI) for major adverse cardiovascular even

Q Q Long

Comparative evaluation of urine, whole blood, and serum as biological matrices for human biomonitoring of neonicotinoid insecticides and metabolites

J Hazard Mater. 2026 Apr 11;509:142045. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2026.142045. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTNeonicotinoid insecticides (NEOs) and their metabolites have become ubiquitous environmental contaminants, but the optimal biological matrices for reliable human biomonitoring remain undefined.

Y Yuli Lin

Cardiac targeting extracellular vesicles combined with quercetin co-delivery system enhances the therapeutic efficacy of myocardial infarction

Biomater Adv. 2026 Apr 9;185:214880. doi: 10.1016/j.bioadv.2026.214880. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMyocardial infarction (MI) poses a significant threat to human health. The complex pathological changes following MI involve the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and inflammatory mediator

X Xinxin Zhang

A deep cardiac motion field analysis approach via global 2nd-order kinematic graph modeling

Comput Med Imaging Graph. 2026 Apr 8;131:102763. doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2026.102763. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCardiac motion analysis plays a vital role in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Existing methods can estimate displacement fields and model spatio-temporal pat

R Ruonan Xie