List of works by Seok-Min Kang

A Foreign Body Inside the Pulmonary Artery After Heart Transplantation

scientific article published on 18 May 2016

Abnormal longitudinal myocardial functional reserve assessed by exercise tissue Doppler echocardiography in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Adiponectin and progression of arterial stiffness in hypertensive patients.

scientific article published on 2 July 2011

An experimental approach to study the function of mitochondria in cardiomyopathy

scientific article (publication date: October 2015)

Assessment of clinical effect and treatment quality of immediate-release carvedilol-IR versus SLOW release carvedilol-SR in Heart Failure patients (SLOW-HF): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Association between CDH13 variants and cardiometabolic and vascular phenotypes in a Korean population

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Association between retinal vein occlusion and risk of heart failure: A 12-year nationwide cohort study.

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Association of Depressive Symptoms and Micronutrient Deficiency With Cardiac Event-Free Survival in Patients With Heart Failure.

scientific article published on 20 October 2015

Association of Morning Hypertension Subtype With Vascular Target Organ Damage and Central Hemodynamics.

scientific article published on 14 February 2017

Association of Newly Developed Right Bundle Branch Block with Graft Rejection Following Heart Transplantation

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Association of muscular fitness with rehospitalization for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

scientific article published on 25 December 2020

Association of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis with subclinical myocardial dysfunction in non-cirrhotic patients

scientific article published on 23 November 2017

Association of plasma retinol-binding protein 4, adiponectin, and high molecular weight adiponectin with insulin resistance in non-diabetic hypertensive patients

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Association of serum proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 with carotid intima media thickness in hypertensive subjects.

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Association of the Gly82Ser polymorphism in the receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) gene with circulating levels of soluble RAGE and inflammatory markers in nondiabetic and nonobese Koreans

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Associations between Genetic Variants and Angiographic Characteristics in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease.

scientific article published on 17 October 2014

Atorvastatin protects cardiomyocyte from doxorubicin toxicity by modulating survivin expression through FOXO1 inhibition

scientific article published on 19 December 2019

Beta-Blockers in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Results from The Korea Acute Heart Failure (KorAHF) Registry.

scientific article published on 12 November 2018

Beta-blocker Therapy at Discharge in Patients with Acute Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

Bioptome Perforation at Superior Vena Cava Anastomosis Site in Transplanted Heart

scientific article published on 12 July 2017

Blocking the Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Product Activation Attenuates Autoimmune Myocarditis

scientific article published on 06 March 2014

Blood pressure level associated with lowest cardiovascular event in hypertensive diabetic patients

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

C-reactive protein induces p53-mediated cell cycle arrest in H9c2 cardiac myocytes.

scientific article published on 7 June 2011

C-reactive protein inhibits survivin expression via Akt/mTOR pathway downregulation by PTEN expression in cardiac myocytes.

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CETP, LIPC, and SCARB1 variants in individuals with extremely high high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol levels

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Can pro-brain natriuretic peptide be used as a noninvasive predictor of elevated left ventricular diastolic pressures in patients with normal systolic function?

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Cardiac Vein Accessibility According to Heart Diseases and Sex: Implications for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

scientific article published on 06 April 2016

Cardiotoxicity of trastuzumab in patients with HER2-positive gastric cancer

scientific article published on 27 June 2017

Characteristics and Safety of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Elderly Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases in Korea

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Characteristics and outcomes of HFpEF with declining ejection fraction

scientific article published on 02 July 2019

Characteristics, Outcomes, and Treatment of Heart Failure With Improved Ejection Fraction

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Characteristics, outcomes and predictors of long-term mortality for patients hospitalized for acute heart failure: a report from the korean heart failure registry.

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Circulating Anti-Elastin Antibody Levels and Arterial Disease Characteristics: Associations with Arterial Stiffness and Atherosclerosis

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Clinic and Home Blood Pressure Lowering Effect of an Angiotensin Receptor Blocker, Fimasartan, in Postmenopausal Women with Hypertension.

scientific article published on May 2016

Clinical Characteristics and Outcome of Acute Heart Failure in Korea: Results from the Korean Acute Heart Failure Registry (KorAHF).

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Clinical benefit of spironolactone in patients with acute decompensated heart failure and severe renal dysfunction: Data from the Korean Heart Failure Registry.

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Clinical implication of right bundle branch block in hospitalized patients with acute heart failure: data from the Korean Heart Failure (KorHF) Registry

scientific article published on 11 April 2012

Clopidogrel treatment and the MEND-CABG II trial.

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Combination of a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma agonist and an angiotensin II receptor blocker attenuates myocardial fibrosis and dysfunction in type 2 diabetic rats

scientific article published on 7 November 2013

Comparative efficacy and safety profile of amlodipine 5 mg/losartan 50 mg fixed-dose combination and amlodipine 10 mg monotherapy in hypertensive patients who respond poorly to amlodipine 5 mg monotherapy: an 8-week, multicenter, randomized, double-

scientific article published on 02 December 2011

Comparison of Characteristics and 3-Year Outcomes in Patients With Acute Heart Failure With Preserved, Mid-Range, and Reduced Ejection Fraction

scientific article published on 06 November 2018

Comparison of arterial stiffness indices measured by the Colins and SphygmoCor systems

scientific article published on 26 July 2012

Comparison of association of glomerular filtration rate with metabolic syndrome in a community-based population using the CKD-EPI and MDRD study equations.

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Comparison of long-term outcome after mitral valve replacement or repeated balloon mitral valvotomy in patients with restenosis after previous balloon valvotomy

scientific article published on 16 April 2007

Comparison of pooled cohort risk equations and Framingham risk score for metabolic syndrome in a Korean community-based population.

scientific article published on 3 August 2014

Contrast-enhanced T1 mapping-based extracellular volume fraction independently predicts clinical outcome in patients with non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy: a prospective cohort study.

scientific article published on 24 April 2017

Coronary artery bypass graft versus percutaneous coronary intervention in acute heart failure

scientific article published on 12 September 2018

Delayed enhancement magnetic resonance imaging is a significant prognostic factor in patients with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy.

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Delayed hyperenhancement magnetic resonance imaging is useful in predicting functional recovery of nonischemic left ventricular systolic dysfunction.

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Detailed pathologic evaluation on endomyocardial biopsy provides long-term prognostic information in patients with acute myocarditis.

scientific article published on 17 January 2014

Duodenal cancer after cardiac transplantation?

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Effect of atorvastatin monotherapy and low-dose atorvastatin/ezetimibe combination on fasting and postprandial triglycerides in combined hyperlipedemia.

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Effect of fenofibrate in 1113 patients at low-density lipoprotein cholesterol goal but high triglyceride levels: Real-world results and factors associated with triglyceride reduction

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Effect of high-dose statin loading on biomarkers related to inflammation and renal injury in patients hospitalized with acute heart failure. Randomized, controlled, open-label, prospective pilot study.

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Effect of oral administration of testosterone on brachial arterial vasoreactivity in men with coronary artery disease.

scientific article published in April 2002

Effect of renin-angiotensin system blockade in patients with severe renal insufficiency and heart failure

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Effect of two lipid-lowering strategies on high-density lipoprotein function and some HDL-related proteins: a randomized clinical trial

scientific article published on 28 February 2017

Effects of a comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation program in patients with coronary heart disease in Korea.

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Effects of angiotensin receptor blocker at discharge in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: Korean Acute Heart Failure (KorAHF) registry.

scientific article published in April 2018

Effects of atorvastatin 20 mg, rosuvastatin 10 mg, and atorvastatin/ezetimibe 5 mg/5 mg on lipoproteins and glucose metabolism.

scientific article published on 10 February 2010

Efficacy and safety of 30-mg fimasartan for the treatment of patients with mild to moderate hypertension: an 8-week, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, phase III clinical study

scientific article published on 03 August 2014

Efficacy of aspirin and statins in primary prevention of cardiovascular mortality in uncomplicated hypertensive participants: a Korean national cohort study

scientific article published on 27 January 2017

Endomyocardial Fibrosis: Evaluation With Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging

scientific article published on 01 May 2012

Evaluation of the Association Between Retinal Vein Occlusion and the Risk of Atrial Fibrillation Development: A 12-Year, Retrospective Nationwide Cohort Study.

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Exercise capacity independently predicts bone mineral density and proximal femoral geometry in patients with acute decompensated heart failure

scientific article published on 12 May 2015

Factors affecting quality of life in Korean patients with chronic heart failure.

scientific article published on 21 November 2012

Fatal scedosporiosis in multiple solid organ allografts transmitted from a nearly-drowned donor

scientific article published on 29 January 2015

Fate of Acute Heart Failure Patients With Mid-Range Ejection Fraction.

scientific article published on 20 April 2018

Gender Difference in the Prognostic Value of N-Terminal Pro-B Type Natriuretic Peptide in Patients With Heart Failure - A Report From the Korean Heart Failure Registry (KorHF).

scientific article published on 21 April 2017

Giant Right Coronary Aneurysm to Left Ventricular Fistula

scientific article published on 01 May 2009

Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy for Patients With Heart Failure With Midrange Ejection Fraction: A Patient-Pooled Analysis From the Kor HF and Kor AHF Registries

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Guideline-directed medical therapy in elderly patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: a cohort study

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

Guideline-directed therapy at discharge in patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation

scientific article published on 06 September 2019

Healthcare Costs for Acute Hospitalized and Chronic Heart Failure in South Korea: A Multi-Center Retrospective Cohort Study.

scientific article published on September 2017

High-dose allopurinol in patients with stable angina pectoris.

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High-dose versus low-dose losartan in patients with heart failure.

scientific article published in March 2010

Histological and Biochemical Comparisons between Right Atrium and Left Atrium in Patients with Mitral Valvular Atrial Fibrillation

scientific article published on 25 July 2014

Images in cardiovascular medicine. Chronic cardiac transplant rejection: evaluation with magnetic resonance imaging

scientific article published on 01 August 2008

Immunosenescent CD8+ T cells and C-X-C chemokine receptor type 3 chemokines are increased in human hypertension.

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Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillator Utilization and Its Outcomes in Korea: Data from Korean Acute Heart Failure Registry

scientific article published on 30 November 2020

Increased frequency of CD4+CD57+ senescent T cells in patients with newly diagnosed acute heart failure: exploring new pathogenic mechanisms with clinical relevance

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

Integrins, membrane-type matrix metalloproteinases and ADAMs: potential implications for cardiac remodeling.

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Is albuminuria an indicator of myocardial dysfunction in diabetic patients without overt heart disease? A study with Doppler strain and strain rate imaging.

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Isolated noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium: contrast echocardiographic findings and review of the literature.

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KSHF Guidelines for the Management of Acute Heart Failure: Part I. Definition, Epidemiology and Diagnosis of Acute Heart Failure

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

KSHF Guidelines for the Management of Acute Heart Failure: Part II. Treatment of Acute Heart Failure

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

KSHF Guidelines for the Management of Acute Heart Failure: Part III. Specific Management of Acute Heart Failure According to the Etiology and Co-morbidity

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Lack of Superiority for Soluble ST2 over High Sensitive C-Reactive Protein in Predicting High Risk Coronary Artery Calcium Score in a Community Cohort

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Large discrepancy between unobserved automated office blood pressure and ambulatory blood pressure in a high cardiovascular risk cohort

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Learning needs of patients with heart failure a descriptive, exploratory study.

scientific article published on 17 September 2012

Left Atrial Volume as a Predictor of Left Ventricular Functional Recovery in Patients With Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Absence of Delayed Enhancement in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance.

scientific article published on 14 December 2015

Left Ventricular End-Systolic Volume Can Predict 1-Year Hierarchical Clinical Composite End Point in Patients with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Left atrial volume index is an independent predictor of hypertensive response to exercise in patients with hypertension.

scientific article published on 25 September 2014

Long-Term Prognosis of Patients with an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator in Korea.

scientific article published on May 2017

Magnitude of left atrial V wave is the determinant of exercise capacity in patients with mitral stenosis.

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Medical costs in patients with heart failure after acute heart failure events: one-year follow-up study.

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Mutant Thr95Ile Transthyretin-Related Cardiac Amyloidosis With Polyneuropathy

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

Need Assessment for Smartphone-Based Cardiac Telerehabilitation

scientific article published on 31 October 2018

Nlrp3, Csf3, and Edn1 in Macrophage Response to Saturated Fatty Acids and Modified Low-Density Lipoprotein

scientific article published on 25 August 2020

Novel association between CDKAL1 and cholesterol efflux capacity: Replication after GWAS-based discovery.

scientific article published on 12 April 2018

Nutritional risk index as a predictor of mortality in acutely decompensated heart failure

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Optimal Blood Pressure in Elderly Hypertensive Subjects: A Korean National Health Insurance Service Health Examinee Cohort Study.

scientific article published in August 2018

Optimal pharmacologic approach to patients with hypertriglyceridemia and low high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol: randomized comparison of fenofibrate 160 mg and niacin 1500 mg.

scientific article published on 19 September 2010

Outcomes After Predischarge Initiation of β-Blocker in Patients Hospitalized for Severe Decompensated Heart Failure Requiring Inotropic Therapy

scientific article published on 09 May 2018

Outcomes of de novo and acute decompensated heart failure patients according to ejection fraction.

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Palmitate and minimally-modified low-density lipoprotein cooperatively promote inflammatory responses in macrophages.

scientific article published on 8 March 2018

Patterns of late gadolinium enhancement are associated with ventricular stiffness in patients with advanced non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 21 April 2009

Permanent pacemaker for syncope after heart transplantation with bicaval technique.

scientific article published on 19 August 2009

Perturbation of NCOA6 leads to dilated cardiomyopathy.

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Plasma adiponectin and resistin levels as predictors of mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction: data from infarction prognosis study registry.

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Plasma adiponectin concentration and its association with metabolic syndrome in patients with heart failure

scientific article published on January 2012

Plasma phospholipid fatty acid composition and estimated desaturase activity in heart failure patients with metabolic syndrome

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Post-Exercise Heart Rate Recovery Independently Predicts Clinical Outcome in Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure.

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Prediction of transmural extent of infarction with contrast echocardiographically derived index of myocardial blood flow and myocardial blood volume fraction: comparison with contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging.

scientific article published in October 2006

Primary idiopathic chylopericardium associated with cervicomediastinal cystic hygroma.

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Prognostic Effect of Guideline-Directed Therapy Is More Noticeable Early in the Course of Heart Failure

scientific article published on 06 May 2019

Prognostic Estimation of Advanced Heart Failure With Low Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Wide QRS Interval.

scientific article published on 31 October 2012

Prognostic Factors in Hospitalization for Heart Failure in Asia.

scientific article published on 20 August 2015

Prognostic Implication of Ventricular Conduction Disturbance Pattern in Hospitalized Patients with Acute Heart Failure Syndrome

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

Prognostic Significance of Left Axis Deviation in Acute Heart Failure Patients with Left Bundle branch block: an Analysis from the Korean Acute Heart Failure (KorAHF) Registry

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Prognostic impact of preexisting hypertension and high systolic blood pressure at admission in patients hospitalized for systolic heart failure.

scientific article published on 7 September 2015

Prognostic value of change in red cell distribution width 1 month after discharge in acute decompensated heart failure patients.

scientific article published on 27 October 2011

Prognostic value of new-onset anemia as a marker of hemodilution in patients with acute decompensated heart failure and severe renal dysfunction

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Protective effect of heat shock protein 27 using protein transduction domain-mediated delivery on ischemia/reperfusion heart injury

scientific article published on 11 September 2007

Protective effect of survivin in Doxorubicin-induced cell death in h9c2 cardiac myocytes.

scientific article published on 30 June 2013

Pulmonary venous flow in pure mitral stenosis and sinus rhythm--does pulmonary hypertension alter pulmonary venous flow velocity?

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

Rare and common variants of APOB and PCSK9 in Korean patients with extremely low low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol levels

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Recovery and recurrence of left ventricular systolic dysfunction in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.

scientific article published on May 2009

Red blood cell distribution width predicts early mortality in patients with acute dyspnea.

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Red cell distribution width as an independent predictor of exercise intolerance and ventilatory inefficiency in patients with chronic heart failure.

scientific article published on April 2014

Relation Between Blood Pressure and Clinical Outcome in Hypertensive Subjects With Previous Stroke.

scientific article published on 6 December 2017

Relation of Renal Function with Left Ventricular Systolic Function and NT-proBNP Level and Its Prognostic Implication in Heart Failure with Preserved versus Reduced Ejection Fraction: an analysis from the Korean Heart Failure (KorHF) Registry.

scientific article published on 16 August 2017

Relationship between paraoxonase-1 activity, carotid intima-media thickness and arterial stiffness in hypertensive patients

scientific article published on 15 April 2010

Reverse J-Curve Relationship Between On-Treatment Blood Pressure and Mortality in Patients With Heart Failure

scientific article published in November 2017

Risk prediction for 30-day heart failure-specific readmission or death after discharge: Data from the Korean Acute Heart Failure (KorAHF) registry

scientific article published on 22 October 2018

Serum retinol binding protein 4 levels are associated with serum adiponectin levels in non-diabetic, non-obese subjects with hypercholesterolemia

scientific article published on 15 December 2006

Soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 and the progression of carotid intima-media thickness – 24-month follow-up study –.

scientific article published on 3 August 2010

Statin Intensity and Clinical Outcome in Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease and Very Low LDL-Cholesterol

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Statin and clinical outcomes of primary prevention in individuals aged >75 years: The SCOPE-75 study

scientific article published on 04 March 2019

Temporal Trends of De Novo Malignancy Development After Heart Transplantation.

scientific article published in January 2018

The CKD-EPI is more accurate in clinical outcome prediction than MDRD equation in acute heart failure: data from the Korean Heart Failure (KorHF) Registry

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The Effect of Door-to-Diuretic Time on Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Acute Heart Failure

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

The Effect of FLT1 Variant on Long-Term Cardiovascular Outcomes: Validation of a Locus Identified in a Previous Genome-Wide Association Study

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The Impact of Diabetes Mellitus on Vascular Biomarkers in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease.

scientific article published on January 2017

The Korean Organ Transplant Registry (KOTRY): Second Official Adult Heart Transplant Report

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

The VALIDD study

The beneficial prognostic value of hemoconcentration is negatively affected by hyponatremia in acute decompensated heart failure: Data from the Korean Heart Failure (KorHF) Registry

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The effects of statin monotherapy and low-dose statin/ezetimibe on lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A₂.

scientific article published in February 2011

The mortality benefit of carvedilol versus bisoprolol in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

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The utility of multi-detector row spiral CT for detection of coronary artery stenoses.

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Therapeutic effects of late outgrowth endothelial progenitor cells or mesenchymal stem cells derived from human umbilical cord blood on infarct repair

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Thrombus aspiration during percutaneous coronary intervention

scientific article published on 01 September 2008

Treatment of uncomplicated hypertension is associated with a reduction in cardiovascular mortality: a Korean national cohort study.

scientific article published on May 2017

Treatment performance measures affect clinical outcomes in patients with acute systolic heart failure: report from the Korean Heart Failure Registry.

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Trends in hospitalized acute myocardial infarction patients with heart failure in Korea at 1998 and 2008.

scientific article published on April 2014

Urinary ketone is associated with the heart failure severity

scientific article published on 24 August 2012

Use of corticosteroids to prevent atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery

Usefulness of Left Ventricular Vortex Flow Analysis for Predicting Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure: A Quantitative Vorticity Imaging Study Using Contrast Echocardiography

scientific article published on 03 July 2018

Validation of the MAGGIC (Meta-Analysis Global Group in Chronic Heart Failure) heart failure risk score and the effect of adding natriuretic peptide for predicting mortality after discharge in hospitalized patients with heart failure

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Value of echo-Doppler derived pulmonary vascular resistance, net-atrioventricular compliance and tricuspid annular velocity in determining exercise capacity in patients with mitral stenosis

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

Variants of Lipolysis-Related Genes in Korean Patients with Very High Triglycerides

scientific article published in January 2018

Watch out for the WATCHMAN.

scientific article published in April 2015

¹H nuclear magnetic resonance based metabolic urinary profiling of patients with ischemic heart failure.

scientific article published on 15 December 2010

β-Blockers and 1-Year Postdischarge Mortality for Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction and Slow Discharge Heart Rate

scientific article published on 01 February 2019