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ReviewBiomedicines2024

Heart Failure: A Deficiency of Energy-A Path Yet to Discover and Walk.

Ioannis Paraskevaidis, Christos Kourek, Dimitrios Farmakis, Elias Tsougos

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Review in Biomedicines, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Biomarkers of Cardiac Metabolic Flexibility in Health, HFrEF and HFpEF.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  7. One Syndrome, Many Faces: A Unified Perspective on Heart Failure Phenotypes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ioannis Paraskevaidis6th Department of Cardiology, Hygeia Hospital, 151 23 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7764-6411
Christos KourekDepartment of Cardiology, 417 Army Share Fund Hospital of Athens (NIMTS), 115 21 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-4348-2153
Dimitrios FarmakisHeart Failure Unit, Department of Cardiology, Attikon University Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistiran University of Athens, 124 62 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8364-3447
Elias Tsougos6th Department of Cardiology, Hygeia Hospital, 151 23 Athens, Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heart failure is a complex syndrome and our understanding and therapeutic approach relies mostly on its phenotypic presentation. Notably, the heart is characterized as the most energy-consuming organ, being both a producer and consumer, in order to satisfy multiple cardiac functions: ion exchange, electromechanical coordination, excitation-contraction coupling, etc. By obtaining further knowledge of the cardiac energy field, we can probably better characterize the basic pathophysiological events occurring in heart disease patients and understand the metabolic substance changes, the relationship between the alteration of energy production/consumption, and hence energetic deficiency not only in the heart as a whole but in every single cardiac territory, which will hopefully provide us with the opportunity to uncover the beginning of the heart failure process. In this respect, using (a) newer imaging techniques, (b) biomedicine, (c) nanotechnology, and (d) artificial intelligence, we can gain a deeper understanding of this complex syndrome. This, in turn, can lead to earlier and more effective therapeutic approaches, ultimately improving human health. To date, the scientific community has not given sufficient attention to the energetic starvation model. In our view, this review aims to encourage scientists and the medical community to conduct studies for a better understanding and treatment of this syndrome.

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cardiac biochemical substratecardiac energycardiac metabolismheart failuremitochondria functionstarving heart

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PMCPMC11592498

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