Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
J. J. Coughlan, Lorenz Raber, Salvatore Brugaletta, Sebastian Kufner, Michael Maeng, Lisette Okkels Jensen, Luis Ortega-Paz, Sarah Bar, Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz, Morten Madsen, Dik Heg, Alp Aytekin, Stephan Windecker, Kevin Kris Warnakula Olesen, Manel Sabate, Adnan Kastrati, Salvatore Cassese
Summary: This study analyzed the long-term follow-up outcomes of patients receiving drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation and found that female patients have an increased risk of early myocardial infarction but no difference in cardiovascular mortality compared with male patients. Additionally, female patients require fewer repeat revascularizations during the follow-up period.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Na Xu, Lin Jiang, Yi Yao, Jingjing Xu, Ru Liu, Huanhuan Wang, Ying Song, Lijian Gao, Zhan Gao, Xueyan Zhao, Bo Xu, Yaling Han, Jinqing Yuan
Summary: This study compares the clinical outcomes of using biodegradable polymer drug-eluting stents (BP-DES) and durable polymer drug-eluting stents (DP-DES) in complex percutaneous coronary intervention (CPCI). The results show that both CPCI and non-CPCI patients have a risk of adverse events in the mid- to long-term, and the effects of BP-DES and DP-DES differ in CPCI patients.
CHINESE MEDICAL JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Lorenzo Azzalini, Usman Baber, Gurpreet S. Johal, Serdar Farhan, Nitin Barman, Vishal Kapur, Choudhury Hasan, Pooja Vijay, Vaishvi Jhaveri, Roxana Mehran, Annapoorna S. Kini, Samin K. Sharma
Summary: This study evaluated the 1-year outcomes of three different stents for complex PCI, finding comparable rates of MACE and stent thrombosis among the patients. Stent type was not an independent predictor of MACE.
CATHETERIZATION AND CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONS
(2021)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Talha Ahmed, Homam Moussa Pacha, Antoine Addoumieh, Efstratios Koutroumpakis, Juhee Song, Konstantinos Charitakis, Konstantinos Dean Boudoulas, Mehmet Cilingiroglu, Konstantinos Marmagkiolis, Cindy Grines, Cezar A. Iliescu
Summary: This study compared the outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using bare metal stents (BMS) vs. drug-eluting stents (DES) in cancer patients. The results showed that there were similar rates of revascularizations and survival between the BMS and DES groups.
FRONTIERS IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Endrin Koni, Wojciech Wanha, Jakub Ratajczak, Zhongheng Zhang, Przemyslaw Podhajski, Rita L. Musci, Giuseppe M. Sangiorgi, Maciej Kazmierski, Antonio Buffon, Jacek Kubica, Wojciech Wojakowski, Eliano P. Navarese
Summary: The study compared the long-term efficacy of EES and R-ZES in ACS patients, finding a significant reduction in the primary endpoint over 5 years in patients treated with EES, with lower rates of mortality, MI, and repeat PCI.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Ridhima Goel, Davide Cao, Rishi Chandiramani, Anastasios Roumeliotis, Moritz Blum, Deepak L. Bhatt, Dominick J. Angiolillo, Junbo Ge, Ashok Seth, Shigeru Saito, Mitchell Krucoff, Ken Kozuma, Rajendra M. Makkar, Sripal Bangalore, Lijuan Wang, Kai Koo, Franz-Josef Neumann, James Hermiller, Giulio Stefanini, Marco Valgimigli, Roxana Mehran
Summary: In patients with diabetes mellitus undergoing PCI, the presence of bleeding risk factors is associated with a higher risk of both ischemic and bleeding events, while commonly used features of ischemic risk do not impact long-term clinical outcomes.
CATHETERIZATION AND CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONS
(2021)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Mattia Galli, Stefano Benenati, Davide Capodanno, Francesco Franchi, Fabiana Rollini, Domenico D'Amario, Italo Porto, Dominick J. Angiolillo
Summary: This study systematically evaluated the safety and efficacy of guided versus standard selection of antiplatelet therapy in patients undergoing PCI. The results showed that guided selection of antiplatelet therapy led to a reduction in major adverse cardiovascular events and bleeding risk, supporting the use of platelet function or genetic testing to optimize the choice of agent in this patient population. Variant outcomes were observed according to the strategy used, with an escalation approach associated with reduced ischaemic events and a de-escalation approach associated with decreased bleeding, without compromising safety or efficacy.
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
George Joseph, Viji S. Thomson, Thomas V. Attumalil, Pratheesh G. Mathen, Arpudh M. Anandaraj, Oommen K. George, Paul V. George, Ruchika Goel, Sathish Kumar, John Mathew, Debashish Danda
Summary: This study retrospectively analyzed a series of percutaneous interventions (PI) for Takayasu arteritis (TAK) in a single-center database from 1996 to 2022. The results showed that most vascular lesions in TAK can be effectively, safely, and durably treated using predominantly stent-based PI strategies.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Robbert J. de Winter, Azfar Zaman, Hironori Hara, Chao Gao, Masafumi Ono, Scot Garg, Pieter C. Smits, Pim A. L. Tonino, Sjoerd H. Hofma, Raul Moreno, Anirban Choudhury, Ivo Petrov, Angel Cequier, Antonio Colombo, Upendra Kaul, Yoshinobu Onuma, Patrick W. Serruys
Summary: In the TALENT study, the ultrathin strut Supraflex stent showed similar safety and efficacy to the XIENCE stent at 3-year follow-up. There were no significant differences between the two groups in terms of cardiac death, target vessel myocardial infarction, or clinically indicated target lesion revascularisation.
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Lars Jakobsen, Evald H. Christiansen, Phillip Freeman, Johnny Kahlert, Karsten Veien, Michael Maeng, Bent Raungaard, Julia Ellert, Anton B. Villadsen, Steen D. Kristensen, Martin K. Christensen, Christian J. Terkelsen, Jens Aaroe, Troels Thim, Jens Flensted Lassen, Mikkel Hougaard, Ashkan Eftekhari, Rebekka Jensen, Nicolaj B. Stottrup, Jeppe G. Rasmussen, Anders Junker, Svend E. Jensen, Henrik S. Hansen, Lisette O. Jensen
Summary: This study aimed to compare the 3-year outcomes of the DTS and SES stents in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. The results showed that the DTS stent had a higher risk of TLF within the first year compared to the SES stent, but the rates were similar from 1 to 3 years.
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Alexandre Lafont, Peter R. Sinnaeve, Thomas Cuisset, Stephane Cook, Giorgios Sideris, Sasko Kedev, Didier Carrie, Thomas Hovasse, Philippe Garot, Rami El Mahmoud, Christian Spaulding, Gerard Helft, Jose F. Diaz Fernandez, Salvatore Brugaleta, Eduardo Pinar-Bermudez, Josepa Mauri Ferre, Philippe Commeau, Emmanuel Teiger, Kris Bogaerts, Manel Sabate, Marie Claude Morice, Olivier Varenne
Summary: The 2-year results of the SENIOR trial in elderly PCI patients demonstrate that using a strategy combining DES with short-term DAPT reduces the rate of revascularization compared to BMS, with very few late events, and without increasing bleeding complications or stent thrombosis.
CATHETERIZATION AND CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONS
(2021)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Hyo-Soo Kim, Jeehoon Kang, Doyeon Hwang, Jung-Kyu Han, Han-Mo Yang, Hyun-Jae Kang, Bon-Kwon Koo, Seok Yeon Kim, Keun-Ho Park, Seung-Woon Rha, Won-Yong Shin, Hong-Seok Lim, Kyungil Park, Kyung Woo Park
Summary: The study demonstrated that in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), durable polymer drug-eluting stents (DP-DES) were noninferior to biodegradable polymer DES (BP-DES) in terms of patient-oriented composite outcomes at 12 months after percutaneous coronary intervention.
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Su Zou, Yingjia Xu
Summary: The study revealed that the TyG index was associated with MACCEs in female patients undergoing PCI with DESs, but not in male patients, suggesting that the TyG index may have independent prognostic value for female coronary intervention patients.
DIABETES RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE
(2021)
Review
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Davide Cao, Rishi Chandiramani, Mauro Chiarito, Bimmer E. Claessen, Roxana Mehran
Summary: Since its introduction in 1977, percutaneous coronary intervention has become one of the most commonly performed therapeutic procedures worldwide, with antithrombotic agents playing a crucial role in patient management. The past 40 years have seen significant advancements in interventional cardiology in both drug therapies and device technologies.
EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Thomas Pilgrim, Martina Rothenbuhler, George C. M. Siontis, David E. Kandzari, Juan F. Iglesias, Masahiko Asami, Thierry Lefevre, Raffaele Piccolo, Jacques Koolen, Shigeru Saito, Ton Slagboom, Olivier Muller, Ron Waksman, Stephan Windecker
Summary: The study compared the safety and efficacy of BP SES and DP EES in patients undergoing PCI, finding no significant differences in target-lesion failure, cardiac death, target-vessel myocardial infarction, and clinically-driven target-lesion revascularization. The results were consistent across major subgroups.
AMERICAN HEART JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Brian C. Case, Rebecca Torguson, Gary S. Mintz, Carlo Di Mario, Giorgio A. Medranda, Cheng Zhang, Corey Shea, Hector M. Garcia-Garcia, Ron Waksman
Summary: The study found an association between a high volume of lipid content in the coronary arteries and subsequent adverse cardiac events. The presence of multiple lipid-rich plaques in the coronary tree was found to be associated with a higher risk of cardiac events.
CARDIOVASCULAR REVASCULARIZATION MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Sukhdeep Bhogal, Ron Waksman, Paul Gordon, Afshin Ehsan, Sean R. Wilson, Robert Levitt, Puja Parikh, Thomas Bilfinger, Nicholas Hanna, Maurice Buchbinder, Federico M. Asch, Gaby Weissman, Itsik Ben-Dor, Christian C. Shults, Syed Ali, Corey Shea, Cheng Zhang, Hector M. Garcia-Garcia, Lowell F. Satler, Toby Rogers
Summary: This study evaluated the impact of antithrombotic regimens on subclinical leaflet thrombosis (SLT) in low-risk patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). The results showed that oral anticoagulation was associated with significantly lower rates of SLT at 30 days compared to dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) or single antiplatelet therapy (SAPT), and there was no apparent benefit of DAPT over SAPT. Additionally, short-term oral anticoagulation did not increase bleeding risk compared to SAPT or DAPT.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Sant Kumar, Miao Chu, Jordi Sans-Rosello, Estefania Fernandez-Peregrina, Yirga Kahsay, Nieves Gonzalo, Carlos Hernando Salazar, Fernando Alfonso, Shengxian Tu, Hector M. Garcia-Garcia
Summary: This study used an artificial intelligence algorithm to analyze OCT findings and found that increased plaque volume is associated with the development of heart failure in TTS patients, suggesting the prognostic role of angiographically silent underlying coronary artery disease in these patients.
CARDIOVASCULAR REVASCULARIZATION MEDICINE
(2023)
Letter
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Gauravpal S. Gill, Jose Carlos Sanchez-Martinez, Jorge Sanz Sanchez, Arun Kanmanthareddy, Venkata Mahesh Alla, Hector M. Garcia-Garcia
CARDIOVASCULAR REVASCULARIZATION MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Giorgio A. Medranda, Toby Rogers, Thomas Modine, Azeem Latib, Ulrich Jorde, Vinayak Bapat, Paul Sorajja, Megan Rowland, Joseph A. Sutton, Salman Baig, Federico M. Asch, Hector M. Garcia-Garcia, Itsik Ben-Dor, Lowell F. Satler, Ron Waksman
Summary: Mitral valve disease is associated with decreased quality of life and survival, and surgery is the standard treatment. However, many patients are at high surgical risk and cannot undergo surgery. In addition, a significant proportion of symptomatic patients with mitral valve disease fail screening for transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR), and there is limited data on the reasons for screen failure and the natural history of these patients. The Mitral Valve Screening Survey (MVSS) aims to explore the clinical profile and natural history of patients who fail TMVR screening through a prospective multicenter registry.
CARDIOVASCULAR REVASCULARIZATION MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Rayyan Hemetsberger, Serdar Farhan, Dominika Lukovic, Katrin Zlabinger, Judit Hajagos-Toth, Judit Bota, Hector M. Garcia-Garcia, Cihan Ay, Eslam Samaha, Robert Gaspar, Rita Garamvoelgyi, Kurt Huber, Andreas Spannbauer, Mariann Gyoengyoesi
Summary: Peri-interventional triple therapy with dabigatran in a pig model of coronary artery stenting has been found to ameliorate local inflammation and disturb vasomotion, without reducing neointimal formation.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
(2023)
Letter
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Jordi Sans-Rosello, Hector M. Garcia-Garcia
CARDIOVASCULAR REVASCULARIZATION MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Brian C. Case, Rebecca Torguson, Corey Shea, Cheng Zhang, Kayode O. Kuku, Ishani Patel, Tim J. F. ten Cate, Hector M. Garcia-Garcia, Carlo Di Mario, Gary S. Mintz, Ron Waksman
Summary: Intravascular ultrasound and near-infrared spectroscopy can identify vulnerable coronary atherosclerotic plaques. The association between statins and nonculprit lesion arterial wall lipidic content and subsequent nonculprit major adverse cardiac events was evaluated in this study. Patients were divided into two groups based on statin therapy and statin-naive status and underwent intravascular ultrasound and near-infrared spectroscopy analysis. Statin initiation at discharge provided the most benefit for events related to nonculprit lesions.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Mauro Chiarito, Jorge Sanz-Sanchez, Raffaele Piccolo, Francesco Condello, Gaetano Liccardo, Matteo Maurina, Marisa Avvedimento, Damiano Regazzoli, Paolo Pagnotta, Hector M. Garcia-Garcia, Roxana Mehran, Massimo Federici, Gianluigi Condorelli, Jose Luis Diez Gil, Bernhard Reimers, Giuseppe Ferrante, Giulio Stefanini
Summary: Despite concerns about the risk of Metformin-Associated Lactic Acidosis (M-ALA), this study found that continuing metformin therapy during invasive coronary angiography did not increase lactate levels or cause decline in renal function in diabetic patients.
CARDIOVASCULAR DIABETOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Guy F. A. F. Prado, Pablo J. Blanco, Carlos A. Bulant, Gonzalo D. Ares, Jose Mariani, Adriano Caixeta, Breno O. Almeida, Stefano Garzon, Fabio A. Pinton, Emanuele Barbato, Flavio L. Ribichini, Gabor G. Toth, Felix Mahfoud, William Wijns, Hector M. Garcia-Garcia, Pedro A. Lemos
Summary: This study investigated the relationship between the spatial geometry of coronary arteries and the severity and composition of coronary artery disease (CAD) using computational methods. The results showed that three-dimensional geometric indexes were associated with the degree and composition of atherosclerosis in coronary arteries, and this association remained significant even after adjusting for clinical characteristics.
CATHETERIZATION AND CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONS
(2023)
Review
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Christopher G. Bruce, Jaffar M. Khan, Toby Rogers, D. Korel Yildirim, Vasilis C. Babaliaros, Adam B. Greenbaum, Robert J. Lederman
Summary: Transcatheter electrosurgery allows for cutting and traversing tissue without open surgery using purpose-built or off-the-shelf devices. It can be used for crossing atretic pulmonary valves, transcaval aortic access, recanalization of occlusions, transseptal access, and other techniques. Tissue is cut by energizing a kinked guidewire or a single-loop snare. Adjunctive techniques and excision of ectopic masses offer additional therapeutic options. This review discusses the principles and clinical applications of transcatheter electrosurgery.
CIRCULATION-CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONS
(2023)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Kazuhiro Dan, Takayuki Nakano, Hector M. Garcia-Garcia
CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
(2023)
Review
Biology
Maria Emfietzoglou, Michail C. Mavrogiannis, Hector M. Garcia-Garcia, Kimon Stamatelopoulos, Ioannis Kanakakis, Michail I. Papafaklis
Summary: Despite advances in treatment, coronary artery disease (CAD) remains a major cause of illness and death worldwide. Invasive and non-invasive imaging techniques have been used to identify high-risk plaques and the vulnerable state of patients with CAD. However, the predictive value of the invasive-only approach is limited, and a more interdisciplinary approach is needed to identify both the vulnerable plaque and patient. This review summarizes and critically evaluates the modalities used for detecting high-risk plaques in patients with CAD and discusses the challenges of the vulnerable plaque concept.
Review
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Toby Rogers, Adrienne E. Campbell-Washburn, Rajiv Ramasawmy, D. Korel Yildirim, Christopher G. Bruce, Laurie P. Grant, Annette M. Stine, Aravindan Kolandaivelu, Daniel A. Herzka, Kanishka Ratnayaka, Robert J. Lederman
Summary: Transcatheter cardiovascular interventions rely on advanced imaging, with X-ray fluoroscopy providing good visualization of catheters and devices but poor visualization of anatomy. In contrast, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides excellent visualization of anatomy and can generate real-time imaging similar to X-ray fluoroscopy. While existing devices create imaging artifacts and can be dangerous in an MRI environment, recent innovations in scanner and interventional device technology may enable a new generation of interventional cardiovascular magnetic resonance (iCMR) procedures.
JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE
(2023)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Jordi Sans-Rosello, Estefania Fernandez-Peregrina, Albert Duran-Cambra, Jose Carreras-Mora, Alessandro Sionis, Jesus Alvarez-Garcia, Hector M. Garcia-Garcia
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of global longitudinal strain (GLS) in Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) patients compared to microvascular resistance (MR) degree. The results showed that a combination of poorer GLS with a higher degree of impaired MR was associated with a higher rate of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in TTS patients at 1-year follow-up.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING
(2023)
Editorial Material
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Jose E. Exaire, Timothy A. Mixon
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Giuseppe Di Gioia, Federica Coletti, Lorenzo Buzzelli, Viviana Maestrini, Sara Monosilio, Andrea Segreti, Maria Rosaria Squeo, Erika Lemme, Antonio Nenna, Antonio Pelliccia
Summary: Dyslipidemia is common in Paralympic athletes, with lipid levels influenced by the type of disability and sporting discipline.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Esra Donmez, Sevgi Ozcan, Irfan Sahin, Murat Ziyrek, Ertugrul Okuyan
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the predictive value of the GRACE risk score in acute pulmonary embolism (PE) patients for 30-day mortality and the need for thrombolytic treatment. The study found that the GRACE risk score, along with the PESI score, were independent risk factors associated with 30-day mortality and the need for thrombolytic treatment. The GRACE risk score showed high sensitivity and specificity in predicting mortality, and its combination with the PESI score helped define high-risk PE patients and predict poor prognosis.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Tom Kai Ming Wang, Reza Reyaldeen, Kevser Akyuz, Zoran B. Popovic, A. Marc Gillinov, Bo Xu, Brian P. Griffin, Milind Y. Desai
Summary: Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is commonly used to evaluate isolated tricuspid regurgitation (TR), but there is limited research comparing its quantification with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In this study, a novel TTE algorithm was developed to identify severe TR based on TTE parameters. The algorithm had a higher accuracy than the current guidelines' criteria in detecting severe TR by MRI.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2024)
Editorial Material
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Enkhtsogt Sainbayar, Ramzi Ibrahim, Hoang Nhat Pham, Wisam Beauti, Mahek Shahid, Natalie Hickerson, Mohammed Salih, Joao Paulo Ferreira, Mamas A. Mamas
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Richard E. Casazza, Hymie Chera, Carlos Adolfo Rodriguez, Sergey Ayzenberg
Summary: This article presents a case of a patient with known situs inversus who underwent cardiac catheterization and was found to have chronic total occlusion in the right coronary artery. Situs inversus is a rare congenital abnormality characterized by the inverted position of chest and abdominal organs. Cardiac catheterization is uncommon in patients with this particular abnormality, highlighting the importance of customizing techniques to engage coronary arteries and optimize guide support for percutaneous coronary intervention if needed.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2024)
Editorial Material
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Georgiana Pintea Bentea, Brahim Berdaoui, Sophie Samyn, Marielle Morissens, Philippe van de Borne, Jose Castro Rodriguez
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Bulbul Ahmed, Melissa G. Farb, Shakun Karki, Sophia D'Alessandro, Niloo M. Edwards, Noyan Gokce
Summary: This study evaluated the angiogenic capacity of adipose tissue in patients undergoing cardiac surgeries and found that patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) had reduced angiogenic capacity in their pericardial adipose tissue. Gene expression analysis revealed upregulated expression of the anti-angiogenic gene TSP-1 in CAD patients, with no significant differences in other angiogenic factors. Additionally, inhibiting TSP-1 expression significantly improved angiogenic deficiency in CAD patients.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Moshe Rav-Acha, Orli Wube, Oholi Tovia Brodie, Yoav Michowitz, Michael Ilan, Tal Ovdat, Robert Klempfner, Mahmud Suleiman, Ilan Goldenberg, Michael Glikson
Summary: The current guidelines recommend prophylactic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) for patients with symptomatic heart failure (HF) and low left ventricular ejection fraction. However, not all patients will benefit from ICD treatment. This study evaluated the feasibility of using the MADIT-II-based Risk Stratification Score (MRSS) to predict the survival benefit of prophylactic ICDs in patients with HF. The results showed that different risk subgroups had varying levels of ICD survival benefit.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Ariel Banai, Rachel Retsky, Lior Lupu, Erez Levi, David Zahler, Omri Feder, Roei Merin, Yan Topilsky, Raphael Rosso, Shmuel Banai, Sami Viskin, Ehud Chorin
Summary: This study aims to evaluate the association between electromechanical window (EMW) and ventricular tachyarrhythmias in patients with Takotsubo syndrome (TTS). The study found that TTS patients had a lower EMW value, which was associated with an increased risk of ventricular tachyarrhythmias.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Harun Kundi, Kobina Hagan, Tamer Yahya, Garima Sharma, Sadeer Al-Kindi, Zulqarnain Javed, Khurram Nasir
Summary: Using latent class analysis (LCA), the study identified clinical, demographic, and social subphenotypes in ASCVD population and assessed the risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality across different socioclinical classes. The results showed that the younger, female, non-Hispanic Black or Hispanic individuals with a high burden of co-morbidities and unfavorable social determinants of health had the highest risk of mortality in the identified latent classes.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Moises A. Vasquez, Mina Iskander, Mohammed Mustafa, Juan A. Quintero-Martinez, Antonio Luna, Joel Mintz, Jose Noy, Juan Uribe, Ivan Mijares, Eduardo de Marchena, Yiannis S. Chatzizisis
Summary: The benefits of pericardiocentesis (PC) in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) and pericardial effusions are unclear. The study found that PC in PH patients is associated with higher in-hospital mortality and rates of cardiovascular complications.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Ken Kuwajima, Mana Ogawa, Irving Ruiz, Hiroko Hasegawa, Nobuichiro Yagi, Florian Rader, Robert J. Siegel, Takahiro Shiota
Summary: After cardiac surgery, the longitudinal function of the right ventricle and left ventricle is reduced, despite preserved global functions. In particular, tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) remains decreased after surgery.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Min -Jung Kim, Robert H. Aseltine Jr, Sara R. Tabtabai
Summary: This study evaluated the rates and causes of 30-day readmissions after discharge for heart failure (HF) as a primary and secondary diagnosis. The findings indicate that efforts to reduce readmission rates should include patients with secondary HF diagnosis, and surveillance should extend to 2 weeks postdischarge to identify at-risk patients.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Ya He, Jianzhong Zhou
Summary: This study aimed to examine the relation between reverse septal curvature (RSC) and nonsustained ventricular tachycardia (NSVT) in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The study found that patients with RSC were younger and had a higher incidence of NSVT, and RSC was identified as a strong independent risk factor for NSVT.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2024)