Reply to ‘patent foramen ovale device closure for patients with stroke and high-risk PFO morphology’
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Source: Heart and Vessels - May 14, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Correction: Matched comparison of catheter ablation versus conservative management for atrial fibrillation
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Source: Heart and Vessels - May 14, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Correction to: Late recovery of the cardiopulmonary exercise capacity after transcatheter amplatzer device closures for atrial septal defects in adults
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Source: Heart and Vessels - May 14, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Gender and atrial fibrillation: revisiting its role in integrated ABC pathway management
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Source: Heart and Vessels - May 13, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Correction: Matched comparison of catheter ablation versus conservative management for atrial fibrillation
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Source: Heart and Vessels - May 13, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Prognostic value of the liver fibrosis marker fibrosis-5 index in patients with severe isolated tricuspid regurgitation: comparison with fibrosis-4 index
AbstractThe fibrosis-4 index (FIB4), a liver fibrosis maker, has been shown to be associated with the prognosis in patients with severe isolated tricuspid regurgitation (TR). Recent study showed that the fibrosis-5 index (FIB5), which was calculated by albumin, alkaline phosphatase, aspartate transaminase, alanine aminotransferase and platelet count, had better prognostic value than FIB4 in patients with heart failure. The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of FIB5 index for predicting prognosis in patients with severe isolated TR and compare the prognostic value between the FIB4 and the FIB5 in those patient...
Source: Heart and Vessels - April 23, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Clinical and prognostic implications of hyaluronic acid in hospitalized patients with heart failure
AbstractWe investigated the clinical and prognostic implications of hyaluronic acid, a liver fibrosis marker, in patients with heart failure. We measured hyaluronic acid levels on admission in 655 hospitalized patients with heart failure between January 2015 and December 2019. Patients were stratified into three groups according to hyaluronic acid level: low (<  84.3 ng/mL,n = 219), middle (84.3–188.2 ng/mL,n = 218), and high (≥ 188.2 ng/mL,n = 218). The primary endpoint was all-cause death. The high hyaluronic acid group had higher N-terminal pro-brain-type natriuretic peptide levels, larger infe...
Source: Heart and Vessels - April 20, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Mean pulmonary artery pressure estimated by echocardiogram rapidly exceeds 20 Â mmHg from the normal range in patients with connective tissue disease
AbstractEarlier intervention for pulmonary hypertension (PH) has been reported to improve the prognosis of patients with connective tissue disease (CTD). However, it is not fully elucidated how rapidly PH develops in patients showing normal mean pulmonary arterial pressure (mPAP) at the index investigation. We evaluated 191 CTD patients with normal mPAP retrospectively. The mPAP was estimated by the formerly defined method employing echocardiography (mPAPecho). We investigated predictive factors that predict increasing mPAPecho at follow-up transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) using uni- and multi variable analysis. The me...
Source: Heart and Vessels - April 19, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Comparison of maximum-sized visually guided laser balloon and cryoballoon ablation
In conclusion, Extended LBA exhibited a significantly greater isolation of both superior P Vs and resulted in a smaller non-isolated PW, but the cardiac injury markers were significantly suppressed as compared to CBA. (Source: Heart and Vessels)
Source: Heart and Vessels - April 18, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Potential relationship between high wall shear stress and plaque rupture causing acute coronary syndrome
In conclusion, Â OCT-based WSS simulation revealed that high WSS might be related to the longitudinal and circumferential locations of PR. (Source: Heart and Vessels)
Source: Heart and Vessels - April 18, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Clinical predictors of cardiac syncope in patients with unexplained syncope after the implantation of an insertable cardiac monitor
In conclusion, a history of minor injury secondary to syncope and higher BNP levels were independent CS predictors in patients receiving ICM for syncope. These results emphasized the utility of ICM implantation early in the diag nostic journey of patients presenting with CS predictors requiring specific treatments. (Source: Heart and Vessels)
Source: Heart and Vessels - April 18, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Contrast-enhanced cine MR sequences in the assessment of myocardial hyperemia in acute myocarditis: can they help? A feasibility study
AbstractThe study was designed to assess the accuracy of contrast-enhanced balanced steady-state free precession (cine-SSFP) CMR imaging sequences to exhibit myocardial hyperemia in acute myocarditis, which has for a long time been investigated in some centers using early gadolinium enhancement (EGE) sequence. Contrast-enhanced cine-SSFP (CESSFP) sequences were compared to precontrast cine-SSFP sequences to calculate the early cine-contrast enhancement in 36 consecutive patients with acute myocarditis and 36 controls matched for age and gender. Four-chamber views images were obtained in each subject before and after gadoli...
Source: Heart and Vessels - April 18, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
The role of arterial stiffness in the onset of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy observed with noradrenaline administration and intracranial blood injection in rabbits
AbstractTakotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM) has been reported to occur after subarachnoid hemorrhage, and the involvement of a critical activity of catecholamines has been mentioned, but the details of its onset have not been fully clarified. Recently, proper arterial stiffness could be measured with cardio-ankle vascular index. Therefore, we aimed to clarify the role of arterial stiffness in onset of TCM using rabbits under infusion of noradrenaline and injection of blood into brain ventricle. Rabbits were divided into three groups: infusion of noradrenaline (group A), infusion of noradrenaline  + injection of saline into ...
Source: Heart and Vessels - April 18, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Effect of pulmonary vein isolation on rotor/multiple wavelet dynamics in persistent atrial fibrillation, association with vagal response and implications for adjunctive ablation
AbstractPersistent atrial fibrillation (PeAF) may develop arrhythmogenic substrates of rotors/multiple wavelets. However, the ways in which pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) affects the dynamics of rotor/multiple wavelets in PeAF patients remain elusive. Real-time phase-mapping (ExTRa mapping, EXT) in the whole left atrium (LA) was performed during PeAF before and after PVI (n = 111). The percentage of time in which rotor/multiple wavelets (phase singularities) was observed during each 5-s phase-mapping recording (non-passive activation ratio, %NP) was measured as an index of its burden. The mapping areas showing %NP â‰...
Source: Heart and Vessels - April 18, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Subcutaneous versus transvenous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator among drug-induced type-1 ECG pattern Brugada syndrome: a propensity score matching analysis from IBRYD study
In conclusion, our evidence suggests that S-ICD is at least non-inferior to TV-ICD in this population and may also reduce the risk of lead-related complications which can expose the patients to the necessity of lead extractions. (Source: Heart and Vessels)
Source: Heart and Vessels - April 18, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
