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Visit-to-visit blood pressure variability is a risk factor for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Conclusion: In summary, among the wide heterogenetic population, modest associations between VVV of SBP and all-cause mortality, CVD incidence, CVD mortality, CHD incidence, and stroke incidence were found. Findings of the current study suggested that standardized approaches of monitoring VVV in the high-risk population, including patients with cardiac infarction, diabetes, stroke, and patients with chronic kidney disease or in dialysis, are necessary in designing a prospective clinical study on the association of VVV and patients’ prognosis.
Source: Journal of Hypertension - December 1, 2016 Category: Cardiology Tags: Reviews Source Type: research

Cardiovascular Risk Assessment Before and After Kidney Transplantation
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in dialysis patients and the most common cause of death and allograft loss among kidney transplant recipients. End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is associated with an increased incidence and prevalence of a wide range of CVDs including coronary artery disease, stroke, congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation, sudden cardiac death, pulmonary hypertension, and valvular heart disease. CVD risk factors are very common in patients with ESRD, and most patients have multiple risk factors. Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for patients with ESRD, as a suc...
Source: Cardiology in Review - June 6, 2014 Category: Cardiology Tags: Review Articles Source Type: research

P113 * Clinical outcomes following double and triple valve surgery in Hong Kong
Conclusion: Patient requiring double and triple valve surgeries represent a heterogeneous and complex group of patients. They are a significant portion of patients undergoing valve surgery in our Institution. Outcomes in comparison to pre-operative risk scores and International Databases are satisfactory.
Source: European Journal of Heart Failure Supplements - February 23, 2012 Category: Cardiology Authors: Wong, H. L., Ng, S. H., Kwok, W. T., Yeung, C. L., Yu, S. Y., Wan, Y. P., Wan, S., Underwood, M. J., Bai, W. J., Li, H., Tang, H., Wang, H., Rao, L., Li, H., Bai, W. J., Chen, Y., Tang, H., Peng, Y., Rao, L., Park, Y. H., Han, D. C., Sohn, C. B., Kim, J. Tags: Valvular Heart Disease Source Type: research

Moderate and Severe Preoperative Chronic Kidney Disease Worsen Clinical Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Meta-Analysis of 4992 Patients Structural Heart Disease
Conclusions— Both moderate and severe preoperative CKD significantly worsen transcatheter aortic valve implantation prognosis. Future studies on risk evaluation, prevention, and postoperative management are needed.
Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions - February 4, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Gargiulo, G., Capodanno, D., Sannino, A., Perrino, C., Capranzano, P., Stabile, E., Trimarco, B., Tamburino, C., Esposito, G. Tags: Catheter-based coronary and valvular interventions: other Structural Heart Disease Source Type: research

Validated Risk Score for Predicting 6-Month Mortality in Infective Endocarditis Valvular Heart Disease
Conclusions Six-month mortality after IE is 25% and is predicted by host factors, IE characteristics, and IE complications. Surgery during the index hospitalization is associated with lower mortality but is performed less frequently in the highest risk patients. A simplified risk model may be used to identify specific risk subgroups in IE.
Source: JAHA:Journal of the American Heart Association - April 17, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Park, L. P., Chu, V. H., Peterson, G., Skoutelis, A., Lejko-Zupa, T., Bouza, E., Tattevin, P., Habib, G., Tan, R., Gonzalez, J., Altclas, J., Edathodu, J., Fortes, C. Q., Siciliano, R. F., Pachirat, O., Kanj, S., Wang, A., for the International Collaborat Tags: Clinical Studies, Infectious Endocarditis, Valvular Heart Disease, Mortality/Survival Source Type: research

Factors Associated With Initial Prasugrel Versus Clopidogrel Selection for Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights From the Treatment With ADP Receptor Inhibitors: Longitudinal Assessment of Treatment Patterns and Events After Acute Coronary Syndrome (TRANSLATE-ACS) Study Coronary Heart Disease
Conclusions In community practice, prasugrel use may be driven more by bleeding risk rather than ischemic benefit. This may result in underutilization of higher potency ADP receptor inhibitor among patients more likely to derive ischemic benefit.
Source: JAHA:Journal of the American Heart Association - September 22, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Vora, A. N., Peterson, E. D., McCoy, L. A., Effron, M. B., Anstrom, K. J., Faries, D. E., Zettler, M. E., Fonarow, G. C., Baker, B. A., Stone, G. W., Wang, T. Y. Tags: Acute Coronary Syndromes, Coronary Artery Disease Coronary Heart Disease Source Type: research

Psoas Muscle Area as a Predictor of Outcomes in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
Frailty is a powerful predictor of outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Sarcopenia as assessed by psoas muscle area (PMA) is a validated tool to assess frailty before surgical procedures. We evaluated PMA as a predictor of outcomes after TAVI in 152 consecutive patients who underwent this procedure at our institution from 2011 to 2014. Preoperative computed tomography scans were used to measure PMA, which then was indexed to body surface area. Outcomes evaluated included (1) early poor outcome (30  days mortality, stroke, dialysis, and prolonged ventilation), (2) 1-year mortality, and (3) high-re...
Source: The American Journal of Cardiology - October 30, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Lohit Garg, Sahil Agrawal, Timothy Pew, George S. Hanzel, Amr E. Abbas, Michael J. Gallagher, Francis L. Shannon, Ivan D. Hanson Tags: Valvular Heart Disease Source Type: research

Transcatheter Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Prior Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Trends in Utilization and Propensity-Matched Analysis of In-Hospital Outcomes Structural Heart Disease
Conclusions— TAVR is being increasingly used as the preferred modality of AVR in patients with prior CABG. Compared with SAVR, TAVR is associated with similar in-hospital mortality but lower rates of in-hospital complications in this important subset of patients.
Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions - April 11, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Gupta, T., Khera, S., Kolte, D., Goel, K., Kalra, A., Villablanca, P. A., Aronow, H. D., Abbott, J. D., Fonarow, G. C., Taub, C. C., Kleiman, N. S., Weisz, G., Inglessis, I., Elmariah, S., Rihal, C. S., Garcia, M. J., Bhatt, D. L. Tags: Aortic Valve Replacement/Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Structural Heart Disease Source Type: research

Trends in Utilization, Mortality, Major Complications and Cost after Total Artificial Heart Implantation in the United States (2009-2015).
CONCLUSION: In-hospital mortality and complication rates associated with TAH implantation remain increased and did not change in the era of continuous flow LVADs. PMID: 30790715 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Hellenic Journal of Cardiology - February 23, 2019 Category: Cardiology Tags: Hellenic J Cardiol Source Type: research