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Predictors of Acute Stroke Mimics in 8187 Patients Referred to a Stroke Service
Conclusions: One third of the patients seen by a stroke team over 10 years had a stroke mimic. Factors associated with a stroke mimic may be ascertained by an emergency physician before calling the stroke team.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - May 15, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: José G. Merino, Marie Luby, Richard T. Benson, Lisa A. Davis, Amie W. Hsia, Lawrence L. Latour, John K. Lynch, Steven Warach Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Influence of Sex on Stroke Prognosis: A Demographic, Clinical, and Molecular Analysis
Conclusion Our data suggest that women who suffer from IS present with a poorer functional outcome than men at 3-months, regardless of other preclinical and clinical factors during the acute phase. These relationships seem to be mediated by atrial dysfunction and inflammation. The inflammatory response is slightly higher in women; however, there are no sex differences in their functional behavior. There is a probable relationship between the molecular marker of atrial dysfunction NT-proBNP and worse functional outcome in women, and the connection seems to be more important in cardioembolic stroke patients. In patients wi...
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - April 16, 2019 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

The importance of selected markers of inflammation and blood-brain barrier damage for short-term ischemic stroke prognosis.
Authors: Lasek-Bal A, Jedrzejowska-Szypulka H, Student S, Warsz-Wianecka A, Zareba K, Puz P, Bal W, Pawletko K, Lewin-Kowalik J Abstract Acute cerebral ischemia triggers local and systemic immune response. The aims of this project was to assess the blood serum concentration of the markers of inflammation and markers of the blood brain barrier damage on the first day of ischemic stroke, and the mutual correlations between these marker levels. Patients with first-in-life stroke were analysed according to: plasma concentration of the following markers on the first day of stroke: interleukin 2 (IL-2) and interleuki 6 (...
Source: Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology - July 31, 2019 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: J Physiol Pharmacol Source Type: research

Impact of atrial high-rate episodes on the risk of future stroke.
CONCLUSIONS: Embolic stroke events are common in Japanese patients with CIEDs. AF events lasting ≥30s and an enlarged left atrium are the risk factors of embolic stroke in this population. PMID: 30728105 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Cardiology - February 3, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Nakano M, Kondo Y, Nakano M, Kajiyama T, Hayashi T, Ito R, Takahira H, Kobayashi Y Tags: J Cardiol Source Type: research

Uptake of Oral Anticoagulants for Stroke Prevention in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation in a Single Clinical Commissioning Group in England Without Restrictions to Their Use
ConclusionsThe early use of DOACs, in a CCG without restrictions to their use, was embraced by primary-care prescribers in this particular CCG.
Source: Clinical Drug Investigation - February 25, 2019 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research

Oral anticoagulant prescribing in a hyperacute stroke unit
Conclusion Currently, renal impairment is the main determinant for thromboprophylaxis choice. Local guidelines have been created with physician education underway and re-audit planned in 3 months. The authors will present the full data.
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - October 14, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Samani, A., Kayani, M., Asokanathan, A. Tags: Stroke Thur 21, Parallel session 5: Therapeutics Source Type: research

Late Neurologic Events After Surgery for Atrial Fibrillation: Rare but Relevant ORIGINAL ARTICLES: ADULT CARDIAC
Conclusions After surgery for AF ablation, there is ongoing low risk of LNE even when the LAA is surgically excised. Further investigation should be pursued to clarify whether a difference exists with alternative elimination techniques and in patients in whom AF is successfully eliminated.
Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - December 31, 2012 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Lee, R., Jivan, A., Kruse, J., McGee, E. C., Malaisrie, S. C., Bernstein, R., Lapin, B., Passman, R., Knight, B. P., McCarthy, P. M. Tags: Electrophysiology - arrhythmias ORIGINAL ARTICLES: ADULT CARDIAC Source Type: research

Comparison of Levosimendan versus Dobutamine in Patients with Moderate to Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction Undergoing Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Randomized Prospective Study.
CONCLUSIONS: Levosimendan was associated with statistically significant increase in indices of contractility (CI, LVSWI, and RVSWI) and decrease in PCWP during and after OPCAB. Levosimendan group had lower incidence of atrial fibrillation, shorter length of ICU, and hospital stay. PMID: 28393781 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia - April 1, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Kandasamy A, Simon HA, Murthy P, Annadurai M, Ali MM, Ramanathan G Tags: Ann Card Anaesth Source Type: research

Left Atrial Appendage Depth and Tachycardia Bradycardia Syndrome as Important Predictors of Left Atrial Appendage Thrombus in Patients with Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation
CONCLUSION: In NVAF patients with LAAT, evidence suggested that larger LAAD, non-PAF, and TBS present a high risk of LAAT. This is the first report demonstrating that the LAAD and TBS are associated with LAAT in patients with NVAF.PMID:35401785 | PMC:PMC8986422 | DOI:10.1155/2022/4632823
Source: Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine - April 11, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Yinge He Panpan Chen Ziqiang Zhu Junhua Sun Yujie Zhao Source Type: research

Jefferson Digital Commons Quarterly Update: January – March 2013
The Jefferson Digital Commons is off to a great start for 2013.  The first quarter of the year ended with 1,144 new assets added to the archive.  To date the total number of assets in the JDC is up to 7,698.  A link to the entire inventory is available at the bottom of this report and this report is not an April Fools’ Day joke. Downloads went from 1,209,115 at the end of December 2012 to 1,331,432 at the end of March 2013 122,317 new downloads over the past quarter Over the past quarter, the JDC averaged over approximately 40,772 downloads per month Approximately 1,360 download per day. The most downloaded asset a...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - April 2, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news

Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation After Thoracic Aortic Surgery
Conclusions Several risk factors contribute to the incidence of POAF after thoracic aortic surgery. We found that POAF significantly increased 30-day operative mortality (p < 0.0001). Our findings can be used to develop a risk stratification system for the prediction of POAF.
Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - December 30, 2014 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Source Type: research

Reply Primum Non Nocere: First Do No Harm
Discussion section, the strong correlation shown in Figure 4A would not be possible if variability of afterload was an important consideration.3.If aortic regurgitation were underestimated by MRI, it would lead to an overestimation of mitral regurgitant volume, not an underestimation.4.We do not believe our study shows that pre-surgical left ventricular (LV) volumes predict recovery of LV end-diastolic volume (EDV) post-surgery. For example, in Table 4, patient 29 had mild mitral regurgitation (MR) and an end-diastolic diameter (EDD) of 6.2 cm, whereas patient 38 had severe MR and an EDD of 5.3 cm. Our study shows that ...
Source: Journal of the American College of Cardiology - July 20, 2015 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research

Women with AF have a Higher Risk of Death and CVD
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with atrial fibrillation (AF) are at somewhat higher risk of death and cardiovascular disease (CVD) than men with the condition, a new systematic review and meta-analysis confirms. “Physicians should be aware of this and they should also make sure they treat women as aggressively as men,” Connor Emdin, a doctoral student at The George... [Read More]
Source: The Hospitalist - February 12, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Authors: intern USB2B Tags: Clinical Hospitalist Patient Care atrial fibrillation cardiovascular disease heart disease stroke The Hospitalsit Source Type: research