Sato, Toshimi Ono, Masahiro Kawamura, Keiichi Naganuma, Wakako Shishito, Namiko Morishita, Shinichiro Sasamoto, Yuichiro Kohzuki, Masahiro
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Heart and vessels
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is associated with a decline in renal function. This study aimed to investigate the impact of engaging in moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA) for more than 30 min per day on changes in renal function during the first 3 months after AMI onset. A prospective, observational study was conducted, enr...
Nomi, Takaomi Kitamura, Akira Tsujita, Miki Shiko, Yuki Kawasaki, Yohei Nakagawa, Hideyuki
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Heart and vessels
Acute kidney injury (AKI) frequently occurs after cardiac surgery. Recently, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), a less invasive option for aortic stenosis (AS), has been increasingly performed, particularly in elderly patients. We retrospectively investigated and compared the incidence and risk factors of postoperative AKI in patients ...
Vetrugno, Luigi Deana, Cristian Barbariol, Federico
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Heart and vessels
Alkassas, Amr Elbarbary, Yasser Sherif, Mohammed H El-Saied, Shaimaa B Hagag, Rasha Y Elbarbary, Mohammed
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Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) for ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and is associated with poor outcomes. AKI is diagnosed by the dynamic change of serum Cr, but it could not predict AKI. This study aimed to evaluate a biomarker array that may fulfill this shortage...
Hou, Chang Lu, Yahui Ma, Yuliang Li, Qi Liu, Chuanfen Lu, Mingyu Cao, Chengfu Liu, Jian
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Fractional flow reserve (FFR) has been established as a gold standard for functional coronary ischemia. At present, the FFR can be calculated from coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) images (CT-FFR). Previous studies have suggested that CT-FFR outperforms CCTA and invasive coronary angiography (ICA) in determining hemodynamic significan...
Wu, Nien-Hsun Hsieh, Tsung-Han Chang, Chun-Yu Lin, Han-Yu
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Shintomi, Shizuya Saito, Satoshi Hamasaki, Azumi Ichihara, Yuki Morita, Kozo Ikeda, Masahiro Domoto, Satoru Furuta, Akihisa Niinami, Hiroshi
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Heart and vessels
Little is known regarding the long-term (> 10 years) outcomes and risk factors of total arterial coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). This study evaluated the long-term outcomes and risk factors for all-cause mortality and major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCEs) following total arterial on-pump CABG (ONCAB) or off-pump CABG (OP...
Zhang, Xi Wan, Yunxia Karunathilaka, Nuwan Chan, Wandy Kostner, Karam Hartel, Gunter Coats, Andrew J S Atherton, John J Punyadeera, Chamindie
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Patients with heart failure (HF) are at a higher risk of rehospitalisation. In this study, we investigated the prognostic utility of galectin-3 (Gal-3) and NT-proBNP fragments (1-76aa and 13-71aa) as biomarkers to predict outcomes for patients with HF. We collected blood samples from patients with HF (n = 101). Gal-3 and NT-proBNP fragments (1-76aa...
Kubota, Masayuki Oguri, Atsushi
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Recently, instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) has emerged as an alternative to the fractional flow reserve (FFR) for intracoronary physiological assessment. Although all diastolic resting indices are reportedly identical to the iFR, limited data exist on diastolic pressure ratio (dPR) measured using a microcatheter (dPRmicro). This study aimed to e...
Takigami, Yu Ishii, Shunsuke Eda, Yuko Yazaki, Mayu Fujita, Teppei Iida, Yuichiro Ikeda, Yuki Nabeta, Takeru Oikawa, Jun Koitabashi, Toshimi
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Despite previous studies showing that patients with low systolic blood pressure (sBP) in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) has a poor prognosis, it has few treatment options. This study aimed to investigate the efficacy and safety of sacubitril/valsartan (S/V) in HFrEF patients with hypotension. We included 43 consecutive HFrEF p...
