Tecson, Kristen M Vasudevan, Anupama Bindra, Amarinder Joseph, Susan M Felius, Joost Hall, Shelley A Kale, Parag
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The American journal of cardiology
The pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) remains the gold standard to calculate Fick cardiac outputs (FCOs) in patients with heart failure admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). The peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) provides long-term intravenous access and is used outside the ICU; however, there is scant literature validating venous oxy...
Ayoub, Chadi Geske, Jeffrey B Larsen, Carolyn M Scott, Christopher G Klarich, Kyle W Pellikka, Patricia A
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The American journal of cardiology
Guidelines recommend exercise stress echocardiogram (ESE) for patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) if a 50 mm Hg gradient is not present at rest or provoked with Valsalva or amyl nitrite, to direct medical and surgical management. However, no study has directly compared all 3 methods. We sought to evaluate efficacy and degree of provocati...
Roberts, William C Berry, Anna E
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The American journal of cardiology
This study examines the frequency of coronary endarterectomy (CE) procedures during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), and determines the quantity of plaque in the specimens. Of the 2,268 CABG operations performed from January 2010 to June 2016, 35 patients had CE during CABG. The specimens were incised into 5-mm cross sections, stained by the...
Jamil, Aayla Qin, Huanying Felius, Joost Saracino, Giovanna Rafael, Aldo E MacHannaford, Juan C Gonzalez-Stawinski, Gonzalo V Lima, Brian
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The American journal of cardiology
Advanced recipient age remains a limiting factor for heart transplant candidacy, with many centers reluctant to transplant older patients. Here, we report our experience with recipients aged ≥65 years compared with younger recipients in terms of baseline characteristics, intraoperative and immediate postoperative experiences, and post-transplant mo...
Sundbøll, Jens Adelborg, Kasper Mansfield, Kathryn E Tomlinson, Laurie A Schmidt, Morten
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The American journal of cardiology
Recent trends in use of antihypertensive drugs are unknown. From Danish nationwide prescription data, we obtained information on primary care use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor blockers, beta blockers, diuretics, aldosterone receptor antagonists, and calcium channel blockers. During 1999 to 2015, the use of ant...
Kelli, Heval M Corrigan, Frank E 3rd Heinl, Robert E Dhindsa, Devinder S Hammadah, Muhammad Samman-Tahhan, Ayman Sandesara, Pratik O'Neal, Wesley T Al Mheid, Ibhar Ko, Yi-An
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The American journal of cardiology
Android fat is a surrogate measure of visceral obesity in the truncal region. Both visceral adiposity and oxidative stress (OS) are linked to cardiometabolic risk factors and clinical cardiovascular disease. However, whether body fat distribution (android vs gynoid) is associated with OS remains unknown. We hypothesized that increased android fat w...
Sze, Edward Dunning, Allison Loring, Zak Atwater, Brett D Chiswell, Karen Daubert, James P Kisslo, Joseph A Mark, Daniel B Velazquez, Eric J Samad, Zainab
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The American journal of cardiology
We compared the incidence of left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD) among patients with left bundle branch block (LBBB) to a matched cohort of patients with a narrow QRS duration
Lévesque, Valérie Poirier, Paul Després, Jean-Pierre Alméras, Natalie
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The American journal of cardiology
Although cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes mellitus are largely lifestyle driven, lifestyle metrics are not used in clinical practice. This study examined the relevance of using a simple lifestyle risk score designed for primary care medicine by testing its ability to predict biological CVD risk factors in a cohort of 3,712 individuals invo...
Wändell, Per Carlsson, Axel C Holzmann, Martin J Ärnlöv, Johan Sundquist, Jan Sundquist, Kristina
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The American journal of cardiology
Levothyroxine has been suggested to be cardiotoxic, but previous studies on the risk of cardiovascular events associated with levothyroxine treatment have been inconclusive. We aimed to study the association between levothyroxine treatment and all-cause mortality as well as cardiovascular events. Study population included all adults (n = 12,283) ≥ ...
Tada, Hayato Kawashiri, Masa-Aki Okada, Hirofumi Nakahashi, Takuya Sakata, Kenji Nohara, Atsushi Inazu, Akihiro Mabuchi, Hiroshi Yamagishi, Masakazu Hayashi, Kenshi
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The American journal of cardiology
Although both carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) and carotid plaque score (cPS) determined by carotid ultrasonography reflect the severity of coronary atherosclerosis, there are few reports on direct comparisons of their clinical utilities in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). We aimed (1) to compare the clinical utilities of thes...
