Luijten, Dieuwke Douillet, Delphine Luijken, Kim Tromeur, Cecile Penaloza, Andrea Hugli, Olivier Aujesky, Drahomir Barco, Stefano Bledsoe, Joseph Chang, Kyle
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Home treatment is considered safe in acute pulmonary embolism (PE) patients selected by a validated triage tool (e.g. simplified PE severity index score or Hestia rule), but there is uncertainty regarding the applicability in underrepresented subgroups. The aim was to evaluate the safety of home treatment by performing an indiv...
Naghavi, Morteza Reeves, Anthony Budoff, Matthew Li, Dong Atlas, Kyle Zhang, Chenyu Atlas, Thomas Roy, Sion K Henschke, Claudia I Wong, Nathan D
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IntroductionCoronary artery calcium (CAC) scans contain useful information beyond the Agatston CAC score that is not currently reported. We recently reported that artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled cardiac chambers volumetry in CAC scans (AI-CAC™) predicted incident atrial fibrillation in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). In this ...
Romero, Erick Baltodano, Alexander Francois Rocha, Paulo Sellers-Porter, Camryn Patel, Dev Jaydeep Soroya, Saad Bidwell, Julie Ebong, Imo Gibson, Michael Liem, David A
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Heart failure with improved ejection fraction (HFimpEF) has better outcomes than HF with reduced EF (HFrEF). However, factors contributing to HFimpEF remain unclear. This study aimed to evaluate clinical and longitudinal characteristics associated with subsequent HFimpEF. This was a single-center retrospective HFrEF cohort study. Data were collecte...
Nourbakhsh, Noureddin Benador, Nadine
BackgroundAssessment of fluid status in neonatal dialysis has largely focused on traditional tools including clinical assessment, serial weights, and blood pressure (BP) measurements. However, in infants on kidney replacement therapy, the assessment of fluid overload is problematic due to errors in weight assessment, subtlety of physical exam findi...
Diener, Hans-Christoph Wachter, Rolf Wong, Andrew Thijs, Vincent Schnabel, Renate B Ntaios, George Kasner, Scott Rothwell, Peter M Passman, Rod Saver, Jeffrey L
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BackgroundPatients who had a cryptogenic stroke (CS) suspected to be causally related to a patent foramen ovale (PFO) are candidates for percutaneous PFO closure. In such patients, it is important to screen for atrial fibrillation (AF). Limited guidance is available regarding AF monitoring strategies in CS patients with PFO addressing optimal monit...
de Lemos, James Lee, MinJae Wu, Elaine Soliman, Elsayed Neeland, Ian Kitzman, Dalane Ballantyne, Christie Nambi, Vijay Killeen, Anthony Ix, Joachim
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BACKGROUND: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) combined with elevations in cardiac biomarkers reflecting myocardial injury and neurohormonal stress (malignant LVH) is associated with a high risk for heart failure and death. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to determine the impact of intensive systolic blood pressure (SBP) control on the preven...
Perry, Andrew S Stein, Elliot J Biersmith, Michael Fearon, William F Elmariah, Sammy Kim, Juyong B Clark, Daniel E Patel, Jay N Gonzales, Holly Baker, Michael
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Background Global longitudinal strain (GLS) is a sensitive measure of left ventricular function and a risk marker in severe aortic stenosis. We sought to determine whether biomarkers of cardiac damage (cardiac troponin) and stress (NT-proBNP [N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide]) could complement GLS to identify patients with severe aortic st...
Stein, Elliot J Fearon, William F Elmariah, Sammy Kim, Juyong B Kapadia, Samir Kumbhani, Dharam J Gillam, Linda Whisenant, Brian Quader, Nishath Zajarias, Alan
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Background Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is associated with increased mortality risk and rehospitalization after transcatheter aortic valve replacement among those with severe aortic stenosis. Whether cardiac troponin (cTnT) and NT-proBNP (N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide) risk stratify patients with aortic stenosis and without LVH is...
Ascher, Simon B Scherzer, Rebecca de Lemos, Jame A Estrella, Michelle M Jotwani, Vasantha K Garimella, Pranav S Bullen, Alexander L Ambrosius, Walter T Ballantyne, Christie M Nambi, Vijay
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Background Assessing the risk of serious adverse events (SAEs) during hypertension treatment is important for understanding the benefit-harm trade-offs of lower blood pressure goals. It is unknown whether high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) provide information about SAEs. Methods a...
Ebrahimi, Mohsen Arab, Mohammad Mohsen Zamani Moghadam, Hamid Jalal Yazdi, Majid Rayat doost, Esmail Foroughian, Mahdi
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Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine
Introduction: Pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) is one of the most prevalent medical disorders, with a notable annual fatality rate. This study aimed to evaluated the accuracy of serum pro-BNP and troponin I levels in PTE diagnosis. Methods: This cross-sectional study was implemented on 267 patients with suspected PTE (sudden chest pain or sudden dys...