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Echocardiographic derived pulmonary artery wedge pressure is associated with mortality, heart hospitalizations, and functional capacity in chronic systolic heart failure: insights from the HF-ACTION trial
Heart Failure (HF) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Identification of patients at risk for adverse events could lead to improved outcomes. Few studies address the association of echocardio...
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Open AccessNoninvasive Electrical Map** Compared with the Paced QRS Complex for Optimizing CRT Programmed Settings and Predicting Multidimensional Response
The aim was to test the hypothesis that left ventricular (LV) and right ventricular (RV) activation from body surface electrical map** (CardioInsight 252-electrode vest, Medtronic) identifies optimal cardiac...
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Association Between Race, Cardiology Care, and the Receipt of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy in Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
Black patients with peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) have disproportionately worse outcomes than White patients, possibly related to variable involvement of cardiovascular specialists in their clinical care. W...
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Systemic arterial pulsatility (SAPi) in advanced heart failure: a novel hemodynamic risk stratification tool
Systemic arterial pulsatility index (SAPi) is a novel hemodynamic marker for ventriculo-arterial coupling (VAC), as it integrates the contractile properties of the left ventricle with the aortic impendence. SA...
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Positional obstructive sleep apnea in patients with atrial fibrillation
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common, potentially modifiable condition implicated in the pathogenesis of atrial fibrillation (AF). The presence and severity of OSA is largely sleep position–dependent, yet...
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Systemic arterial pulsatility index (SAPi) predicts adverse outcomes in advanced heart failure patients
Ventriculo–arterial (VA) coupling has been shown to have physiologic importance in heart failure (HF). We hypothesized that the systemic arterial pulsatility index (SAPi), a measure that integrates pulse press...
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Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Acute Massive Pulmonary Embolism: a Meta-Analysis and Call to Action
Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has been used to treat acute massive pulmonary embolism (PE) patients. However, the incremental benefit of ECMO to standard therapy remains unclear. Our ...
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Right atrial volume index to left atrial volume index ratio is associated with adverse clinical outcomes in cardiogenic shock
Structural remodeling in chronic systolic heart failure (HF) is associated with neurohormonal and hemodynamic perturbations among HF patients presenting with cardiogenic shock (CS) and HF. Our objective was to...
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A novel disinfection protocol using ATP testing for lead garments in the electrophysiology lab
Electrophysiology procedures pose infection risk and require surgical room sterility. Currently, there is no universally approved protocol for disinfecting lead garments in the electrophysiology laboratory. Th...
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Racial/Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction
This review highlights variability in prescribing of nonpharmacologic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) therapies by race, ethnicity, and gender. The review also explores the evidence underl...
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Open AccessAdoption of a dedicated multidisciplinary team is associated with improved survival in acute pulmonary embolism
Acute pulmonary embolism remains a significant cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Benefit of recently developed multidisciplinary PE response teams (PERT) with higher utilization of advanced therapies...
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Monitoring for Rejection
Survival following cardiac transplantation has improved over the last three decades, partly as a result of vigilant monitoring for immunologic intolerance. Early detection of rejection allows for the modulatio...
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Monitoring for Rejection
Survival following cardiac transplantation has improved over the last three decades, partly as a result of vigilant monitoring for immunologic intolerance. Early detection of rejection allows for the modulatio...
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Cardiac Biomarkers in Advanced Heart Failure: How Can They Impact Our Pre-transplant or Pre-LVAD Decision-making
Decision-making in advanced heart failure (HF) is a complex process that involves careful consideration of competing tradeoffs of risks and benefits in regard to heart transplantation (HT) or left ventricular ...
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Open AccessDetection of elevated right ventricular extracellular volume in pulmonary hypertension using Accelerated and Navigator-Gated Look-Locker Imaging for Cardiac T1 Estimation (ANGIE) cardiovascular magnetic resonance
Assessment of diffuse right ventricular (RV) fibrosis is of particular interest in pulmonary hypertension (PH) and heart failure (HF). Current cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) T1 map** techniques such...
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Open AccessHigh-resolution T1 map** with ANGIE detects increased right-ventricular extracellular volume fraction in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension
