Congestive Heart Failure

JANS Article

Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction — A Metabolic Disease?

September 21, 2023 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Professor Pinto raises, in this editorial, a number of important points with regards to heart failure. Starting from a succinct definition of classification by ejection fraction, proceeds to analyse the notion of varied aetiologies of...

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Study Demonstrates Unexpected Electrical Changes in First Successful Transplant of Genetically Modified Pig Heart

November 17, 2022 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

Researchers continue to report findings from the first genetically modified pig heart transplant into a human ten months after the surgery. Their latest study found unexpected electrocardiogram results in the...

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Black Heart Failure Patients Less Likely to Get Devices and Transplants They Need, Study Finds

October 21, 2022 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

A new study shows that white heart transplant patients are twice as likely to receive a heart transplant or ventricular assist device as Black heart transplant patients, perpetuating existing inequalities...

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Chronic Kidney Disease: a Nerve-Racking Situation for the Heart

February 28, 2022 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

An interesting brief editorial on an experiment revisiting renal denervation as a panacea to cardiovascular disease

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Defining Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

October 1, 2021 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A scholarly narrative on the utility of quantifying the performance of the right ventricle: the RV has been hitherto empirically assessed in many clinical setups.

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Reverse Remodeling With Left Ventricular Assist Devices

May 25, 2021 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

An authoritative, scholarly but very readable review of the evolution of mechanical circulatory support of the left ventricle from the non-surgical standpoint.

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Place and Causes of Acute Cardiovascular Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic

October 4, 2020 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

The authors are concerned about the ‘deaths at home’ having the greatest contribution to the excess of acute cardiovascular deaths in that period of the recent epidemic, AND LOCKDOWN in...

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Complete Revascularization with Multivessel PCI for Myocardial Infarction

October 19, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Quite interesting to see that the incidence of revascularisation after multivessel PCA (the additional element on the second co-primary outcome) appears to have occured in more than 1% of the...

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Right Subclavian Artery Cutdown for Implantation of Impella 5.0

April 23, 2019 | Kabeer Umakumar

Patient Details A 52-year-old man with his first presentation in heart failure, NYHA class IV. Transthoracic echocardiogram showed severely dilated left ventricle (LV) with global hypokinesia, left ventricular ejection fraction...

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Surgery for Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: Thromboendarterectomy of the Pulmonary Artery

February 27, 2019 | Azam Jan

Introduction Figure 1. Preoperative chest CT scan. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is caused by proximal pulmonary artery thromboembolic occlusion or obstruction. Patients present with shortness of breath, early fatigue,...

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Third Annual Pediatric Interagency Registry for Mechanical Circulatory Support (PEDIMACS) Report: Pre-Implant Characteristics and Outcomes

February 26, 2019 | Wei-Guo Ma

Today, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons published the third annual Pediatric Interagency Registry for Mechanical Circulatory Support (PEDIMACS) report. Between Sep 19, 2012 and Dec 31, 2017, 423 patients (less...

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Increased Rate of Mortality in Patients Receiving Abiomed Impella RP System

February 5, 2019 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

In a letter to healthcare providers, the US FDA summarized a recent evaluation of a postapproval study of the Abiomed Impella RP system. In clinical trials, 73% of patients survived...

JANS Article

“Respect When You Can, Resect When You Should”: A Realistic Approach to Posterior Leaflet Mitral Valve Repair

December 6, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Gilles Dreyfus and colleagues share a decade of mitral reconstruction for degenerative posterior leaflet pathology in Harefield and Monaco (38 per year was the formidable average). The supplementary video is...

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