Congestive Heart Failure

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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 in healthcare access. Experts emphasize...

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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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AHA President Dr. John Warner After Cardiac Arrest

January 1, 2018 | Tom C. NguyenBronze Contributor

Incredible story about how American Heart Association President Dr John Warner suffered a cardiac arrest after his presidential address and was subsequently saved by two bystanders. This story emphasizes the...

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PCI Strategies in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction and Cardiogenic Shock

December 21, 2017 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Interesting to read the mortality and renal morbidity of PCI after serious MI. The choice of dual primary outcome may have been an afterhought….

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In Global News: I Love Life – Not Heart Failure, Air Pollution, and Medical Overuse

October 20, 2017 | Claire Vernon

Patient Care The “I Love Life” campaign to raise awareness of heart failure in Egypt launched this week. Pollution was determined to contribute to over 9 million deaths worldwide in...

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Does Small Size Matter With Continuous Flow Devices? : Analysis of the INTERMACS Database of Adults With BSA ≤1.5 m2

February 15, 2017 | Arie BlitzBronze ContributorSilver Commentor

The authors reviewed the retrospective INTERMACS database to assess whether outcomes after continuous-flow (CF) LVAD implantation varied with patient BSA. A total of over 10,000 CF LVAD patients were included....

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Contemporary extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy in adults: Fundamental principles and systematic review of the evidence.

July 18, 2016 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A handy mini-textbook on ECMO

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Donor Troponin and Survival After Cardiac Transplantation. An Analysis of the United Network of Organ Sharing Registry

June 25, 2016 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A large retrospective study of the UNOS database advances that elevated troponin I in selected cardiac donors is NOT associated with various adverse events. The conclusion is likely to stimulate...

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Cardiac resynchronization therapy combined with coronary artery bypass grafting in ischaemic heart failure patients: long-term results of the RESCUE study

January 9, 2016 | Arie BlitzBronze ContributorSilver Commentor

The authors performed a randomized control study of 178 patients with heart failure and systolic dyssynchrony who were accepted for CABG, randomizing the participants into two groups: CABG alone (n=87)...

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Right-sided Congestive Heart Failure Resulting From an Intracavitary Myocardial Lymphoma

July 21, 2015 | Anthony Lemaire…

Introduction Primary cardiac lymphomas are very rare, representing only 0.5% (1) of all lymphomas and 1.3-2% of all heart tumors (2). Cardiac involvement from systemic lymphomas is more common, comprising...

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