Pub Date : 2024-11-09DOI: 10.1016/j.ahjo.2024.100484
Agnes Koczo , Deeksha Acharya , Benay Ozbay , Rami Alharethi , Michael M. Givertz , Uri Elkayam , Erik B. Schelbert , Dennis M. McNamara , Timothy C. Wong
Background
Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Recent studies show recovery of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) can still be associated with longitudinal adverse clinical outcomes. Cardiac MRI (CMR) may yield additional prognostic parameters of serious adverse outcomes (SAE) beyond LVEF.
Methods
Individuals with PPCM and CMR within 3 months of diagnosis were analyzed from the Investigations in Pregnancy Associated Cardiomyopathy (IPAC) trial and our institution from 2010-present. Indexed left ventricular (LV) mass, ventricular volumes, cardiac output, global longitudinal strain (GLS), extracellular cellular volume (ECV) as well as epicardial fat volume (EFV) were analyzed. SAEs included left ventricular assist device (LVAD), heart transplant and death. CMR parameters were compared between SAE and no SAEs groups by non-parametric techniques.
Results
Among 51 individuals with mean age of 31 years at diagnosis, 6/51 (12 %) experienced 11 adverse outcomes. EF at time of CMR (15.0 vs 37.3 %, p < 0.001), peak LV GLS (−4.1 % vs −10.0, p = 0.002) ECV (43.6 vs 28.2, p = 0.02) and stroke volume differed significantly among groups. In univariate regression analysis, worse LVEF, lower peak GLS and greater LVESVi were predictive of adverse outcomes.
Conclusion
Prior studies found baseline LVEF by echo is a predictor of serious adverse outcomes. CMR identified significantly different baseline LVESVi peak LV GLS and ECV among PPCM with SAEs vs no SAEs. If confirmed in larger studies, diffuse myocardial fibrosis may represent a therapeutic target in PPCM.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ahjo.2024.100480
Christina Healy, Palwinder Sodhi, Annabelle Barnett, Timothy Hess, Jennifer M. Wright
Study objective
To determine the incidence of and risk factors for HF after successful electrical and ablative cardioversion (CV) of atrial fibrillation (AF) and atrial flutter (AFL).
Design
Retrospective cohort study.
Setting
Single center academic institution.
Participants
Seven hundred fifty-five patients underwent successful elective CV from July 1, 2018 to May 20, 2019. Patients presenting in arrhythmias other than AF or AFL, those who developed HF due to alternative etiologies, and those who developed arrhythmia recurrence within 30 days were excluded. Medical records of the remaining 451 patients were reviewed before and after CV.
Main outcomes measured
Development of heart failure despite sinus rhythm following CV and the risk factors associated with this outcome.
Results
Thirty-three (7.3 %) of 451 patients who met inclusion criteria for our study developed new or worsening HF symptoms while maintaining sinus rhythm (SR) after successful CV. Symptoms were reported an average of 5.1 days following CV (range 0–17 days, SD 4.71). Following a multivariate stepwise logistic regression model, prior HF hospitalization (OR 3.91, 95 % CI 1.82–8.39), BMI (OR 1.06, 95 % CI 1.02–1.11), and valve disease (OR 2.51, 95 % CI 1.12–5.60) remained significant risk factors, and anti-arrhythmic drug (AAD) use was marginally significant (OR 2.02, 95 % CI 0.95–4.31).
Conclusion
Despite maintenance of SR, 7.3 % of patients developed decompensated HF in the 30 days following successful CV of AF or AFL, indicating this complication may be more frequent than previously believed. Predictors of HF post-CV included elevated BMI, valve disease, previous HF hospitalization, and prior AAD use.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ahjo.2024.100477
Shufu Chang , Rende Xu , Hao Lu , Yuxiang Dai , Chenguang Li , Jie Zhang , Gang Zhao , Juying Qian , Jianying Ma , Junbo Ge
Background
Chronic total occlusion (CTO) is the most challenging subset in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), but the optimal selection of patients and indication for such procedures remain a subject of debate. We sought to investigate the role of physiological function in treatment decisions of CTO PCI by measuring fractional flow reserve (FFR) and Dynamic SPECT imaging in this study.
Methods
All the FFR of CTO vessel were measured before and immediately after CTO revascularization, and Dynamic SPECT imaging were detected before PCI in patients with an identified CTO.
Results
A total of 53 patients with single-vessel CTO lesions were included in this cohort study. The mean FFR value was 0.34 ± 0.09 at baseline. Immediately after successful CTO PCI, the FFR value significantly increased to 0.79 ± 0.11. The regional coronary flow reserve (CFR) of CTO vessels was 1.62 ± 0.64, which was significantly and positively correlated with the baseline FFR value (r = 0.607, p = 0.005). The area under the ROC curve of the baseline FFR for the detection of ischemia was 0.923 (p < 0.001). The diagnostic performance in terms of sensitivity and specificity was 83.3 % and 85.7 % for baseline FFR with a ROC-optimized cutoff value of 0.35.
Conclusions
A significant correlation was found between the CFR derived from dynamic SPECT and baseline FFR. An FFR of <0.35 before CTO PCI can be taken as the cutoff for the presence of inducible ischemia, which was a useful index for therapy options.
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Observational and cohort studies have associated Sjögren's syndrome (SS) with various types of cardiovascular disease (CVD), yet causal relationships have not been established. We employed Mendelian randomization (MR) to investigate potential causal links between SS and CVD in the general population.
Methods
We conducted a two-sample MR analysis using data from four distinct sources for 11 genome-wide significant single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with SS and data for 13 types of CVD sourced from FinnGen, IEU OpenGWAS, and GWAS catalog. The inverse variance weighted method was selected as the primary analytical approach, complemented by various sensitivity analyses.
Results
MR analyses provide evidence of a significantly increased risk of ischemic stroke associated with genetically predicted SS (odds ratio [OR], 1.0237; 95 % CI, 1.0096 to 1.0379; p = 0.0009), as well as suggestive evidence of a potential causal relationship between SS and an increased risk of chronic heart failure (OR, 1.0302; 95 % CI, 1.0020 to 1.0592; p = 0.0355). Sensitivity analyses reinforced these associations, demonstrating robustness and consistency across multiple statistical methods. The secondary analysis, conducted after outlier correction using MR-PRESSO and RadialMR methods, reaffirmed these associations and also indicated a suggestive causal link between SS and non-rheumatic valvular heart disease (OR, 1.0251; 95 % CI, 1.0021 to 1.0486; p = 0.0323).
Conclusions
This study demonstrates that genetically predicted SS is a potential causative risk factor for ischemic stroke, chronic heart failure, and non-rheumatic valvular heart disease on a large-scale population. However, further research incorporating ancestral diversity is required to confirm a causal relationship between SS and CVD.
研究目的观察性研究和队列研究发现,斯约格伦综合征(SS)与各种类型的心血管疾病(CVD)有关,但因果关系尚未确定。我们采用孟德尔随机化(Mendelian randomization,MR)方法调查了普通人群中SS与心血管疾病之间的潜在因果关系。我们利用来自四个不同来源的数据进行了双样本MR分析,其中包括与SS相关的11个全基因组重要单核苷酸多态性(SNPs),以及来自FinnGen、IEU OpenGWAS和GWAS目录的13种心血管疾病数据。结果MR 分析证明,缺血性中风的风险显著增加与遗传预测的 SS 有关(几率比 [OR],1.0237; 95 % CI, 1.0096 to 1.0379; p = 0.0009),以及 SS 与慢性心力衰竭风险增加之间潜在因果关系的提示性证据(OR, 1.0302; 95 % CI, 1.0020 to 1.0592; p = 0.0355)。敏感性分析加强了这些关联,证明了多种统计方法的稳健性和一致性。使用 MR-PRESSO 和 RadialMR 方法对离群值进行校正后进行的二次分析再次证实了这些关联,并表明 SS 与非风湿性瓣膜性心脏病之间存在提示性因果关系(OR,1.0251;95 % CI,1.0021 至 1.0486;p = 0.0323)。然而,要确认 SS 与心血管疾病之间的因果关系,还需要结合祖先多样性开展进一步研究。
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Statins bring favourable effects on the clinical prognosis of patients with atherosclerotic disease partly through their anti-inflammatory properties. However, this effect has not been fully verified in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). We aimed to test whether statins exert different prognostic effects depending on the degrees of inflammation in patients with PAD.
Methods
This study was a sub-analysis of a multicenter prospective cohort of 2321 consecutive patients with PAD who received endovascular therapy (EVT). After excluding patients without information on C-reactive protein (CRP) levels at the time of index EVT, 1974 patients (1021 statin users and 953 non-users) were classified into four groups depending on CRP levels: low CRP (<0.1 mg/dL), intermediate-low CRP (0.1–0.3 mg/dL), intermediate-high CRP (0.3–1.0 mg/dL), and high CRP (>1.0 mg/dL). A composite of death, stroke, myocardial infarction, and major amputation as the primary endpoint was compared between statin users and non-users in each CRP category.
Results
During the median observation period of 316 days, the primary composite endpoint occurred in 112 (11.0 %) statin users and 178 (18.7 %) non-users (log-rank test, p < 0.001). However, statin therapy was associated with significantly lower event rates only in the intermediate-high- and high-CRP categories (p = 0.02 and p = 0.008, respectively). Multivariable Cox regression analysis revealed that statin use was independently associated with the primary endpoint only in the high-CRP category (adjusted hazard ratio: 0.64 [95 % confidence interval: 0.41–0.98]).
Conclusion
Statins may exert favourable prognostic effects in patients with PAD and highly elevated CRP levels.
背景胰岛素对动脉粥样硬化疾病患者的临床预后具有有利影响,部分原因是胰岛素具有抗炎特性。然而,这种作用在外周动脉疾病(PAD)患者中尚未得到充分验证。我们的目的是检验他汀类药物是否会因 PAD 患者炎症程度的不同而对预后产生不同的影响。这项研究是对 2321 名连续接受血管内治疗(EVT)的 PAD 患者进行的多中心前瞻性队列的子分析。在排除了指数EVT时没有C反应蛋白(CRP)水平信息的患者后,根据CRP水平将1974名患者(1021名他汀类药物使用者和953名非使用者)分为四组:低CRP(<0.1 mg/dL)、中低CRP(0.1-0.3 mg/dL)、中高CRP(0.3-1.0 mg/dL)和高CRP(>1.0 mg/dL)。结果在316天的中位观察期内,他汀类药物使用者中有112人(11.0%)出现了主要复合终点,而非使用者中有178人(18.7%)出现了主要复合终点(对数秩检验,p <0.001)。然而,他汀类药物治疗仅与中高和高CRP类别的事件发生率显著降低有关(p = 0.02 和 p = 0.008)。多变量 Cox 回归分析显示,只有在高 CRP 类别中,他汀类药物的使用才与主要终点独立相关(调整后危险比:0.64 [95 % 置信区间:0.41-0.98])。
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Pub Date : 2024-10-31DOI: 10.1016/j.ahjo.2024.100479
Gift Echefu , Rushabh Shah , Zanele Sanchez , John Rickards , Sherry-Ann Brown
Numerous cancer therapies have detrimental cardiovascular effects on cancer survivors. Cardiovascular toxicity can span the course of cancer treatment and is influenced by several factors. To mitigate these risks, cardio-oncology has evolved, with an emphasis on prevention and treatment of cardiovascular complications resulting from the presence of cancer and cancer therapy. Artificial intelligence (AI) holds multifaceted potential to enhance cardio-oncologic outcomes. AI algorithms are currently utilizing clinical data input to identify patients at risk for cardiac complications. Additional application opportunities for AI in cardio-oncology involve multimodal cardiovascular imaging, where algorithms can also utilize imaging input to generate predictive risk profiles for cancer patients. The impact of AI extends to digital health tools, playing a pivotal role in the development of digital platforms and wearable technologies. Multidisciplinary teams have been formed to implement and evaluate the efficacy of these technologies, assessing AI-driven clinical decision support tools. Other avenues similarly support practical application of AI in clinical practice, such as incorporation into electronic health records (EHRs) to detect patients at risk for cardiovascular diseases. While these AI applications may help improve preventive measures and facilitate tailored treatment to patients, they are also capable of perpetuating and exacerbating healthcare disparities, if trained on limited, homogenous datasets. However, if trained and operated appropriately, AI holds substantial promise in positively influencing clinical practice in cardio-oncology. In this review, we explore the impact of AI on cardio-oncology care, particularly regarding predicting cardiotoxicity from cancer treatments, while addressing racial and ethnic biases in algorithmic implementation.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.ahjo.2024.100478
Michele Golino , Alexa Coe , Anas Aljabi , Azita H. Talasaz , Benjamin Van Tassell , Antonio Abbate , Roshanak Markley
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Pub Date : 2024-10-16DOI: 10.1016/j.ahjo.2024.100470
James C. Coons , Jennifer Kliner , Michael A. Mathier , Suresh Mulukutla , Floyd Thoma , Ahmet Sezer , Mary Keebler
Study objective
To evaluate the impact of a medication optimization clinic (MOC) on GDMT and outcomes for patients with HFrEF versus usual care.
Design
Retrospective evaluation of a multi-site MOC was conducted.
Setting
Large health system with academic and community hospitals.
Participants
Patients with HFrEF referred to MOC by their cardiologist versus usual care.
Interventions
GDMT use managed by an advanced practice provider or clinical pharmacist through weekly telemedicine visits.
Main outcome measures
The primary outcome was HF hospitalization. Cardiovascular hospitalization and all-cause mortality were also assessed. Kaplan−Meier Curve, Cumulative Incidence Function, and competing risk analysis with regression models were conducted.
Results
1419 patients in MOC group were compared to 5116 control patients. GDMT use was significantly higher in MOC: quadruple therapy (49 % vs. 19 %; p < 0.0001), angiotensin-receptor neprilysin inhibitor (62 % vs. 45 %; p < 0.0001), beta blocker (92 % vs. 88 %; p < 0.0001), mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (69 % vs. 45 %; p < 0.0001), and sodium glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitor (68 % vs. 35 %; p < 0.0001). Competing risk analyses showed that HF and CV hospitalizations were significantly lower at all times points (3, 6, and 12 months) for MOC vs. control (p < 0.001). All-cause mortality was significantly lower at 6 months (p = 0.006) and 12 months (p < 0.001), but did not differ at 3 months (p = 0.35), for MOC vs. control.
Conclusions
MOC was associated with improved GDMT and lower risks of hospitalizations due to HF and any cardiovascular cause, and all-cause mortality in patients with HFrEF.
研究目的评估药物优化门诊(MOC)与常规护理对高频低氧血症(HFrEF)患者GDMT和预后的影响.设计对一个多站点MOC进行了回顾性评估.设置由学术医院和社区医院组成的大型医疗系统.参与者由心脏病专家转诊至MOC的高频低氧血症(HFrEF)患者与常规护理.干预由高级医疗服务提供者或临床药剂师通过每周的远程医疗访问管理GDMT的使用.主要结果测量主要结果是高频住院。还评估了心血管疾病住院率和全因死亡率。结果1419名MOC组患者与5116名对照组患者进行了比较。在 MOC 组中,GDMT 的使用率明显更高:四联疗法(49 % vs. 19 %;p <;0.0001)、血管紧张素受体肾素抑制剂(62 % vs. 45 %;p <;0.0001)、β-受体阻滞剂(92 % vs. 88 %;p <;0.0001)。88%;p <;0.0001)、矿物质皮质激素受体拮抗剂(69% 对 45%;p <;0.0001)和钠葡萄糖共转运体-2 抑制剂(68% 对 35%;p <;0.0001)。竞争风险分析表明,在所有时间点(3、6 和 12 个月),MOC 与对照组相比,心房颤动和冠心病住院率均显著降低(p <0.001)。MOC与对照组相比,全因死亡率在6个月(p = 0.006)和12个月(p < 0.001)时明显降低,但在3个月(p = 0.35)时并无差异。
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Few previous studies evaluated the impact of time from the hospital arrival to the implementation of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) (door to ECPR time) on outcomes among out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) acute myocardial infarction (MI) patients.
Methods
50 patients with OHCA who received both ECPR and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) at Cardiovascular Division, NHO Osaka National Hospital were analyzed. Patients were divided into 2 groups according to the median of door to ECPR time. The primary outcome was all-cause death. Survival analyses were conducted to compare all-cause mortality at 90 days between 2 groups. Neurological outcome at 30 days was also compared between 2 groups using the Cerebral Performance Category (CPC).
Results
The multivariable Cox proportional-hazards model showed that all-cause mortality at 90 days was significantly higher among patients with door to ECPR time ≥ 25 min compared with those with door to ECPR time < 25 min (adjusted hazard ratio [HR]: 3.14; 95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.21–8.18). The proportion of patients with CPC at 30 days ≤ 2 was significantly higher among patients with shorter door to ECPR time (P = 0.048).
Conclusion
Among patients with OHCA due to acute MI who received ECPR and PCI, the shorter door to ECPR time was associated with the lower mortality and favorable neurological outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-14DOI: 10.1016/j.ahjo.2024.100474
Eloise J. Thompson , Sarah E. Alexander , Kegan Moneghetti, Erin J. Howden
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the top contributors to global disease burden. Meeting the physical activity guidelines can effectively control and prevent several CVD risk factors, including obesity, hypertension and diabetes mellitus. The effects of climate change are multifactorial and have direct impacts on cardiovascular health. Increasing ambient temperatures, worsening air and water quality and urbanisation and loss of greenspace will also have indirect effects of cardiovascular health by impacting the ability and opportunity to participate in physical activity. A changing climate also has implications for large scale sporting events and policies regarding risk mitigation during exercise in hot climates. This review will discuss the impact of a changing climate on cardiovascular health and physical activity and the implications for the future of organised sport.
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