The American journal of cardiology
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Multicenter Study
In-Hospital Outcomes of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Patients With Mitral Valve Stenosis.
Little is known about the outcome of patients with mitral stenosis (MS) who underwent transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Therefore, we sought to evaluate the potential impact of MS on the outcome of patients who underwent TAVI using the US national cohort. Using weighted data from the National Inpatient Sample database between 2011 and 2015, we identified patients who had undergone a TAVI as a primary procedure. ⋯ A total of 62,110 patients underwent TAVI (mean age 81 ± 8.72, 47.4% females, and 3.7% African-Americans) and 887 patients had MS (1.43%). Patients with concomitant MS had higher in-hospital mortality (5.1% vs 3.5% adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 1.455; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.059 to 2.001, p = 0.021), major adverse cardiac events (9.0% vs 7.1% aOR 1.297; 95% CI 1.012 to 1.663, p = 0.040), major bleeding (16.3% vs 12.1% aOR 1.303; 95% CI 1.067 to 1.593, p = 0.010), cardiac complications (21.8% vs 16.0% aOR 1.536; 95% CI, 1.300 to 1.815, p < 0.001), and acute myocardial infarction (4.5% vs 2.8% aOR 1.783; 95% CI 1.249 to 2.545, p = 0.007) when compared with patients without MS. In conclusion, MS is an independent risk factor for mortality and morbidity after TAVI procedure for patients with severe aortic stenosis.
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Isolated low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) is associated with lower fitness and increased mortality. Whether the association between isolated low HDL-C and mortality differs by fitness is uncertain. Patients in the Henry Ford ExercIse Testing Project (FIT Project) completed a physician-referred treadmill stress test and those prescribed lipid-lowering medications or with known cardiovascular disease were excluded. ⋯ Compared to individuals with optimal lipids, those with isolated low HDL-C who achieved <6 METs had a lower survival (p = 0.02), whereas there was no mortality difference for those who achieved 6 to 10 METs (p = 0.13) or ≥10 METs (p = 0.66). In adjusted Cox models, the mortality hazard for those with isolated low HDL-C compared with optimal lipids was 1.73 (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.18 to 2.54), 1.90 (95% CI 1.19 to 3.04), and 0.97 (95% CI 0.53 to 1.78) for the METS categories of <6, 6 to 10, and ≥10. In conclusion, individuals with isolated low HDL-C fitness significantly improved risk stratification and only those with lower fitness had an increased totality mortality risk.
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We investigated the association of perioperative antiplatelet therapy (APT) and outcomes in patients with drug-eluting stent (DES) placement for noncardiac surgery (NCS). In consecutive 23,358 patients who underwent percutaneous coronary interventions between 2005 and 2016, total of 2,179 patients that required 2,179 elective NCS after DES placement were retrospectively analyzed. A net adverse clinical event (NACE), composite of death, myocardial infarction, stent thrombosis, and major bleeding, was assessed at 30 days. ⋯ Our findings persisted (adjusted HR 1.26, 95% CI 0.51 to 3.10, p = 0.618) when those who continued dual-APT were excluded from the continuation of APT group due to a higher tendency of NACE compared with those who continued single-APT (adjusted HR 2.26, 95% CI 0.98 to 5.21, p = 0.055). However, the patients who discontinued APT for >7 days had a significantly higher NACE than those who discontinued for ≤7 days (adjusted HR 6.93, 95% CI 2.16 to 22.24, p = 0.001). In conclusion, discontinuation of APT may not be associated with higher NACEs 30 days postsurgery compared with continuation of APT, when APT was discontinued for ≤7 days in patients undergoing elective NCS after DES implantation.
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Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with angiographic evidence of intracoronary thrombus is associated with in-hospital and 30-day adverse clinical outcomes. Cangrelor, a direct, rapid-onset acting intravenous P2Y12 receptor inhibitor, has been proved to be effective by reducing peri-PCI ischemic complications in subjects who underwent PCI. This study aimed to assess the angiographic and in-hospital clinical outcomes in all-comer patients receiving cangrelor immediately before PCI at a tertiary care center. ⋯ Major bleeding rate was 2.0%. In conclusion, cangrelor was effective and safe in restoring TIMI-Flow 3, reducing thrombus burden and improving myocardial blush grade and TMPG when administered to unselected subjects who underwent PCI. Therefore, cangrelor should be considered in patients presenting with intracoronary thrombus before intervention.
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Most important prognostic factors in the postcardiac arrest patients who underwent targeted temperature management (TTM) derive from the periarrest period. Whether early invasive hemodynamics predict survival or neurologic outcomes remains unknown. We retrospectively reviewed all comatose survivors of cardiac arrest who underwent TTM at the Coronary Intensive Care Unit of a Quaternary Center between January 2015 and June 2017. ⋯ There was no association between cardiac index (p = 0.45 and p = 0.10), PCWP (p = 0.90 and p = 0.60), SVR (0.95 and p = 0.17) or Forrester hemodynamic profiles (p = 0.40 and p = 0.42) and survival or favorable neurologic outcome at discharge. In conclusion, comatose arrest survivors who underwent TTM presents with a wide spectrum of invasive hemodynamics highlighting the heterogeneity of the postcardiac arrest syndrome. Early invasive hemodynamics did not predict survival or favorable neurologic outcomes at hospital discharge.