Heart : official journal of the British Cardiac Society
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Multicenter Study
The NCDR ACTION Registry-GWTG: transforming contemporary acute myocardial infarction clinical care.
The NCDR ACTION Registry-GWTG collects detailed in-hospital clinical, process-of-care and outcomes data for patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the USA. The registry is a national AMI surveillance system that contributes to the scientific enquiry process of AMI care through the facilitation of local and national quality improvement efforts. ⋯ Main outcome measures include American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association myocardial infarction performance indicators, as well as in-hospital patient outcomes. Data are available for research by application to: http://www.ncdr.com.
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Multicenter Study
Clinical characteristics and outcome of infective endocarditis in adults with bicuspid aortic valves: a multicentre observational study.
To analyse characteristics and outcomes of infective endocarditis (IE) on bicuspid aortic valves (BAV) and to compare the risk of death according to the presence or absence of BAV. ⋯ BAV is frequent in adults with native aortic valve IE. Patients with BAV IE incur high risk of abscess formation and require early surgery in almost three-quarters of cases. IE is a severe complication in the setting of BAV and warrants prompt diagnosis and treatment.