Publications by authors named "A D Jabs"
Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate risk factors for mortality, including health care insurance status, among patients with AIDS in the era of modern combination antiretroviral therapy (cART).
Methods: This study was part of the prospective, multicentre, observational Longitudinal Study of the Ocular Complications of AIDS (LSOCA). Patients were classified as having private health care insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, or no insurance.
Background: The Medtronic Evolut R (EVR) is a novel transcatheter heart valve designed to allow precise implantation at the intended position and to minimize prosthesis dysfunction as well as procedural complications. Our aim was to compare short-term functional and clinical outcomes of the new EVR with the established Medtronic CoreValve (CV) system.
Methods And Results: Of 151 patients undergoing transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation with a self-expanding valve at our institution between January 2013 and January 2016, 86 were treated with EVR and 65 with CV.
Aims: In patients undergoing percutaneous edge-to-edge mitral valve repair for mitral valve regurgitation (MR), our aim was to evaluate acute and follow-up differences with pre-existing sinus rhythm (SR) or atrial fibrillation (AF), as well as comparisons stratified by baseline heart rate.
Methods And Results: Seven hundred and sixty patients who underwent a MitraClip procedure were prospectively enrolled in the TRAnscatheter Mitral valve Interventions (TRAMI) registry, and stratified according to baseline heart rhythm and heart rate with a cut-off value of 70 beats per minute. Technical success, procedural characteristics and MR reduction were similar throughout the subgroups.
Background: The latest generation transcatheter heart valves including Edwards Sapien 3 (ES3) and Direct Flow Medical (DFM) were designed to allow precise implantation at the intended position and to minimize prosthesis dysfunction as well as procedural complications. Our aim was to compare short-term functional and clinical outcomes of these 2 transcatheter aortic valve systems.
Methods: Of 174 patients undergoing transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) at our institution between August 2013 and June 2015, 113 were treated with ES3 and 61 with DFM.
US State-Level Legislative Responses to the Ebola Outbreak, 2014-2015.
Disaster Med Public Health Prep
August 2016
Objective: We sought to systematically identify and analyze state-level legislative responses to Ebola from April 2014 through June 2015.
Methods: Using standardized search terms, we searched the LexisNexis State Capital database to identify bills or resolutions that explicitly mentioned Ebola or viral hemorrhagic fever in all 50 US states and Washington, DC, from April 2014 through June 2015. Information was abstracted from relevant bills or resolutions by using an electronic data collection form.