Efficacy of a Telemonitoring System as a Complementary Strategy in the Treatment of Patients With Heart Failure: Randomized Clinical Trial.

Episodes of decompensation are the main cause of hospital admissions in patients with heart failure. For this reason, the use of mobile apps emerges as an excellent strategy to improve coverage, real-time monitoring, and timeliness of care. ControlVit is an electronic application for early detection of complications studied within the context of a tertiary university hospital.

Evaluation of Long-Term Kidney Function Following Orthotopic Heart Transplantation.

Introduction: Acute impairment of kidney function in patients with heart failure and heart transplantation is a frequent condition. However, the impact of the transplant on long-term kidney function remains controversial.

Methods: This study describes a cohort of patients who received a heart transplant in a reference hospital between 2005 and 2019.

Evaluation of a Mobile Application for Heart Failure Telemonitoring.

Adequate adherence to treatment is indispensable in preventing adverse consequences in heart failure patients. Such adherence can be managed through heart failure clinics and various methods of follow-up. In recent years, the use of telemonitoring has shown promising benefits in supporting clinicians' follow-up, as well as contributing to patients' self-care.

Intermediate Monocytes and Cytokine Production Associated With Severe Forms of Chagas Disease.

Monocytes are classified according to their CD14 and CD16 expression into classical (reparative), intermediate (inflammatory), and non-classical. This study assessed the frequency of monocyte and the relationship between monocyte subset percentages and the levels of blood cytokines in Colombian chagasic patients with different clinical forms. This study included chagasic patients in different clinical stages: indeterminate (IND) = 14, chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy (CCC) = 14, and heart transplant chagasic (HTCC) = 9; controls with non-chagasic cardiopathy (NCC) = 15, and healthy individuals (HI) = 15.