Publications by authors named "B Koifman"
Article Synopsis
- Studies show that myocardial infarction (MI) can lead to acute stress disorder (ASD), which includes various distressing symptoms like dissociation and hyperarousal during hospital stays.
- This research focused on how ASD symptoms might predict the overall mortality of MI patients over 15 years.
- Results indicated that while higher ASD symptoms correlated with mortality, only dissociative symptoms remained significant after adjusting for other health and demographic factors, suggesting these symptoms are critical for assessing risk in MI patients.*
Background: Few data exist on the recent trends in the outcome of women hospitalized with acute coronary syndrome. We examined temporal trends in the hospital management and outcomes of women hospitalized with acute coronary syndrome in a real-world setting.
Methods: We evaluated time-dependent changes in the clinical characteristics, management strategies, and outcomes of women enrolled in the Acute Coronary Syndrome Israeli Surveys (ACSIS) between 2000 and 2010.
Background: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) comprises a large portion of heart failure patients and portends poor prognosis with similar outcome to heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). Thus far, no medical therapy has been shown to improve clinical outcome in this common condition.
Trial Design: The study is a randomized-controlled, multicenter clinical trial aimed to determine whether early posthospitalization comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation (CR) including exercise training (ET) in recently hospitalized HFpEF patients reduces the composite end point of all-cause mortality and hospitalizations in comparison with usual care (UC).
The terms hospital- and community-acquired infections do not cover any longer the full spectrum of acquisition of infection. Consequently, the term healthcare associated infection (HCA) has been recently introduced. In order to examine the applicability of 'HCA infection' to patients with infective endocarditis (IE), 125 episodes of culture-positive IE were categorized into 3 groups of acquisition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To assess and compare parameters of pulmonary function in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and anti-phospholipid syndrome (APS) patients.
Methods: Consecutive patients (n = 74) who were free of respiratory symptoms were divided into four groups: 1) SLE (n = 23); 2) SLE with anti-phospholipid antibodies (aPL) (n = 18); 3) SLE with APS (n = 20); and 4) primary APS (PAPS) (n = 13). Pulmonary function testing, single breath diffusion capacity of carbon monoxide (DLCO/SB) and echocardiography studies were performed.