Publications by authors named "C Delcea"
Background: In patients with secondary tricuspid regurgitation (STR), right ventricular ejection fraction (RVEF) may not accurately reflect the actual RV systolic performance since a considerable amount of the RV stroke volume (SV) is regurgitated back into the right atrium. To overcome this limitation, we explored the association with the outcome of the effective RVEF (eRVEF), which accounts for the tricuspid regurgitant volume (RegVol).
Methods: 513 patients with STR (mean age 75±13 years, 39% atrial STR, 58% severe) underwent complete two-, three-dimensional, and Doppler echocardiography.
Background: In the multiparametric framework for diagnosing atrial secondary tricuspid regurgitation (A-STR), an end-systolic (ES) right atrial (RA)-to-right ventricular (RV) volume or area ratio ≥1.5 supports the diagnosis of A-STR over the ventricular secondary tricuspid regurgitation phenotype (V-STR). However, this threshold value has never been tested.
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- A study investigated the relationship between newborn characteristics and maternal postpartum depression (PPD), focusing on the influence of factors like the newborn's birth month, weight, and sex.
- Conducted in a hospital from August 2019 to April 2021, the research involved 904 women, with 236 diagnosed with PPD and 668 as a control group, using the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale for evaluation.
- The findings indicated a significant link between winter births and male newborns, suggesting these factors increase the likelihood of mothers experiencing depressive symptoms postpartum, highlighting the need for targeted public health strategies.
Background: Although the correction of the proximal isovelocity surface area (PISA) method has been shown to improve the accuracy of assessing the severity of secondary tricuspid regurgitation (STR), its clinical impact remains to be investigated. The aim of this study was to compare the association of the quantitative parameters of STR severity obtained from the corrected and conventional PISA methods with outcomes.
Methods: Both conventional and corrected effective regurgitant orifice area (EROA) (EROA vs corrected EROA [EROAc]), regurgitant volume (RegVol) (RegVol vs corrected RegVol [RegVolc]), and regurgitant fraction (RegFr) (RegFr vs corrected RegFr [RegFrc]) were measured in 519 consecutive patients (mean age, 75 ± 12 years; 44% men; 74% with ventricular STR) with moderate and severe STR.
Background: Heart failure (HF) and inflammation have a bidirectional relation leading to activation and adaptation of multiple cellular lines, including leucocyte subtypes and platelets. We aimed to assess and compare the predictive value of the neutrophil-lymphocyte (NLR), monocyte-lymphocyte (MLR) and platelet-lymphocyte (PLR) ratios for all-cause long-term mortality in HF.
Methods: This is an observational retrospective cohort study that included patients from the HI-HF cohort that survived the initial hospitalization.