[MVP Risk score and new atrial fibrillation diagnosis: Prospective cohort PREFATE study].

Objective: To assess the association between electrocardiogram (ECG) patterns according to the MVP ECG risk score (morphology-voltage-P-wave duration) and a diagnosis of Atrial Fibrillation (AF).

Design: Prospective observational cohort study (1/01/2023-31/12/2024). SITE: Primary care.

Echocardiography and Electrocardiography in Detecting Atrial Cardiomyopathy: A Promising Path to Predicting Cardioembolic Strokes and Atrial Fibrillation.

(1) Background: Atrial cardiomyopathy constitutes an intrinsically prothrombotic atrial substrate that may promote atrial fibrillation and thromboembolic events, especially stroke, independently of the arrhythmia. Atrial reservoir strain is the echocardiography marker with the most robust evidence supporting its prognostic utility. The main aim of this study is to identify atrial cardiomyopathy by investigating the association between left atrial dysfunction in echocardiography and P-wave abnormalities in the surface electrocardiogram.

Blood-biomarkers and devices for atrial fibrillation screening: Lessons learned from the AFRICAT (Atrial Fibrillation Research In CATalonia) study.

Background And Objective: AFRICAT is a prospective cohort study intending to develop an atrial fibrillation (AF) screening program through the combination of blood markers, rhythm detection devices, and long-term monitoring in our community. In particular, we aimed to validate the use of NT-proBNP, and identify new blood biomarkers associated with AF. Also, we aimed to compare AF detection using various wearables and long-term Holter monitoring.

[Clinical, electrical and echocardiographic characteristics of patients with advanced interatrial block].

El haz de Bachmann se compone de un conjunto de fibras miocárdicas paralelas y especializadas, responsables del 80% de la conducción interauricular. Discurre por las paredes anterosuperiores auriculares, y su afectación da lugar al bloqueo interauricular (BIA); éste puede ser: a) parcial (BIA-p) si la conducción está retrasada (en el ECG produce una onda P ≥ 120 ms) o b) avanzado (BIA-a) si está del todo interrumpida y la despolarización auricular izquierda (AI) ocurre en dirección retrógrada caudocraneal (la onda P es ≥ 120 ms y bifásica +/- en las derivaciones inferiores II, III y VF)1.

Risk of Atrial Fibrillation, Ischemic Stroke and Cognitive Impairment: Study of a Population Cohort ≥65 Years of Age.

Purpose: To evaluate a model for calculating the risk of AF and its relationship with the incidence of ischemic stroke and prevalence of cognitive decline.

Materials And Methods: It was a multicenter, observational, retrospective, community-based study of a cohort of general population ≥6ct 35 years, between 01/01/2016 and 31/12/2018. Setting: Primary Care.

Differential characteristics of the typical and atypical advanced interatrial block.

Objetivo: Se denomina bloqueo interauricular avanzado (BIA) a la existencia de una onda P ≥ 120 ms y bifásica +/- en las derivaciones inferiores (II-III-VF) del electrocardiograma (ECG) de superficie, el cual constituye un factor predictivo significativo del desarrollo de fibrilación auricular. En fecha reciente se han descrito cuatro patrones de BIA atípicos (BIA-At) con base en la morfología y la duración de la onda P, sin conocer si comparten patogenia y características clínicas similares.

MÉtodo: Estudio observacional, descriptivo y retrospectivo de pacientes, visitados en el Servicio de Cardiología, en ritmo sinusal y con BIA.

Results, barriers and enablers in atrial fibrillation case finding: barriers in opportunistic atrial fibrillation case finding-a cross-sectional study.

Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is often asymptomatic, and screening is not routinely undertaken.

Objective: Evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of a population-based case finding program and to identify the enablers of and/or barriers to its implementation.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of a health care case finding program for AF from 1 January 2016, to 31 December 2017, that included 48 336 people ≥60 years of age in the region of Terresde l'Ebre (Catalonia, Spain).

[Sigmoid septum: A variant of the ventricular hypertrophy or of the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?].

Objective: Sigmoid septum and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy presenting with left ventricular hypertrophy and, although they appear to be different entities, often involve problems in the differential diagnosis. This study was carried out to assess the prevalence and characteristics of the echocardiographic sigmoid septum and its differential findings regarding hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Methods: Descriptive, observational and prospective study.

[Frequency of kidney failure in cardiologic patients: the need to search].

Background: Chronic kidney disease is a major health problem since it is associated with a high cardiovascular risk, total morbidity and mortality, increasing prevalence and high cost treatment.

Aim: To assess the frequency of chronic kidney disease among patients consulting in a cardiology clinic.

Material And Methods: Cross-sectional assessment of 649 patients attended at a cardiology clinic.

Repeated serum creatinine measurement in primary care: Not all patients have chronic renal failure.

Objective: To assess the prevalence of kidney failure in patients from a primary care centre in a basic healthcare district with laboratory availability allowing serum creatinine measurements.

Design: An observational descriptive cross-sectional study.

Data Sources: A basic healthcare district serving 23,807 people aged ≥ 18 years.