Utility of the Biomarker CA125 in the Diagnosis of Cellular Rejection in Allogeneic Heart Transplantation.

Background: To analyze the relationship of the antigen carbohydrate 125 (CA125) biomarker with the cellular rejection of the heart graft during the first year after transplantation.

Methods: Retrospective study of consecutive heart transplant (HTx) patients for 1.5 years.

Complications After Heart Transplantation According to the Type of Pretransplant Circulatory/Ventricular Support.

Background: The purpose of the study was to analyze postcardiac transplant complications in patients who received transplants with short-term mechanical ventricular assist devices and to compare complications according to the type of device.

Methods: Ambispective and consecutive study of urgent heart transplants from 2015 to 2019. Pediatric transplants, retransplants, and combined transplants were excluded.

Usefulness of Immunoglobulin A in Patients With Decompensated Heart Failure: Is It a Future Marker of Congestion? Preliminary Experience.

Background: The purpose of this study was to analyze whether the level of IgA is related to right ventricular function and systemic congestion in patients with decompensated heart failure (HF) and reduced ejection fraction (EF).

Methods: This was a consecutive prospective and observational study of hospitalized patients diagnosed with decompensated HF with reduced EF. The recruitment period lasted 2 months.

COVID-19 and Heart Transplantation. Initial Experience in a Tertiary Hospital.

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a viral infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 virus that is affecting the entire world population. The objective of this study was to analyze the repercussion of the disease in a group of patients at risk such as heart transplant recipients.

Methods: From February 2020 to February 2021, heart transplant recipients diagnosed with COVID-19 were consecutively included.

Analysis of the Intrahospital and Long-Term Survival of Heart Transplant Patients With a Short-Term Mechanical Assistance Device.

Background: The purpose of this study was to compare early and late survival among patients who have undergone heart transplantation (HTx) with a short-term mechanical assist device.

Methods: This was an ambispective, single-center, consecutive study of patients undergoing urgent HTx for 5 years. Pediatric transplants, retransplants, and combined transplants were excluded.

Ischemic Etiology and Prognosis in Men and Women with Acute Heart Failure.

Coronary heart disease is common in heart failure (HF). Our aim was to determine the impact of ischemic etiology on prognosis among men and women with HF. This study is a prospective national multicenter registry.

Intravenous sildenafil in right ventricular dysfunction with pulmonary hypertension following a heart transplant.

The objective of the present work is to describe the experience with intravenous (IV) sildenafil in heart transplant (HT) patients with reactive pulmonary hypertension (PH) who developed right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) in the immediate postoperative period. The first 5 patients who received IV sildenafil followinga HT are presented. The HTs took place between March 2011 and September 2012 in patients aged 37 to 64 years; all patients were male.

Left ventricular end-diastolic extrasystole with pseudonormalization of a left bundle branch block unmasking inferior ischemia.

An electrocardiogram tracing of a patient in conducted sinus rhythm with left bundle branch block is shown, in which occasional pseudonormalization of intraventricular conduction is seen. This event is attributed to ventricular fusions with end-diastolic extrasystoles of the left His-Purkinje system distal to the block site. This type of extrasystole is discussed.

Mother-child interactional patterns in high- and low-risk mothers.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to determine the extent to which mother-child interactional patterns in high- and low-risk (for child physical abuse) mothers were similar to patterns observed in physically abusive parents.

Method: Ten high-risk and 10 demographically similar low-risk mother-child dyads were studied. Trained observers coded maternal-child interaction patterns in the home during five 1-hour periods using the Standardized Observation Codes system.

Mother-child interactive patterns in abusive families versus nonabusive families: an observational study.

The interest in aspects relative to the maintenance of aversive family interactions is common among investigators who, from many different fronts, treat child and family issues. If these interactions end in episodes of physical abuse of a child by his/her parents, the need to quickly detect these patterns of family violence in order to prevent and treat them is all the more urgent. The present work falls within this context and focuses on a detailed analysis of behavior in the home of both the abusive mother and the victimized child.