Publications by authors named "E J Birks"
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- * Patients using LVADs face serious emergencies that need quick diagnosis and teamwork in treatment.
- * This review provides a guide for recognizing and handling emergencies in LVAD patients, such as alarms, bleeding, strokes, and other critical issues.
Background: Identification of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CA) patients is largely based on pattern recognition by providers, and this can be automated through electronic medical systems (EMR).
Methods: All patients in a large academic hospital with age > 60, ICD-10 code for chronic diastolic heart failure and no previous diagnosis of any amyloidosis were included. An Epic EMR scoring logic assigned risk scores to patients for ICD-10 and CPT codes associated with ATTR-CA, as follows: carpal tunnel syndrome (score 5), aortic stenosis/TAVR (5), neuropathy (4), bundle branch block (4), etc.
The beneficial effects of lanthanide incorporation into 0.94NaBiTiO-0.06BaTiO (BNT-BT) matrix on its functional properties were investigated.
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- Advanced heart failure therapies and heart transplantation (HT) are less frequently utilized in women, prompting an examination of clinical characteristics and outcomes based on sex.
- A study analyzing data from 2012 to 2019 found that 28% of HT hospitalizations were women, who were generally younger but had different health issues compared to men.
- Despite these differences, in-hospital outcomes like mortality rates and costs were similar for both sexes, indicating a need for further research on the reasons behind the lower HT rates among women.