Publications by authors named "E M Kosar"
Article Synopsis
- The study assessed clinical and laboratory characteristics of COVID-19 patients at a Turkish university hospital, focusing on factors influencing mortality.
- A retrospective analysis of 500 patients revealed a majority were male (53.8%), with an average age of 57.6 years, and common comorbidities including hypertension and diabetes.
- Key risk factors for mortality included advanced age, male gender, respiratory symptoms, fever at admission, and specific lab markers like high C-reactive protein and D-dimer levels, while certain treatments did not show significant advantages in reducing mortality.
Background: Cardiac resynchronization therapy with biventricular pacing has been shown to be beneficial in improving heart failure in patients with prolonged QRS duration (≥120 ms) and low ejection fraction (≤35%). Unsuccessful cannulation of the coronary sinus (CS) has been reported in up to 10% of cases. The feasibility of the transthoracic continuous cardiac imaging for coronary sinus cannulation has not been previously demonstrated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the long-term clinical outcomes of catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) substrate for high-risk patients with AF.
Background: The benefits of catheter ablation for high-risk AF patients with respect to mortality and stroke reductions remain unclear.
Methods: We performed AF substrate ablation guided by complex fractionated atrial electrogram (CFAE) mapping in 674 high-risk AF patients.
Objectives: We sought to test the hypothesis that complex fractionated electrograms (CFAEs) recorded during atrial fibrillation (AF) could be used as target sites for catheter ablation of AF.
Background: Mapping of AF in humans has shown that areas of CFAEs correlate with areas of slowed conduction and pivot points of reentrant wavelets. We hypothesized that such areas of CFAEs could be identified in patients with AF and might serve as target sites for catheter ablation to maintain sinus rhythm.
Background: Electrical storm (ES), defined as recurrent multiple ventricular fibrillation (VF) episodes, often occurs in patients with recent myocardial infarction. Because treating ES according to the Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) guidelines yields a poor outcome, we evaluated the efficacy of sympathetic blockade in treating ES patients and compared their outcome with that of patients treated according to the ACLS guidelines.
Methods And Results: Forty-nine patients (36 men, 13 women, mean age 57+/-10 years) who had ES associated with a recent myocardial infarction were separated into 2 groups.