Background: Mean platelet volume (MPV) is a widely available laboratory index, however its prognostic significance in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) is still unclear. We intended to investigate and pool the evidence on the prognostic utility of admission MPV in predicting clinical outcomes in patients with CAD.
Methods: PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus were the major databases used for literature search.
Background: This study aimed to develop a multiclass machine-learning (ML) model to predict all-cause mortality, ischemic and hemorrhagic events in unselected hospitalized patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
Methods: This retrospective study included 1,815,595 unselected weighted hospitalizations undergoing PCI from the National Inpatient Sample (2016-2019). Five most common ML algorithms (logistic regression, support vector machine (SVM), naive Bayes, random forest (RF), and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost)) were trained and tested with 101 input features.
Ethyl chloride (EC) spray is a vapocoolant which is used in interventional procedures as a topical local anesthetic. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether or not EC spray can facilitate radial coronary angiography. The study was conducted on a study group EC of 106 (age: 58.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: It is unclear whether the future risk of cardiovascular events in breast cancer (Bc) survivors is greater than in the general population. This meta-analysis quantifies the risk of cardiovascular disease development in Bc patients, compared to the risk in a general matched cancer-free population, and reports the incidence of cardiovascular events in patients with Bc.
Methods And Results: We searched PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science databases (up to 23 March 2022) for observational studies and post hoc analyses of randomized controlled trials.