Spot urinary sodium as a prognostic marker for mortality in patients with acute decompensated heart failure.

Introduction. Urinary sodium has been proposed as a prognostic marker and indicator of the diuretic response in patients with heart failure. However, study results are heterogeneous.

Clinical and hemodynamic outcomes and mortality risk factors in patients undergoing pulmonary thromboendarterectomy.

Background: Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy is the current treatment of choice in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. The objective of the present study was to analyze the clinical and hemodynamic outcomes and the risk factors for mortality in a cardiovascular center in Colombia.

Methods: Cohort study, conducted between 2001 and 2019.

Arterial lactate levels and their prognostic value in patients undergoing pulmonary thromboendarterectomy.

Objective: Evaluate the change of lactate levels and its prognostic role in the postoperative period of patients undergoing pulmonary thromboendarterectomy.

Methods: Retrospective study between 2001 and 2019. Patients older than 18 years and who underwent pulmonary thromboendarterectomy were included.