The modified Rajan's heart failure risk score predicts all-cause mortality in patients hospitalized for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: a retrospective cohort study.

Background: The dimensionless Rajan's heart failure (R-hf) risk score was proposed to predict all-cause mortality in patients hospitalized with chronic heart failure (HF) and reduced ejection fraction (EF) (HFrEF).

Purpose: To examine the association between the modified R-hf risk score and all-cause mortality in patients with HFrEF.

Methods: Retrospective cohort study included adults hospitalized with HFrEF, as defined by clinical symptoms of HF with biplane EF less than 40% on transthoracic echocardiography, at a tertiary centre in Dalian, China, between 1 November 2015, and 31 October 2019.

Validation of R-hf risk score for risk stratification in ischemic heart failure patients: A prospective cohort study.

Background: The aim of this study was to validate R-heart failure (R-hf) risk score in ischemic heart failure patients.

Methods: We prospectively recruited a cohort of 179 ischemic and 107 non-ischemic heart failure patients. This study mainly focused on ischemic heart failure patients.

Late traumatic ventricular septal rupture.

Traumatic ventricular septal rupture is a rare complication of blunt trauma to the chest and is lethal if unidentified. Although majority of these present early, late presentation can also occur. We describe a patient with severe head injury who deteriorated three weeks after trauma due to late development of ventricular septal rupture.

Type D Personality and Myocardial Infarction: A Case-Control Study.

Background: Coronary heart disease (CHD) is an impending global pandemic in developed countries as well as developing countries and economies in transition, such as India. A significant increase in the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI), one of the most common types of CHD, is being reported in India, and the incidence and severity of the disease are more among the youth in Kerala. Studies assessing the association between psychological factors and MI are few in India.

[State of the coronary arteries and assessment of the role of hormone replacement therapy in patients with coronary heart disease against the background of primary manifest hypothyroidism].

Aim To study features of coronary damage and incidence of different types of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in history associated with primary symptomatic hypothyroidism in patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) and possible associations of replacement hormonal therapy with lipidogram indexes.Material and methods This retrospective study included 344 patients with IHD and functional class I-III stable angina (ССS, 1976). Of them 100 patients had primary symptomatic hypothyroidism and 244 had no hypothyroidism.

Five-year mortality and readmission rates in patients with heart failure in India: Results from the Trivandrum heart failure registry.

Introduction: Heart failure (HF) has emerged as an important and increasing disease burden in India. We present the 5-year outcomes of patients hospitalized for HF in India.

Methods: The Trivandrum Heart Failure Registry (THFR) recruited consecutive patients admitted for acute HF among 16 hospitals in Trivandrum, Kerala in 2013.

Spectrum of cardiac involvement in patients with dengue fever.

Background: Dengue fever (DF) is an infectious disease of viral origin common in the tropics. Studies on a large number of patients with dengue infection to assess associated cardiac involvement are rare.

Methods: We analyzed the incidence and spectrum of cardiac abnormalities in 320 patients with dengue fever admitted to our hospital located in an endemic area for dengue infection.

Risk profiles and one-year outcomes of patients with newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation in India: Insights from the GARFIELD-AF Registry.

Background: The Global Anticoagulant Registry in the FIELD-Atrial Fibrillation (GARFIELD-AF) is an ongoing prospective noninterventional registry, which is providing important information on the baseline characteristics, treatment patterns, and 1-year outcomes in patients with newly diagnosed non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF). This report describes data from Indian patients recruited in this registry.

Methods And Results: A total of 52,014 patients with newly diagnosed AF were enrolled globally; of these, 1388 patients were recruited from 26 sites within India (2012-2016).

In-Hospital and Three-Year Outcomes of Heart Failure Patients in South India: The Trivandrum Heart Failure Registry.

Background: Long-term data on outcomes of participants hospitalized with heart failure (HF) from low- and middle-income countries are limited.

Methods And Results: In the Trivandrum Heart Failure Registry (THFR) in 2013, 1205 participants from 18 hospitals in Trivandrum, India, were enrolled. Data were collected on demographics, clinical presentation, treatment, and outcomes.

One-year mortality outcomes and hospital readmissions of patients admitted with acute heart failure: Data from the Trivandrum Heart Failure Registry in Kerala, India.

Background: There are sparse data on outcomes of patients with heart failure (HF) from India. The objective was to evaluate hospital readmissions and 1-year mortality outcomes of patients with HF in Kerala, India.

Methods: We followed 1,205 patients enrolled in the Trivandrum Heart Failure Registry for 1 year.

Clinical presentation, management, in-hospital and 90-day outcomes of heart failure patients in Trivandrum, Kerala, India: the Trivandrum Heart Failure Registry.

Objective: To evaluate the presentation, management, and outcomes of patients hospitalized for heart failure (HF) in Trivandrum, India.

Methods: The Trivandrum Heart Failure Registry (THFR) enrolled consecutive admissions from 13 urban and five rural hospitals in Trivandrum with a primary diagnosis of HF from January to December 2013. Clinical characteristics at presentation, treatment, in-hospital outcomes, and 90-day mortality data were collected.

Challenges and solutions in medically managed ACS in the Asia-Pacific region: expert recommendations from the Asia-Pacific ACS Medical Management Working Group.

Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) remain a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. International guidelines advocate invasive procedures in all but low-risk ACS patients; however, a high proportion of ACS patients in the APAC region receive solely medical management due to a combination of unique geographical, socioeconomic, and population-specific barriers. The APAC ACS Medical Management Working Group recently convened to discuss the ACS medical management landscape in the APAC region.

A rare presentation of Henoch-Schönlein purpura and myocardial infarction at the 5th decade of life.

Henoch-Schönlein purpura is an IgA-mediated, autoimmune, hypersensitivity vasculitis of childhood that results in a triad of symptoms, including a purpuric rash occurring on the lower extremities, abdominal pain or renal involvement, and arthritis. However, any of the triad may be absent, which often leads to a confusion in diagnosing the condition. Although the cause is unknown, Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) is often associated with infectious agents, such as group A streptococci and mycoplasma.