Left Atrial Coupling Index Predicts Heart Failure in Patients with End Stage Renal Disease.

We aimed to ascertain the predictive power of the left atrial coupling index (LACI) in patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). This is a retrospective study including 100 subjects between 18 and 65 years of age with ESRD and not on dialysis treatment. Patients were divided into groups with and without HFpEF.

Flow-mediated dilatation facilitates transradial coronary angiography: a comparative study.

Introduction: Radial artery (RA) spasm is demonstrated to be one of the most common complications of transradial approach (TRA).

Aim: We hypothesised that radial flow-mediated dilation (FMD) can be used as a preprocedural method to assess the likelihood of arterial spasm.

Material And Methods: The patients were divided into 2 groups: those with and without flow-mediated RA dilatation.

The Relationship between Frontal QRS-T Angle and Vitamin D Deficiency.

: A deficiency in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels is associated with a number of cardiovascular situations, such as high blood pressure, heart failure, atherosclerotic heart disease, and peripheral artery disease. The frontal QRS-T angle has recently been proposed as a marker of ventricular repolarization. A wider frontal QRS-T angle has been positively correlated with adverse cardiac events.

Effects of an Impaired Fasting Glucose on the Left Atrial Strain Evaluated by Speckle Tracking Echocardiography.

: Similar to diabetes, the presence of left ventricular (LV) diastolic function (DD) has been reported in various studies which were conducted with people with a diagnosis of an impaired fasting blood glucose (FBG). This study aimed to examine the effects of the fasting blood glucose (FBG) levels on the left atrial strain (LAS) estimated by two-dimensional echocardiography speckle tracking analyses in patients without known diabetes. : The study included 148 participants (74 female and 74 male) without a history of diabetes mellitus or chronic disease.

Acute sleep deprivation: impairment of biventricular function assesed by speckle tracking echocardiography in healthy subjects.

Objectives: Sleep deprivation (SD) has been found to be associated with an increased incidence of adverse cardiovascular disease (CVD) events. The aim of this study was to investigate whether or not acute SD has a pathological effect on the geometry and the systolic and diastolic functions of the right and left heart chambers by standard transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) and speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) in healthy individuals with acute SD.

Methods: Nurses with no history of acute or chronic diseases underwent TTE and STE after working a night shift, a sleepless period of 24 h and 7 days of normal sleep after the night shift.

[The association between cardiac mr feature tracking strain and myocardial late gadolinium enhancement in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy].

Aim    Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a relatively common, heritable cardiomyopathy, and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) studies have been performed previously to evaluate different aspects of the disease. However, a comprehensive study, including all four cardiac chambers and analysis of left atrial (LA) function, is missing in the literature. The aim of this retrospective study was to analyze CMR-feature tracking (CMR-FT) strain parameters and atrial function of HCM patients and to investigate the association of these parameters with the amount of myocardial late gadolinium enhancement (LGE).

A Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Study: Comparison of Biventricular Longitudinal Function in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Patients and Normal Individuals.

Objective:  Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic disease with an incidence of 0.2%-0.5%.

Association of CHA2DS2-VASc score with successful recanalization in acute ischemic stroke patients undergoing endovascular thrombectomy.

Introduction: The CHA2DS2-VASc (congestive heart failure, hypertension, age, diabetes mellitus, stroke, vascular disease and sex) score is a simple risk stratification algorithm to estimate stroke/thromboembolic risk in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF). Higher pre-stroke CHA2DS2-VASc score is known to be associated with greater stroke severity and poorer outcomes. AF patients generally have higher CHA2DS2-VASc scores than non-AF patients.

Percutaneous closure of a paravalvular leak from a prosthetic mitral valve dehiscence in a young high-risk patient: case report.

Background: Paravalvular leak (PVL) is a common, serious complication related with prosthetic valve replacement. Although surgical closure reoperation is the choice of treatment, percutaneous device closure is a good alternative with good results in patients with very high surgical risk.

Case Summary: In this case report, we present the percutaneous closure of PVL of mitral valve replacement (MVR), in a patient with cardiogenic shock who failed conservative medical treatment and was deemed inoperable due to recurrent operations.

High take off left main coronary artery accompanied by multicryptic left ventricle myocardium detected by cardiac computerized tomography in a young male: case report.

Background: Myocardial crypts are discrete, narrow, blood filled invaginations within the left ventricular myocardium and high-take-off coronary artery are rare manifestations where coronary arteries originate above the sinotubuler junction.

Case Presentation: A 41-year-old man with multiple coronary artery disease risk factors admitted to our outpatient department with progressive dyspnea and atypical chest pain. Physical examination revealed no pathological findings.

An indirect effect of covid-19 on the heart: A case report.

Covid-19 virus has been recognized to develop major cardiac complications. The indirect effect of the virus though, in terms of fear for hospital admissions, constitutes a greater threat. In this case we present a 69-year old male patient who suffered from a myocardial infarction that has not been given the proper attention due to the fear of in-hospital contact with covid patients.

Ascending aorta mycotic aneurysm in a child secondary to subacute infective endocarditis on the basis of congenital aortic stenosis demonstrated by cardiac computerized tomography.

Infective endocarditis (IE) is rarely seen in children, and it can cause significant morbidity and mortality. Congenital heart disease is a predisposing cardiac condition for IE and has an increasing prevalence. A mycotic aortic aneurysm is a rare disease due to infection and it has been reported that it may be a result of IE.

Serum oxidized low-density lipoprotein level as a marker of oxidative stress in patients undergoing hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Objective: Oxidative stress (OS) is involved in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), in which 100% oxygen is inhaled under hyperbaric pressure, may create OS. Therefore, the aim of this research was to measure the serum oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL) level in patients undergoing HBOT.

Relationship between serum endothelin-1 level and spontaneous reperfusion in patients with acute myocardial infarction.

Aim: Spontaneous reperfusion (SR) was associated with better clinical outcomes and lower incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events. Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is a potent endothelium-derived vasoconstrictor peptide and elevated systemic ET-1 levels predict a poor prognosis in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). We aimed to investigate the relationship between systemic ET-1 plasma levels and SR in a group of STEMI patients treated with a primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).