Corrigendum: Malnutrition and Frailty Are Critical Determinants of 6-Month Outcome in Hospitalized Elderly Patients With Heart Failure Harboring Surgically Untreated Functional Mitral Regurgitation.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.

Malnutrition and Frailty Are Critical Determinants of 6-Month Outcome in Hospitalized Elderly Patients With Heart Failure Harboring Surgically Untreated Functional Mitral Regurgitation.

Hospitalized patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) frequently exhibit aggravating mitral regurgitation (MR). Those patients do not always undergo surgical mitral valve repair, but particularly in the elderly, they are often treated by conservative medical therapy. This study was aimed to investigate factors affecting 6-month outcomes in hospitalized patients with heart failure (HF) harboring surgically untreated MR.

Epicardial flow in the right ventricular wall on echocardiography: A sign of chronic total occlusion of left anterior descending artery.

Transthoracic coronary Doppler echocardiography (TCDE) can be useful for the detection of chronic total occlusion (CTO) of the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) noninvasively, by detecting retrograde flow through the distal LAD or its septal branch. This intriguing case report details the detection of abnormal blood flow in the right ventricular free wall by TCDE. This detection of abnormal flow may be useful to predict CTO of the LAD, even in the absence of retrograde flow in the LAD and its septal branch.

Serotonin potentiates high-glucose-induced endothelial injury: the role of serotonin and 5-HT(2A) receptors in promoting thrombosis in diabetes.

To clarify the involvement of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) in promotion of thrombogenesis in diabetes, we examined the inhibitory effect of sarpogrelate, a 5-HT(2A) receptor antagonist, on thrombus formation in diabetic rats. In streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats, polyethylene tube-induced thrombus formation was enhanced compared with that in normal rats. The thrombogenesis was inhibited by sarpogrelate; cilostazol, a PDE3 inhibitor; and aspirin, a COX inhibitor, by 75.

[Influence of epidural lidocaine injection on vecuronium-induced neuromuscular blockade].

Background: We investigated vecuronium-induced neuromuscular blockade in patients with continuous epidural lidocaine injection and those without epidural lidocaine.

Methods: Lower thoracic epidural injection of lidocaine was commenced at a rate of 2-3 mg x kg(-1) x h(-1) following its bolus injection (1.5-2 mg x kg(-1)) only in epidural group.