Publications by authors named "Javier Torres-Valencia"
Background: Leadless pacing has recently emerged as a promising therapy. The impact of frailty on the prognosis of these patients is currently unknown.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the association between frailty and clinical outcomes in patients undergoing leadless pacemaker implantation.
Acute myocarditis (AM) in early pregnancy is a rare disease. Its clinical presentation varies from asymptomatic disease to cardiogenic shock and death. A 28-year-old woman, 12 weeks primigravida of a dichorionic and diamniotic pregnancy, was admitted for hyperemesis gravidarum, associated with a common cold-like condition.
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- A study investigated the outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in cancer patients suffering from severe aortic stenosis, focusing on mortality and other health complications.
- The research involved analyzing data from 13 cohort studies with over 255,000 patients, revealing that those with active cancer faced a significantly higher risk of all-cause mortality compared to non-cancer patients.
- However, the study found no notable differences in secondary outcomes like cardiovascular mortality, myocardial infarction, or stroke between cancer and non-cancer patients.
In presence of tachypnea, digital clubbing and cyanosis in a patient with the hallmarks of chronic liver disease, hepatopulmonary syndrome should be suspected and investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe goal of this review was to systematize the evidence on pulmonary ultrasound (PU) use in diagnosis, monitorization or hospital discharge criteria for patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Evidence on the use of PU for diagnosis and monitorization of or as hospital discharge criteria for COVID-19 patients confirmed to have COVID-19 by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) between December 1, 2019 and July 5, 2020 was compared with evidence obtained with thoracic radiography (TR), chest computed tomography (CT) and RT-PCR. The type of study, motives for use of PU, population, type of transducer and protocol, results of PU and quantitative or qualitative correlation with TR and/or chest CT and/or RT-PCR were evaluated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFST-segment elevation in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review.
J Thromb Thrombolysis
October 2021
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can cause a wide range of cardiovascular diseases, including ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and STEMI-mimickers (such as myocarditis, Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, among others). We performed a systematic review to summarize the clinical features, management, and outcomes of patients with COVID-19 who had ST-segment elevation. We searched electronic databases from inception to September 30, 2020 for studies that reported clinical data about COVID-19 patients with ST-segment elevation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The purpose of this article was to determine the change in the volume of pacemaker implantations with the COVID-2019 pandemic and to assess the change in the number of pacemaker implants according to etiology during the pandemic.
Background: The establishment of a mandatory social isolation have generated a decrease in activities in cardiology units.
Methods: Descriptive, cross-sectional study that used a database of a Peruvian Hospital.