Publications by authors named "Jose Maria Vieitez Florez"
: Hyperkalemia is a common electrolyte disorder in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors (RAASi) have been shown to improve survival and decrease hospitalization rates, although they may increase the serum potassium levels. Hyperkalemia has significant clinical and economic implications, and is associated with increased healthcare resource utilization.
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- There is limited understanding of how gender affects the clinical presentation, treatment, and outcomes of patients experiencing cardiogenic shock (CS), particularly in a hospital setting.
- The study aimed to explore gender-related differences in characteristics, management, and in-hospital mortality among CS patients, while also evaluating the prognostic accuracy of the SCAI classification for predicting mortality by sex.
- An analysis of 163 CS patients showed that women were less likely to smoke and had lower rates of certain conditions compared to men, but in-hospital survival rates were similar across genders, indicating no significant differences in outcomes.
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- Ventricular septal rupture (VSR) after a heart attack is a severe condition that requires surgery, and there is debate about the best time for this surgery and how to support patients leading up to it.
- A study analyzed 141 patients over a decade, finding that delaying surgery until at least 4 days after diagnosis significantly reduced mortality rates compared to surgery within the first 24 hours.
- The research also indicated that mechanical circulatory support (like IABP and VA-ECMO) was more commonly used in surgical patients, and overall, surgical intervention had a lower mortality rate (52.3%) compared to conservative treatment (91.5%).
Introduction And Objectives: Advanced interatrial block has been linked with atrial fibrillation (AF) (Bayes syndrome). On the other hand, the aetiology of the stroke remains unknown in approximately 20-25% of patients admitted due to ischaemic stroke. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether advanced interatrial block and CHADS2-VASC scale is linked to AF in patients admitted due to ischaemic stroke without previous AF history.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction And Objectives: Postinfarction ventricular septal rupture is a rare but severe complication of myocardial infarction with high mortality rates. Our goal was to analyze which factors could have an impact on mortality due to this entity over the past decade, including those related to mechanical circulatory support.
Methods: The CIVIAM registry is an observational, retrospective, multicenter study carried out in Spain.
The day after tomorrow: echocardiography laboratories after the COVID-19 outbreak.
Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging
September 2020