CAVI (Cardio-Ankle Vascular Index) as an independent predictor of hypertensive response to exercise.

Objectives: Hypertensive response to exercise (HRE) is related to the development of future hypertension, cardiovascular morbidity, and mortality, independent of resting blood pressure. We hypothesized that arterial stiffness as measured by cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) could be an independent predictor of HRE.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective chart review of patients participated in the preventive health program at the Bangkok Heart Hospital who underwent both CAVI and treadmill stress testing on the same day between June and December 2018 were performed.

Ten-year survival and factors associated with increased mortality in patients admitted for acute decompensated heart failure in Thailand.

Introduction: Data on the long-term outcomes of Asian patients admitted for acute decompensated heart failure is scarce. The objectives of this study were to determine short-term, intermediate-term and long-term survival among patients admitted for acute decompensated heart failure in Thailand, and to identify factors independently associated with increased mortality.

Methods: Patients who were admitted with a primary diagnosis of heart failure were enrolled in the Thai Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Registry (ADHERE) from 18 hospitals located across Thailand during 2006.

A comparative study of outcomes after transcatheter closure of secundum-type atrial septum defect in adults younger than 60 years and the older ones.

Objective: To compare the results of transcatheter atrial septal defect (ASD) closure between adults younger than 60 years and the older ones in terms of the clinical and echocardiographic outcomes.

Material And Method: The cohort study consisted of 333 adult patients who underwent device closure of secundum ASD at Central Chest Institute of Thailand between January 2007 and June 2012. They were divided into two groups, group 1 were patients with age younger than 60 years, and group 2 were patients with age equal or older than 60 years.

Visual-functional mismatch and results of fractional flow reserve guided percutaneous coronary revascularization.

Objective: To identify mismatches in the significance ofcoronary artery stenosis determined by physician 's visual estimation (VE) vs. quantitative coronary angiography (QCA), by VE vs. fractional flow reserve (FFR), and independent predictors for mismatch between VE and FFR.

Predictors of in-hospital mortality in acute decompensated heart failure (Thai ADHERE).

Background: Heart failure had emerged as a major public health problem and became the leading cause of hospitalization. The Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry (ADHERE) of US patients hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of acute decompensated heart Failure (ADHF) had been reported worldwide for the risk stratification and predicting In-hospital mortality.

Objective: Identify clinical risk factors or treatment procedures that could predict In-hospital mortality in Thai patients with ADHF.