Publications by authors named "K Sanaka"

Background: Left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP) is a key indicator of cardiac health. The gold-standard method of measuring LVEDP is invasive intra-cardiac catheterization. Echocardiography is used for non-invasive estimation of left ventricular (LV) filling pressures; however, correlation with invasive LVEDP is variable.

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  • Infective endocarditis (IE) is an infection affecting heart valves and implantable electronic devices, identified mainly through echocardiography.
  • However, echocardiography has limitations in detecting issues related to prosthetic valves or devices, leading to increased use of cardiac CT and PET/CT scans.
  • This review explores different guidelines on using multimodal imaging for diagnosing, managing complications, monitoring treatment, and predicting outcomes of IE.
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  • * From 2007 to 2019, only 0.2% of SLE hospitalizations involved ME, with an inpatient mortality rate of 4.2% among those with the condition.
  • * Factors like female sex, age under 34, anemia, antiphospholipid syndrome, stroke, and acute kidney injury significantly increased the risk of death for SLE patients with ME.
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Renal transplant (RT) recipients are susceptible to infections because of immunosuppression. The literature regarding the epidemiology and outcomes of infective endocarditis (IE) in RT recipients is limited. We analyzed the National Inpatient Sample in the United States to study IE in RT and identify risk factors for inpatient mortality and IE development in RT patients.

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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) represents a significant and increasing burden on healthcare systems. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly evolving transdisciplinary field employing machine learning (ML) techniques, which aim to simulate human intuition to offer cost-effective and scalable solutions to better manage CVD. ML algorithms are increasingly being developed and applied in various facets of cardiovascular medicine, including and not limited to heart failure, electrophysiology, valvular heart disease and coronary artery disease.

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