Abnormal echocardiographic findings after COVID-19 infection: a multicenter registry.

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has transformed health systems worldwide. There is conflicting data regarding the degree of cardiovascular involvement following infection. A registry was designed to evaluate the prevalence of echocardiographic abnormalities in adults recovered from COVID-19.

[Manejo de la cesación tabáquica entre residentes de cardiología de Iberoamérica].

Introduction And Objectives: Although cardiologists frequently assist patients who suffer damage from smoking, the degree of training they receive to manage this problem during their residency is unknown. Because of this, we’d proposed to ­evaluate the preferences and practices of cardiology residents for smoking cessation of the attending patients.

Materials And Methods: Closed, prefixed, voluntary and anonymous survey among doctors who carried out the specialty of cardiology in 5 countries of Latin America and Spain.

Concordance and prevalence of subclinical atherosclerosis in different vascular territories.

Background: Subclinical atherosclerosis (SA) in the carotid, femoral, and coronary territories is a powerful predictor of cardiovascular (CV) events. Whether it is sufficient to assess SA in a single vascular territory in early-stage disease is uncertain. We aimed to determine the prevalence and concordance of SA in these vascular beds in asymptomatic patients without known CV disease.

[Comparison of risk scores to predict subclinical atherosclerosis].

Subclinical atherosclerosis is a powerful predictor of cardiovascular events, although it is unknown which of the risk scores is more useful to predict its presence in a Latin American population. The objective was to compare the performance of the risk scores: Framingham, Regicor and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk Estimator to predict the presence of subclinical atherosclerosis in asymptomatic persons without known cardiovascular disease; as well as determining its prevalence and distribution in the different vascular beds. From 2014 to 2017, patients from 35 to 75 years, asymptomatic and without known cardiovascular disease who underwent a carotid and femoral Doppler echo and calcium score were evaluated.

Direct insertion of papillary muscle into mitral valve leaflets in a healthy patient without hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

We present the case of a healthy young woman that was evaluated before participation in amateur sports. A systolic and diastolic murmur was heard during the physical examination. Two-dimensional echocardiography was performed, and a direct insertion of the posteromedial papillary muscle into the mitral valve leaflets was found.

[High sensitivity T troponin and CA-125 as prognostic biomarkers in patients with end stage renal disease in hemodialysis].

Introduction: The end stage renal disease confers a high morbidity and mortality risk, mainly due to cardiovascular disease. The cardiac T troponin and carbohydrate antigen-125 (CA-125) are useful biomarkers to determine cardiovascular prognosis in order to start preventive treatment in the high risk patients.

Methods: We included patients with end stage renal disease in hemodialysis treatment.

From one side to the other: what is essential? Perception of oncology patients and their caregivers in the beginning of oncology treatment and in palliative care.

Objective: To evaluate the perception of oncology patients and their caregivers upon diagnosis and beginning of the therapy and during palliative care.

Methods: A cross-sectional study at the oncology and palliative care outpatients clinics of the Faculdade de Medicina do ABC. Clinical and demographic data from patients and their caregivers were collected and questionnaires regarding the elements considered important in relation to the treatment were applied.

Relationship between electrocardiographic characteristics of left bundle branch block and echocardiographic findings.

Background: Complete left bundle branch block (CLBBB) is an electrocardiographic (ECG) dromotropic disorder seen in patients with various structural heart diseases and sometimes is associated with poor prognosis. Its presence confounds the application of standard ECG criteria for the diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), myocardial infarction (MI) in the chronic phase, and pathologies that produce changes on ST-T segment. The aim of this investigation was to establish the relationship between CLBBB and cardiac structural abnormalities assessed by echocardiography.

Single nucleotide polymorphisms in immunity-related genes and their association with mastitis in Chilean dairy cattle.

Mastitis remains a major cattle disease with great global economic implications. Various approaches are currently employed in attempts to improve understanding of mastitis resistance and develop phenotypic markers for use in breeding programs (e.g.

[Characteristics of 86 infants' cluster with A.L.T.E. (Apparent Life-Threatening Event): similarities and differences versus main risk factors for SIDS].

In this study we have gathered 86 ALTE infants' characteristics about physiological, familiar, remote and near pathological case history, modality of apnoea episode's presentation, environmental and behavioural conditions of babies and we have compared these ones with main risk factors for SIDS to find possible similarities or differences. Many of the already known differences or similarities between ALTE and SIDS have been confirmed by our data and new ones have been observed. So we can say that the association between ALTE and SIDS remains contrasting because beside undiscussed factors of association there are other ones which differentiate the two Syndromes.

[Analysis of risk factors for SIDS: experience at a referral center].

The aim of this research is to value, with a questionnary for the families, epidemiologic aspects in 20 children died for SIDS. The risk factors we have considered regard: ambiental condition, pregnancy, neonatal and post-neonatal period, and modality of death. The result is that sleeping position, child's age and month in which the death happens, are still the most significant risk factors for SIDS.