Publications by authors named "Luiz Sergio Carvalho"
Aims: Cardiogenic shock (CS) and cardiac arrest (CA) are serious complications in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients, with lack of long-term data according to their timing of occurrence. This study sought to determine the incidence and relationship between the timing of occurrence and prognostic impact of CS and CA complicating STEMI in the long-term follow-up.
Methods And Results: We conducted a retrospective analysis of consecutive STEMI patients treated between 2004 and 2017.
Background: Low socioeconomic status has for long been considered an important modifiable risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease, plausibly by lower access to healthcare, lower therapeutic adhesion, and overlapping of other known risk factors. Nevertheless, whether family income and social isolation of poor communities seen in Brazil impact outcomes following ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) remain scarcely understood.
Methods: STEMI diagnosed patients were consecutively enrolled from the Brazilian Heart Study (ClinicalTrials.
Background: Low schooling has been considered an important modifiable risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease for a long time. Despite that, whether this factor impacts the outcomes following ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is poorly understood.
Objective: To investigate whether schooling stands as an independent risk factor for mortality in STEMI patients.
Background: No-reflow after percutaneous coronary intervention is associated with poor prognosis in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). SYNTAX score is a good predictor of no-reflow.
Objective: We aimed to evaluate whether atherosclerotic burden (Gensini score) and thrombus burden in the culprit coronary artery would improve the ability of the SYNTAX score to detect no-reflow.