Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on cardiometabolic patients without SARS-CoV-2 infection in Latin America.

Background And Objectives: A cross-sectional survey including 38 questions about demography, clinical condition, changes in health habits, and medical treatments for cardiometabolic patients in outpatient follow-up was conducted. From June 15 to July 15, 2020, a total of 13 Latin-American countries participated in enrolling patients.

Methods: These countries were divided into 3 geographic regions: Region 1 including North, Central, and Caribbean Regions (NCCR), Region 2 including the Andean Region (AR), and Region 3 including the Southern Cone Region (SCR).

The Attitudes of Physicians Toward Guideline Recommendations for the Management of Dyslipidemia in Clinical Practice - The VIPFARMA ISCP Project.

The aim of this study was to explore the different attitudes of physicians regarding international recommendations for the management of dyslipidemia in routine medical practice. Seven clusters of questions were designed to characterize the surveyed population. Eight hundred ninety-eight physicians answered the survey, 68.

Treatment of adult, child and newborn cardiac arrest victims with COVID-19. Recommendations from the Interamerican Society of Cardiology / Sociedad Interamericana de Cardiología (SIAC), Mexican National Cardiologists Association / Asociación Nacional de Cardiólogos de México (ANCAM) and Mexican Society of Cardiology / Sociedad Mexicana de Cardiología (SMC).

La pandemia de COVID-19 ha infligido grandes estragos a la población y en especial al personal de salud. Los esfuerzos de reanimación exigen modificaciones potenciales de las guías internacionales existentes de reanimación cardiopulmonar (RCP) debido al elevado índice de contagiosidad del virus SARS-CoV-2. Se considera que hasta 15% de los casos de COVID-19 tiene una enfermedad grave y 5% padece un trastorno crítico con una mortalidad promedio del 3%, la cual varía según sean el país y las características de los pacientes.

Myocarditis in athletes after COVID-19 infection: The heart is not the only place to screen.

COVID-19 patients are susceptible to hypercoagulability. For the safe return to sports after COVID-19, athletes or individuals wanting to resume physical activity should complete screening for myocardial injury and myocarditis. In addition, patients with COVID-19 are reported at prevalence of 27%-31% for venous thromboembolic events.

Impact of the Pandemic on NonInfected Cardiometabolic Patients: A Survey in Countries of Latin America-Rationale and Design of the CorCOVID LATAM Study.

Background: The first case of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) in Latin America was detected on February 26th, 2020, in Brazil. Later, in June, the World Health Organization announced that the focus of the outbreak had shifted to Latin America, where countries already had poor control of indicators of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Concerns about coronavirus infection led to a reduced number of visits and hospitalizations in patients with NCDs, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer.

Interatrial block and cognitive impairment in the BAYES prospective registry.

Background: An association between interatrial block (IAB) (P wave duration ≥120 ms) and dementia has been suggested. Our objective was to assess the association of IAB with cognitive impairment (CI).

Methods: The prospective BAYES registry included 552 patients ≥70 years with structural heart disease without documented atrial fibrillation.

Advanced interatrial block and P-wave duration are associated with atrial fibrillation and stroke in older adults with heart disease: the BAYES registry.

Aims: Advanced interatrial block (IAB), is an unrecognized surrogate of atrial dysfunction and a trigger of atrial dysrhythmias, mainly atrial fibrillation (AF). Our aim was to prospectively assess whether advanced IAB in sinus rhythm is associated with AF and stroke in elderly outpatients with structural heart disease, a group not previously studied.

Methods And Results: Prospective observational registry that included outpatients aged ≥70 years with structural heart disease and no previous diagnosis of AF.

Wellens' syndrome and finding of multiple coronary cameral fistulae: Is it time to discard this term?

Wellens' syndrome refers to electrocardiographic (ECG) abnormalities in the precordial T-wave segment, which are associated with critical stenosis of the proximal left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery. According to medical literature, this ECG abnormality is of paramount importance because this syndrome represents a preinfarction stage of coronary artery disease; however, same ECG pattern can also be seen in other conditions. Coronary fistula occurs due to anomalous communications between a coronary artery and a cardiac chamber or other vessel in the vicinity of the heart.

Left ventricular noncompaction and orthodromic atrioventricular tachycardia observed in a patient with neurofibromatosis type 1.

Isolated left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) was described for the first time in 1984. It is a rare congenital disease, characterized by prominent trabecular meshwork pattern and deep intertrabecular recesses, communicated with the left ventricular chamber. Clinical presentation varies from asymptomatic patients, to those developing supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias, thromboembolism, heart failure and sudden cardiac death.

Multiple myocardial bridges associated with left-ventricular dysfunction, intermittent left bundle branch block, and cardiac memory: A case report.

Myocardial bridges are a congenital anomaly in which a segment of the coronary artery takes a "tunneled" intramuscular course. Few reports have associated myocardial bridges with left-ventricular dysfunction in patients with ischemia. Intermittent left bundle branch block is a conduction disturbance that has been described to be associated with myocardial bridges and cardiac memory.