Septal Myectomy Outcomes in Children and Adolescents With Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.

Background: Little data exist regarding characteristics and outcomes of pediatric patients undergoing septal myectomy. We evaluated this in a large referral population.

Methods: Septal myectomy was performed in 199 consecutive patients aged ≤18 years with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy from January 1, 1976, to June 30, 2021.

Near Real-time Natural Language Processing for the Extraction of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Diagnoses From Radiology Reports: Algorithm Development and Validation Study.

Background: Management of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) requires serial imaging surveillance to evaluate the aneurysm dimension. Natural language processing (NLP) has been previously developed to retrospectively identify patients with AAA from electronic health records (EHRs). However, there are no reported studies that use NLP to identify patients with AAA in near real-time from radiology reports.

Sociotechnical Intervention for Improved Delivery of Preventive Cardiovascular Care to Rural Communities: Participatory Design Approach.

Background: Clinical practice guidelines recommend antiplatelet and statin therapies as well as blood pressure control and tobacco cessation for secondary prevention in patients with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (ASCVDs). However, these strategies for risk modification are underused, especially in rural communities. Moreover, resources to support the delivery of preventive care to rural patients are fewer than those for their urban counterparts.