Digital Technologies to Support Better Outcome and Experience of Care in Patients with Heart Failure.

Purpose Of Review: In this article, we review a range of digital technologies for possible application in heart failure patients, with a focus on lessons learned. We also discuss a future model of heart failure management, as digital technologies continue to become part of standard care.

Recent Findings: Digital technologies are increasingly used by healthcare professionals and those living with heart failure to support more personalised and timely shared decision-making, earlier identification of problems, and an improved experience of care.

Use of enhanced stent visualisation compared to angiography alone to guide percutaneous coronary intervention.

Objective: We aimed to assess the use of enhanced stent visualisation (ESV) on outcomes, after PCI with overlapping stents, specifically using CLEARstent technology.

Background: Stent underexpansion and overlap are both significant risk factors for restenosis and stent thrombosis. Enhanced stent visualisation (e.

Undiagnosed cardiac sarcoidosis presenting as complete heart block and ventricular arrhythmia.

Cardiac involvement in sarcoidosis has been reported to be as high as 50% of cases and it is well documented that it is associated with a poorer prognosis. Early recognition and treatment is key to reducing the risk of fatal arrhythmias and heart failure. We report a case of undiagnosed systemic sarcoidosis in a young man who initially presented to the emergency department with complete heart block in the context of preserved biventricular systolic function, and then again with ventricular tachycardia and moderately impaired left ventricular systolic function.

Muscle fatigue examined at different temperatures in experiments on intact mammalian (rat) muscle fibers.

In experiments on small bundles of intact fibers from a rat fast muscle, in vitro, we examined the decline in force in repeated tetanic contractions; the aim was to characterize the effect of shortening and of temperature on the initial phase of muscle fatigue. Short tetanic contractions were elicited at a control repetition rate of 1/60 s, and fatigue was induced by raising the rate to 1/5 s for 2-3 min, both in isometric mode (no shortening) and in shortening mode, in which each tetanic contraction included a ramp shortening at a standard velocity. In experiments at 20 degrees C (n = 12), the force decline during a fatigue run was 25% in the isometric mode but was significantly higher (35%) in the shortening mode.