Pulmonic valve infective endocarditis from staph lugdunensis.

Pulmonic valve endocarditis is an extremely rare entity. Only 1.1% of all cases of all infective endocarditis affect the pulmonic valve.

Teaching Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation to Young Children (<12 Years Old).

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a major public health concern. Research has shown that initiation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by lay bystanders increases survival rates. Evidence also shows that CPR training, delivered in various ways, is successful in a wide age range of children.

Who refuses enrollment in cardiac clinical trials?

Objective: To evaluate the factors associated with refusal to participate in acute cardiac clinical trials.

Background: Cardiac clinical trials in the acute setting pose a set of unique challenges to enrollment, such as the ability to obtain meaningful informed consent. In addition, it is unclear whether enrollment is associated with the sociodemographic characteristics (such as age, race and gender) of those being recruited.

Acute myocardial infarction in pregnancy: a United States population-based study.

Background: The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence, mortality, and risk factors for pregnancy-related acute myocardial infarction in the United States.

Methods And Results: The Nationwide Inpatient Sample for the years 2000 to 2002 was queried for all pregnancy-related discharges. A total of 859 discharges included a diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction, for a rate of 6.

Willingness to participate in cardiac trials.

The elderly, women, and minorities are all less likely to be enrolled in randomized clinical trials (RCTs). Whether differential patient interest in RCTs contributes to these disparities is unclear. The authors surveyed 660 patients willingness to consider two potential cardiac RCTs of medical therapy vs.

Are women worrying about heart disease?

Women at risk for coronary artery disease (CAD) may not be worried about the disease. In this study, demographic, CAD-risk, and CAD-worry data collected from Durham Veterans' Affairs Medical Center women veterans were examined using bivariate and multivariate analysis with worry as the outcome. Excluding CAD patients (N = 64) and incomplete data (N = 17) of 328 women, 42% worried about CAD.