Publications by authors named "Nami Omori"
Article Synopsis
- Atrial functional mitral regurgitation (AFMR) is under-researched, leading to a need for understanding its prevalence, characteristics, and treatment outcomes.
- A study conducted across 26 Japanese medical centers reviewed echocardiography data from 177,235 patients, identifying 1,007 cases of AFMR, predominantly in older adults, with a significant portion also having atrial fibrillation.
- Among AFMR patients, 113 underwent mitral valve surgery, often alongside tricuspid valve intervention, revealing that these patients had more severe mitral regurgitation and higher associated heart failure rates compared to those who did not have surgery.
Background: Mitral stenosis (MS) is often concomitant with aortic stenosis (AS). However, little is known about the functional status following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) alone in patients with severe AS and MS and the impact of TAVR for AS on MS hemodynamics.
Methods: We enrolled 11 patients (age 83.
We encountered a rare case of severe fatal infection in a 70-year-old woman due to Campylobacter upsaliensis, identified by PCR amplification and sequencing analysis of the 16S rRNA gene using DNA extracted from the isolates. To our knowledge, fatal sepsis due to this organism has never been described to date.
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