Publications by authors named "Ramon De Castro"
Sensitivity of Transesophageal Echocardiogram Versus Cardiac Computed Tomography in Severe Acute Aortic Regurgitation Secondary to Aortic Dissection Located in the Sinus of Valsalva.
Turk Kardiyol Dern Ars
September 2024
Objective: This study aimed to analyze the contribution of nursing records to the early identification and management of sepsis in surgical patients at a university hospital.
Method: This is a study with a quantitative, retrospective, descriptive, and correlational design. Data collection was performed through hospital information systems in the first semester of 2017 with the approval of the research ethics committee.
Introduction: There are inconclusive data about the potential delay of procedure time in emergent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) by radial compared with femoral approach in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
Aims: The purpose of the current study is to conduct a comprehensive meta-analysis of controlled randomized trials (CRTs) comparing the procedure time in STEMI patients undergoing emergent PCI with radial versus femoral access.
Methods: Formal search of CRTs through electronic databases (Medline and PubMed) was performed from January 1990 to October 2014 without language restrictions.
Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify negative angiographic predictive variables and the presence of a side branch close to the distal cap of the occlusion in the chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention outcome.
Methods: Potential negative angiographic variables were retrospectively evaluated in 156 chronic total occlusions that had undergone a percutaneous coronary intervention. Binary logistic regression with predictive purpose was used to identify a model of variables which, all in all, could successfully predict a negative intervention result.
Introduction And Objectives: Troponins are specific biomarkers of myocardial injury and are implicated in the diagnosis and prognosis of patients with acute coronary syndrome. Our purpose was to determine the clinical characteristics and prognosis of patients with troponin elevation who are not diagnosed with acute coronary syndrome.
Methods: A total of 1032 patients with an emergency room troponin measurement were studied retrospectively, dividing them into 3 groups: 681 patients with no troponin elevation and without acute coronary syndrome, 139 with acute coronary syndrome, and 212 with troponin elevation and not diagnosed with acute coronary syndrome.
Aims: The prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with pacemakers is high, and often passes unnoticed. Our aim was to assess the use of antithrombotic treatment in this group of patients.
Methods And Results: All patients who came to our institution to have their pacemakers checked during the year 2008 were included in this study.