Publications by authors named "S Aguade-Bruix"
Prediction of Major Adverse Coronary Events Using the Coronary Risk Score in Women.
Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging
December 2024
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to create a COronary Risk Score in WOmen (CORSWO) to predict major adverse coronary events (MACE) in females using data from 2226 women referred for myocardial perfusion imaging.
- It identified key predictive factors such as age over 69, having diabetes, and specific results from stress tests and imaging, leading to the development of a risk stratification system.
- The CORSWO model demonstrated strong predictive ability for MACE, enabling categorization into four risk levels, with high and very high-risk groups showing significant potential for accurately forecasting adverse events.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to evaluate predictive models for major adverse cardiac events (MACE) specifically in women with varying degrees of myocardial ischemia (MI) based on their summed difference score (SDS).
- A total of 717 women, ages averaging 68.4 years, who underwent gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging between 2000 and 2018, were followed for about 4 years to assess MACE outcomes such as angina, heart attacks, and cardiac death.
- Key predictive factors identified included angina, diabetes, beta-blocker use, and the severity of the summed stress score, with varying significance across different MI categories (borderline, mild, and moderate-severe
Aim: Myocardial uptake on bone scintigraphy has become useful for the detection of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CA). This study aimed to assess the prevalence of myocardial uptake in patients over 18 years of age with no clinical suspicion of cardiac amyloidosis (CA) who had undergone bone scintigraphy.
Methods And Results: This was an observational, retrospective, multicenter study across 21 Spanish hospitals (September-November 2019).
Background & Aims: Metabolic-dysfunction associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is highly prevalent and can lead to liver complications and comorbidities, with non-invasive tests such as vibration-controlled transient elastography (VCTE) and invasive liver biopsies being used for diagnosis The aim of the present study was to develop a new fully automatized method for quantifying the percentage of fat in the liver based on a voxel analysis on computed tomography (CT) images to solve previously unconcluded diagnostic deficiencies either in contrast (CE) or non-contrast enhanced (NCE) assessments.
Methods: Liver and spleen were segmented using nn-UNet on CE- and NCE-CT images. Radiodensity values were obtained for both organs for defining the key benchmarks for fatty liver assessment: liver mean, liver-to-spleen ratio, liver-spleen difference, and their average.
Objectives: To evaluate the relation between the coronary calcium score and the posterior choice of kilovoltage according to radiologists' criteria in a standard coronary CT angiography protocol to rule out coronary disease. To quantify the reduction in ionizing radiation after linking kilovoltage to patients' body mass index in a low-dose protocol with iterative model reconstruction. To evaluate the image quality and diagnostic performance of the low-dose protocol.
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