Publications by authors named "Sabik E"
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- The study aimed to assess the likelihood of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in solid-organ transplant (SOT) recipients during the year following their transplant.
- Researchers analyzed data from 191 SOT patients who had their first CDI episode, finding a 12% recurrence rate and highlighting that severe CDI and metronidazole monotherapy significantly raised this risk.
- The findings suggest that using metronidazole alone increases the chances of a recurrence, indicating a need for improved treatment strategies to prevent repeated infections in these patients.
Background: Gerbode defect is a congenital or acquired communication between the left ventricle and right atrium. While the defect is becoming a more well-recognized complication of cardiac surgery, it presents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for providers. This case highlights the predisposing factors and imaging features that may assist in the diagnosis of Gerbode defect, as well as potential approaches to treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRight ventricular pseudoaneurysm is a rare but fatal complication of blunt chest trauma. Different imaging modalities including transthoracic echocardiogram, gated-CT angiography and cardiac MR can provide useful anatomic and functional information that can make the diagnosis and guide management. Surgical treatment is needed to avoid fatal outcome.
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- The study investigates sex-related differences in risk factors and revascularization strategies for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) patients, focusing on their impact on survival rates.
- Women were found to experience higher rates of incomplete revascularization and had lower long-term survival rates compared to men, even after adjusting for risks.
- The findings suggest the need for improved arterial grafting and complete revascularization in women, as bilateral arterial grafting showed less effectiveness for them compared to men.
Definity and Optison are perflutren-based ultrasound contrast agents used in echocardiography. United States Food and Drug Administration warnings regarding serious cardiopulmonary reactions and death after Definity administration highlighted the limited safety data in patients who undergo contrast stress echocardiography. From 1998 and 2007, 2,022 patients underwent dobutamine stress echocardiography and 2,764 underwent exercise stress echocardiography with contrast at the Cleveland Clinic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 52-year-old non-insulin-dependent diabetic man presented with cerebral emboli and mitral valve endocarditis with posterior leaflet vegetations and perforation. Surgical intervention demonstrated hemorrhagic pericarditis and an atrioventricular groove abscess. Extensive debridement of the pericardium, valve and abscess cavities, reconstruction of the mitral annulus with a patch of fresh autologous pericardium, and mitral valve replacement with a pericardial bioprosthesis was performed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBenzocaine (ethyl aminobenzoate), a topical anesthetic widely used before transesophageal echocardiography, has been reported to cause acquired methemoglobinemia. The incidence of benzocaine-induced methemoglobinemia in clinical practice, however, has been difficult to estimate. After systematic review of our institutional experience for clinically recognized cases of benzocaine-induced methemoglobinemia in patients undergoing transesophageal echocardiography, we report an estimated incidence of 0.
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