Publications by authors named "Susana Gomez Varela"

Article Synopsis
  • Ventricular septal rupture (VSR) after a heart attack is a severe condition that requires surgery, and there is debate about the best time for this surgery and how to support patients leading up to it.
  • A study analyzed 141 patients over a decade, finding that delaying surgery until at least 4 days after diagnosis significantly reduced mortality rates compared to surgery within the first 24 hours.
  • The research also indicated that mechanical circulatory support (like IABP and VA-ECMO) was more commonly used in surgical patients, and overall, surgical intervention had a lower mortality rate (52.3%) compared to conservative treatment (91.5%).
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Introduction And Objectives: Postinfarction ventricular septal rupture is a rare but severe complication of myocardial infarction with high mortality rates. Our goal was to analyze which factors could have an impact on mortality due to this entity over the past decade, including those related to mechanical circulatory support.

Methods: The CIVIAM registry is an observational, retrospective, multicenter study carried out in Spain.

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Primary pulmonary hypertension is often associated with angina-like chest pain of uncertain etiology. Left main coronary artery compression by the pulmonary artery is a treatable cause of angina and should be considered in these patients. We describe a patient presenting with primary pulmonary hypertension, clinical angina and extrinsic compression of the left main coronary artery by the pulmonary artery, who was treated with direct stenting.

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