Publications by authors named "Vitor S Kawabata"
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- - A study in Brazil was conducted to evaluate how heart failure disease management program (DMP) components affect care and clinical decisions, involving cardiologists surveyed from various public and private centers.
- - Results showed that public HF-DMPs provided significantly more dedicated services, educational programs, written discharge instructions, and multidisciplinary care compared to private DMPs; whereas, non-multidisciplinary programs had fewer educational initiatives and monitoring practices.
- - The survey revealed that physicians often adjusted or started new medications primarily during patient hospitalizations, highlighting the importance of care settings in patient management.
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- * A case is presented about a young man who exhibited symptoms of fever, weakness, and heart failure for two weeks, ultimately leading to a rapid decline in health and death within two days of hospitalization.
- * Autopsy revealed severe damage to the aortic valve due to gonococcal infection, highlighting the importance of early diagnosis and the need for involvement from cardiac surgery teams in similar cases.
ST-segment elevation, observed in the critically ill patients, almost always raises the suspicion of ischemic heart disease. However, nonischemic myocardial and non-myocardial problems in these patients may also lead to ST-segment elevation. Pneumothorax and pneumopericardium have been rarely reported as a cause of transient ST-segment elevation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a controversial risk factor for dementia.
Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the association between AF and dementia in the "Sao Paulo Ageing & Health" (SPAH) study participants.
Methods: SPAH is a cross-sectional, population-based study of elderly people living in a deprived neighborhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Background: The determination of the prevalence of electrocardiographic alterations in the older age strata of the Brazilian population represents important information with clinical and epidemiological purpose.
Objective: To verify the prevalence rates of atrial fibrillation, enlarged Q/QS waves (Minnesota code 1.1-1.
Aims: With transthoracic cardioversion of atrial fibrillation (AF), biphasic are more effective than monophasic waveforms. We sought to determine the ideal energy levels for biphasic waveforms. Methods We compared biphasic truncated exponential waveforms with monophasic damped sine waveform defibrillators, in a prospective, single-centre, randomized (1:1 ratio) study.
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