Predictors of in-hospital mortality in acute decompensated heart failure (Thai ADHERE).

Background: Heart failure had emerged as a major public health problem and became the leading cause of hospitalization. The Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry (ADHERE) of US patients hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of acute decompensated heart Failure (ADHF) had been reported worldwide for the risk stratification and predicting In-hospital mortality.

Objective: Identify clinical risk factors or treatment procedures that could predict In-hospital mortality in Thai patients with ADHF.

Consequence and factors related to not offering reperfusion therapy in STEMI.

Introduction: Varied reasons existed for not offering reperfusion therapy in ST elevation myocardial infarction and results in poor outcomes, and if related factors could be delineated, corrective measures can be attempted.

Method: We compared variables between participants not receiving reperfusion therapy and those receiving single reperfusion therapy. Multivariate analysis examined the contribution of non-reperfusion therapy to death and factors related to it.

An equation to explain variations in blood NT-proBNP in ambulatory cardiac subjects.

Background: NT-proBNP is being used as a biomarker for prognosticating and delineating cardiac dysfunction. The cut-off value for deciding normal versus abnormal levels has always been a point of contention since it depends on the degree of dysfunction as well as other associated conditions often termed non-cardiac factors and parameters. Such association had not been formally presented.

Costs of payment in Thai acute coronary syndrome patients.

Background: Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a major health care syndrome that can financially burden patients throughout the world, including Thailand. Few studies purposed estimating the costs of treatment. The data from the ACS registry database represented the costs of hospital charges paid by ACS patients.

Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in a rural area in Southern Thailand: potential ethnic differences.

In Thepa district, Songkhla province, Southern Thailand, parents of children being followed long term from conception for their development (N 1325), as well as health workers of the same district (N 150) were surveyed with regards to anthropometry, occupation, family size, food and leisure habits, and blood levels of lipids, sugar, creatinine and hematocrit. Differences among those of Thai or Chinese extracts (Thai-Buddhists) and those of Malay extracts (Thai-Muslims) were separately evaluated for males and females. The mean age for the group (N 1475, including 636 couples) was 31.

Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Reconstruction of the Left Ventricle by a Transesophageal Tomographic Technique: In Vitro and In Vivo Validation of its Volume Measurement.

Accurate determination of left ventricular (LV) volume has important therapeutic and prognostic implications in patients with cardiac disease. Volume estimations by two-dimensional techniques are not very accurate due to geometric assumptions. OBJECTIVES: To validate LV volume determinations by a new transesophageal three-dimensional echocardiographic technique.