Echocardiographic predictors of long-term survival for patients with low gradient aortic stenosis who undergo aortic valve replacement have not been previously reported. This study shows that patients with larger pre- and postoperative left ventricular volumes, a lower mean preoperative aortic pressure gradient, and failure of volumes to decrease and ejection fraction to increase postoperatively may have a poor prognosis.
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Heart Rhythm
January 2025
Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Canada. Electronic address:
Background: The assessment of left ventricular (LV) systolic function and quantification of LV ejection fraction (EF) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) can be difficult. We previously demonstrated that LV volume changes over the 100 ms of systole (LVEF) can be used as a measure of LV systolic function.
Objective: We sought to evaluate the applicability of LVEF in AF patients.
Biomedicines
January 2025
Department Cardio-Thoracic Pathology, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania.
Introduction And Aim: Assessing decongestion in patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) is challenging, requiring multiple parameters and often remaining imprecise. The study aimed to investigate the utility of indirectly estimating plasma variation (∆ePVS) for evaluating decongestion in ADHF patients in relation to natriuretic peptides.
Materials And Methods: This prospective, observational, single-center study included 111 patients (mean age 74 years, 40% female) hospitalized with ADHF and treated with intravenous diuretics along with optimized medical therapy.
Diagnostics (Basel)
January 2025
Medicine Faculty, University of Health Science, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City 7000, Vietnam.
The purpose of this research was to assess the factors linked to early left ventricular (LV) dysfunction in hypertensive patients who have preserved ejection fraction (EF ≥ 50%) using speckle tracking echocardiography. : A cross-sectional study was carried out involving 579 outpatients recruited from City International Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City using a total sampling approach, where echocardiographic measurements and clinical data were gathered and analyzed. The prevalence of LV diastolic dysfunction among hypertensive individuals was found to be 45.
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January 2025
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Electronic address:
This study sought to explore the clinical factors associated with classical low-flow low-gradient (C-LFLG) and normal-flow low-gradient (NFLG) aortic stenosis (AS) compared to high-gradient (HG) AS. We also compared clinical and echocardiographic outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) across flow-gradient patterns. Patients with C-LFLG AS have a higher mortality rate after TAVR than those with HG AS.
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January 2025
Department of Cardiology, National University Heart Centre Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119074, Singapore.
Background: Severe aortic stenosis (AS) stratified by sex has been increasingly studied in the European population. Sex-specific outcomes in Asian patients with AS remain poorly defined. Hence, we aimed to study the clinical characteristics and impact of sex in moderate-to-severe AS, undergoing both invasive and conservative interventions in an Asian cohort over 10 years.
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