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Rev Cardiovasc Med
January 2025
Cardiac Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Background: Currently, there are no standardized guidelines for graft allocation in heart transplants (HTxs), particularly when considering organs from marginal donors and donors after cardiocirculatory arrest. This complexity highlights the need for an effective risk analysis tool for primary graft dysfunction (PGD), a severe complication in HTx. Existing score systems for predicting PGD lack superior predictive capability and are often too complex for routine clinical use.
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January 2025
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women and Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
Objective: To describe the outcome of a case of severe drug-resistant fetal tachyarrhythmia with progressive hydrops treated with fetoscopic transesophageal pacing (FTEP).
Method: A case of fetal tachyarrhythmia complicated by progressive hydrops is presented. The fetus, diagnosed at 26 weeks of gestation, had supraventricular tachycardia with a mechanism suggestive of atrial reentry.
Cureus
November 2024
Internal Medicine, Hospital de Santa Marta, Unidade Local de Saúde São José, Lisbon, PRT.
Amiodarone, a widely used antiarrhythmic medication, is effective for managing various types of cardiac arrhythmias. However, due to its high lipid solubility and long half-life, amiodarone accumulates in various organs, particularly the lungs. Pulmonary toxicity, while rare (1% to 5% incidence), is among the most serious adverse effects of amiodarone, with interstitial pneumonitis (IP) being the most prevalent form of lung toxicity.
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November 2024
Interventional Cardiology, Hull University Teaching Hospital National Health Service Trust, Hull, GBR.
Ventricular arrhythmia is a critical and challenging cardiovascular complication of myocardial infarction (MI). An electrical storm (ES), characterised by three or more episodes of sustained ventricular arrhythmia within 24 hours, poses a significant life-threatening risk. Standard management includes advanced life support (ALS) protocols and specialised pharmacological interventions.
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December 2024
Instituto Modelo de Cardiología. División Cardiología.
Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) was considered an uncommon disease until a few years ago, but advances in the epidemiology and non-invasive diagnostic tests have increased its timely detection. We report a 71 years-old man with history of hypertension and an incidental carcinoma of the left kidney detected 6 years ago, without heart failure who was performed cardiac magnetic resonance images (MRI) by suspicion of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Before his cardiologist be aware of the result, he suffered a severe sustained ventricular tachycardia (SVT) that required emergency cardioversion.
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