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  • Over an 11-year period, a study analyzed trends in clinical management and outcomes for 6,877 hospitalized patients with heart failure (HF).
  • The average age of patients increased from 75.2 to 76.4 years, while the proportion of those with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) remained stable, and hospital stays lengthened.
  • Notably, the 1-year mortality rate dropped significantly for HFrEF patients, from 18.0% to 9.3%, indicating improved long-term outcomes, while mortality for non-HFrEF patients showed no significant change.
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Background And Aims: Endovascular therapy (EVT) is recommended in femoropopliteal (FP) lesions shorter than 25 cm by current guidelines; however, diffuse FP lesions remains challenging for EVT. The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of EVT with the latest devices for FP lesions longer than 25 cm.

Methods: This retrospective multicenter registry analyzed patients presented peripheral artery disease (PAD) having FP lesions longer than 25 cm who underwent EVT using the latest devices between 2017 and 2021.

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Background The association between female sex and poor outcomes following surgery for type A acute aortic dissection has been reported; however, sex-related differences in clinical features and in-hospital outcomes of type B acute aortic dissection, including classic aortic dissection and intramural hematoma, remain to be elucidated. Methods and Results We studied 2372 patients with type B acute aortic dissection who were enrolled in the Tokyo Acute Aortic Super-Network Registry. There were fewer and older women than men (median age [interquartile range]: 76 years [66-84 years], n=695 versus 68 years [57-77 years], n=1677; <0.

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