6 results match your criteria: "Department of Cardiovascular Medicine Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Sciences Kanazawa Japan.[Affiliation]"
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- A study investigated the prevalence and effects of cerebrovascular disease found on pre-procedure CT scans in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement (AVR) due to severe aortic stenosis.
- Out of 567 patients, 35.3% had cerebrovascular disease, but only 28.5% of these patients reported prior strokes.
- The findings revealed that those with cerebrovascular disease had a significantly higher 3-year incidence of death or stroke (40.7%) compared to those without (24.1%), indicating they faced worse clinical outcomes regardless of their history of symptomatic stroke.
Background: Detecting unknown atrial fibrillation (AF) would provide an opportunity to prevent ischemic stroke by instituting appropriate anticoagulation. Although opportunistic screening of older patients is recommended in current guidelines, which patients may benefit from intensive AF screening remains unclear. We sought to clarify the risk factor profile for newly diagnosed AF in annual health examinations of a Japanese adult cohort.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors improve cardiovascular outcomes in patients with diabetes with and without heart failure (HF). However, their influence on sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors on SNA and compare the responses of SNA to sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors in patients with type 2 diabetes with and without HF.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTrends in Cardiovascular Mortality Related to Atrial Fibrillation in the United States, 2011 to 2018.
J Am Heart Assoc
August 2021
Department of Preventive Medicine Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago IL.
Background Prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) continues to increase and is associated with significant cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. To inform prevention strategies aimed at reducing the burden of AF, we sought to quantify trends in cardiovascular mortality related to AF in the United States. Methods and Results We performed serial cross-sectional analyses of national death certificate data for cardiovascular mortality related to AF, whereby cardiovascular disease was listed as underlying cause of death and AF as multiple cause of death among adults aged 35 to 84 years using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTransient swallowing-induced atrial tachycardia in a patient with genotyped hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Clin Case Rep
September 2020
Article Synopsis
- Many cases of swallowing-induced atrial tachycardia need a procedure called radiofrequency catheter ablation for a lasting solution.
- In one instance, a patient with a genetic condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy saw their arrhythmia resolve temporarily.
- This improvement was achieved with a short-term prescription of a medication called verapamil.