Modified Glasgow Prognostıc Score May Be Useful to Predict Major Adverse Cardiac Events in Heart Failure Patients Undergone Cardiac Resynchronization Treatment.

Objective: Whether modified Glasgow prognostic score predicts prognosis in patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillation is unknown. Our aim was to investigate the association of modified Glasgow prognostic score with death and hospitalization in cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillation patients.

Methods: A total of 306 heart failure with reduced ejection fraction patients who underwent cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillation implantation were categorized into 3 groups based on their modified Glasgow prognostic score categorical levels.

Evaluation of lipoprotein(a) in the prevention and management of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: A survey among the Lipid Clinics Network.

Background And Aims: The European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) Lipid Clinics Network promoted a survey in order to identify and understand how and when lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is tested and clinically evaluated in lipid clinics throughout Europe, and the challenges that may prevent evaluation from being carried out.

Methods: This survey was divided into three areas of inquiry: background and clinical setting information of clinicians, questions for doctors who claimed not to measure Lp(a), in order to understand what were the reasons for not ordering the test, and questions for doctors who measure Lp(a), to investigate the use of this value in the management of patients.

Results: A total of 151 centres clinicians filled in the survey, out of 226 invited.

A 5-year analysis of Candida bloodstream infections in the paediatric cardiovascular surgery ICU of a tertiary care centre.

Background: Candida infections have become one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality in paediatric ICUs, especially following complex surgeries, all over the world. Therefore, we conducted a 5-year analysis of Candida bloodstream infections in our tertiary paediatric cardiovascular surgery ICU.

Methods: One thousand nine hundred and thirty four children, 0-16-year-old, who underwent paediatric cardiovascular surgery between January 2016-June 2021 were enrolled in this retrospective study.

The association between nondipper pattern and perioperative hypertension in patients with controlled hypertension.

Background: Perioperative hypertension is a frequent complication even in preoperatively normotensive or controlled hypertensive patients and there is a lack of data regarding the effect of nondipping pattern on perioperative hypertension.

Objective: In this study, we aimed to investigate the possible effect of nondipping blood pressure pattern on the risk of perioperative hypertension.

Materials And Methods: 234 hypertensive patients who underwent surgery with general anesthesia were evaluated prospectively.

Epicardial adipose tissue may predict new-onset atrial fibrillation in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.

Aims: In this study, we aimed to determine the relationship between EAT thickness in patients with STEMI who underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI) and the development of new-onset atrial fibrillation during hospital follow-up.

Material And Methods: Four hundred and thirteen consecutive patients [284 men (69%) and 129 women (31%)] with a mean age of 59 ± 11 years diagnosed with STEMI were included in this study. Atrial fibrillation developed in 52 (12.

Epicardial fat tissue can predict subclinical left ventricular dysfunction in patients with erectile dysfunction.

Background: Erectile dysfunction (ED) is an early form of atherosclerosis and subclinical myocardial dysfunction. Epicardial fat tissue (EFT) is associated with impaired left ventricular (LV) function, even in the absence of cardiovascular disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between EFT and LV systolic function in patients with erectile ED by speckle tracking echocardiography (2D-STE) method.

Transcatheter closure of the aortopulmonary window in a three-month-old infant with a symmetric membranous ventricular septal defect occluder device.

Although most of aortopulmonary window cases are closed surgically, percutaneous closure can be also used in suitable patients. Defects which are far from the pulmonary and aortic valves, coronary artery, and pulmonary artery bifurcation, with adequate septal rims are considered suitable for percutaneous closure. A three-month-old male infant weighing 4 kg was referred to our pediatric cardiology department with the complaints of fatigue while breastfeeding, difficulty in weight gain, heart murmur, and respiratory distress.

Changes in antimicrobial resistance and outcomes of health care-associated infections.

To describe the change in the epidemiology of health care-associated infections (HAI), resistance and predictors of fatality we conducted a nationwide study in 24 hospitals between 2015 and 2018. The 30-day fatality rate was 22% in 2015 and increased to 25% in 2018. In BSI, a significant increasing trend was observed for Candida and Enterococcus.

How do diet and exercise programmes affect the cardiovascular risk profiles of obese children?

Obesity is a global health issue in both children and adults. Besides its comorbidities, cardiac structure and functions may be impaired from childhood if obesity is not controlled in the growing years. The effects of diet and exercise on the cardiovascular functions and biochemical parameters of obese children were evaluated in this study.

Quality of Life After Open Surgical versus Endovascular Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms.

Objective: This study aims to compare open surgical and endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) of abdominal aortic aneurysms in terms of their effects on quality of life, using Short Form-36 (SF-36).

Methods: A total of 133 consecutive patients who underwent EVAR or open surgical repair for infra-renal abdominal aorta aneurysm between January 2009 and June 2014 were included in the study. Twenty-six (19.

Outcomes After Surgical Resection of Primary Non-Myxoma Cardiac Tumors.

Objective: Primary cardiac tumors are rare lesions with different histological type. We reviewed our 17 years of experience in the surgical treatment and clinical results of primary non-myxoma cardiac tumors.

Methods: Between July 2000 and February 2017, 21 patients with primary cardiac tumor were surgically treated in our institution.

Cardiac examination in children with Laron syndrome undergoing mecasermin therapy.

Background: Laron syndrome (LS), which can be defined as primary growth hormone resistance or insensitivity, is a rare genetic disease inherited by an autosomal recessive trait. Although it is undistinguishable from growth hormone deficiency, LS has high levels of growth hormone, but insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) cannot be synthesized. Mecasermin treatment is the only option for the patients who suffer from LS.

Clinical usefulness of epicardial adipose tissue in patients with high-intermediate pre-test probability for coronary artery disease.

Background: Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is thought to be associated with the extension and severity of coronary artery disease (CAD), and echocardiographic measurement of EAT thickness is considered to be a possible cardiovascular risk indica-tor. The European Society of Cardiology Task Force recommends further non-invasive testing in patients with an intermediate pre-test probability (PTP) for the diagnosis of CAD.

Aim: We sought to evaluate the clinical usefulness of performing EAT measurements in patients with a high-intermediate PTP.

Outcomes following embolization in patients with cardiac myxoma.

Background: Cardiac myxomas are the most frequent primary benign intracardiac tumors. We reviewed our 27-year experience to evaluate factors associated with an embolism in patients with cardiac myxomas and their long-term outcomes.

Methods: A retrospective review identified 99 patients with cardiac myxomas between 1985 and 2012.

Severe mitral regurgitation is associated with increased copeptin levels in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.

Background And Aim: The objective of this study was to assess the potential role of mitral regurgitation (MR) in the release of copeptin in heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).

Methods: The study included 63 patients of whom 33 had functional mild MR (Group 1) and 30 had functional severe MR (Group 2). The functional class of both groups was New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III.

Pentoxifylline Inhibits Epidural Fibrosis in Post-Laminectomy Rats.

Background: The aim of this experimental study was to investigate the effectiveness of intramuscular pentoxifylline in the prevention of postoperative fibrosis.

Material/methods: We divided 16 adult Wistar albino rats into 2 equal groups: treatment and control. Both groups underwent L1 vertebral total laminectomy to expose the dura.

Outcomes of Mild to Moderate Functional Tricuspid Regurgitation in Patients Undergoing Mitral Valve Operations: A Meta-Analysis of 2,488 Patients.

This meta-analysis examined the prognosis of patients who were found to have mild to moderate functional tricuspid regurgitation during mitral valve operations. Overall, this meta-analysis included 2,488 patients in 10 studies. Compared with the group without tricuspid valve annuloplasty, the probability of not progressing to moderate to severe functional tricuspid regurgitation was significantly higher in the tricuspid valve annuloplasty group.

Surgical treatment of late aortic prosthetic valve endocarditis: 19 years' experience.

Aim Of The Study: We retrospectively analyzed the results of operations conducted for aortic prosthetic valve endocarditis in a single center over 19 years.

Material And Methods: From February 1992 to January 2011, we performed operations on 27 patients with aortic prosthetic valve endocarditis. Seventeen patients (63.

Surgical treatment of double valve endocarditis.

Background: We have retrospectively analyzed the results of the operations made for aortic infective endocarditis with mitral involvement in a single center in 19 years.

Methods: From May 1992 to January 2011, we have operated on 72 patients with infective endocarditis of the aortic valve with mitral valve involvement. Fifty-two patients (72.

Ischaemic mitral regurgitation: The effects of ring annuloplasty and suture annuloplasty repair techniques on left ventricular re-remodeling.

Objective: To examine the mid-term results of patients on whom a coronary revascularization as well as a mitral ring and suture annuloplasty have been performed due to coronary artery disease (CAD) and ischaemic mitral regurgitation (IMR).

Methodology: Totally 73 patients on whom a revascularization and a mitral valve repair due to CAD and IMR had been performed in our clinic between 2000-2008 were included in the study. Patients were divided into two groups one of which included 38 patients (52.

Analysis of mortality in low-risk patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting.

Aim: The aims of this study were to determine the early mortality rate in low-risk coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) patients and examine the causes of death, to identify problems that could be avoided in future surgeries.

Methods: All low-risk patients (EuroSCORE ≤ 2) who died after CABG were included. Their peri-operative information was meticulously studied by internal and independent external reviewers to identify causes of death, which were classified as: cardiac or non-cardiac; and a further division as: (1) non-preventable, (2) preventable (technical error), and (3) preventable (system error).