7 results match your criteria: "Onze-Lieve-Vrouwziekenhuis Clinic[Affiliation]"
Why Do Coronaries Spasm?: Getting to Grips With Atherosclerosis as a Substrate.
JACC Cardiovasc Imaging
August 2024
Cardiovascular Center Aalst, Onze Lieve Vrouwziekenhuis Clinic, Aalst, Belgium; Department of Cardiology, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address:
Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Quantitative Coronary Plaque and Hemodynamic Analysis for Predicting Acute Coronary Syndrome.
JACC Cardiovasc Imaging
September 2024
McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
Article Synopsis
- A study was conducted to improve the prediction of which coronary artery lesions could lead to acute coronary syndrome (ACS) by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) with traditional methods.
- The research focused on patients who had undergone coronary CT angiography (CTA) before experiencing an ACS event, analyzing both culprit (problematic) and nonculprit lesions.
- The new model incorporating AI features showed significantly better predictability for identifying high-risk lesions compared to standard methods, suggesting that AI can enhance cardiac risk assessment.
Deferred Testing in Stable Outpatients With Suspected Coronary Artery Disease: A Prespecified Secondary Analysis of the PRECISE Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA Cardiol
October 2023
Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
Importance: Guidelines recommend deferral of testing for symptomatic people with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) and low pretest probability. To our knowledge, no randomized trial has prospectively evaluated such a strategy.
Objective: To assess process of care and health outcomes in people identified as minimal risk for CAD when testing is deferred.
Comparison of an Initial Risk-Based Testing Strategy vs Usual Testing in Stable Symptomatic Patients With Suspected Coronary Artery Disease: The PRECISE Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA Cardiol
October 2023
Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
Article Synopsis
- A recent clinical trial tested a new coronary computed tomography angiography (cCTA) strategy, aimed at improving efficiency for patients with stable chest pain compared to traditional stress testing methods.
- The trial, involving over 2000 participants from North America and Europe, assigned patients to either a precision strategy (PS) using risk assessment for testing decisions or usual testing (UT), which included stress tests.
- Results showed that the PS group had significantly lower rates of unnecessary catheterizations and better efficiency outcomes than the UT group, indicating that the new approach could enhance patient care.
Fractional flow reserve and coronary bifurcation anatomy: a novel quantitative model to assess and report the stenosis severity of bifurcation lesions.
JACC Cardiovasc Interv
April 2015
Division of Image Processing, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to develop a new model for assessment of stenosis severity in a bifurcation lesion including its core. The diagnostic performance of this model, powered by 3-dimensional quantitative coronary angiography to predict the functional significance of obstructive bifurcation stenoses, was evaluated using fractional flow reserve (FFR) as the reference standard.
Background: Development of advanced quantitative models might help to establish a relationship between bifurcation anatomy and FFR.
Contrast-induced nephropathy in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention without acute left ventricular ejection fraction impairment.
Am J Cardiol
March 2013
Cardiovascular Center Aalst, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwziekenhuis Clinic, Aalst, Belgium.
The prognostic relevance of direct contrast toxicity in patients treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention remains unclear, owing to the confounding hemodynamic effect of acute left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) impairment on kidney function estimation. In the present study, 644 consecutive patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention were prospectively enrolled. Contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) was defined as an increase in serum creatinine >25% or a decrease in the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) <25% from baseline in the first 72 hours.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCardiac ochronosis: valvular heart disease with dark green discoloration of the leaflets.
Tex Heart Inst J
March 2005
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwziekenhuis Clinic, 9300 Aalst, Belgium.
We report the case of 67-year-old woman who underwent aortic valve replacement and mitral valve repair due to ochronotic valvular disease (alkaptonuria), which was diagnosed incidentally during cardiac surgery.
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