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Patients with paradoxical low-flow low-gradient aortic stenosis pose a diagnostic challenge when it comes to assessing the severity of aortic stenosis (AS) noninvasively. We describe 2 patients who underwent exercise cardiac catheterization to augment their cardiac output and assess the severity of AS invasively to allow differentiation of true severe AS from pseudo-severe AS.
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Surgical resection has been the treatment of choice for cardiac myxomas, but older age and comorbidities relegate many patients to observation. Pure percutaneous removal of left atrial myxomas is both intriguing and challenging. We report a successful percutaneous technique for removal of left atrial cardiac myxoma in a nonsurgical candidate. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.).
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BACKGROUND: Prompt reperfusion for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is a class I guideline recommendation and has been shown to reduce mortality. However, many STEMI patients in contemporary practice still do not receive any form of reperfusion therapy. METHODS: We evaluated 8,578 patients with STEMI from 226 US hospitals participating in the CRUSADE quality improvement initiative from September 2004 to December 2006 to determine the proportion of eligible patients who received an attempt at reperfusion therapy and factors associated with lack of reperfusion among patients without a contraindication to reperfusion. STEMI patients were classified into 3 groups: (1) patients eligible for reperfusion and for whom reperfusion was attempted; (2) patients eligible for reperfusion and for whom reperfusion was not attempted; and (3) patients who were ineligible for reperfusion because of identified contraindications. We compared patient characteristics, treatments, and outcomes among the groups and identified factors independently associated with lack of reperfusion use among eligible patients. RESULTS: Of the 8,578 patients with STEMI, 881 patients (10.3%) had a documented contraindication to reperfusion, 7,080 (82.5%) received fibrinolysis or underwent an attempt at primary percutaneous coronary intervention, and 617 reperfusion-eligible patients (7.2%) had no attempt to administer reperfusion. Primary reasons for contraindications were identified as absence of an ischemic indication (n = 474; 53.8%), bleeding risk (n = 147; 16.7%), patient-related reasons (n = 223; 25.3%), and other (n = 37; 4.2%). The strongest factors associated with not attempting reperfusion among the reperfusion-eligible population were older age, heart failure at presentation, noncardiac surgical center, prior stroke, and female sex. Compared with patients receiving an attempt at reperfusion, adjusted in-hospital mortality rates were higher for patients with a documented reperfusion contraindication (adjusted odds ratio 1.77, 95% CI 1.28-2.45) and in eligible patients who did not receive reperfusion (adjusted odds ratio 1.64, 95% CI 1.07-2.50). CONCLUSIONS: More than 7% of STEMI patients without a reperfusion contraindication did not have an attempt to administer reperfusion therapy, and this was associated with greater in-hospital mortality. Age, sex, and comorbidity were factors related to lack of attempting reperfusion among apparently eligible patients. Quality improvement efforts should focus on maximizing reperfusion use among all eligible STEMI patients and in addressing the processes by which contraindications are defined, clinically determined, and reported.
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Infarto do Miocárdio/terapia , Reperfusão Miocárdica/estatística & dados numéricos , Idoso , Contraindicações , Feminino , Fidelidade a Diretrizes , Mortalidade Hospitalar , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Infarto do Miocárdio/mortalidade , Guias de Prática Clínica como Assunto , Padrões de Prática Médica/estatística & dados numéricos , Indicadores de Qualidade em Assistência à Saúde , Sistema de Registros , Estados UnidosRESUMO
Limited data are available on characteristics and long-term outcomes of patients with coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG) undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Between January 2000 to December 2014, we identified STEMI patients with prior CABG undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention from 3 sites. Kaplan-Meier methods to estimate survival and major adverse cardiac events (MACE) were employed and compared to a propensity matched cohort of non-CABG STEMI patients. Independent predictors of outcomes were analyzed with Cox modeling. Of the 3,212 STEMI patients identified, there were 296 (9.2%) CABG STEMI patients, having nearly similar frequencies of culprit graft (47.6%) versus culprit native (52.4%) as the infarct-related artery (IRA). At 10 years, the adjusted survival was 44% in CABG STEMI versus 55% in non-CABG STEMI (HR 1.26; 95%CI 0.86 to 1.87; pâ¯=â¯0.72). Survival free of MACE was lower for CABG STEMI (graft IRA, 37%; native IRA, 46%) as compared to non-CABG STEMI controls (63%) (pâ¯=â¯0.02). Neither CABG history nor IRA (native vs graft) was independently associated with death or MACE in multivariable analysis. Temporal trends showed no significant change in death or MACE rates of CABG STEMI patients over time. In conclusion, long term survival of CABG STEMI patients is not significantly different than matched STEMI patients without prior CABG; however, CABG STEMI patients were at significantly higher risk for MACE events.
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Ponte de Artéria Coronária , Intervenção Coronária Percutânea , Infarto do Miocárdio com Supradesnível do Segmento ST/cirurgia , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Estudos de Coortes , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/epidemiologia , Infarto do Miocárdio com Supradesnível do Segmento ST/mortalidade , Taxa de Sobrevida , Fatores de Tempo , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
Monitoring anticoagulation using the activated clotting time (ACT) in patients treated with heparin and undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is one of the most frequently used tests in invasive cardiology. However, despite its widespread use and guideline endorsement, uncertainty remains regarding the association of ACT with outcomes in contemporary practice. We reviewed all PCI procedures performed at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota) from October 2001 to December 2012 and evaluated the association between the ACT before device activation and in-hospital and 1-year outcomes. ACT values were grouped into tertiles for descriptive purposes and analyzed as a continuous variable for assessment of outcomes. We used logistic and Cox proportional hazards regression models to estimate the association of ACT and outcomes. Of the 12,055 patients who underwent PCI with an ACT value before device activation, 3,977 (33.0%) had an ACT <227, 4,046 (33.6%) had an ACT 227 to 285, and 4,032 (33.4%) had an ACT >285. Baseline and procedural characteristics were similar across ACT tertiles. In unadjusted analysis, higher ACT values were associated with death (p <0.001), bleeding (p = 0.024), procedural complication (p <0.001), and higher 1-year events (cardiac death, p <0.001; cardiac death/myocardial infarction, p = 0.022). After multivariable adjustment for baseline and procedural characteristics, ACT was not independently associated with in-hospital or 1-year ischemic, thrombotic, or bleeding outcomes. In conclusion, ACT values before device activation are not independently associated with clinically important outcomes in contemporary PCI practice.