Association of Left Ventricular Systolic Function With Incident Heart Failure in Late Life
Original Research | By AMR Jensen, R Zierath, B Claggett et al.
IMPORTANCE - Limited data exist regarding the association of subtle subclinical systolic dysfunction and incident heart failure (HF) in late life. OBJECTIVE - To assess the independent associations of subclinical impairments in systolic performance with incident HF in late life. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS - This study was a time-to-event analysis of participants ...
Original Research | By F Bedogni; AP Rubbio; C Grasso et al.
AIMS - The Italian Society of Interventional Cardiology (GIse) Registry Of Transcatheter Treatment of Mitral Valve RegurgitaTiOn (GIOTTO) was conceived in order to assess the safety and efficacy of the MitraClip therapy in Italy. Aim of the study was to assess the procedural, the mid-term outcomes and their predictors after MitraClip therapy, stratifying the results according to diagnosis of functional and degenerative mitr...
Original Research | By D del Val, M Abdel-Wahab, J Rodés-Cabau et al.
BACKGROUND - Procedural improvements combined with the contemporary clinical profile of patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) may have influenced the incidence and outcomes of infective endocarditis (IE) following TAVR. We aimed to determine the temporal trends, characteristics, and outcomes of IE post-TAVR. METHODS - Observational study including 552 patients prese...
Original Research | By B Bozkurt, RE Hershberger, J Butler et al.
Selection of stenting approach for coronary bifurcation lesions
Original Research | By WP Liu, PF Guo, T Dai
Comprehensive understanding of plasma metabotype of diabetes mellitus (DM), coronary heart disease (CHD), and especially diabetes mellitus with coronary heart disease (CHDDM) is still lacking. In this work, the plasma metabolic differences and links of DM, CHD, and CHDDM patients were investigated by the strategy of comparative metabolomics based on 1H NMR spectroscopy combined with network analysis for revealing their m...
Adenosine and adenosine receptor-mediated action in coronary microcirculation
Original Research | By Y Zhang, S Zhang 1 , BL Li et al.
AIMS - Aging is the most significant contributor to the increasing prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF). The gut microbiota dysbiosis is involved in age-related diseases. However, whether the aged-associated dysbiosis contributes to age-related AF is still unknown. Direct demonstration that the aged gut microbiota is sufficient to transmit the enhanced AF susceptibility in a young host via microbiota-intestinal barrier-atr...
Consensus | By F Burzotta, JFLassen, T Lefèvre et al.
The 15th European Bifurcation Club (EBC) meeting was held in Barcelona in October 2019. It facilitated a renewed consensus on coronary bifurcation lesions (CBL) and unprotected left main (LM) percutaneous interventions. Bifurcation stenting techniques continue to be refined, developed and tested. It remains evident that a provisional approach with optional side branch treatment utilising T, T and small protrusion (TAP) or culotte con...