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INTRODUCTION: Acute total occlusion of the left main coronary artery (ATOLMA) usually leads to a catastrophic presentation. Prediction of ATOLMA by electrocardiogram (ECG) may contribute to early detection and reperfusion. Limited data have been reported previously. This study aims to identify the admission 12leads ECG features that can predict the presence of ATOLMA and in-Hospital mortality in these patients. METHODS: The admission ECGs findings in 24 patients from the previously reported ATOLMA multicenter registry were compared to the ECGs findings in 15 patients with an acute subtotal occlusion of the left main (ASOLMA) and to 15 patients with anterior ST-elevation myocardial infarction of the proximal left anterior descending (LADp-STEMI). RESULTS: Some ECG features at presentation can predict an ATOLMA: QRS left axis deviation (-61.17 ± 9 degrees); ST-segment elevation in aVL (1.9 ± 0.65 mm); absence of ST-segment elevation in V1 (0.0 ± 0.6 mm); bifascicular block (58%); fragmented QRS (62.5%); prolongation of QTc interval (465 ± 19 ms) and of QRS interval (136 ± 12 mm). The multivariate analysis found that the independent predictors to distinguish ATOLMA from ASOLMA were aVL ST-segment deviation (OR 5.6(95% CI 1.5-21), p = 0.01) and absence of V1 ST-segment elevation (OR 27(95% CI 1.4-52), p = 0.01); and from LADp-STEMI was QRS width (OR 1.1(95% CI 1.02-1.2), p = 0.02). Fragmented QRS was the only independent predictor of in-hospital mortality in ATOLMA (OR 0.125(95% CI 0.01-0.81), p = 0.03). CONCLUSIONS: aVL ST-segment elevation, the absence of V1 ST-segment elevation, left axis deviation, the presence of bifascicular block, and prolongation of QRS and QTc interval are predictors of ATOLMA. Fragmented QRS predicts in-hospital mortality in ATOLMA.
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Oclusão Coronária , Infarto do Miocárdio , Bloqueio de Ramo , Oclusão Coronária/diagnóstico , Eletrocardiografia , Humanos , Sistema de RegistrosRESUMO
OBJECTIVES: To determine the outcome predictors of in-hospital mortality in acute total occlusion of the left main coronary artery (ATOLMA) patients referred to emergent angioplasty and to describe the clinical presentation and the long-term outcome of these patients. BACKGROUND: ATOLMA is an uncommon angiographic finding that usually leads to a catastrophic presentation. Limited and inconsistent data have been previously reported regarding true ATOLMA, yet comprehensive knowledge remains scarce. METHODS: This is a multicenter retrospective cohort that includes patients presenting with myocardial infarction due to a confirmed ATOLMA who underwent emergency percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). RESULTS: In the period of the study, 7930 emergent PCI were performed in the five participating centers, and 46 of them had a true ATOLMA (0.58%). At admission, cardiogenic shock was present in 89% of patients, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation was required in 67.4%. All the patients had right dominance. Angiographic success was achieved in 80.4% of the procedures, 13 patients (28.2%) died during the catheterization, and the in-hospital mortality rate was 58.6% (27/46). At one-year and at the final follow-up, 18 patients (39%) were alive, including four cases successfully transplanted. Multivariate analysis showed that postprocedural TIMI flow was the only independent predictor of in-hospital mortality (OR 0.23, (95% CI 0.1-0.36), p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Our study confirms that the clinical presentation of ATOLMA is catastrophic, presenting a high in-hospital mortality rate; nevertheless, primary angioplasty in this setting is feasible. Postprocedural TIMI flow resulted as the only independent predictor of in-hospital mortality. In-hospital survivors presented an encouraging outcome. ATOLMA and left dominance could be incompatible with life.
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Angioplastia Coronária com Balão , Oclusão Coronária , Vasos Coronários/patologia , Infarto do Miocárdio , Idoso , Angioplastia Coronária com Balão/efeitos adversos , Angioplastia Coronária com Balão/métodos , Angioplastia Coronária com Balão/mortalidade , Doença Catastrófica , Oclusão Coronária/complicações , Oclusão Coronária/diagnóstico , Feminino , Mortalidade Hospitalar , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Infarto do Miocárdio/etiologia , Infarto do Miocárdio/mortalidade , Prognóstico , Sistema de Registros/estatística & dados numéricos , Choque Cardiogênico/etiologia , Choque Cardiogênico/mortalidade , Espanha/epidemiologia , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
OBJECTIVES AND BACKGROUND: Patients with aortic stenosis (AS) may have impaired coronary flow reserve (CFR) despite angiographically normal coronary arteries. This is the first report of invasive thermodilution-derived CFR and IMR in patients with AS and their associations with echocardiographic parameters for AS assessment. METHODS: Thirty-six consecutive severe AS patients and ten patients without AS underwent prospectively cardiac catheterization and coronary physiological parameters were determined in the left anterior descending (LAD). Mean transit time (Tmn), a surrogate of absolute coronary flow, was obtained from the coronary thermodilution curve. RESULTS: In AS patients we found a high LAD flow at rest (Tmn rest 0.55±0.3 vs 0.99±0.4, p=0.01) and a low flow at hyperemia (Tmnhyp 0.44±0.2 vs 27.7±0.1, p=0.02) and consequently a severe CFR impairment (1.4±0.4 vs 3.8±1.4, p<0.001) compared with controls. An elevated index of microvascular resistance (IMR) (32.7±16 vs 17.8±6.5, p=0.01) and a low baseline microvascular coronary resistance (48.1±29 vs 84±34, p=0.02) were also found. In AS patients there were significant correlations between CFR and left ventricular mass index (r=-0.32; p=0.02), and the ratio of acceleration time to ejection time (AT/ET) (r=-0.4; p=0.01) a non-flow dependent echocardiographic parameter for AS assessment. Multiple linear stepwise regression analysis showed that AT/ET (ß=-0.441, p=0.019) was the only independently variable associated with CFR CONCLUSIONS: In severe AS, invasive CFR shows a progressive decrease with AS severity and a good correlation with echocardiographic parameters of AS, especially with flow-independent ones.
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Estenose da Valva Aórtica/diagnóstico por imagem , Estenose da Valva Aórtica/fisiopatologia , Velocidade do Fluxo Sanguíneo/fisiologia , Circulação Coronária/fisiologia , Ecocardiografia Doppler , Índice de Gravidade de Doença , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Angiografia Coronária/métodos , Ecocardiografia Doppler/métodos , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estudos ProspectivosRESUMO
Se describen los primeros casos reportados en la provincia de Ciego de Avila, Cuba en el período comprendido entre 1983 a 1995. El primer caso presentó un cuadro neurológico con petequias, equimosis y hepatoesplenomegalia falleciendo al cabo de diez días confirmándose el diagnóstico por anatomía patológica. Al segundo enfermo se le realizó el diagnpostico a los tres meses de edad por inmunofluorescencia indirecta, presentando nistagmo horizontal, hepatoesplenomegalia, adenopatías cervicales e inguinales aplicándose tratamiento con pirimentamina y sulfrapin desapareciendo la visceromegalia y la adenomegalia quedando con la secuela aoftalmológica. En ambos casos se efectua el estudio epidemiológico. (AU)
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BACKGROUND: Patients with chronic heart failure and pulmonary arterial hypertension are at risk of developing fatal right graft failure after transplantation, and there is no agreement about the limit of pulmonary vascular resistance for such risk. PURPOSE: To study what the impact is on the survival of a degree of pulmonary hypertension not considered to be an exclusion for orthotopic heart transplantation and to analyze the hemodynamic profile in the minor circuit after surgery. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We studied a group of 69 patients consecutively transplanted and with followup of at least one year. Patients were classified in two groups depending on the hemodynamic factors previous to transplant: group A (without pulmonary hypertension, 22 patients) and group B (with pulmonary hypertension, 47 patients). After heart transplantation we analyzed the causes of mortality and the evolution hemodynamic profile in both groups. RESULTS: In the group of patients with pulmonary hypertension there was an increase in perioperative mortality due to graft failure (p < 0.05), although at the end of the first year, the survival rate was similar in both groups. After heart transplantation, the level of pulmonary pressures dropped in the same group, but at the end of the first year, a 17% of the patients maintains some criteria of pulmonary hypertension. CONCLUSIONS: Our results confirm that degrees of pulmonary hypertension classically not considered as an exclusion for orthotopic heart transplantation were associated with an increase mortality by graft failure. The majority of survivors after heart transplantation normalize pulmonary pressures at one year of transplantation.