ALLMedicine™ Cardiogenic Shock Center

Jan 22nd, 2022 - We focused on the role of Uric Acid (UA) as a possible determinant of Heart Failure (HF) related issues in Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) patients. Main outcomes were acute HF and cardiogenic shock at admission, secondary outcomes were the use of ...

Jan 22nd, 2022 - Spontaneous native mitral valve leaflet thrombosis is an exceedingly rare phenomenon. Here, we describe the case of a 71-year-old woman with rheumatic mitral stenosis who presented with cardiogenic shock. She was found to have a thrombus on her na...

Jan 21st, 2022 - As health care markets in the United States have become increasingly consolidated, the role of market concentration on physician treatment behavior remains unclear. In cardiology, specifically, there has been evolving treatment of acute myocardial...

Jan 21st, 2022 - Cardiac arrest (CA) is common and has been associated with adverse outcomes in patients with cardiogenic shock (CS). We sought to determine the prevalence, patient characteristics, and outcomes of CA in cardiovascular intensive care unit patients ...

Jan 21st, 2022 - Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) provides mechanical support for critically ill patients with cardiogenic shock. Typically, the size of the arterial return cannula is chosen to maximize flow. However, smaller arterial cannul...

Jan 21st, 2022 - The coronavirus disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 first emerged in early December 2019 and was declared a pandemic on March 2020. SARS-CoV-2 infection is produced by binding to ACE2, which among other sites is highly expressed in the endothelial ce...

Jan 11th, 2022 - All patients who meet inclusion criteria and have no exclusion criteria are considered to be enrolled. During the period of study, the participants can decide whether to accept ECMO based on their personal conditions. If a patient is willing to ac...

Jan 10th, 2022 - The Cardiogenic Shock Working Group is an Academic Research Consortium involving multiple medical centers within the United States and includes a multicenter registry for patients with cardiogenic shock. De-identified clinical variables are collec...

Dec 21st, 2021 - Acute myocarditis (AM) is a common condition characterized by histological evidence of inflammatory infiltrates associated with myocyte necrosis of non-ischemic origin. Clinical presentation spans from indolent form to cardiogenic shock also calle...

Nov 22nd, 2021 - Any patient with cardiogenic shock, whether inpatient or transferred from another facility, treated at the Inova Heart and Vascular Institute shall be included in this registry. This includes adults with and without decision making capacity over t...

Dec 15th, 2021 - Pheochromocytoma is a rare catecholamine-secreting tumor of chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla or sympathetic ganglia, occurring in about 0. 2 to 0.

Dec 9th, 2021 - It's time to treat everyone who requires coronary revascularization based on their clinical indication, without letting sex, race, or ethnicity enter the picture, updated professional guidelines emphasized. Equity was the top takeaway message high...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - Key Takeaway A preliminary, unpublished study that used noninvasive diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) to assess cerebral blood flow (CBF) in patients undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) showed that comatose patients have inc...

Nov 24th, 2021 - Study Overview Objective. To determine whether fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of nonculprit lesion in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is superior to angiography-guided.

Nov 19th, 2021 - NICE has published updated guidance on the diagnosis and management of acute heart failure (AHF). The guideline includes recommendations on diagnosis, assessment and monitoring, initial pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment, management...