Alexandra Braillon, Thibault Leclercq, Alain Lalande, Kevin Guillen, Charles Guenancia
{"title":"Answer: Have the remnographic eye: a rare cause of pericardial effusion after myocardial infarction.","authors":"Alexandra Braillon, Thibault Leclercq, Alain Lalande, Kevin Guillen, Charles Guenancia","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjacc/zuae130","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143763471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letter to the Editor related to \"An uncommon electrocardiogram pattern in a case of acute chest pain\" by Gulbadin Mufti, Shahid H. Shali, and A. Shaheer Ahmed.","authors":"Gheorghe-Andrei Dan","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuaf050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjacc/zuaf050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143763476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kamila Kurkiewicz-Sawczak, Filip Sawczak, Filip Baszkowski, Kinga Walska-Świerc, Malwina Baturo, Weronika Pelczar-Płachta, Dominika Wysocka, Marta Kałużna-Oleksy, Waldemar Bobkowski
{"title":"Acute Heart Failure with Systolic Dysfunction in Paediatric Patients: Aetiology, Risk Factors, and In-hospital Prognosis.","authors":"Kamila Kurkiewicz-Sawczak, Filip Sawczak, Filip Baszkowski, Kinga Walska-Świerc, Malwina Baturo, Weronika Pelczar-Płachta, Dominika Wysocka, Marta Kałużna-Oleksy, Waldemar Bobkowski","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuaf049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjacc/zuaf049","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Paediatric acute heart failure (AHF) differs from adult cases, and less numerous population limits research aimed at improving clinical practice and prognosis.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>We aimed to evaluate outcomes and prognostic factors in the paediatric population of AHF patients with left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) <50%, or systemic right ventricular fractional area change <40%.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This single-centre retrospective cohort study included 162 consecutive paediatric patients hospitalised for new-onset AHF with systolic dysfunction or the first exacerbation with reported systolic dysfunction of chronic heart failure (CHF). Patients were categorized into two subgroups: those with >5% improvement in EF on follow-up echocardiography before discharge (n=115) and those with either EF deterioration, ≤5% EF improvement, or death during hospitalisation (n=47).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study contained 58% males and 42% females. The median age was 1 (IQR 0-8) year, 14 (IQR 2-101) months. The mortality rate was 12.3%. AHF aetiologies included congenital heart defects (51.2%), cardiomyopathy (20.4%), infections (14.2%), arrhythmias (11.7%), and others (2.5%). Our study demonstrated independent factors of worse outcomes: cardiomyopathies aetiology [OR 2.762 (1.210-6.307)], older age [OR 1.006 (1.000-1.011)], and factors of better prognosis: infective aetiology [OR 0.083 (0.010-0.664)], higher EF [OR 0.953 (0.905-0.999)], SpO2 [OR 0.951 (0.905-0.992)]. In contrast to CHF exacerbation, de novo AHF had better outcomes (p=0.014).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>AHF with systolic dysfunction in children has an unfavourable prognosis, however most patients improved during hospitalisation. In our study, cardiomyopathy aetiology predicted worse outcomes. In turn, infective aetiology, younger age, higher EF, and SpO2 were independent factors of better prognosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143763468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Bjørn, Joakim Bo Kunkel, Ole Helgestad, Jakob Josiassen, Karoline Korsholm Jeppesen, Lene Holmvang, Lisette Okkels Jensen, Henrik Schmidt, Emil Fosbøl, Christian Hassager, Jacob Eifer Møller, Hanne Berg Ravn
{"title":"Long-term outcomes after acute kidney injury in myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock - a retrospective, observational study.","authors":"Maria Bjørn, Joakim Bo Kunkel, Ole Helgestad, Jakob Josiassen, Karoline Korsholm Jeppesen, Lene Holmvang, Lisette Okkels Jensen, Henrik Schmidt, Emil Fosbøl, Christian Hassager, Jacob Eifer Møller, Hanne Berg Ravn","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuaf048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjacc/zuaf048","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The recent DanGer shock trial found reduced mortality, but increased risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients treated with a microaxial flow pump after an acute myocardial infarct with cardiogenic shock. AKI has previously been associated with increased short-term mortality, whereas data on long-term outcomes are sparse. We aimed to describe the frequency of AKI and associated risk factors as well as long-term mortality and morbidity.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A retrospective observational study comprising patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction cardiogenic shock in Denmark between 2010-2017 with data on kidney function from the RETROSHOCK cohort. National health registry data enabled 10-year follow-up to assess mortality and morbidity. Kaplan-Meier estimates and competing risks regression were used to evaluate the association of AKI with the incidence of short- and long-term mortality, chronic kidney disease and dialysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 1473 patients, 44% developed acute kidney injury, 25% required renal replacement therapy. AKI development was associated with increasing age, diabetes, low ejection fraction and high lactate levels on admission (p<0.05).30-days mortality as well as mortality at 1-, 5- and 10-years follow-up was significantly increased in patients with AKI; at 10 years follow-up mortality was increased by more than 30% (p<0.001). The 10-year cumulative incidence of both chronic kidney disease and dialysis, accounting for the competing risk of death, was significantly higher in patients treated with RRT during admission (p< 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Acute kidney injury was associated with increased short- and long-term mortality and morbidity, including chronic kidney disease and dialysis, but not new cardiovascular events.</p>","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143751158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C Noel Bairey Merz, Robert O Bonow, Mercedes Carnethon, Filippo Crea, Joseph A Hill, Harlan M Krumholz, Roxana Mehran, Erica S Spatz
{"title":"The Role of Cardiovascular Disease Journals in Reporting Sex and Gender in Research.","authors":"C Noel Bairey Merz, Robert O Bonow, Mercedes Carnethon, Filippo Crea, Joseph A Hill, Harlan M Krumholz, Roxana Mehran, Erica S Spatz","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuaf041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjacc/zuaf041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143742675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandra Braillon, Thibault Leclercq, Alain Lalande, Kevin Guillen, Charles Guenancia
{"title":"Question: Have the remnographic eye: a rare cause of pericardial effusion after myocardial infarction.","authors":"Alexandra Braillon, Thibault Leclercq, Alain Lalande, Kevin Guillen, Charles Guenancia","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjacc/zuae127","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143709232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tharusan Thevathasan, Christian Hassager, Jason Bartos, Marcel van de Poll, Janine Pöss
{"title":"The legacy of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation-bridging the past, shaping the present, defining the future.","authors":"Tharusan Thevathasan, Christian Hassager, Jason Bartos, Marcel van de Poll, Janine Pöss","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuaf012","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuaf012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":"195-197"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143022628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antithrombotic therapy in patients with chronic coronary syndrome: a focus on the 2024 European Society of Cardiology guidelines.","authors":"Antonio Landi, Marco Valgimigli","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae134","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae134","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Antithrombotic therapy represents the mainstay of the pharmacological treatment in patients with chronic coronary syndrome (CCS) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The optimal choice, combination, and duration of antithrombotic therapy represent still a clinical conundrum requiring a critical assessment of patient comorbidities, clinical presentation, and PCI features. The 2024 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines for the management of patients with CCS have been recently published encompassing new and revised recommendations on antithrombotic therapy. The scope of this manuscript is to provide a focus on the key recommendations on antithrombotic therapy of the 2024 ESC guidelines. Furthermore, we will provide an overview of differences and similarities between the latest ESC recommendations and statements on oral antithrombotic regimens in CCS patients from a recent European expert consensus document.</p>","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":"178-182"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142827812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ingar Ziad Restan, Ole-Thomas Steiro, John W Pickering, Hilde L Tjora, Jørund Langørgen, Torbjørn Omland, Paul Collinson, Rune Bjørneklett, Kjell Vikenes, Trude Steinsvik, Øyvind Skadberg, Øistein R Mjelva, Alf Inge Larsen, Vernon V S Bonarjee, Kristin M Aakre
{"title":"Clinical derivation and data simulated validation of rule-out and rule-in algorithms for the Siemens Atellica IM high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I assay.","authors":"Ingar Ziad Restan, Ole-Thomas Steiro, John W Pickering, Hilde L Tjora, Jørund Langørgen, Torbjørn Omland, Paul Collinson, Rune Bjørneklett, Kjell Vikenes, Trude Steinsvik, Øyvind Skadberg, Øistein R Mjelva, Alf Inge Larsen, Vernon V S Bonarjee, Kristin M Aakre","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuaf017","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuaf017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>This prospective, two-centre study derived and validated predictive algorithms for the Siemens Atellica IM high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) assay in the emergency department (ED).</p><p><strong>Methods and results: </strong>Algorithms for predicting 30-day myocardial infarction (MI) Types 1 and 2 and death or non-ST-elevation MI (NSTEMI, Types 1 and 2) at index admission were developed from a derivation cohort of 1896 patients and validated using a synthetic data set with nearly 1 million patient cases. Performance was compared with the European Society of Cardiology algorithms for hs-cTnT (Roche Diagnostics) and hs-cTnI (Abbott Diagnostics). An admission hs-cTnI concentration < 5 ng/L had a negative predictive value (NPV) and sensitivity for 30-day MI or death of 99.5-99.7% and 98.1-98.8%, respectively, in the derivation cohort and validation data set. The NPV and sensitivity were ≥99.7% and ≥98.8% for ruling out index NSTEMI. A 0- to 1-h algorithm with baseline hs-cTnI concentration < 10 ng/L and Δ change < 3 ng/L had NPV of ≥99.5% and sensitivity ≥ 97.3% for predicting 30-day MI or death and a ≥99.5% sensitivity and NPV for index NSTEMI. Rule-in algorithms of either 0-h hs-cTnI ≥ 120 ng/L or 0- to 1-h Δ change ≥ 12 ng/L had positive predictive value ≥ 73% and specificity > 96% for 30-day MI or death and index NSTEMI. The results were comparable with established hs-cTn algorithms.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study presents Siemens Atellica hs-cTnI algorithms for diagnosis and risk prediction in the ED with performance comparable with established hs-cTnT (Roche) and hs-cTnI (Abbott) algorithms.</p>","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":"155-168"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11929528/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143058469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jasper Boeddinghaus, Anda Bularga, Caelan Taggart, Ryan Wereski, Michael McDermott, Alexander J F Thurston, Amy V Ferry, Michelle C Williams, Andrew H Baker, Marc R Dweck, David E Newby, Andrew R Chapman, Bertil Lindahl, Nicholas L Mills
{"title":"Implications of a new clinical classification of acute myocardial infarction.","authors":"Jasper Boeddinghaus, Anda Bularga, Caelan Taggart, Ryan Wereski, Michael McDermott, Alexander J F Thurston, Amy V Ferry, Michelle C Williams, Andrew H Baker, Marc R Dweck, David E Newby, Andrew R Chapman, Bertil Lindahl, Nicholas L Mills","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuaf002","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuaf002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>The diagnostic criteria for Type 2 myocardial infarction identify a heterogeneous group of patients with variable outcomes and no clear treatment implications. We aimed to determine the implications of a new clinical classification for myocardial infarction with more objective diagnostic criteria using cardiac imaging.</p><p><strong>Methods and results: </strong>In a prospective cohort study, patients with Type 2 myocardial infarction underwent coronary angiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging or echocardiography. The new classification was applied to identify (i) spontaneous myocardial infarction due to acute coronary pathology, (ii) secondary myocardial infarction precipitated by acute illness in the presence of obstructive coronary artery disease, a new regional wall motion abnormality, or infarct-pattern scarring, and (iii) no myocardial infarction in the absence of obstructive disease or new myocardial abnormality. In 100 patients (65 years, 43% women) with Type 2 myocardial infarction, the new classification identified 25 and 31 patients with spontaneous and secondary myocardial infarction, respectively, and 44 without myocardial infarction. Compared with patients without myocardial infarction, those with secondary myocardial infarction were older, had more risk factors, and had higher troponin concentrations (P < 0.05 for all). During a median follow-up of 4.4 years, death, myocardial infarction, or heart failure hospitalization was more common in secondary myocardial infarction compared with those without myocardial infarction [55% (17/31) vs. 16% (7/44), P < 0.001].</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>A new clinical classification of myocardial infarction informed by cardiac imaging would reduce the diagnosis of myocardial infarction in acute illness and identify those patients at highest risk who are most likely to benefit from treatment.</p><p><strong>Clinical trial registration: </strong>https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03338504.</p>","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":"131-141"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11929527/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143002575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}