{"title":"Trans-catheter aortic valve implantation is the standard for most patients with aortic stenosis and cardiogenic shock.","authors":"Rutger-Jan Nuis, Nicolas M Van Mieghem","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae111","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":"699-700"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142307446","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":"Extension studies in revascularization for left main coronary artery disease: considerations for good statistical practice and clinical guidance.","authors":"Dylan Taylor, Warren A Skoza, Xavier Rossello","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae110","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":"745-746"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142307444","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}
Serena Bricoli, Giulia Magnani, Maddalena Ardissino, Giuseppe Maglietta, Patrizia Celli, Maurizio Ferrario, Umberto Canosi, Carlo Cernetti, Francesco Negri, Piera Angelica Merlini, Marco Tubaro, Carlo Berzuini, Chiara Manzalini, Luigi Moschini, Elisabetta Ponte, Roberto Pozzi, Silvia Buratti, Andrea Botti, Federico Barocelli, Andrea Biagi, Rosario Bonura, Luca Bearzot, Tiziano Moccetti, Antonio Crocamo, Maria Francesca Notarangelo, Elisabetta Moscarella, Paolo Calabrò, Giampaolo Niccoli, Diego Ardissino
{"title":"Sudden cardiac death after early-onset myocardial infarction: a multicentre longitudinal cohort study with a 20-year follow-up.","authors":"Serena Bricoli, Giulia Magnani, Maddalena Ardissino, Giuseppe Maglietta, Patrizia Celli, Maurizio Ferrario, Umberto Canosi, Carlo Cernetti, Francesco Negri, Piera Angelica Merlini, Marco Tubaro, Carlo Berzuini, Chiara Manzalini, Luigi Moschini, Elisabetta Ponte, Roberto Pozzi, Silvia Buratti, Andrea Botti, Federico Barocelli, Andrea Biagi, Rosario Bonura, Luca Bearzot, Tiziano Moccetti, Antonio Crocamo, Maria Francesca Notarangelo, Elisabetta Moscarella, Paolo Calabrò, Giampaolo Niccoli, Diego Ardissino","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae089","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae089","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a serious consequence of a myocardial infarction (MI), but identifying patients at risk of developing SCD remains a major clinical challenge, especially in the case of juvenile MI. The aim of this study is to identify predictors of SCD after early-onset MI using long-term follow-up data relating to a large nationwide patient cohort.</p><p><strong>Methods and results: </strong>The Italian Genetic Study on Early-onset MI enrolled 2000 patients experiencing a first MI before the age of 45 years, who were followed up for a median of 19.9 years. Fine-Gray proportional hazard models were used to assess the associations between their clinical, demographic, and index event data and the occurrence of SCD. Sudden cardiac death occurred in 195 patients, who were more frequently males, were hypertensive and/or diabetic, had a history of previous thrombo-embolic events with a greater atherosclerotic burden, and had a lower left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) after the index event. A multivariable analysis showed that the independent predictors of SCD were diabetes, hypertension, previous thrombo-embolic events, a higher SYNTAX score, and a lower LVEF. There was no clear evidence of the clustering of SCD events during the follow-up. Sudden cardiac death was the first post-MI clinical event in 101 patients; the remaining 94 experienced SCD after a non-fatal MI or hospitalization for coronary revascularization.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Sudden cardiac death frequently occurs during the 20 years after early-onset MI. The nature of the identified predictors and the absence of clustering suggest that the pathophysiological basis of SCD may be related to progressive coronary atherosclerosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":"726-730"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141897084","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}
Gustavo Neves de Araujo, Guilherme Pinheiro Machado, Fernando Luis Scolari, Anderson Donelli Silveira, Marco Vugman Wainstein
{"title":"In response to 'Killip scale reclassification according to lung ultrasound: Killip pLUS', by Carreras-Mora et al.","authors":"Gustavo Neves de Araujo, Guilherme Pinheiro Machado, Fernando Luis Scolari, Anderson Donelli Silveira, Marco Vugman Wainstein","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae086","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae086","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":"662"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141632979","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}
Pascal Vranckx, David Morrow, Sean van Diepen, Frederik H Verbrugge
{"title":"Embracing the Olympic spirit: pioneering cardiac care insights from the 2024 European Society of Cardiology scientific meeting and more!","authors":"Pascal Vranckx, David Morrow, Sean van Diepen, Frederik H Verbrugge","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae099","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae099","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":"645"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142139643","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}
Uwe Zeymer, Anne Freund, Matthias Hochadel, Petr Ostadal, Jan Belohlavek, Steffen Massberg, Stefan Brunner, Marcus Flather, David Adlam, Christian Hassager, Jacob E Moeller, Steffen Schneider, Steffen Desch, Holger Thiele
{"title":"Do DanGer-SHOCK-like patients benefit from VA-ECMO treatment in infarct-related cardiogenic shock? results of an individual patient data meta-analysis.","authors":"Uwe Zeymer, Anne Freund, Matthias Hochadel, Petr Ostadal, Jan Belohlavek, Steffen Massberg, Stefan Brunner, Marcus Flather, David Adlam, Christian Hassager, Jacob E Moeller, Steffen Schneider, Steffen Desch, Holger Thiele","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae093","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae093","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>In a recent meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, routine use of veno-arterial ECMO (VA-ECMO) did not improve outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction-related cardiogenic shock (AMI-CS), while a microaxial flow pump reduced mortality in a selected group of patients with AMI-CS in the DanGer-Shock trial.</p><p><strong>Methods and results: </strong>Individual patient data of patients included in four randomized clinical trials investigating the routine use of VA-ECMO in AMI-CS were centrally analysed. For the purpose of this sub-analysis, DanGer-Shock-like patients were analysed (STEMI only, presumed low likelihood of brain injury). The primary endpoint was 180-day all-cause mortality. A total of 202 patients (106 randomized to VA-ECMO and 96 to control) were included. There were no differences in baseline characteristics, angiographic and interventional features between the two groups. Mortality after 6 months was numerically lower with VA-ECMO between the groups [45% in VA-ECMO group vs. 51% in control group; hazard ratio, 0.84; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.56-1.26], while major bleeding (OR, 2.24; 95% CI, 1.08-4.64) and peripheral vascular complications (OR, 3.65; 95% CI, 1.15-11.56) were increased with the use of VA-ECMO.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In this exploratory subgroup analysis in patients with CS, STEMI, and a low likelihood of brain injury, there was no mortality benefit with the routine use of VA-ECMO. However, as indicated by the large confidence intervals, the statistical power was limited to draw definite conclusions.</p>","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":"658-661"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142105627","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":"Echodynamics or pulmonary artery catheter dynamics? Should they be mutually exclusive?","authors":"Guido Tavazzi, Carlos Leon Alviar","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae096","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":"656-657"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142072266","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}
Simone Frea, Carol Gravinese, Paolo Boretto, Giulia De Lio, Pier Paolo Bocchino, Filippo Angelini, Marco Cingolani, Guglielmo Gallone, Antonio Montefusco, Eduardo Valente, Stefano Pidello, Claudia Raineri, Gaetano Maria De Ferrari
{"title":"Comprehensive non-invasive haemodynamic assessment in acute decompensated heart failure-related cardiogenic shock: a step towards echodynamics.","authors":"Simone Frea, Carol Gravinese, Paolo Boretto, Giulia De Lio, Pier Paolo Bocchino, Filippo Angelini, Marco Cingolani, Guglielmo Gallone, Antonio Montefusco, Eduardo Valente, Stefano Pidello, Claudia Raineri, Gaetano Maria De Ferrari","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae087","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae087","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Haemodynamic assessment can be determinant in phenotyping cardiogenic shock (CS) and guiding patient management. Aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between echocardiographic and invasive assessment of haemodynamics in acute decompensated heart failure-related CS (ADHF-CS).</p><p><strong>Methods and results: </strong>All consecutive ADHF-CS patients (SCAI shock stage ≥B) undergoing right heart catheterization (RHC) between 2020 and 2022 were prospectively enrolled. Patients underwent echocardiography 30 min before RHC. The evaluated haemodynamic parameters and their echocardiographic estimates ('e') comprised cardiac index (CI), wedge pressure (WP), pulmonary artery pressures (PAP), cardiac power output (CPO) and pulmonary artery pulsatility index (PAPi). Hundred and one ADHF-CS patients (56 ± 11 years, 64% SCAI shock stage C, left ventricular ejection fraction 29 ± 5%) were included. Good correlation was found for CI, systolic PAP, RAP, and CPO (Pearson r > 0.8 for all), moderate correlation for ePAPi (r = 0.67) and PVR (r = 0.51), while estimation of WP was weak. The sensitivity and specificity of eCI to identify low output state (CI ≤2.2 L/min/m2) were 0.97 and 0.73, respectively, those of eWP for elevated filling pressures (WP >15 mmHg) were 0.84 and 0.55, those of ePAPs for PAPs ≥35 mmHg were 0.87 and 0.63, those of eCPO for CPO <0.6 W were 0.76 and 0.85, those of ePAPi for PAPi <1.85 were 0.89 and 0.92. Echocardiographic phenotyping of CS showed a good agreement with invasive classification (K value 0.457, P < 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Echocardiographic estimation of haemodynamics and subsequent phenotypization of CS is feasible with good agreement with invasive evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":"646-655"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141626336","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}
Christina Byrne, Jesper Kjærgaard, Jacob E Møller, Tor Biering-Sørensen, Britt Borregaard, Henrik Schmidt, Christian Hassager
{"title":"Relevance of age and hypertension for blood pressure targets in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest: a BOX-trial sub-study.","authors":"Christina Byrne, Jesper Kjærgaard, Jacob E Møller, Tor Biering-Sørensen, Britt Borregaard, Henrik Schmidt, Christian Hassager","doi":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae080","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ehjacc/zuae080","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>To assess whether the optimal mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) target after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is influenced by age and a history of arterial hypertension.</p><p><strong>Methods and results: </strong>A post hoc analysis of data from the Blood Pressure and Oxygenation Targets in Post Resuscitation Care trial. The trial included 789 comatose patients randomized to a MAP target of 63 or 77 mmHg. The primary outcome of this sub-study was 1-year all-cause mortality. Cox proportional hazards regression and restricted cubic splines were used to examine whether prevalent hypertension and age modified the effect of low vs. high MAP target on all-cause mortality. Of the 789 patients randomized, 393 were assigned to a high MAP target, and 396 to a low MAP target. Groups were well-balanced for mean age (high MAP target 63 ± 13 years vs. low 62 ± 14 years) and hypertension (45 vs. 47%, respectively). At 1 year, the primary outcome occurred in 143 patients (36%) with a high MAP target and 138 (35%) with a low MAP target. The risk of the primary outcome increased linearly with increasing age (P < 0.001). The effect of a high vs. low MAP target on the primary outcome was modified by age when tested continuously, potentially favouring a low MAP target in younger patients (P for interaction = 0.03). Prevalent hypertension did not modify the effect of a high vs. low MAP target on the primary outcome (P for interaction = 0.67).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Among patients resuscitated after OHCA, older patients and those with a history of hypertension did not benefit from a high MAP target.</p>","PeriodicalId":11861,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care","volume":" ","pages":"663-669"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141723305","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}