{"title":"Updated declaration of interests for European Society of Cardiology volunteers and officers.","authors":"Carlos Aguiar,Paulus Kirchhof,Franz Weidinger","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae663","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":39.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142321421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna Louise Pouncey, Michael J Sweeting, Colin Bicknell, Janet T Powell, Jenny Lübcke, Kim Gunnarsson, Anders Wanhainen, Kevin Mani
{"title":"Sex-specific differences in alive hospital discharge following infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.","authors":"Anna Louise Pouncey, Michael J Sweeting, Colin Bicknell, Janet T Powell, Jenny Lübcke, Kim Gunnarsson, Anders Wanhainen, Kevin Mani","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae675","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae675","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and aims: </strong>A longer time to alive hospital discharge following infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair is associated with reduced patient-satisfaction and increased length of stay, hospital-acquired deconditioning, infection and costs. This study investigated sex-specific differences in, and drivers of, the rate of alive hospital discharge.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Examination of UK National Vascular Registry (UK NVR), 2014-2019 and Swedish National Patient Registry (SE NPR) elective AAA patients, 2010-2018, for endovascular (EVAR) or open (OAR) aneurysm repair. Cox models assessed sex-specific difference in rate of alive hospital discharge, adjusting for co-morbidity, anatomy, standard-of-care, post-operative complications, and year, with in-hospital death as the competing risk.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>29,751 AAA repairs (UK NVR -EVAR 12518:1532; OAR 6803:837; SE NPR - EVAR 4234:792; OAR 2638:497, men:women) were assessed. For EVAR, the unadjusted rate of alive hospital discharge was ∼25% lower for women (UK NVR HR 0.75 [0.71-0.80], p<.001; SE NPR HR 0.75 [0.69-0.81], p<.001). Following adjustment the sex-specific hazard ratio narrowed but remained significant (UK NVR: HR 0.83 [0.79-0.88], p<.001; SE NPR HR 0.83 [0.76-0.89], p<.001). For OAR, the rate of alive hospital discharge was 23-27% lower for women (UK NVR HR 0.73 [0.67-0.78], p<.001; SE NPR HR 0.77 [0.70-0.85], p<.001). Following adjustment the sex-specific hazard ratio narrowed (UK NVR HR 0.82 [0.76-0.88], p<.001; SE NPR HR 0.79 [0.72-0.88], p<.001) but remained significant.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Women have a 25% lower rate of alive discharge after aortic surgery, despite adjustment for pre/peri- and postoperative parameters. Efforts to increase rate of alive hospital discharge for women should be sought.</p>","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":37.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142307371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prognostic value of ventricular arrhythmia in early post-infarction left ventricular dysfunction: the French nationwide WICD-MI study.","authors":"Mathieu Echivard,Jean-Marc Sellal,Chloé Ziliox,Eloi Marijon,Pierre Bordachar,Sylvain Ploux,Karim Benali,Christelle Marquié,Clémence Docq,Didier Klug,Romain Eschalier,Baptiste Maille,Jean-Claude Deharo,Dominique Babuty,Thibaud Genet,Estelle Gandjbakhch,Antoine Da Costa,Olivier Piot,Damien Minois,Jean-Baptiste Gourraud,Pierre Mondoly,Philippe Maury,Serge Boveda,Jean-Luc Pasquié,Raphaël Martins,Christophe Leclercq,Charles Guenancia,Gabriel Laurent,Mathieu Becker,Julien Bertrand,Philippe Chevalier,Vladimir Manenti,Maciej Kubala,Pascal Defaye,Peggy Jacon,Antoine Desbiolles,Marc Badoz,Laurence Jesel,Nicolas Lellouche,Paul-Ursmar Milliez,Paul Ollitrault,Samir Fareh,Matthieu Bercker,Jacques Mansourati,Benoît Guy-Moyat,Jean-Pierre Chabert,Nicolas Luconi,Pierre-François Winum,Frédéric Anselme,Fabrice Extramiana,Camille Delahaye,François Jourda,Olivier Bizeau,Mathieu Nasarre,Arnaud Olivier,Stéphane Fromentin,Thibault Villemin,Olivier Levavasseur,Néfissa Hammache,Isabelle Magnin-Poull,Hugues Blangy,Nicolas Sadoul,Kevin Duarte,Nicolas Girerd,Christian de Chillou","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae575","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND AND AIMSProphylactic implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are not recommended until left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) has been reassessed 40 to 90 days after an acute myocardial infarction. In the current therapeutic era, the prognosis of sustained ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) occurring during this early post-infarction phase (i.e. within 3 months of hospital discharge) has not yet been specifically evaluated in post-myocardial infarction patients with impaired LVEF. Such was the aim of this retrospective study.METHODSData analysis was based on a nationwide registry of 1032 consecutive patients with LVEF ≤ 35% after acute myocardial infarction who were implanted with an ICD after being prescribed a wearable cardioverter-defibrillator (WCD) for a period of 3 months upon discharge from hospital after the index infarction.RESULTSICDs were implanted either because a sustained VA occurred while on WCD (VA+/WCD, n = 72) or because LVEF remained ≤35% at the end of the early post-infarction phase (VA-/WCD, n = 960). The median follow-up was 30.9 months. Sustained VAs occurred within 1 year after ICD implantation in 22.2% and 3.5% of VA+/WCD and VA-/WCD patients, respectively (P < .0001). The adjusted multivariable analysis showed that sustained VAs while on WCD independently predicted recurrence of sustained VAs at 1 year (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 6.91; 95% confidence interval [CI] 3.73-12.81; P < .0001) and at the end of follow-up (adjusted HR 3.86; 95% CI 2.37-6.30; P < .0001) as well as 1-year mortality (adjusted HR 2.86; 95% CI 1.28-6.39; P = .012).CONCLUSIONSIn patients with LVEF ≤ 35%, sustained VA during the early post-infarction phase is predictive of recurrent sustained VAs and 1-year mortality.","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":39.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142273419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Evinacumab in homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia: long-term safety and efficacy.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae594","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":39.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142275281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alessio Gasperetti, Richard T Carrick, Alexandros Protonotarios, Brittney Murray, Mikael Laredo, Iris van der Schaaf, Ronald H Lekanne, Petros Syrris, Douglas Cannie, Crystal Tichnell, Chiara Cappelletto, Marta Gigli, Kristen Medo, Ardan M Saguner, Firat Duru, Nisha A Gilotra, Stefan Zimmerman, Robyn Hylind, Dominic J Abrams, Neal K Lakdawala, Julia Cadrin-Tourigny, Mattia Targetti, Iacopo Olivotto, Maddalena Graziosi, Moniek Cox, Elena Biagini, Philippe Charron, Michela Casella, Claudio Tondo, Momina Yazdani, James S Ware, Sanjay K Prasad, Leonardo Calò, Eric D Smith, Adam S Helms, Sophie Hespe, Jodie Ingles, Harikrishna Tandri, Flavie Ader, Giovanni Peretto, Stacey Peters, Ari Horton, Jess Yao, Sven Dittmann, Eric Schulze-Bahr, Maria Qureshi, Katelyn Young, Eric D Carruth, Chris Haggerty, Victoria N Parikh, Matthew Taylor, Luisa Mestroni, Arthur Wilde, Gianfranco Sinagra, Marco Merlo, Estelle Gandjbakhch, J Peter van Tintelen, Anneline S J M te Riele, Perry M Elliott, Hugh Calkins, Cynthia A James
{"title":"Clinical features and outcomes in carriers of pathogenic desmoplakin variants","authors":"Alessio Gasperetti, Richard T Carrick, Alexandros Protonotarios, Brittney Murray, Mikael Laredo, Iris van der Schaaf, Ronald H Lekanne, Petros Syrris, Douglas Cannie, Crystal Tichnell, Chiara Cappelletto, Marta Gigli, Kristen Medo, Ardan M Saguner, Firat Duru, Nisha A Gilotra, Stefan Zimmerman, Robyn Hylind, Dominic J Abrams, Neal K Lakdawala, Julia Cadrin-Tourigny, Mattia Targetti, Iacopo Olivotto, Maddalena Graziosi, Moniek Cox, Elena Biagini, Philippe Charron, Michela Casella, Claudio Tondo, Momina Yazdani, James S Ware, Sanjay K Prasad, Leonardo Calò, Eric D Smith, Adam S Helms, Sophie Hespe, Jodie Ingles, Harikrishna Tandri, Flavie Ader, Giovanni Peretto, Stacey Peters, Ari Horton, Jess Yao, Sven Dittmann, Eric Schulze-Bahr, Maria Qureshi, Katelyn Young, Eric D Carruth, Chris Haggerty, Victoria N Parikh, Matthew Taylor, Luisa Mestroni, Arthur Wilde, Gianfranco Sinagra, Marco Merlo, Estelle Gandjbakhch, J Peter van Tintelen, Anneline S J M te Riele, Perry M Elliott, Hugh Calkins, Cynthia A James","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae571","url":null,"abstract":"Background and Aims Pathogenic variants in the desmoplakin (DSP) gene are associated with the development of a distinct arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy phenotype not fully captured by either dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), non-dilated left ventricular cardiomyopathy (NDLVC), or arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC). Prior studies have described baseline DSP cardiomyopathy genetic, inflammatory, and structural characteristics. However, cohort sizes have limited full clinical characterization and identification of clinical and demographic predictors of sustained ventricular arrhythmias (VAs), heart failure (HF) hospitalizations, and transplant/death. In particular, the relevance of acute myocarditis-like episodes for subsequent disease course is largely unknown. Methods All patients with pathogenic/likely pathogenic (P/LP) DSP variants in the worldwide DSP-ERADOS Network (26 academic institutions across nine countries) were included. The primary outcomes were the development of sustained VA and HF hospitalizations during follow-up. Fine–Gray regressions were used to test association between clinical and instrumental parameters and the development of outcomes. Results Eight hundred patients [40.3 ± 17.5 years, 47.5% probands, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) 49.5 ± 13.9%] were included. Over 3.7 [1.4–7.1] years, 139 (17.4%, 3.9%/year) and 72 (9.0%, 1.8%/year) patients experienced sustained VA and HF episodes, respectively. A total of 32.5% of individuals did not fulfil diagnostic criteria for ARVC, DCM, or NDLVC; their VA incidence was 0.5%/year. In multivariable regression, risk features associated with the development of VA were female sex [adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) 1.547; P = .025], prior non-sustained ventricular tachycardia (aHR 1.721; P = .009), prior sustained VA (aHR 1.923; P = .006), and LVEF ≤ 50% (aHR: 1.645; P = .032), while for HF, they were the presence of T-wave inversion in 3+ electrocardiogram leads (aHR 2.036, P = .007) and LVEF ≤ 50% (aHR 3.879; P &lt; .001). Additionally, 70 (8.8%) patients experienced a myocardial injury episode at presentation or during follow-up. These episodes were associated with an increased risk of VA and HF thereafter (HR 2.394; P &lt; .001, and HR 5.064, P &lt; .001, respectively). Conclusions Patients with P/LP DSP variants experience high rates of sustained VA and HF hospitalizations. These patients demonstrate a distinct clinical phenotype (DSP cardiomyopathy), whose most prominent risk features associated with adverse clinical outcomes are the presence of prior non-sustained ventricular tachycardia or sustained VA, T-wave inversion in 3+ leads on electrocardiogram, LVEF ≤ 50%, and myocardial injury events.","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":39.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142236876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Traditional Chinese medicine: cardiovascular drug development through a holistic framework.","authors":"Milton Packer","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae625","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":39.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}