JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2025-01-22DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.5209
Konstantinos Marmagkiolis, Jaime Caballero, Cezar Iliescu
{"title":"Yellowish Nodules on a Man Consuming a Carnivore Diet.","authors":"Konstantinos Marmagkiolis, Jaime Caballero, Cezar Iliescu","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.5209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2024.5209","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143005147","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}
JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2025-01-22DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.5213
Duc M Giao, Hannah Col, Fredrick Larbi Kwapong, Ruth-Alma Turkson-Ocran, Long H Ngo, Jennifer L Cluett, Lynne Wagenknecht, B Gwen Windham, Elizabeth Selvin, Pamela L Lutsey, Stephen P Juraschek
{"title":"Supine Blood Pressure and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality.","authors":"Duc M Giao, Hannah Col, Fredrick Larbi Kwapong, Ruth-Alma Turkson-Ocran, Long H Ngo, Jennifer L Cluett, Lynne Wagenknecht, B Gwen Windham, Elizabeth Selvin, Pamela L Lutsey, Stephen P Juraschek","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.5213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2024.5213","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Nocturnal hypertension while asleep is associated with substantial increases in risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and death. Whether hypertension while supine is a risk factor associated with CVD independent of seated hypertension remains unknown.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To investigate the association between supine hypertension and CVD outcomes and by hypertension treatment status.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This prospective cohort study used data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, which was established in 1987 to examine cardiovascular risk factors among middle-aged adults from 4 communities in the US. Supine and seated blood pressure were measured in more than 13 000 middle-aged adults with longitudinal surveillance for CVD over 27 years. Participants with a history of coronary heart disease (CHD), heart failure, or stroke were excluded. Data were analyzed from May 2023 through December 2024.</p><p><strong>Exposures: </strong>Supine hypertension (supine systolic blood pressure ≥130 or diastolic blood pressure ≥80 mm Hg) with and without seated hypertension (seated systolic blood pressure ≥130 or diastolic blood pressure ≥80 mm Hg).</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Cox proportional hazard models with adjustment for CVD risk factors were performed to investigate the association of supine hypertension with and without seated hypertension with incident CHD, heart failure, stroke, fatal CHD, and all-cause mortality.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 11 369 participants without known CVD (6332 female [55.7%] and 5037 male [44.3%]; 2858 Black [25.1%] and 8511 White [74.9%]; mean [SD] age 53.9 [5.7] years]), 16.4% (95% CI, 15.5%-17.2%) of those without seated hypertension had supine hypertension and 73.5% (95% CI, 72.2%-74.8%) of those with seated hypertension had supine hypertension. Supine hypertension was associated with incident CHD (hazard ratio [HR], 1.60; 95% CI, 1.45-1.76), heart failure (HR, 1.83; 95% CI, 1.68-2.01), stroke (HR, 1.86; 95% CI, 1.63-2.13), fatal CHD (HR, 2.18; 95% CI, 1.84-2.59), and all-cause mortality (HR, 1.43; 95% CI, 1.35-1.52) during a median (25th, 75th percentile) follow-up of 25.7 (15.4, 30.4) years, 26.9 (17.6, 30.5) years, 27.6 (18.5, 30.6 years), 28.3 (20.5, 30.7) years, and 28.3 (20.5 years, 30.7) years, respectively. There were no meaningful differences by seated hypertension status. Results were similar by hypertension medication use. Participants with supine hypertension alone had risk associations similar to those of participants with hypertension in both positions and significantly greater than those of participants with seated hypertension alone with the exception of fatal CHD; seated vs supine HRs were 0.72 (95% CI, 0.61-0.85) for CHD, 0.72 (95% CI, 0.60-0.85) for heart failure, 0.66 (95% CI, 0.51-0.86) for stroke, and 0.83 (95% CI, 0.74-0.92) for all-cause mortality.</p><p><strong>Conclusio","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143005552","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}
JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2025-01-22DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.5221
Aldostefano Porcari, Yousuf Razvi, Francesco Cappelli, Christian Nitsche, Matteo Serenelli, Simone Longhi, Giulio Sinigiani, Alberto Cipriani, Alberto Aimo, Daniela Tomasoni, Mattia Zampieri, Anna Cantone, Valentina Allegro, Giuseppe Vergaro, Ahmad Masri, Marcus Urey, Adam Ioannou, Aviva Petrie, Navid Noory, Finn Gustafsson, Michael Poledniczek, Michele Emdin, Marco Metra, Gianfranco Sinagra, Ana Martinez-Naharro, Ashutosh D Wechalekar, Helen Lachman, Carol Whelan, Philip N Hawkins, Scott D Solomon, Julian D Gillmore, Marianna Fontana
{"title":"Clinical Phenotype and Prognosis of Asymptomatic Patients With Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloid Infiltration.","authors":"Aldostefano Porcari, Yousuf Razvi, Francesco Cappelli, Christian Nitsche, Matteo Serenelli, Simone Longhi, Giulio Sinigiani, Alberto Cipriani, Alberto Aimo, Daniela Tomasoni, Mattia Zampieri, Anna Cantone, Valentina Allegro, Giuseppe Vergaro, Ahmad Masri, Marcus Urey, Adam Ioannou, Aviva Petrie, Navid Noory, Finn Gustafsson, Michael Poledniczek, Michele Emdin, Marco Metra, Gianfranco Sinagra, Ana Martinez-Naharro, Ashutosh D Wechalekar, Helen Lachman, Carol Whelan, Philip N Hawkins, Scott D Solomon, Julian D Gillmore, Marianna Fontana","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.5221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2024.5221","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Patients with transthyretin (ATTR) cardiac amyloid infiltration are increasingly diagnosed at earlier disease stages with no heart failure (HF) symptoms and a wide range of cardiac amyloid infiltration.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To characterize the clinical phenotype and natural history of asymptomatic patients with ATTR cardiac amyloid infiltration.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This cohort study analyzed data of all patients at 12 international centers for amyloidosis from January 1, 2008, through December 31, 2023. Inclusion criteria were asymptomatic ATTR cardiac amyloid infiltration, defined as an absence of HF history, HF signs and symptoms, diuretic therapy, and plasma cell dyscrasia with evidence of myocardial uptake on bone scintigraphy. If plasma cell dyscrasia was present, histologic confirmation of ATTR amyloid was required.</p><p><strong>Exposure: </strong>Asymptomatic ATTR cardiac amyloid infiltration.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The primary outcomes were all-cause and cardiovascular (CV) mortality. The secondary outcomes were unplanned HF hospitalization, unplanned CV-related hospitalization, and a composite outcome of CV mortality and HF hospitalization.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study comprised 485 patients with asymptomatic ATTR cardiac amyloid infiltration (mean [SD] age, 74.9 [9.9] years, 85.8% male, 112 [23.1%] with hereditary ATTR amyloidosis), with 369 (76.1%) having grade 2 or 3 and 116 (23.9%) having grade 1 cardiac uptake at baseline. Patients with grade 2 or 3 uptake exhibited significantly more cardiac functional and structural abnormalities vs patients with grade 1 uptake. At 3 years, compared with grade 1 uptake, patients with grade 2 or 3 uptake had greater development of HF (54.3% [95% CI, 47.7%-61.3%] vs 23.1% [95% CI, 14.8%-35.1%]), greater outpatient diuretic initiation and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide progression (35.0% [95% CI, 28.0%-43.2%] vs 12.4% [95% CI, 6.3%-23.7%]), and greater HF hospitalization (8.7% [95% CI, 5.9%-12.9%] vs 0%) and unplanned CV hospitalization (20.0% [95% CI, 15.7%-25.3%] vs 4.3% [95% CI, 1.6%-11.3%]). Over a median follow-up of 37 months (IQR, 20-64 months), the all-cause death rate was similar between patients with grade 1 vs 2 and 3 uptake; however, those with grade 2 or 3 compared with grade 1 uptake had a significantly higher risk of CV mortality (unadjusted hazard ratio, 5.30; 95% CI, 1.92-14.65).</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>This study shows that asymptomatic ATTR cardiac amyloid infiltration encompasses a wide spectrum of disease severity, with patients with grade 2 or 3 cardiac uptake experiencing an increased rate of CV events and CV mortality and patients with grade 1 uptake experiencing a lower CV event rate and predominantly non-CV mortality. These findings support the use of disease-modifying treatments in asymptomatic patients with grade ","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143005551","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}
JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2025-01-15DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.4991
Cristiana Baloescu, John Bailitz, Baljash Cheema, Ravi Agarwala, Madeline Jankowski, Onyinyechi Eke, Rachel Liu, Jason Nomura, Lori Stolz, Luna Gargani, Eren Alkan, Tyler Wellman, Nripesh Parajuli, Andrew Marra, Yngvil Thomas, Daven Patel, Evelyn Schraft, James O'Brien, Christopher L Moore, Michael Gottlieb
{"title":"Artificial Intelligence-Guided Lung Ultrasound by Nonexperts.","authors":"Cristiana Baloescu, John Bailitz, Baljash Cheema, Ravi Agarwala, Madeline Jankowski, Onyinyechi Eke, Rachel Liu, Jason Nomura, Lori Stolz, Luna Gargani, Eren Alkan, Tyler Wellman, Nripesh Parajuli, Andrew Marra, Yngvil Thomas, Daven Patel, Evelyn Schraft, James O'Brien, Christopher L Moore, Michael Gottlieb","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.4991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2024.4991","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Lung ultrasound (LUS) aids in the diagnosis of patients with dyspnea, including those with cardiogenic pulmonary edema, but requires technical proficiency for image acquisition. Previous research has demonstrated the effectiveness of artificial intelligence (AI) in guiding novice users to acquire high-quality cardiac ultrasound images, suggesting its potential for broader use in LUS.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate the ability of AI to guide acquisition of diagnostic-quality LUS images by trained health care professionals (THCPs).</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>In this multicenter diagnostic validation study conducted between July 2023 and December 2023, participants aged 21 years or older with shortness of breath recruited from 4 clinical sites underwent 2 ultrasound examinations: 1 examination by a THCP operator using Lung Guidance AI and the other by a trained LUS expert without AI. The THCPs (including medical assistants, respiratory therapists, and nurses) underwent standardized AI training for LUS acquisition before participation.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>Lung Guidance AI software uses deep learning algorithms guiding LUS image acquisition and B-line annotation. Using an 8-zone LUS protocol, the AI software automatically captures images of diagnostic quality.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The primary end point was the proportion of THCP-acquired examinations of diagnostic quality according to a panel of 5 masked expert LUS readers, who provided remote review and ground truth validation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The intention-to-treat analysis included 176 participants (81 female participants [46.0%]; mean [SD] age, 63 [14] years; mean [SD] body mass index, 31 [8]). Overall, 98.3% (95% CI, 95.1%-99.4%) of THCP-acquired studies were of diagnostic quality, with no statistically significant difference in quality compared to LUS expert-acquired studies (difference, 1.7%; 95% CI, -1.6% to 5.0%).</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>In this multicenter validation study, THCPs with AI assistance achieved LUS images meeting diagnostic standards compared with LUS experts without AI. This technology could extend access to LUS to underserved areas lacking expert personnel.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05992324.</p>","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142983599","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}
JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2025-01-15DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.5072
Akshaya Ravi, Satoshi Koyama, So Mi Jemma Cho, Sara Haidermota, Whitney Hornsby, Patrick T Ellinor, Pradeep Natarajan
{"title":"Genetic Predisposition to Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Incident Type 2 Diabetes.","authors":"Akshaya Ravi, Satoshi Koyama, So Mi Jemma Cho, Sara Haidermota, Whitney Hornsby, Patrick T Ellinor, Pradeep Natarajan","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.5072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2024.5072","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Treatment to lower high levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) reduces incident coronary artery disease (CAD) risk but modestly increases the risk for incident type 2 diabetes (T2D). The extent to which genetic factors across the cholesterol spectrum are associated with incident T2D is not well understood.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To investigate the association of genetic predisposition to increased LDL-C levels with incident T2D risk.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>In this large prospective, population-based cohort study, UK Biobank participants who underwent whole-exome sequencing and genome-wide genotyping were included. Participants were separated into 7 groups with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), predicted loss of function (pLOF) in APOB or PCSK9 variants, and LDL-C polygenic risk score (PRS) quintiles. Data were collected between 2006 and 2010, with a median follow-up of 13.7 (IQR, 12.9-14.5) years. Data were analyzed from March 1 to November 1, 2024.</p><p><strong>Exposures: </strong>LDL-C level, LDL-C PRS, FH, or pLOF variant status.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Cox proportional hazards regression models adjusted for age, sex, genotyping array, lipid-lowering medication use, and the first 10 genetic principal components were fitted to assess the association between LDL-C genetic factors and incident T2D and CAD risks.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among the 361 082 participants, mean (SD) age was 56.8 (8.0) years, 194 751 (53.9%) were female, and mean (SD) baseline LDL-C level was 138.0 (33.6) mg/dL. During the follow-up period, 22 619 (6.3%) participants developed incident T2D and 17 966 (5.0%) developed incident CAD. The hazard ratio for incident T2D was lowest in the FH group (0.65; 95% CI, 0.54-0.77), while the highest risk was in the pLOF group (1.48; 95% CI, 1.18-1.86). The association between LDL-C PRS and incident T2D was 0.72 (95% CI, 0.66-0.79) for very high LDL-C PRS, 0.87 (95% CI, 0.84-0.90) for high LDL-C PRS, 1.13 (95% CI, 1.09-1.17) for low LDL-C PRS, and 1.26 (95% CI, 1.15-1.38) for very low LDL-C PRS. CAD risk increased directly with the LDL-C PRS.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>In this cohort study, LDL-C and T2D risks were inversely associated across genetic mechanisms for LDL-C variation. Further elucidation of the mechanisms associating low LDL-C risk with increased risk of T2D is warranted.</p>","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142983609","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}
JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.4812
Ciaran N. Kohli-Lynch, Andrew E. Moran, Dhruv S. Kazi, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Neil Jordan, Dustin French, Yiyi Zhang, Thomas J. Wang, Brandon K. Bellows
{"title":"Cost-Effectiveness of a Polypill for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in an Underserved Population","authors":"Ciaran N. Kohli-Lynch, Andrew E. Moran, Dhruv S. Kazi, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Neil Jordan, Dustin French, Yiyi Zhang, Thomas J. Wang, Brandon K. Bellows","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.4812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2024.4812","url":null,"abstract":"ImportanceThe Southern Community Cohort Study (SCCS) Polypill Trial showed that a cardiovascular polypill (a single pill containing a statin and 3 half-standard dose antihypertensive medications) effectively controls cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in a majority Black race and low-income population. The cost-effectiveness of polypill treatment in this population has not been previously studied.ObjectiveTo determine the cost-effectiveness of the cardiovascular polypill.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsA discrete-event simulation version of the well-established CVD policy model simulated clinical and economic outcomes of the SCCS Polypill Trial from a health care sector perspective. A time horizon of 10 years was adopted. Polypill treatment was priced at $463 per year in the base-case analysis. Model input data were derived from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, pooled longitudinal cohort studies, the SCCS Polypill Trial, and published literature. Two cohorts were analyzed: an SCCS Polypill Trial–representative cohort of 100 000 individuals and all trial-eligible non-Hispanic Black US adults. Study parameters and model inputs were varied extensively in 1-way and probabilistic sensitivity analysis.ExposuresPolypill treatment or usual care.Main Outcome and MeasuresPrimary outcomes were direct health care costs (US dollar 2023) and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs), both discounted 3% annually, and the incremental cost per QALY gained.ResultsIn the trial-representative cohort of 100 000 individuals (mean [SD] age, 56.9 [5.9] years; 61 807 female [61.8%]), polypill treatment was projected to yield a mean of 1190 (95% uncertainty interval, 287-2159) additional QALYs compared with usual care, at a cost of approximately $10 152 000. Hence, polypill treatment was estimated to cost $8560 per QALY gained compared with usual care and was high value (&amp;lt;$50 000 per QALY gained) in 99% of simulations. Polypill treatment was estimated to be high value when priced at $559 or less per year and cost saving when priced at $443 or less per year. In almost all sensitivity analyses, polypill treatment remained high value. In a secondary analysis of 3 602 427 trial-eligible non-Hispanic Black US adults (mean [SD] age, 55.4 [7.6] years; 2 006 597 female [55.7%]), polypill treatment was high value, with an estimated cost of $13 400 per QALY gained.Conclusions and RelevanceResults of this economic evaluation suggest that polypill treatment could be a high value intervention for a low-income, majority Black population with limited access to health care services. It could additionally reduce health disparities.","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142936291","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}
JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.4849
Finn Gustafsson, Nir Uriel, Ivan Netuka, Jason N Katz, Francis D Pagani, Jean M Connors, Ulrich P Jorde, Daniel Zimpfer, Yuriy Pya, Jennifer Conway, Anelechi Anyanwu, Anna Mara Scandroglio, Nasir Sulemanjee, Pavan Atluri, Mary Keebler, Craig H Selzman, Jeffrey D Alexis, Christopher Hayward, John Henderson, Nicholas Dirckx, Carlo Gazzola, Mandeep R Mehra
{"title":"Aspirin and Hemocompatibility After LVAD Implantation in Patients With Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease: A Secondary Analysis From the ARIES-HM3 Randomized Clinical Trial.","authors":"Finn Gustafsson, Nir Uriel, Ivan Netuka, Jason N Katz, Francis D Pagani, Jean M Connors, Ulrich P Jorde, Daniel Zimpfer, Yuriy Pya, Jennifer Conway, Anelechi Anyanwu, Anna Mara Scandroglio, Nasir Sulemanjee, Pavan Atluri, Mary Keebler, Craig H Selzman, Jeffrey D Alexis, Christopher Hayward, John Henderson, Nicholas Dirckx, Carlo Gazzola, Mandeep R Mehra","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.4849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2024.4849","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>The Aspirin and Hemocompatibility Events With a Left Ventricular Assist Device in Advanced Heart Failure (ARIES-HM3) study demonstrated that aspirin may be safely eliminated from the antithrombotic regimen after HeartMate 3 (HM3 [Abbott Cardiovascular]) left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation. This prespecified analysis explored whether conditions requiring aspirin (prior percutaneous coronary intervention [PCI], coronary artery bypass grafting [CABG], stroke, or peripheral vascular disease [PVD]) would influence outcomes differentially with aspirin avoidance.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To analyze aspirin avoidance on hemocompatibility-related adverse events (HRAEs) at 1 year after implant in patients with a history of CABG, PCI, stroke, or PVD.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This was an international, multicenter, prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial including patients implanted with a de novo HM3 LVAD across 51 centers. Data analysis was conducted from April to July 2024.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>Patients were randomized in a 1:1 ratio to receive aspirin (100 mg per day) or placebo, in addition to a vitamin K antagonist (VKA) targeted to an international normalized ratio of 2 to 3 in both groups.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Primary end point (assessed for noninferiority) was a composite of survival free of any nonsurgical (>14 days after implant) HRAEs including stroke, pump thrombosis, bleeding, and arterial peripheral thromboembolism at 12 months. Secondary end points included nonsurgical bleeding, stroke, and pump thrombosis events.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 589 of 628 patients (mean [SD] age, 57.1 [13.7] years; 456 male [77.4%]) who contributed to the primary end point analysis, a history of PCI, CABG, stroke, or PVD was present in 41% (240 of 589 patients). There was no interaction between the presence of an atherosclerotic vascular condition and effect of aspirin compared with placebo (P for interaction= .23). The preset 10% noninferiority margin was not crossed for the studied subgroup of patients. Thrombotic events were rare, with no differences between aspirin and placebo in patients with and without vascular disease (P for interaction = .77). Aspirin treatment was associated with a higher rate of nonsurgical major bleeding events in the group with prior vascular condition history compared with those without aspirin (rate ratio for placebo compared with aspirin, 0.52; 95% CI, 0.35-0.79).</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>Results of this prespecified analysis of the ARIES-HM3 randomized clinical trial demonstrate that in patients with advanced heart failure who have classical indications for antiplatelet therapy use at the time of LVAD implantation, aspirin avoidance was safe and not associated with increased thrombosis risk. Importantly, elimination of aspirin w","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142949015","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}
JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.4823
Ushasi Saraswati, Jaideep Singh Bhalla, Allan L. Klein
{"title":"Recurrent Chest Pain in a Young Female Patient With Family History of Cancer","authors":"Ushasi Saraswati, Jaideep Singh Bhalla, Allan L. Klein","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.4823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2024.4823","url":null,"abstract":"A female patient presents with chest pain, and echocardiography reveals moderate circumferential pericardial effusion, leading to a diagnosis of acute pericarditis. Initial cardiac magnetic resonance imaging phase-sensitive inversion recovery sequences in the sagittal section depict late gadolinium enhancement on the pericardium and pericardial thickening. What would you do next?","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142936292","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}