JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2424
Gianluca Iacobellis
{"title":"Epicardial and Pericardial Fat-Separated But Under the Same Roof.","authors":"Gianluca Iacobellis","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2424","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2424","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"949"},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141975698","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 : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2187
Vinay Guduguntla, Robert O Bonow, Clyde W Yancy
{"title":"Acute Myocardial Infarction Admissions During the COVID-19 Peak.","authors":"Vinay Guduguntla, Robert O Bonow, Clyde W Yancy","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2187","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2187","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"920-921"},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141855515","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 : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2184
Amber B Tang, Nicholas K Brownell, Gregg C Fonarow
{"title":"Heart Failure-Together We Go Farther-Reply.","authors":"Amber B Tang, Nicholas K Brownell, Gregg C Fonarow","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2184","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2184","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"948-949"},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141855519","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":"Noninvasive Visualization of the Atrioventricular Conduction System Using Cardiac Computed Tomography.","authors":"Mirmilad Khoshknab, Tarek Zghaib, Lingyu Xu, Timothy Markman, Constantine Mavroudis, Benoit Desjardins, Saman Nazarian","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2012","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Noninvasive localization of the compact atrioventricular node and the proximal specialized conduction system (AVCS) would enhance planning for transcatheter aortic valve and complex or congenital heart disease surgical procedures.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To test the hypothesis that preprocedure contrast-enhanced cardiac computed tomography (CECT) can accurately localize the AVCS by identification of the fat that insulates the conductive myocardium.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This was a prospective cohort study that took place at an academic tertiary care center. Included in the study were patients with CECT acquired less than 1 month before atrial fibrillation ablation and electroanatomic localization of the His electrogram signal on electroanatomic mapping (EAM) between January 2022 and January 2023.</p><p><strong>Exposures: </strong>Preprocedure CECT.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The distance from the His electrogram signal to the fat segmentation encompassing the AVCS on CECT, after registration of the images to EAM.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 20 patients (mean [SD] age, 66 [10] years; 15 male [75%]) in the cohort, the mean (SD) attenuation of the AVCS fat segmentation was 2.9 (21.5) Hounsfield units. The mean (SD) distance from the His electrogram to the closest AVCS fat voxel was 3.3 (1.6) mm.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>Results of this cohort study suggest that CECT could accurately localize the fatty tissue that insulates the AVCS from surrounding atrial and ventricular myocardium and may enhance the efficacy and safety of procedures targeting the conduction system and structures in its proximity.</p>","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"909-913"},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11270265/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141751679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2390
Vinay Guduguntla, Kristen K Patton
{"title":"Rethinking Anticoagulation for Left Atrial Appendage Closure.","authors":"Vinay Guduguntla, Kristen K Patton","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2390","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2390","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"927"},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141897448","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 : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2318
Ann Marie Navar, Sadiya S Khan, Kristen K Patton, Sharlene M Day, Roxana Mehran
{"title":"The Urgent Need to Improve Outcomes for Pregnant Cardiovascular Trainees.","authors":"Ann Marie Navar, Sadiya S Khan, Kristen K Patton, Sharlene M Day, Roxana Mehran","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2318","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2318","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"869-870"},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141897449","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 : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2362
Gregg C Fonarow, Kristen K Patton, Clyde W Yancy
{"title":"Changing the Frame of Post-AMI Left Ventricular Dysfunction: Sudden Cardiac Death, a Diminishing Complication.","authors":"Gregg C Fonarow, Kristen K Patton, Clyde W Yancy","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2362","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2362","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"933-934"},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141897443","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 : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2335
Xavier Freixa, Ignacio Cruz-González, Pedro Cepas-Guillén, Xavi Millán, Pablo Antúnez-Muiños, Eduardo Flores-Umanzor, Lluís Asmarats, Ander Regueiro, Sergio López-Tejero, Chi-Hion Pedro Li, Laura Sanchis, Josep Rodés-Cabau, Dabit Arzamendi
{"title":"Low-Dose Direct Oral Anticoagulation vs Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion: The ADALA Randomized Clinical Trial.","authors":"Xavier Freixa, Ignacio Cruz-González, Pedro Cepas-Guillén, Xavi Millán, Pablo Antúnez-Muiños, Eduardo Flores-Umanzor, Lluís Asmarats, Ander Regueiro, Sergio López-Tejero, Chi-Hion Pedro Li, Laura Sanchis, Josep Rodés-Cabau, Dabit Arzamendi","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2335","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.2335","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Optimal antithrombotic therapy after percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) is not well established as no randomized evaluation has been performed to date.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To compare the efficacy and safety of low-dose direct oral anticoagulation (low-dose DOAC) vs dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) for 3 months after LAAO.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>The ADALA (Low-Dose Direct Oral Anticoagulation vs Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion) study was an investigator-initiated, multicenter, prospective, open-label, randomized clinical trial enrolling participants from June 12, 2019, to August 28, 2022 from 3 European sites. Patients who underwent successful LAAO were randomly assigned 1:1 to low-dose DOAC vs DAPT for 3 months after LAAO. The study was prematurely terminated when only 60% of the estimated sample size had been included due to lower recruitment rate than anticipated due to the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>The low-dose DOAC group received apixaban, 2.5 mg every 12 hours, and the DAPT group received aspirin, 100 mg per day, plus clopidogrel, 75 mg per day, for the first 3 months after LAAO.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The primary end point was a composite of safety (major bleeding) and efficacy (thromboembolic events including stroke, systemic embolism, and device-related thrombosis [DRT]) within the first 3 months after successful LAAO. Secondary end points included individual components of the primary outcome and all-bleeding events.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 90 patients (mean [SD] age, 76.6 [8.1] years; 60 male [66.7%]; mean [SD] CHADS-VASc score, 4.0 [1.5]) were included in the analysis (44 and 46 patients in the low-dose DOAC and DAPT groups, respectively). A total of 53 patients (58.8%) presented with previous major bleeding events (60 gastrointestinal [66.7%] and 16 intracranial [17.8%]). At 3 months, low-dose DOAC was associated with a reduction of the primary end point compared with DAPT (2 [4.5%] vs 10 [21.7%]; hazard ratio, 0.19; 95% CI, 0.04-0.88; P = .02). Patients in the low-dose DOAC group exhibited a lower rate of DRT (0% vs 6 [8.7%]; P = .04) and tended to have a lower incidence of major bleeding events (2 [4.6%] vs 6 [13.0%]; P = .17), with no differences in thromboembolic events such as stroke and systemic embolism between groups (none in the overall population).</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>This was a small, randomized clinical trial comparing different antithrombotic strategies after LAAO. Results show that use of low-dose DOAC for 3 months after LAAO was associated with a better balance between efficacy and safety compared with DAPT. However, the results of the study should be interpreted with caution due to the limited sample size and will need to be confirmed in future larger randomized trials.</p><p><strong>Tr","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"922-926"},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11307161/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141897445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}