{"title":"Asymptomatic But Obstructive: Anticipating the Coming Storm.","authors":"Ozlem Bilen, Michael A Burke","doi":"10.1016/j.jchf.2024.10.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchf.2024.10.017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14687,"journal":{"name":"JACC. Heart failure","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142965048","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}
JACC. Heart failurePub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-11-20DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2024.09.010
Giuseppe M C Rosano, Gianluigi Savarese, Michael Böhm, John R Teerlink
{"title":"Optimizing the Posthospital Period After Admission for Worsening Heart Failure.","authors":"Giuseppe M C Rosano, Gianluigi Savarese, Michael Böhm, John R Teerlink","doi":"10.1016/j.jchf.2024.09.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jchf.2024.09.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14687,"journal":{"name":"JACC. Heart failure","volume":" ","pages":"167-172"},"PeriodicalIF":10.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142682000","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}
JACC. Heart failurePub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-10-23DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2024.08.012
Arash A Nargesi, Philip Adejumo, Lovedeep Singh Dhingra, Benjamin Rosand, Astrid Hengartner, Andreas Coppi, Simon Benigeri, Sounok Sen, Tariq Ahmad, Girish N Nadkarni, Zhenqiu Lin, Faraz S Ahmad, Harlan M Krumholz, Rohan Khera
{"title":"Automated Identification of Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction Using Deep Learning-Based Natural Language Processing.","authors":"Arash A Nargesi, Philip Adejumo, Lovedeep Singh Dhingra, Benjamin Rosand, Astrid Hengartner, Andreas Coppi, Simon Benigeri, Sounok Sen, Tariq Ahmad, Girish N Nadkarni, Zhenqiu Lin, Faraz S Ahmad, Harlan M Krumholz, Rohan Khera","doi":"10.1016/j.jchf.2024.08.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jchf.2024.08.012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The lack of automated tools for measuring care quality limits the implementation of a national program to assess guideline-directed care in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>The authors aimed to automate the identification of patients with HFrEF at hospital discharge, an opportunity to evaluate and improve the quality of care.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The authors developed a novel deep-learning language model for identifying patients with HFrEF from discharge summaries of hospitalizations with heart failure at Yale New Haven Hospital during 2015 to 2019. HFrEF was defined by left ventricular ejection fraction <40% on antecedent echocardiography. The authors externally validated the model at Northwestern Medicine, community hospitals of Yale, and the MIMIC-III (Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care III) database.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 13,251 notes from 5,392 unique individuals (age 73 ± 14 years, 48% women), including 2,487 patients with HFrEF (46.1%), were used for model development (train/held-out: 70%/30%). The model achieved an area under receiver-operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 0.97 and area under precision recall curve (AUPRC) of 0.97 in detecting HFrEF on the held-out set. The model had high performance in identifying HFrEF with AUROC = 0.94 and AUPRC = 0.91 on 19,242 notes from Northwestern Medicine, AUROC = 0.95 and AUPRC = 0.96 on 139 manually abstracted notes from Yale community hospitals, and AUROC = 0.91 and AUPRC = 0.92 on 146 manually reviewed notes from MIMIC-III. Model-based predictions of HFrEF corresponded to a net reclassification improvement of 60.2% ± 1.9% compared with diagnosis codes (P < 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The authors developed a language model that identifies HFrEF from clinical notes with high precision and accuracy, representing a key element in automating quality assessment for individuals with HFrEF.</p>","PeriodicalId":14687,"journal":{"name":"JACC. Heart failure","volume":" ","pages":"75-87"},"PeriodicalIF":10.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142500652","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}
JACC. Heart failurePub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2024.08.024
Tejus Satish, Kimberly N Hong, Juan Pablo Kaski, Barry H Greenberg
{"title":"Challenges in Cardiomyopathy Gene Therapy Clinical Trial Design.","authors":"Tejus Satish, Kimberly N Hong, Juan Pablo Kaski, Barry H Greenberg","doi":"10.1016/j.jchf.2024.08.024","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jchf.2024.08.024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gene therapy has emerged as a possible treatment for progressive, debilitating Mendelian cardiomyopathies with limited therapeutic options. This paper arises from discussions at the 2023 Cardiovascular Clinical Trialists Forum and highlights several challenges relevant to gene therapy clinical trials, including low prevalence and high phenotypic heterogeneity of Mendelian cardiomyopathies, outcome selection complexities and resulting regulatory uncertainty, and immune responses to the adeno-associated viral vectors that are being used in ongoing studies. Avenues to address these challenges such as natural history studies, external controls, novel regulatory pathways, and immunosuppression are discussed. Relevant cases of recent therapy approvals are highlighted. Ultimately, this work aims to broadly frame discussions on and provide potential future avenues for clinical trial design for rare cardiomyopathy gene therapies.</p>","PeriodicalId":14687,"journal":{"name":"JACC. Heart failure","volume":" ","pages":"154-166"},"PeriodicalIF":10.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142638976","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":"\"Pharmacoequity\" in Heart Failure Treatment: A Right for Everyone, Not Just a Select Few.","authors":"Ikeoluwapo Kendra Bolakale-Rufai, Khadijah Breathett","doi":"10.1016/j.jchf.2024.10.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jchf.2024.10.015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14687,"journal":{"name":"JACC. Heart failure","volume":"13 1","pages":"72-74"},"PeriodicalIF":10.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142949092","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}
JACC. Heart failurePub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-11-20DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2024.10.001
Christian O'Donnell, Natalie Tapaskar, Pablo A Sanchez, Brian Wayda, Everton J Santana, Rafael C Pulgrossi, Kirsten Steffner, Shiqi Zhang, Yingjie Weng, Louise Y Sun, Darren Malinoski, Jonathan Zaroff, Francois Haddad, Kiran K Khush
{"title":"The Association of Echocardiographically Measured Donor Left Ventricular Mass and 1-Year Outcomes After Heart Transplantation.","authors":"Christian O'Donnell, Natalie Tapaskar, Pablo A Sanchez, Brian Wayda, Everton J Santana, Rafael C Pulgrossi, Kirsten Steffner, Shiqi Zhang, Yingjie Weng, Louise Y Sun, Darren Malinoski, Jonathan Zaroff, Francois Haddad, Kiran K Khush","doi":"10.1016/j.jchf.2024.10.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jchf.2024.10.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Donor-recipient heart size matching is crucial in heart transplantation; however, the often-used predicted heart mass (PHM) ratio may be inaccurate in the setting of obesity.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>In this study, the authors sought to investigate the association between echocardiographically measured donor left ventricular mass (LVM) for heart size matching and the risk of the primary 1-year composite outcome of death or retransplantation.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The Donor Heart Study was a prospective, multicenter, observational cohort study that collected echocardiograms from brain-dead donors. The measured LVM ratio (donor measured LVM/recipient predicted LVM) was defined as the exposure variable, and the association with the primary outcome was analyzed with Cox proportional hazard modeling. Secondary analyses evaluated the association of the PHM and predicted LVM (donor predicted LVM/recipient predicted LVM) ratios with the primary outcome.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In 2,015 heart transplants, the measured LVM ratio demonstrated that undersized matches (<0.80) had a 47% higher risk (adjusted HR [aHR]: 1.47; 95% CI: 1.01-2.15) and oversized (>1.20) matches had a 58% increased risk (aHR: 1.58; 95% CI: 1.05-2.37) of the 1-year composite outcome compared with ideally matched transplants. However, the PHM and predicted LVM ratios were not associated with the primary outcome. Nonlinear modeling demonstrated a U-shaped relationship between the measured LVM ratio and composite outcome. The measured LVM ratio had superior predictive power for poor post-transplantation outcomes in obese recipients.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Measuring donor LVM with the use of echocardiography may provide a more accurate method for donor-recipient heart size matching that could improve heart transplant outcomes, especially in obese recipients.</p>","PeriodicalId":14687,"journal":{"name":"JACC. Heart failure","volume":" ","pages":"118-130"},"PeriodicalIF":10.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142682002","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}
JACC. Heart failurePub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-12-11DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2024.11.001
Nancy M Albert, J Bradley Williams
{"title":"Laying a Foundation for 4 Pillars of In-Hospital Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy Optimization in Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction.","authors":"Nancy M Albert, J Bradley Williams","doi":"10.1016/j.jchf.2024.11.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jchf.2024.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14687,"journal":{"name":"JACC. Heart failure","volume":" ","pages":"55-57"},"PeriodicalIF":10.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142813225","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":"From Better Models to Better Care.","authors":"Nigam H Shah, Sneha S Jain","doi":"10.1016/j.jchf.2024.09.021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchf.2024.09.021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14687,"journal":{"name":"JACC. Heart failure","volume":"13 1","pages":"88-90"},"PeriodicalIF":10.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142949101","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":"Modifiable Risk Factors Unmask the Heart Failure Phenotype in TTR V142I Carriers.","authors":"Saaket Agrawal, Amit V Khera","doi":"10.1016/j.jchf.2024.10.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchf.2024.10.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14687,"journal":{"name":"JACC. Heart failure","volume":"13 1","pages":"102-104"},"PeriodicalIF":10.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142949106","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}
JACC. Heart failurePub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-10-02DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2024.08.016
Manyoo A Agarwal, Gregg C Fonarow, Boback Ziaeian
{"title":"National Trends in Heart Failure Hospitalizations and Readmissions From 2010 to 2021.","authors":"Manyoo A Agarwal, Gregg C Fonarow, Boback Ziaeian","doi":"10.1016/j.jchf.2024.08.016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jchf.2024.08.016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14687,"journal":{"name":"JACC. Heart failure","volume":" ","pages":"175-178"},"PeriodicalIF":10.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142371870","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}