{"title":"Nutritional state, inflammation and TAVI outcomes. Just prognostic factors or a call to action?","authors":"Manuel Martínez-Sellés","doi":"10.33963/v.phj.105396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33963/v.phj.105396","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17784,"journal":{"name":"Kardiologia polska","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143663861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michał Lewandowski, Krzysztof Boczar, Dagmara B Orzech, Mateusz Ulman, Krzysztof Lewandowski, Maxymilian Opławski, Mariusz Trystuła, Andrzej Ząbek, Maciej Sterliński, Tomasz Hryniewiecki, Mariusz Pytkowski, Paweł Syska
{"title":"First aveir VR leadless pacemaker implantations in Poland via internal jugular vein access.","authors":"Michał Lewandowski, Krzysztof Boczar, Dagmara B Orzech, Mateusz Ulman, Krzysztof Lewandowski, Maxymilian Opławski, Mariusz Trystuła, Andrzej Ząbek, Maciej Sterliński, Tomasz Hryniewiecki, Mariusz Pytkowski, Paweł Syska","doi":"10.33963/v.phj.105223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33963/v.phj.105223","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17784,"journal":{"name":"Kardiologia polska","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143663858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monika Budnik, Małgorzata Sobieszczańska-Małek, Radosław Wilimski, Karolina Żbikowska, Katarzyna Błońska, Grażyna Popko, Zuzanna Strząska-Kliś, Jakub Kościołek, Katarzyna Kodziszewska, Mariusz Kuśmierczyk
{"title":"Echocardiography in a patient with Aeson Total Artificial Heart: First implantation in Poland.","authors":"Monika Budnik, Małgorzata Sobieszczańska-Małek, Radosław Wilimski, Karolina Żbikowska, Katarzyna Błońska, Grażyna Popko, Zuzanna Strząska-Kliś, Jakub Kościołek, Katarzyna Kodziszewska, Mariusz Kuśmierczyk","doi":"10.33963/v.phj.105098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33963/v.phj.105098","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17784,"journal":{"name":"Kardiologia polska","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143663857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hanna Jankowska, Karolina Dorniak, Marcin Pajkowski, Anna Dubaniewicz, Marcin Hellmann
{"title":"Myocardial changes in strain imaging during long term follow-up of cardiac sarcoidosis.","authors":"Hanna Jankowska, Karolina Dorniak, Marcin Pajkowski, Anna Dubaniewicz, Marcin Hellmann","doi":"10.33963/v.phj.105222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33963/v.phj.105222","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17784,"journal":{"name":"Kardiologia polska","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143663860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adam Kern, Tomasz Stompór, Krystian Bojko, Ewa Sienkiewicz, Sebastian Pawlak, Krystyna Pawlak, Dariusz Pawlak, Grzegorz Poskrobko, Ewa Andrasz, Leszek Gromadziński, Rakesh Jalali, Dariusz Onichimowski, Grażyna Piwko, Artur Zalewski, Jacek Bil
{"title":"Ten-year outcomes of patients undergoing simultaneous coronary and renal angiography: Insights from the KORONEF Registry based on chronic kidney disease and eGFR stratification.","authors":"Adam Kern, Tomasz Stompór, Krystian Bojko, Ewa Sienkiewicz, Sebastian Pawlak, Krystyna Pawlak, Dariusz Pawlak, Grzegorz Poskrobko, Ewa Andrasz, Leszek Gromadziński, Rakesh Jalali, Dariusz Onichimowski, Grażyna Piwko, Artur Zalewski, Jacek Bil","doi":"10.33963/v.phj.105104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33963/v.phj.105104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17784,"journal":{"name":"Kardiologia polska","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143663862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karol Kaziród-Wolski, Michał Zabojszcz, Paulina Jaskulska, Natalia Dardzińska, Ewa Strzelczyk, Krzysztof P Malinowski, Janusz Sielski, Zbigniew Siudak
{"title":"Allergic reactions during coronary angiography or PCI in Poland: Occurrence, trends and predictors. Long-term perspective based on ORPKI registry.","authors":"Karol Kaziród-Wolski, Michał Zabojszcz, Paulina Jaskulska, Natalia Dardzińska, Ewa Strzelczyk, Krzysztof P Malinowski, Janusz Sielski, Zbigniew Siudak","doi":"10.33963/v.phj.104049","DOIUrl":"10.33963/v.phj.104049","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Allergic reactions during coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute coronary syndromes can affect their outcome.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To investigate the incidence of allergic reactions and predictors to their occurrence in the catheterization laboratory.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study included 1 812 994 treatments available in the ORPKI Polish National Registry, of which 659 372 were for women and 1 144 689 for men. Data were collected from 161 interventional cardiology centers in Poland between 2014 and 2022 and included in the retrospective analysis. An allergic reaction was defined as any hypersensitive response of the immune system manifesting as bronchospasm, asthma exacerbation, conjunctivitis, urticaria, eczema, angioedema, anaphylactic shock.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There was a decreasing incidence of allergic reactions overall, both gender subgroups and subgroups of age decades. The incidence of allergic reactions in each year oscillated between 0.02% and 0.11% (P <0.001) and the most recent one was 0.02% in 2022. The incidence of allergic reaction is associated with low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) (OR, 23.5 [95% CI, 18.92-29.19]), glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors (GPI IIb/IIIa) (OR, 2.31 [95% CI, 1.92-2.78]), previous PCI (OR, 1.55 [95% CI, 1.34-1.8]), dose of radiation (OR, 1.25 per 1000 mGy [95% CI, 1.19-1.31]), dose of contrast (OR, 1.17 per 100 ml [95% CI, 1.08-1.28]).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The overall incidence of acute allergic reactions in cathlab is low and has decreased significantly between 2014 and 2022. The decrease in frequency did not depend on age or gender. Independent predictors of allergic reaction incidence were the use of GPI IIb/IIIa, LMWH , dose of contrast agent and dose of radiation.</p>","PeriodicalId":17784,"journal":{"name":"Kardiologia polska","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142915052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mesut Gitmez, Tuncay Güzel, Mehmet Kis, Ferhat Coskun, Mehmet Ali İsik, Adem Aktan, Raif Kilic, Muhammed Demir, Faruk Ertas
{"title":"The performance of the NAPLES prognostic score in predicting one-year mortality and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) after transcatheter aortic valve implantation in patients with severe aortic stenosis.","authors":"Mesut Gitmez, Tuncay Güzel, Mehmet Kis, Ferhat Coskun, Mehmet Ali İsik, Adem Aktan, Raif Kilic, Muhammed Demir, Faruk Ertas","doi":"10.33963/v.phj.103230","DOIUrl":"10.33963/v.phj.103230","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Existing risk scores for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) may not fully capture patient complexity. Combining nutritional and inflammatory markers, the NPS (the NAPLES prognostic score) might improve outcome prediction.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>This study investigated the associations of the NPS with one-year mortality and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) in TAVI patients.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This retrospective analysis included 222 patients with severe aortic stenosis who underwent TAVI. The NPS was calculated based on the serum albümin concentration, cholesterol concentration, lymphocyte/monocyte ratio, and neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio. The patients were subsequently categorized into two groups: the low-NPS group (NPS 0-2) and the high-NPS group (NPS 3-4).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A high NPS significantly associated with increased one-year mortality (4.8% vs. 23.7%; P <0.001) and MACE rates (7.2% vs. 35.9%; P <0.001). Cox regression analysis revealed that a high NPS was an independent predictor of both mortality (HR, 5.94; 95% CI, 2.03-17.37; P = 0.001) and MACE (HR, 5.09; 95% CI, 2.15-12.02; P <0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The NPS emerged as a potential predictor of long-term mortality and MACEs in TAVI patients. Further validation through larger, multicenter studies is warranted. This research contributes valuable data on the role of the NPS in TAVI risk stratification.</p>","PeriodicalId":17784,"journal":{"name":"Kardiologia polska","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142915265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cardiac phenotypes and cardiovascular risk in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus and chronic coronary artery disease: A Chinese retrospective cohort study.","authors":"Ruoyu Sun, Zheng Wang, Wenwen Zhu, Tong Niu, Yanchao Xu, Shaohua Wang, Yang Yuan","doi":"10.33963/v.phj.104638","DOIUrl":"10.33963/v.phj.104638","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and chronic coronary artery disease (CAD) are at very high risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), but further risk stratification remains challenging.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>This study aimed to use cluster analysis to identify cardiac phenotypes associated with cardiovascular risk in T2DM and chronic CAD populations.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cluster analysis was performed on 12 echocardiographic variables, including aortic and pulmonary artery diameters, atrial and ventricular dimensions, interventricular septum and posterior wall thicknesses, ejection fraction, and blood flow velocities in 1633 Chinese individuals. Survival outcomes were analyzed using Kaplan-Meier methods, Cox proportional hazards models, and restricted cubic splines.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Two distinct phenotypes were identified. Patients in cluster 2 were characterized by larger atrial and ventricular volumes, thicker interventricular septum and posterior walls, higher ventricular mass index, and faster aortic blood flow velocity, summarized as \"larger, thicker, faster\". Over a median 15-month follow-up, patients in cluster 2 exhibited higher MACE risk (HR, 1.35; 95% CI, 1.17-1.57), particularly for heart failure hospitalization (HR, 1.37; 95% CI, 1.15-1.64). Consistent results were observed in sex and hypertension subgroups. Fibrinogen ≥3.8 g/l, uric acid ≥329.2 mmol/l, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ≤1.07 mmol/l, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol ≥2.5 mmol/l, and hemoglobin ≤132 g/l were demonstrated statistically risk factors for MACE in cluster 2.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Cluster analysis of echocardiographic variables may improve the identification of higher risk patients and highlighted the prognostic value of cardiac remodeling in T2DM and chronic CAD populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":17784,"journal":{"name":"Kardiologia polska","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143391108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}