Miguel Lorenzo, Rafael de la Espriella, Gema Miñana, Gonzalo Núñez, Arturo Carratalá, Enrique Rodríguez, Enrique Santas, Neus Valls, Sandra Villar, Víctor Donoso, Antoni Bayés-Genís, Juan Sanchis, Julio Núñez
{"title":"Role of spot urinary sodium in outpatients with heart failure.","authors":"Miguel Lorenzo, Rafael de la Espriella, Gema Miñana, Gonzalo Núñez, Arturo Carratalá, Enrique Rodríguez, Enrique Santas, Neus Valls, Sandra Villar, Víctor Donoso, Antoni Bayés-Genís, Juan Sanchis, Julio Núñez","doi":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.07.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.07.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction and objectives: </strong>Spot determination of urinary sodium (UNa+) has emerged as a useful tool for monitoring diuretic response in patients with acute heart failure (AHF). However, the evidence in outpatients is scarce. We aimed to examine the relationship between spot UNa+ levels and the risk of mortality and worsening heart failure (WHF) events in individuals with chronic HF.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This observational and ambispective study included 1145 outpatients with chronic HF followed in a single center specialized HF clinic. UNa+ assessment was carried out 1-5 days before each visit. The endpoints of the study were the association between UNa+ and risk of a) long-term death and b) AHF-hospitalization and total WHF events (including AHF-hospitalization, emergency department visits or parenteral loop-diuretic administration in HF clinic), assessed by multivariate Cox and negative binomial regressions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The mean±standard deviation of age was 73±11 years, 670 (58.5%) were men, 902 (78.8%) were on stable NYHA class II, and 595 (52%) had LFEF ≥50%. The median (interquartile range) UNa+ was 72 (51-94) mmol/L. Over a median follow-up of 2.63 (1.70-3.36) years, there were 293 (25.6%) deaths and 382 WHF events (244 AHF-admissions) in 233 (20.3%) patients. After multivariate adjustment, baseline UNa+ was inverse and linearly associated with the risk of total WHF (IRR, 1.07; 95%CI, 1.02-1.12; P=.007) and AHF-admissions (IRR, 1.08; 95%CI, 1.02-1.14; P=.012) and borderline associated with all-cause mortality (HR, 1.04; 95%CI, 0.99-1.09; P=.068).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In outpatients with chronic HF, lower UNa+ was associated with a higher risk of recurrent WHF events.</p>","PeriodicalId":38430,"journal":{"name":"Revista española de cardiología (English ed.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141749247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David García-Vega, Sergio Cinza-Sanjurjo, Carlos Tilves-Bellas, Sonia Eiras, José R González-Juanatey
{"title":"Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists and cancer mortality. A real-world registry.","authors":"David García-Vega, Sergio Cinza-Sanjurjo, Carlos Tilves-Bellas, Sonia Eiras, José R González-Juanatey","doi":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.07.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.07.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction and objectives: </strong>Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP1ra) reduce cardiovascular events through different mechanisms, but their association with cancer remains unclear. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of combined treatment (SGLT2i and GLP1ra) and monotherapy (SGLT2i or GLP1ra) on hospitalization and/or death from cancer in a general population and a subgroup of patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a nonconcurrent observational prospective study of patients prescribed SGLT2i, GLP1ra, or both. Multinomial propensity scores were performed in the entire population and in a subgroup of patients with CVD. A multivariate Cox regression analysis was used to determine the hazard ratio (HR) for age, sex, risk factors, and treatment for each outcome.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We included 14 709 patients (11366 with SGLT2i, 1016 with GLP1ra, and 2327 with both treatments) from treatment initiation. Diabetes was present in 97% of the patients. The subgroup with CVD included 4957 (33.7%) patients. After a median of 33 months of follow-up, the risk of adverse cancer events was similar between patients with and without CVD (3.4% or 3.7%, respectively). The main risk factors for cancer mortality were male sex and age. Combined treatment and its duration reduced the risk of cancer mortality compared with monotherapy with SGLT2i or GLP1ra in the overall population (HR, 0.2216; 95%CI, 0.1106-0.4659; P<.001; and HR, 0.1928; 95%CI, 0.071-0.5219; P=.001, respectively) and in the subgroup of patients with CVD (HR, 0.2879; 95%CI, 0.0878-0.994; P<.049; and HR, 0.1329; 95%CI, 0.024-0.6768; P=.014, respectively).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Initiation of combined therapy (SGLT2i and GLP1ra) vs monotherapy with SGLT2i or GLP1ra was associated with a lower risk of cancer mortality, mostly in diabetic patients with or without CVD. Although clinical trials are needed, these results might be explained by the complementary mechanisms of these drugs, including their antiproliferative, anti-inflammatory, and metabolic effects. Future clinical trials and mechanistic studies will clarify the possible role of these drugs in carcinogenesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":38430,"journal":{"name":"Revista española de cardiología (English ed.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141735252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acute pericarditis: when is an exhaustive search of causes needed?","authors":"José Rozado","doi":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.05.016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.05.016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38430,"journal":{"name":"Revista española de cardiología (English ed.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141735251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ana Belén Merón Pino, Andrea Alonso Campana, Eugenio Picazo Feu, Miguel Ángel Vallejo Ruiz, Alejandra Vaello Paños
{"title":"Acute pericarditis due to Q fever: a rare manifestation.","authors":"Ana Belén Merón Pino, Andrea Alonso Campana, Eugenio Picazo Feu, Miguel Ángel Vallejo Ruiz, Alejandra Vaello Paños","doi":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.05.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.05.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38430,"journal":{"name":"Revista española de cardiología (English ed.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141735250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spanish heart transplant registry. 35th official report of the Heart Failure Association of the Spanish Society of Cardiology","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.05.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.05.015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction and objectives</h3><div>Our aim was to describe the characteristics and outcomes of heart transplants in Spain.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We analyzed trends in recipient and donor characteristics, recipient-donor interaction, surgical procedures, immunosuppression, and outcomes of patients included in the Spanish heart transplant registry from 2014 to 2023. Changes in survival were analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier method.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>In 2023, 325 cardiac transplants were performed (4.5% more than in the previous year), with a total of 2987 procedures from 2014 to 2023. There was a trend toward performing more transplants in women (29.2%), with etiologies other than cardiomyopathy (32.6%), and with better pretransplant status (less hepatic [12.5%], renal [glomerular filtration rate, 81.5<!--> <!-->mL/min/1.73 m<sup>2</sup>], and respiratory [8.7%] involvement). In 2023, the number of urgent transplants increased (44% of the total), especially those performed after circulatory support with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (36% of total assistance), and transplants performed with donation after circulatory death (17.9%). Survival improved in the triennium from 2020 to 2022 compared with 2014 to 2016 (83.0% at 1 year from 2020-2022 vs 79.0% from 2014-2016).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The number of transplants performed in Spain showed an upward trend, with recipients with better clinical status and an increasing use of donation after circulatory death. Survival improved in the last triennium.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38430,"journal":{"name":"Revista española de cardiología (English ed.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141735253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peijian Wei, Yihang Li, Fengwen Zhang, Zhongying Xu, Liang Xu, Junyi Wan, Shiguo Li, Wenbin Ouyang, Shouzheng Wang, Gejun Zhang, Gary Tse, Jeffrey Shi Kai Chan, Fang Fang, Xiangbin Pan
{"title":"Transcatheter closure of multiple coronary artery fistulas: a coronary computed tomography angiography-based anatomic classification.","authors":"Peijian Wei, Yihang Li, Fengwen Zhang, Zhongying Xu, Liang Xu, Junyi Wan, Shiguo Li, Wenbin Ouyang, Shouzheng Wang, Gejun Zhang, Gary Tse, Jeffrey Shi Kai Chan, Fang Fang, Xiangbin Pan","doi":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.06.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.06.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction and objectives: </strong>This study aimed to retrospectively analyze the anatomical characteristics and classification of multiple coronary artery fistulas (MCAFs), and to compare the outcomes of transcatheter closure between MCAFs and single fistulas.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>All patients who underwent attempts at transcatheter closure of coronary artery fistulas (CAFs) at Fuwai Hospital from 2010 to 2023 were retrospectively reviewed. Patients were categorized into single fistula and MCAFs groups, and anatomical characteristics and transcatheter closure outcomes were compared between the 2 groups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This retrospective study included 146 patients who underwent attempted transcatheter closure of CAFs, with a 14.38% failure rate. Among the 146 patients with CAFs, 32.19% were identified as having MCAFs, with types I, II, and III constituting 40.43%, 42.55%, and 17.02%, respectively. Unlike single fistulas, which predominantly originated from the right coronary artery and terminated in the left ventricle, MCAFs mainly had simultaneous origins from the right coronary artery and left anterior descending artery (29.79%), and predominantly drained into the pulmonary artery (70.21%), with a notable prevalence of plexus-like morphology (38.3% vs 2.02%, P<.001). The success rate of transcatheter closure was significantly lower for multiple fistulas compared with single fistula (64.29% vs 84.34%, P=.011). Multivariate regression analysis indicated that the risk of closure failure for MCAFs was 2.64 times that of single fistulas.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>MCAFs are common among CAFs and can be classified into 3 types based on the number and location of their origins and terminations. The risk of failure of transcatheter closure is significantly higher in MCAFs than in single fistulas.</p>","PeriodicalId":38430,"journal":{"name":"Revista española de cardiología (English ed.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141621150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Roger Benet-Pozo, Montserrat Fitó, Jaume Marrugat, Cosme García-García, Isaac Subirana, Roberto Elosua
{"title":"Does the amount and intensity of physical activity matter for low-density lipoprotein oxidation?","authors":"Roger Benet-Pozo, Montserrat Fitó, Jaume Marrugat, Cosme García-García, Isaac Subirana, Roberto Elosua","doi":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.06.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.06.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38430,"journal":{"name":"Revista española de cardiología (English ed.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141581103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Javier Lorenzo González, Marcos Farráis Villalba, Cristina López Ferraz, Sergio Huertas Nieto, Mar Martín Velasco, Julio Hernández Afonso
{"title":"Impact of an integrated cardiology-intensive care medicine model on mortality in STEMI.","authors":"Javier Lorenzo González, Marcos Farráis Villalba, Cristina López Ferraz, Sergio Huertas Nieto, Mar Martín Velasco, Julio Hernández Afonso","doi":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.05.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.05.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38430,"journal":{"name":"Revista española de cardiología (English ed.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141581104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction in the article by de Juan Bagudá et al. “Repetitive ambulatory levosimendan as a bridge to heart transplantation”, Rev Esp Cardiol. 2024;77:290-301","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.05.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.05.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38430,"journal":{"name":"Revista española de cardiología (English ed.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1885585724001890/pdfft?md5=5081e72648c9c679e7f4f045ceee4719&pid=1-s2.0-S1885585724001890-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141535594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In recognition of the Spanish origin of CRISPR/Cas9. Implications for the treatment of familial heart disease","authors":"María Sabater Molina , Juan Ramón Gimeno Blanes","doi":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.01.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rec.2024.01.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38430,"journal":{"name":"Revista española de cardiología (English ed.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139933392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}