Miguel A Quiñones, James B Young, Arvind Bhimaraj, Jane E Wilcox, Manreet K Kanwar, Stavros G Drakos
{"title":"Cardiac Recovery: Webcast September 24 2024.","authors":"Miguel A Quiñones, James B Young, Arvind Bhimaraj, Jane E Wilcox, Manreet K Kanwar, Stavros G Drakos","doi":"10.14797/mdcvj.1527","DOIUrl":"10.14797/mdcvj.1527","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This 61-minute webcast features a conversation about \"Cardiac Recovery\"-the focus of Issue 20.4. Led by the issue's editors, the discussion engages the authors on emerging themes and lessons learned while researching and writing the articles. View the video at https://vimeo.com/event/4490511.</p>","PeriodicalId":39207,"journal":{"name":"Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"125-127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11673950/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142903753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Miguel A Quiñones, Valeria E Duarte, Christopher Hobday, Saurabh Rajpal, Carla P Rodriguez-Monserrate, Karla Kurrelmeyer, Gladys Velarde
{"title":"Women and the Heart: Webcast April 16 2024.","authors":"Miguel A Quiñones, Valeria E Duarte, Christopher Hobday, Saurabh Rajpal, Carla P Rodriguez-Monserrate, Karla Kurrelmeyer, Gladys Velarde","doi":"10.14797/mdcvj.1525","DOIUrl":"10.14797/mdcvj.1525","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This 62-minute webcast features a conversation about \"Women and the Heart: Gender-Related Differences in Cardiovascular Care\"-the focus of Issue 20.2. Led by the issue's editor, the discussion engages the authors on emerging themes and lessons learned while researching and writing the articles. View the video at https://livestream.com/accounts/21157318/events/11132857.</p>","PeriodicalId":39207,"journal":{"name":"Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"119-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11673472/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142903769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reka Vernes, Adam Bardoczi, Alan B Lumsden, Zsolt F Garami
{"title":"Optimal Cerebral Protection Confirmed by Transcranial Doppler During Transcarotid Artery Revascularization.","authors":"Reka Vernes, Adam Bardoczi, Alan B Lumsden, Zsolt F Garami","doi":"10.14797/mdcvj.1465","DOIUrl":"10.14797/mdcvj.1465","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) is a novel method to treat severe stenosis of the carotid artery with minimal embolization. During TCAR, flow reversal system redirects blood from the internal, external, and common carotid arteries into the femoral vein through a filter system to prevent debris and microparticles from entering the cerebral circulation. Transcranial Doppler (TCD) monitoring allows real-time detection of blood flow in the cerebral arteries during the operation and informs the surgeon of flow changes or possible emboli. With this information, the steps and maneuvers during the procedure and the function of the flow reversal system can be further improved to avoid stroke or other neurological complications. In this case study, we present a TCAR procedure with TCD monitoring in an asymptomatic male patient exhibiting severe left-sided internal carotid artery stenosis. Optimal cerebral protection was achieved due to the neuroprotective flow reversal system of TCAR.</p>","PeriodicalId":39207,"journal":{"name":"Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"106-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11673467/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142903759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrew Makar, Ali Al-Hemoud, Haitham Khraishah, Jacob Berry, Barrak Alahmad
{"title":"A Review of the Links Between Work and Heart Disease in the 21st Century.","authors":"Andrew Makar, Ali Al-Hemoud, Haitham Khraishah, Jacob Berry, Barrak Alahmad","doi":"10.14797/mdcvj.1478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14797/mdcvj.1478","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This review explores the multifaceted exposures in the workplace that contribute to cardiovascular diseases (CVD), including physical, ergonomics, chemical, biological, psychosocial, and emerging occupational hazards. These well-documented occupational hazards have long been linked to heart disease. Exposures arising from these hazards present significant concerns for worker health and safety. Moreover, heat stress is an emerging and increasingly pervasive threat, exacerbated by climate change, particularly in outdoor, high-exposure industries like agriculture and construction. While the epidemiological links between heat and CVD are well established, there is a critical gap in research on the physiological impacts of heat on workers' cardiovascular health. In particular, migrant workers are especially vulnerable to these occupational hazards, particularly in the absence of targeted, equitable interventions. As global temperatures rise, addressing these occupational exposures is important for protecting the cardiovascular health of the workforce and the expanding field of occupational cardiology.</p>","PeriodicalId":39207,"journal":{"name":"Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal","volume":"20 5","pages":"71-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11546313/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142629916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vijay Aaroha Kandula, Grace Li Smith, Ravi Rajaram, Nicolas L Palaskas, Anita Deswal, Khurram Nasir, Hyeon-Ju Ryoo Ali
{"title":"A Costly Cure: Understanding and Addressing Financial Toxicity in Cardiovascular Disease Health Care Within the Domain of Social Determinants of Health.","authors":"Vijay Aaroha Kandula, Grace Li Smith, Ravi Rajaram, Nicolas L Palaskas, Anita Deswal, Khurram Nasir, Hyeon-Ju Ryoo Ali","doi":"10.14797/mdcvj.1466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14797/mdcvj.1466","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cardiovascular disease (CVD) represents a significant financial burden on patients and families, compounded by both direct and indirect healthcare costs. The increasing prevalence of CVD, coupled with the rising costs of treatment, exacerbates financial toxicity-defined as the economic strain and associated physical, emotional, and behavioral consequences on patients. This review explores the scope of financial toxicity in CVD care, detailing its prevalence, associated risk factors, and the complex interplay with social determinants of health such as income, insurance status, and comorbidities. Drawing from models in oncology, we highlight key interventions aimed at mitigating financial toxicity, including patient counseling, financial navigation, and enhanced patient-physician cost discussions. By adopting these approaches, healthcare providers can better support patients with CVD in managing both their health and financial well-being, potentially improving clinical outcomes. Future research is needed to develop standardized assessment tools for financial toxicity in CVD and implement system-wide mitigation strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":39207,"journal":{"name":"Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal","volume":"20 5","pages":"15-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11546205/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142629877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inhaling Poor Health: The Impact of Air Pollution on Cardiovascular Kidney Metabolic Syndrome.","authors":"Haitham Khraishah, Sanjay Rajagopalan","doi":"10.14797/mdcvj.1487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14797/mdcvj.1487","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Air pollution, mostly from fossil fuel sources, is the leading environmental cause of global morbidity and mortality and is intricately linked to climate change. There is emerging evidence indicating that air pollution imposes most of its risk through proximate cardiovascular kidney and metabolic (CKM) etiologies. Indeed, there is compelling evidence linking air pollution to the genesis of insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and other risk factors. Air pollution frequently coexists with factors such as noise, with levels and risks influenced substantially by additional factors such as social determinants and natural and built environment features. Persistent disparities regarding the impact and new sources of air pollution, such as wildfires attributable to climate change, have renewed the urgency to better understand root sources, characterize their health effects, and disseminate this information for personal protection and policy impacts. In this review, we summarize evidence associating air pollution with cardiovascular health, the impact of air pollution on CKM health, and how interactions with other exposures and personal characteristics may modify these associations. Finally, we discuss new integrated approaches to capture risk from air pollution in the context of an exposomic framework.</p>","PeriodicalId":39207,"journal":{"name":"Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal","volume":"20 5","pages":"47-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11545917/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Myocardial Infarction with Normal Coronary Arteries.","authors":"Albert E Raizner","doi":"10.14797/mdcvj.1495","DOIUrl":"10.14797/mdcvj.1495","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This Points to Remember column discusses the differential diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction with normal coronary arteries, one example of which is Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. In the case presented below, the diagnosis of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy was based on the characteristic appearance of the left ventricular apical bulging, normal coronary arteries, and the resolution of the wall motion abnormalities within a relatively short period of time.</p>","PeriodicalId":39207,"journal":{"name":"Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal","volume":"20 5","pages":"124-127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11545920/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zip Code Health Disparities: Mapping Cardiovascular Inequities at the Neighborhood Level.","authors":"Safi U Khan","doi":"10.14797/mdcvj.1457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14797/mdcvj.1457","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This review examines the multifaceted impact of neighborhood-level social determinants of health (SDOH) on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and outlines strategic interventions for mitigating cardiovascular health inequities. Research highlights that environmental and socioeconomic factors within a neighborhood-including education, unemployment, healthcare access, racial segregation, systemic inequities, air quality, housing quality, and other SDOH-influence CVD outcomes. Addressing CVD disparities necessitates a comprehensive strategy that integrates policy reform, enhanced community infrastructure, improved healthcare access, and community empowerment and leverages innovative technology to create equitable health outcomes across diverse populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":39207,"journal":{"name":"Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal","volume":"20 5","pages":"6-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11546200/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lady Lazarus: An Insight into the Suicidality of Sylvia Plath.","authors":"Justin C Cordova, James B Young","doi":"10.14797/mdcvj.1481","DOIUrl":"10.14797/mdcvj.1481","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American author and poet, perhaps best known for her semi-autobiographical novel <i>The Bell Jar</i>. Her poetical oeuvre was filled with challenging themes of suicidality, mental illness, and a budding feminism, particularly in the poems composed toward the end of her tragically short life. One of these poems, \"Lady Lazarus,\" pushes the bounds of expectation and, some would say, propriety. This short reflective Poet's Pen focuses on Sylvia Plath and the many themes-feminism, suicidality, self-rebirth-for which she would later be known. The poem itself is a melting pot of imagery, drawing themes from the Judeo-Christian perspective, cycles of death and rebirth, and the mythology of the phoenix rising from the ashes.</p>","PeriodicalId":39207,"journal":{"name":"Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal","volume":"20 5","pages":"131-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11557809/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Big Data, Big Insights: Leveraging Data Analytics to Unravel Cardiovascular Exposome Complexities.","authors":"Ramzi Ibrahim, Hoang Nhat Pham, Khurram Nasir, Omar Hahad, Ashutosh Sabharwal, Sadeer Al-Kindi","doi":"10.14797/mdcvj.1467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14797/mdcvj.1467","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The exposome encompasses the full range of environmental exposures throughout a person's lifetime and plays an important role in cardiovascular health. Interactions with the social, natural, and built components of the exposome significantly impact cardiovascular disease prevalence and mortality. Robust data analytics, including machine learning and geospatial analysis, have advanced our understanding of how these factors converge to influence cardiovascular disease risk. The integration of multiomics platforms and advanced computational approaches enhances our ability to characterize the exposome, leading to targeted public health interventions and innovative risk reduction strategies aimed at improving cardiovascular health globally. These multiomics platforms that integrate factors such as genomics, epigenomics, clinical data, social factors, environmental factors, and wearable technology will characterize the exposome in greater detail concerning cardiovascular health. In this review, we aimed to elucidate the components of the exposome and discuss recent literature regarding their relationship to cardiovascular health.</p>","PeriodicalId":39207,"journal":{"name":"Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal","volume":"20 5","pages":"111-123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11546329/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142629999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}