Turk Kardiyoloji Dernegi Arsivi-Archives of the Turkish Society of Cardiology最新文献

{"title":"Removal of an Embolized Lead Segment During an Extraction Procedure.","authors":"Serkan Çay, Özcan Özeke, Ahmet Korkmaz, Fırat Özcan, Serkan Topaloğlu","doi":"10.5543/tkda.2022.22552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5543/tkda.2022.22552","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46993,"journal":{"name":"Turk Kardiyoloji Dernegi Arsivi-Archives of the Turkish Society of Cardiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10577068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Kardiyovasküler İşlemlerde Görüntüleme.","authors":"Fahriye Vatansever Ağca, Gamze Babur Güler, Mustafa Ozan Gürsoy, Özge Özden, Ertan Andaç Al, Mert Pehlivan Altın, İrem Dilara Can, Sadık Volkan Emren, Ömer Furkan Demir, Emir Derviş, İrem Dinçer, Gökhan Kahveci, Elmas Kaplan, Alev Kılıçgedik, İrem Müge Akbulut Koyuncu, Volkan Kozluca, Türkan Seda Tan Kürklü, Selçuk Opan, Kadriye Memiç Sancar, Halenur Sarıbaş, Büşra Güvendi Şengör, Omaç Tüfekçioğlu, Selcen Yakar Tülüce, Dilek Çiçek Yılmaz","doi":"10.5543/tkda.2022.S3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5543/tkda.2022.S3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46993,"journal":{"name":"Turk Kardiyoloji Dernegi Arsivi-Archives of the Turkish Society of Cardiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10524112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Effects of Iron Replacement on Functional Capacity in Patients with Group 1 and Group 4 Pulmonary Hypertension.","authors":"Dursun Akaslan,&nbsp;Emre Aslanger,&nbsp;Halil Ataş,&nbsp;Batur Gönenç Kanar,&nbsp;Derya Kocakaya,&nbsp;Bedrettin Yıldızeli,&nbsp;Bülent Mutlu","doi":"10.5543/tkda.2022.22343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5543/tkda.2022.22343","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Abnormal iron handling complicates pulmonary hypertension (PH), causes functional limitation and poor outcomes. Although preliminary results in group 1 PH patients support the use of iron replacement, whether this applies to other PH subgroups is not known.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A total of 58 patients with an established diagnosis of group 1 or 4 PH, who had a serum ferritin of &lt;100 ng/mL or 100 to 300 ng/mL in combination with a transferrin saturation (TSAT) &lt;20% and received 500 to 1000 mg of ferric carboxymaltose (FCM) were included in the study. The change in ferritin levels and TSAT were calculated at 12- and 24-weeks follow-up. A six-minute walk test (6MWT) is undertaken at the first, 12-week and 24-week follow-up visits.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In group 1 PH patients, ferritin levels increased from 14 ng/mL-1 to 133 and 90 ng/mL-1 at 12- and 24-weeks, respectively ( P &lt; .001 for both). In group 4 PH patients, ferritin levels increased from 22.1 ng/mL-1 to 145 and 88.9 ng/mL-1 at 12- and 24-weeks, respectively ( P &lt; .001 for both). 6MWT distances were 356, 412, and 350 m in group 1 PH patients and 260, 315 and 290 m in group 4 PH patients. Although the difference between baseline and 12-week 6MWT was significant in both groups ( P &lt; .001 for both), this difference was lost at 24-week.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our study indicates that there is no difference in response to iron replacement in patients with group 1 and group 4 PH patients, in terms of treatment success and functional status.</p>","PeriodicalId":46993,"journal":{"name":"Turk Kardiyoloji Dernegi Arsivi-Archives of the Turkish Society of Cardiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33491356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How to See Cardiotoxicity Beyond Imaging in 2022.","authors":"Nicolas Merke","doi":"10.5543/tkda.2022.22610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5543/tkda.2022.22610","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46993,"journal":{"name":"Turk Kardiyoloji Dernegi Arsivi-Archives of the Turkish Society of Cardiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33491354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Primary Carnitine Deficiency as a Treatable Cause of Heart Failure in Young Patients.","authors":"Meral Kayıkçıoğlu,&nbsp;Benay Özbay,&nbsp;Burcu Yağmur,&nbsp;Ebru Canda,&nbsp;Selen Bayraktaroğlu,&nbsp;Evrim Şimşek,&nbsp;Sema Kalkan Uçar","doi":"10.5543/tkda.2022.21319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5543/tkda.2022.21319","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy is the most common subgroup of heart failure in young adults. Several metabolic defects could be the underlying etiology in these young heart failure patients. However, most cases are considered idiopathic. Primary carnitine deficiency is an overlooked inherited metabolic disease causing cardiomyopathy in these patients. Oral carnitine replacement therapy could prevent primary carnitine deficiency patients from progressing to advanced heart failure and life-threatening arrhythmias. In this case report, we present an index primary carnitine deficiency case and his brother's diagnosis and successful treatment period to draw attention to primary carnitine deficiency as a treatable cause of heart failure in young adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":46993,"journal":{"name":"Turk Kardiyoloji Dernegi Arsivi-Archives of the Turkish Society of Cardiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33491359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bacterial Infective Endocarditis Associated with Gerbode Ventricular Septal Defect: A Case Report.","authors":"Mesut Karataş,&nbsp;Kemal Emrecan Parsova,&nbsp;Ahmet Zengin,&nbsp;Yusuf Kağan Poçan,&nbsp;Nurşen Keleş","doi":"10.5543/tkda.2022.21318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5543/tkda.2022.21318","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 61-year-old male presented to emergency department with symptoms of shortness of breath, palpitations, and night sweats. We performed bedside transthoracic echocardiography which showed shunt from the left ventricle to the right atrium in systole with color Doppler examination. Gerbode-type ventricular septal defect and an image of a fibrillar, mobile mass compatible with vegetation was observed just above the tricuspid valve. We performed transesophageal echocardiography which showed vegetations on the aortic valve noncoronary cusp. Two sets of blood cultures were positive for Streptococcus sanguinis. The patient was evaluated by the heart team and an operation decision was made for the patient. The patient underwent surgery after 2 weeks of antibiotic theraphy. In the surgery, the Gerbode-type ventricular septal defect was closed with a polytetrafluoroethylene patch. Tricuspid annuloplasty was performed with De Vega technique. Mechanical aortic valve was implanted. Postoperative transthoracic echocardiography showed no residual shunt.</p>","PeriodicalId":46993,"journal":{"name":"Turk Kardiyoloji Dernegi Arsivi-Archives of the Turkish Society of Cardiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40620118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Evolution of the Cardiovascular System: A Hemodynamic Perspective.","authors":"Emre Aslanger","doi":"10.5543/tkda.2022.22450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5543/tkda.2022.22450","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The human cardiovascular system is a product of evolution that occurred over hundreds of thousands of years. During its long history, cardiovascular design has been shaped and reshaped by developing adaptations to the hemodynamic challenges it faced at every step. Although being momentarily beneficial for dealing with the problem they were first devised for, the evolutionary changes were built upon one another and culminated in the current scheme which may not necessarily be the ultimate or an immaculate design. Therefore, the analysis of the cardiovascular evolution provides a fascinating opportunity to spot the possible weak points of our cardiovascular system, to better understand the disease pathophysiology, and to formulate treatment alternatives. In this regard, this review tries to summarize the teleonomy of cardiovascular evolution from a hemodynamic perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":46993,"journal":{"name":"Turk Kardiyoloji Dernegi Arsivi-Archives of the Turkish Society of Cardiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40620120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dynamic Change of Left Ventricular Mechanics in Patients with Acute Myocarditis with Preserved Left Ventricular Systolic Function: A 2-Year Follow-up Study.","authors":"Esra Poyraz,&nbsp;Lale Dinç Asarcıklı","doi":"10.5543/tkda.2022.22358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5543/tkda.2022.22358","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Acute myocarditis mimics acute coronary syndrome due to its clinical course and presentation. This study aimed to evaluate left ventricular longitudinal and circumferential functions during the acute phase and late phase of acute myocarditis with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction using 2-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Forty-one consecutive acute myocarditis patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction confirmed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging underwent 2-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography within the first week of hospital admission. Findings were compared with age and sex-matched 40 healthy controls. Left ventricular mechanics of the study group were reevaluated by 2-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography during follow- up (23.85 ± 6.65 months later).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Myocardial lesions with late gadolinium enhancement on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging were mostly localized in the subepicardial layer (91.40%) and commonly observed in the inferolateral wall (42.94%). Consistent with the cardiac magnetic resonance imaging findings, 2-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography showed the localization of the involved myocardial segments with prominent impairment in global longitudinal peak systolic strain and global circumferential strain of the inferolateral wall of the left ventricle. In the acute phase, global longitudinal peak systolic strain (-17.32 ± 2.02 vs -20.59 ± 2.38) and global circumferential strain (-22.33 ± 2.27 vs -24.85 ± 3.19) were found to be lower in patients with acute myocarditis compared to healthy controls (both P &lt; .001). While global circumferential strain was improved in the late phase compared with the acute phase (from -22.28 ± 2.32 to -22.90 ± 2.65; P = .003). Global longitudinal peak systolic strain was not significantly changed during follow-up (from -17.30 ± 2.09 to -17.62 ± 2.19; P = .072).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Subtle left ventricular systolic function impairment can be detected by the 2-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography technique in patients with acute myocarditis with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction and improvement in circumferential function could be observed during follow-up.</p>","PeriodicalId":46993,"journal":{"name":"Turk Kardiyoloji Dernegi Arsivi-Archives of the Turkish Society of Cardiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33491355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reliability and Validity of the Turkish Version of the Performance Measure for Activities of Daily Living-8 for Patients with Mild Symptomatic Heart Failure.","authors":"Nurel Ertürk,&nbsp;Ezgi Karaş,&nbsp;Gülay Uzun,&nbsp;Muhammet Raşit Sayın,&nbsp;Ebru Çalık Kütükcü","doi":"10.5543/tkda.2022.22383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5543/tkda.2022.22383","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The Performance Measure for Activities of Daily Living-8 (PMADL-8) for patients with congestive heart failure is an International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health-based Activities of Daily Living (ICF) questionnaire to evaluate disease-specific functional limitations in chronic heart failure (CHF). The purpose of this study was to investigate the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the PMADL-8 in CHF patients.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this study, 50 patients with CHF were included. Test-retest reliability of the PMADL-8 was assessed by intraclass correlation coefficient and Cronbach's alpha was calculated for internal consistency. Correlation coefficients between the PMADL-8 and New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class, Chronic Heart Failure Questionnaire (CHQ), Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) were analyzed for construct validity.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The Cronbach's alpha value of the PMADL-8 test and retest scores were recorded as 0.996, indicating that the scale is highly reliable. Test-retest reliability results of the PMADL-8 (mean intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.996) were excellent. The PMADL-8 score was moderately correlated with the NHP total score (r = 0.629, P &lt; .001) and NHP physical abilities score (r = 0.517, P &lt; .001). The PMADL-8 score was weakly correlated with the NYHA functional class (r = 0.385, P &lt; .006), CHQ dyspnea (r = -0.475, P &lt; .001), CHQ fatigue (r = -0.340, P = .016), and total score (r = -0.367, P = .009).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The Turkish version of PMADL-8 is a reliable and valid assessment tool that could be used to determine activity limitations in CHF. The PMADL-8 is also useful for health professionals during the ICF evaluation of CHF patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":46993,"journal":{"name":"Turk Kardiyoloji Dernegi Arsivi-Archives of the Turkish Society of Cardiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33491358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Potent P2Y12 Inhibitors and Bleeding Complications.","authors":"Ahmet Güner,&nbsp;Ezgi Gültekin Güner,&nbsp;Serkan Kahraman,&nbsp;Fatih Uzun,&nbsp;Mehmet Ertürk","doi":"10.5543/tkda.2022.22546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5543/tkda.2022.22546","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46993,"journal":{"name":"Turk Kardiyoloji Dernegi Arsivi-Archives of the Turkish Society of Cardiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33491362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}