Acta cardiologica最新文献

{"title":"Double outlet right atrium with malaligned ventricular septum: a rare configuration with three separate atrioventricular orifices.","authors":"Resham Singh, Niraj Nirmal Pandey, Nabeel Faisal, Sanjeev Kumar, Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan","doi":"10.1080/00015385.2023.2268422","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00015385.2023.2268422","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":6979,"journal":{"name":"Acta cardiologica","volume":" ","pages":"1138-1140"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41187814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Incomplete cor triatriatum dexter and percutaneous closure of atrial septal defects, a single-centre experience.","authors":"David Gómez Martín, Juan Sánchez-Rubio Lezcano, Georgina Fuertes Ferre, Laura Álvarez Roy, Marta López Ramón, José Antonio Diarte De Miguel","doi":"10.1080/00015385.2024.2434297","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00015385.2024.2434297","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cor Triatriatum Dexter (CTD) is a rare congenital heart malformation, with an estimated incidence of 0.025%, characterised by a membrane dividing the right atrium (RA) into two chambers. A variant, incomplete CTD (CTDi), occurs when the right membrane extends partially into the interatrial septum without fully dividing the RA. CTDi can be associated with interatrial septal defects, found in 5% of patients with atrial septal defects or a patent foramen ovale (PFO). The study reports three adult patients (46-53 years old) with CTDi and a PFO, all presenting cryptogenic stroke and referred for PFO closure. Two cases underwent percutaneous closure with guidance from fluoroscopy and 2D/3D transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), and the last one utilised intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) for device placement. In patients referred for PFO closure, CTDi is common and can complicate visualisation, prolong procedure times, and reduce success rates. Difficulties in device deployment and the risk of residual shunt or embolisation have been reported. The authors highlight that using oversizing techniques, traction manoeuvres during device deployment, and preoperative planning with advanced imaging (such as ICE or 3D TEE) are crucial for successful percutaneous closure in cases with CTDi and PFO.</p>","PeriodicalId":6979,"journal":{"name":"Acta cardiologica","volume":" ","pages":"1161-1163"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142737977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comment to the article: Association between serum phosphate, magnesium, calcium and aortic valve sclerosis: a propensity score-matched case-control study.","authors":"Nancy Côté, Philippe Pibarot","doi":"10.1080/00015385.2024.2410594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00015385.2024.2410594","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":6979,"journal":{"name":"Acta cardiologica","volume":"79 10","pages":"1160"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142998250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Peak left atrial longitudinal strain and incident atrial fibrillation in the general population: a systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, Maria Kousta, Dimitrios Vrachatis, Sotiria Giotaki, Dimitra Katsoulotou, Christos Karavasilis, Nikolaos Schizas, Dimitrios Avramides, Georgios Giannopoulos, Spyridon Deftereos","doi":"10.1080/00015385.2024.2432579","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00015385.2024.2432579","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the commonest supraventricular arrhythmia in adults. Timely AF diagnosis seems to ameliorate patients prognosis.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To investigate the association between peak left atrial longitudinal strain (PALS) and new onset AF in the general population.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>We searched major electronic databases for articles assessing the relationship between PALS and incident AF.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Eight studies (11,145 patients) were analysed. Lower levels of PALS were significantly associated with higher risk of incident AF (HR: 0.95; 95%CI: 0.92-0.97, <i>I</i>²: 83%). According to the diagnostic accuracy meta-analysis, PALS <33.4% presents 64% (95%CI: 46-79%) sensitivity and 69% (95%CI: 63-75%) specificity.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In a relatively healthy population, lower levels of PALS were significantly associated with incident AF. The overall diagnostic accuracy was moderate. Lower levels of PALS seem to justify an opportunistic - rather than a systematic-screening approach. These findings could allow more efficient utilisation of healthcare resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":6979,"journal":{"name":"Acta cardiologica","volume":" ","pages":"1101-1110"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142749680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Early rhythm control in atrial fibrillation anno 2024.","authors":"Broes Martens, Mattias Duytschaever","doi":"10.1080/00015385.2024.2324217","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00015385.2024.2324217","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Atrial fibrillation is a chronic progressive disease and is the most common arrhythmia in adults. It is a major cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The EAST-AFNET 4 trial demonstrated that rhythm control in patients with early atrial fibrillation significantly reduces cardiovascular outcomes compared to usual care. The effectiveness of early rhythm control is predominantly mediated by the presence of sinus rhythm and early rhythm control is more effective in patients with multiple comorbidities. Studies such as STOP-AF First, Cryo-FIRST, EARLY-AF and its 3-year follow-up trial demonstrate that first-line catheter ablation is more effective in maintaining sinus rhythm than anti-arrhythmic drug therapy. These findings are leading to a paradigm shift in the electrophysiology community in favour of early rhythm control with catheter ablation when feasible.</p>","PeriodicalId":6979,"journal":{"name":"Acta cardiologica","volume":" ","pages":"1064-1070"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142399053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A heat stroke ina young patient.","authors":"Lopez-Francos Elena, De Meester Antoine, Lepièce Caroline","doi":"10.1080/00015385.2023.2214415","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00015385.2023.2214415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":6979,"journal":{"name":"Acta cardiologica","volume":" ","pages":"1135-1137"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9909127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Left atrial thrombus disguised as myxoma.","authors":"Huiying Chen, Yafeng He, Juan Xia, Xiaojing Ma, JinLong Zhong","doi":"10.1080/00015385.2023.2276536","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00015385.2023.2276536","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":6979,"journal":{"name":"Acta cardiologica","volume":" ","pages":"1145-1147"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92152203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Accuracy of 2-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography in diagnosis of coronary artery stenosis in stable angina pectoris.","authors":"Eman Mahmoud, Ereny Refaat Boshra Tadress, Khaled Ahmed El-Khashab, Ahmed Fathy Elkhateeb, Mohammed Gamal Mossa","doi":"10.1080/00015385.2024.2432590","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00015385.2024.2432590","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>It's difficult to detect the severity of coronary artery disease in the patients who have stable angina pectoris. Echocardiography is a well-validated non-invasive diagnostic tool for detecting myocardial ischaemia, but judging wall motion abnormalities is subjective. Conventional echocardiography can assess radial mechanics only, so it cannot assess the sensitive longitudinal mechanics. 2-Dimensional strain echocardiography is a recent tool that has the ability to solve these drawbacks.</p><p><strong>Aim of study: </strong>To detect the accuracy of 2D-STE in prediction of significant coronary artery stenosis in the patients with stable angina pectoris.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study included 70 patients who have stable angina pectoris. Conventional and 2D speckle tracking echocardiography were done to all patients then compared with the coronary angiography results. Patients were classified into three groups according to their coronary arteries affection; patients with normal Coronaries, non-obstructed lesion and patients with significant lesion.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our study results show that the mean GLS was (-18.67 ± 0.93) in normal cases, and it was (-15.82 ± 1.11) in non-obstructed lesions but GLS was (-13.19 ± 1.7) in patients with significant CAD. And the best cut-off point of GLS was reported as (-17.35%) with a sensitivity of 97.6% and specificity of 93.3%. Also we found that SLS results in significant lesions of LAD, LCX, RCA territory was (-16.3%, -15.95%, -17.45%) with sensitivity and specificity (87.8%, 93.3%), (70.7%, 93.3%), (82.9%, 93.3%) respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Global longitudinal strain has a good diagnostic significance over visual evaluation during conventional echocardiogram in predicting significant stenosis of the coronary arteries in patients with stable coronary artery disease. Segmental Longitudinal strain is also a sensitive tool to detect the affected Coronary Territory.</p>","PeriodicalId":6979,"journal":{"name":"Acta cardiologica","volume":" ","pages":"1111-1118"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142794222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Highlights and advances in cardiology research.","authors":"Patrizio Lancellotti, Laurent Davin","doi":"10.1080/00015385.2024.2446102","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00015385.2024.2446102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":6979,"journal":{"name":"Acta cardiologica","volume":" ","pages":"1059-1063"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142881022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trifid or double-notched aortic Doppler: an aortic 'Trishula' sign.","authors":"Sudipta Mondal, Swasthi S Kumar, Arun Gopalakrishnan","doi":"10.1080/00015385.2024.2304464","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00015385.2024.2304464","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":6979,"journal":{"name":"Acta cardiologica","volume":" ","pages":"1150-1152"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139519201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}