AngiologyPub Date : 2025-05-28DOI: 10.1177/00033197251341753
Ҫatalkaya Sibel
{"title":"Letter: \"Structural Abnormalities of the Achilles Tendon are Associated With Coronary Artery Disease Even Without Achilles Tendon Thickening\".","authors":"Ҫatalkaya Sibel","doi":"10.1177/00033197251341753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033197251341753","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8264,"journal":{"name":"Angiology","volume":" ","pages":"33197251341753"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144172159","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":"Relationship Between the Aggregate Index of Systemic Inflammation and the prognosis in Patients With CAD and CKD.","authors":"Tian Chang, Yibo He, Yihang Ling, Ziyou Zhou, Hongyu Lu, Linfang Qiao, Xianlin Ruan, Zeliang Li, Jin Liu, Yong Liu, Jiyan Chen","doi":"10.1177/00033197251338428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033197251338428","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a complex disease that may exacerbate the inflammatory state in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). The predictive value of the Aggregate Index of Systemic Inflammation (AISI) for individuals with CAD and chronic kidney disease (CKD) remains unclear. The data for this study were obtained from the Cardiorenal Improvement II (CIN-II) cohort. Patients (<i>n</i> = 15,133) with CAD combined with CKD were included. The AISI was calculated using the formula: neutrophil*platelet*monocyte/lymphocyte counts. During a median follow-up of 4.26 years, 3979 deaths occurred, including 2239 cardiovascular (CV) deaths. With adjustment for potential confounding factors, the level of AISI was associated with a higher risk of all-cause mortality (Q [quartile]2, Q3, Q4: hazard ratio [HR] [95 CI%] = 1.20 [1.09-1.32], 1.34 [1.22-1.48], and 1.59 [1.44-1.75], respectively; p<sub>trend</sub> < 0.001) and CV mortality (Q2, Q3, Q4: HR [95 CI%] = 1.27 [1.11-1.45], 1.50 [1.32-1.71], 1.78 [1.55-2.03], respectively; p<sub>trend</sub> < 0.001). Elevated AISI level was independently associated with increased risks of all-cause and CV-specific mortality in patients with CAD and CKD.</p>","PeriodicalId":8264,"journal":{"name":"Angiology","volume":" ","pages":"33197251338428"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144141076","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}
AngiologyPub Date : 2025-05-22DOI: 10.1177/00033197251345395
Mesut Engin, Hasan Arı, Ufuk Aydın, Yusuf Ata
{"title":"Effect of Admission Blood Glucose on Long-term Prognosis After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.","authors":"Mesut Engin, Hasan Arı, Ufuk Aydın, Yusuf Ata","doi":"10.1177/00033197251345395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033197251345395","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8264,"journal":{"name":"Angiology","volume":" ","pages":"33197251345395"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144118659","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}
AngiologyPub Date : 2025-05-22DOI: 10.1177/00033197251345864
Cihan Aydın, Aykut Demirkıran, Hüseyin Orta
{"title":"Risk Scores for Cardiovascular Events in NSTEMI Patients with Multi-vessel Disease.","authors":"Cihan Aydın, Aykut Demirkıran, Hüseyin Orta","doi":"10.1177/00033197251345864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033197251345864","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8264,"journal":{"name":"Angiology","volume":" ","pages":"33197251345864"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144126442","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}
AngiologyPub Date : 2025-05-20DOI: 10.1177/00033197251326637
Bernhard Zierfuss, Marija Bojic, Gerit-Holger Schernthaner, Clemens Höbaus
{"title":"FGF-23 and Long-term Outcome in Peripheral Artery Disease.","authors":"Bernhard Zierfuss, Marija Bojic, Gerit-Holger Schernthaner, Clemens Höbaus","doi":"10.1177/00033197251326637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033197251326637","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Atherosclerotic peripheral artery disease (PAD) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are highly interconnected diseases, while causes for excess mortality are not well-defined. Fibroblast growth-factor 23 (FGF-23) is elevated in mineral bone disease of CKD and was shown to be associated with higher mortality. However, it is not known if this association extends to PAD. FGF-23 was measured by ELISA in serum samples of 298 patients with stable PAD (Fontaine stage I-II) with an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of 72 (58-85) ml/min. Mortality was assessed after a long-term follow-up of up to 10 years. FGF-23 showed significant associations with markers of metabolic syndrome (triglycerides <i>r</i> = .25, <i>P</i> < .001, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) r = -.28, <i>P</i> < .001, c-reactive protein (CRP) <i>r</i> = .14, <i>P</i> = .016). Multivariable Cox-regression outcome analyses showed significant associations between FGF-23 and all-cause mortality (hazard ratio 1.35, 95% confidence interval 1.05-1.74) in PAD patients even after adjustment for traditional cardiovascular risk factors and renal excretory function. FGF-23 is associated with higher mortality in patients with PAD. Our findings indicate that FGF-23 has detrimental effects on patients with PAD that are independent of renal excretory function.</p>","PeriodicalId":8264,"journal":{"name":"Angiology","volume":" ","pages":"33197251326637"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144109648","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}
AngiologyPub Date : 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1177/00033197251338474
Murat Çap, Medeni Karaduman, Tingquan Zhou, Emrah Erdoğan, İbrahim H Tanboğa, Vincenzo Tufaro, Xingwei He, Retesh Bajaj, Nathan Angelo Lecaros Yap, Ameer H Khan, Bon-Kwon Koo, Roby Rakhit, Grigoris V Karamasis, Zaid Ali Abdulelah, Alun Hughes, Patrick W Serruys, Anthony Mathur, Andreas Baumbach, Ryo Torii, Jean-Paul Aben, Christos V Bourantas
{"title":"An Automated User-friendly Software for Fast Computation of Blood Flow Velocity From Coronary Angiographic Images.","authors":"Murat Çap, Medeni Karaduman, Tingquan Zhou, Emrah Erdoğan, İbrahim H Tanboğa, Vincenzo Tufaro, Xingwei He, Retesh Bajaj, Nathan Angelo Lecaros Yap, Ameer H Khan, Bon-Kwon Koo, Roby Rakhit, Grigoris V Karamasis, Zaid Ali Abdulelah, Alun Hughes, Patrick W Serruys, Anthony Mathur, Andreas Baumbach, Ryo Torii, Jean-Paul Aben, Christos V Bourantas","doi":"10.1177/00033197251338474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033197251338474","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thrombolysis in myocardial infarction frame count enables assessment of coronary flow but cannot measure coronary flow velocity (CFV), which is needed to examine microvascular function. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a semi-automated software for fast CFV computation using contrast bolus tracking techniques in angiography and compare its performance against experts. The study included patients undergoing coronary angiography. Two experts measured the CFV using the number of frames, segment length, and frame rate. Measurements were repeated for shorter segments and different projections, and their estimations were compared with the software. In total, 123 patients (152 vessels) were included. The software had excellent reproducibility in measuring CFV (intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) = .995), which was superior to experts (ICC = .946) and provided similar estimations irrespective of the segment length (ICC = .992); conversely, the experts overestimated CFV in short segments. The reproducibility of the experts and the software was moderate when comparing CFV measurements in different projections (first expert vs software ICC = .807, second expert vs software ICC = .790, first expert vs second expert ICC = .885). The software provides reproducible CFV estimations that are close to experts' estimations. Further validation against wire-based functional techniques is needed to examine its potential in assessing microvascular function.</p>","PeriodicalId":8264,"journal":{"name":"Angiology","volume":" ","pages":"33197251338474"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144075619","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}
AngiologyPub Date : 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1177/00033197251338416
Mustafa Candemir, Emrullah Kızıltunç, Betül Ayça Yamak
{"title":"Association Between the C-Reactive Protein-Albumin-Lymphocyte (CALLY) Index and Length of Hospital Stay in Patients With Heart Failure.","authors":"Mustafa Candemir, Emrullah Kızıltunç, Betül Ayça Yamak","doi":"10.1177/00033197251338416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033197251338416","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prolonged hospital stays for patients with heart failure (HF) are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. In this study, we investigated the relationship between the C-reactive protein (CRP)-albumin-lymphocyte (CALLY) index, a new marker in patients with decompensated HF, and the length of hospital stay. Consecutive patients (<i>n</i> = 4745) who were hospitalized with decompensated HF between January 2016 and January 2024 (COVID-19 period was excluded) were included in the study. The CALLY index ([albumin × lymphocyte]/[CRP × 104]) was calculated. A relationship was found between the CALLY index and the length of hospital stay in the patients with HF in linear regression analysis. Also, the CALLY index was an independent predictive variable of the length of hospital stay (odds ratio: 0.327; 95% CI: 0.278-0.385; <i>P</i> < .001). CALLY index value of 0.258 can predict long-term hospitalization with 69.2% sensitivity and 70.1% specificity (area under the curve [AUC]: 0.729, 95% CI = 0.714-0.743, <i>P</i> < .001). In addition, the CALLY index was negatively correlated with the length of hospital stay (<i>r</i> = -.47, <i>P</i> < .001). In conclusion, the CALLY index, an inexpensive and easily measured laboratory variable, may be a valuable for estimating the length of hospital stay in decompensated HF.</p>","PeriodicalId":8264,"journal":{"name":"Angiology","volume":" ","pages":"33197251338416"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144075623","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}
AngiologyPub Date : 2025-05-14DOI: 10.1177/00033197251341762
Mesut Engin, Hasan Arı
{"title":"Letter: Major Adverse Events After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation.","authors":"Mesut Engin, Hasan Arı","doi":"10.1177/00033197251341762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033197251341762","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8264,"journal":{"name":"Angiology","volume":" ","pages":"33197251341762"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144075627","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":"Impact of Stress Hyperglycemia Ratio on Long-term Clinical Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.","authors":"Yingying Xie, Hao Chen, Zhe Wang, Haoming He, Yonghui Xu, Ling Liu, Jingang Zheng","doi":"10.1177/00033197251333216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033197251333216","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Stress Hyperglycemia Ratio (SHR) has been established as significantly associated with adverse cardiovascular clinical outcomes. However, the correlation between SHR and long-term major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) has not been reported. The present retrospective study enrolled 2412 patients with Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) post-CABG from April 2011 to December 2020 at the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University. Multivariable-adjusted Cox proportional hazard models and restricted cubic spline analysis were utilized to investigate the relationship between the SHR and MACEs and their subtypes. Furthermore, the incremental predictive value of the SHR was evaluated. Over a median follow-up period of 4.4 years, 619 patients (25.6%) experienced MACEs. Multivariable analysis identified SHR as an independent risk factor for the occurrence of MACEs and individual events. Restricted cubic spline analysis demonstrated a connection between SHR and the occurrence of MACEs and individual events. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis revealed that the predictive ability of SHR for MACEs and subtypes was consistent in patients with and without diabetes. Incorporating SHR into a traditional risk model for MACEs enhanced the C-statistics, net reclassification improvement value, and integrated discrimination improvement value.</p>","PeriodicalId":8264,"journal":{"name":"Angiology","volume":" ","pages":"33197251333216"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143967311","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}