Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico最新文献

{"title":"[Comments to: Recommendations for the care of patients with heart failure and COVID-19].","authors":"Nilfa Vásquez-Burga, Ma Ester Villacorta-de-la-Cruz","doi":"10.24875/ACM.21000385","DOIUrl":"10.24875/ACM.21000385","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8360,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10160727","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":"[Once in a blue moon: coronavirus disease complicates pregnancy in a patient with unknown pulmonary hypertension and subsequent left ventricular dysfunction].","authors":"Santiago Giraldo-Ramírez, Jairo A Gándara-Ricardo, Jesús Velasquez-Penagos, Juan Flórez-Muñoz, Edison Muñoz-Ortiz","doi":"10.24875/ACM.22000089","DOIUrl":"10.24875/ACM.22000089","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During COVID-19 pandemic, several clinical manifestations have been described beyond respiratory compromise that characterizes the viral disease. Cardiovascular manifestations are one of the main complications. In this case, we report an unusual association between the novo diagnosis of pulmonary arterial hypertension in a pregnant patient with SARS Cov-2, with subsquent development of left ventricular dysfunction.</p>","PeriodicalId":8360,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10533832","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":"[COVID-19 in transplant recipients: Multicentric report of Mexican experience].","authors":"Mónica Sánchez-Cárdenas, Enzo Vásquez-Jiménez, Ricardo I Velázquez-Silva, Mario Vilatobá-Chapa, Benjamín Gómez-Navarro, Lucio O Sánchez-Macías, José M Rodríguez-Chagolla, Ignacio García-Juárez, Severo M Abraham-Mancilla, Luis E Morales-Buenrostro, Idalia Parra-Ávila, César Flores-Gama","doi":"10.24875/ACM.21000113","DOIUrl":"10.24875/ACM.21000113","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Solid Organ Transplant recipients (SOTR) appear to be at particular high risk for critical COVID-19 due to immunosuppressive drugs and comorbidities. We report the first description of clinical course and short-term outcomes of kidney and liver transplant recipients with confirmed COVID-19 in Mexico. The objective of this paper was evaluate the clinical course of transplant patients with COVID-19 infection.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>We retrospectively evaluated SOTR (kidney and liver) over 18 years of age with confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 from tertiary care centers in Mexico.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Data from 45 kidney transplant recipients were recorded. Median (IQR) age was 43 (IQR 25-70) years. Admission to hospital was required in 37 (75.5 %) patients, of which 8 (16.3%) were hospitalized at Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Acute kidney injury (AKI) stage was documented in 33 (67%) patients. The time of hospitalization was 8 (IQR 6-12) days. Six patients died (12.2%). Additionally, data from 10 liver transplant recipients were included. During their evolution, 5 / 10 required hospital admission and there were no deaths in this group.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Transplant recipients show a higher fatality rate and complications from SARS-CoV-2 infection; more studies are needed to identify prognostic factors and effective anti-SARS-CoV-2 therapies.</p>","PeriodicalId":8360,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10162026","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":"[Social, demographic and morbimortality characteristics of the cases treated for COVID-19 at the Ignacio Chávez National Institute of Cardiology. A descriptive cross-sectional study].","authors":"Maite Vallejo, Guadalupe Gutiérrez-Esparza, Lucía Ríos-Núñez, Rosalinda Altamira-Mendoza, Lucero E Groves-Miralrio, Enrique Hernández-Lemus, Mireya Martínez-García","doi":"10.24875/ACM.22000095","DOIUrl":"10.24875/ACM.22000095","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it a large number of adverse consequences for public health with serious socioeconomic repercussions. In this study we characterize the social, demographic, morbidity and mortality conditions of individuals treated for COVID-19 in one of the SARS-CoV-2 reference hospitals in Mexico City.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in 259 patients discharged from the Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, between April 11, 2020 and March 14, 2021. A multivariate logistic regression model was used to identify the association between sociodemographic and clinical variables. An optimization was performed using maximum likelihood calculations to choose the best model compatible with the data. The maximum likelihood model was evaluated using ROC curves, goodnessof-fit estimators, and multicollinearity analysis. Statistically significant patterns of comorbidities were inferred by evaluating a hypergeometric test over the frequencies of co-occurrence of pairs of conditions. A network analysis was implemented to determine connectivity patterns based on degree centrality, between comorbidities and outcome variables.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The main social disadvantages of the studied population are related to the lack of social security (96.5%) and the lag in housing conditions (81%). Variables associated with the probability of survival were being younger (p < 0.0001), having more durable material goods (p = 0.0034) and avoiding: pneumonia (p = 0.0072), septic shock (p < 0.0001) and acute respiratory failure (p < 0.0001); (AUROC: 91.5%). The comorbidity network for survival cases has a high degree of connectivity between conditions such as cardiac arrhythmias and essential arterial hypertension (Degree Centrality = 90 and 78, respectively).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Given that among the factors associated with survival to COVID-19 there are clinical, sociodemographic and social determinants of health variables, in addition to age; It is imperative to consider the various factors that may affect or modify the health status of a population, especially when addressing emerging epidemic phenomena such as the current COVID-19 pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":8360,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10217827","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":"[Intracardiac leiomyoma].","authors":"Pedro G Dávila-Flores, Otoniel Toledo-Salinas, Alejandra Aguilar-Peña, Elsa Acosta-Jiménez, Ernesto García-Hernández","doi":"10.24875/ACM.22000205","DOIUrl":"10.24875/ACM.22000205","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8360,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10159184","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":"[Abnormal aortic origin of coronary arteries].","authors":"Juan M Bonelli, Ana M Schroh, Alejandro Peirone, Gabriel Romero, María L Schroh","doi":"10.24875/ACM.22000136","DOIUrl":"10.24875/ACM.22000136","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The anomalous aortic origin of the coronary arteries has an estimated prevalence of 0.02-5.7%. It can be associated with sudden death when it has an interarterial or intramural pathway or be damaged during interventions on the mitral, pulmonary and/or aortic annulus or percutaneous closure of an interatrial septal defect.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To identify these patients by imaging techniques such as transthoracic color Doppler echocardiography (TTE), computed tomography (CT) multislice angiography or coronary angiography.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The imaging techniques used for the detection of coronary anomalies were TTE, multislice coronary angiography or coronary angiography according to what is generally accepted.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Fifteen patients were identified; in 12 of them the suspicion was due to TTE and in the remaining 3, CT multislice angiography was diagnostic. The circumflex artery was the coronary artery most involved, associated or not with another coronary anomaly (12/15 patients) and in the other three cases, the anomalous coronary artery had an interarterial course, with the right coronary arteries and the anterior descending coronary arteries being involved.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The under diagnosis by TTE of coronary artery abnormalities may be due to the difficulty of visualization that is accentuated with age. Their detection is crucial because they can both, lead to sudden death associated with an intramural and/or interarterial pathway and complicate an interventional procedure on the interatrial septum or within the mitral, pulmonary and/or aortic rings.</p>","PeriodicalId":8360,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10159183","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":"[Acute myocardial infarction patients without COVID-19 manifestations in the pandemic may have high thrombus burden].","authors":"Héctor González-Pacheco, Rodrigo Gopar-Nieto, Daniel Manzur-Sandoval, Marco A Ayala-Navarrete, Guering Eid-Lidt, José L Briseño-De-la-Cruz, Alfredo Altamirano-Castillo, Salvador Mendoza-García, Diego Araiza-Garaygordobil, Daniel Sierra-Lara-Martínez, Alexandra Arias-Mendoza","doi":"10.24875/ACM.21000327","DOIUrl":"10.24875/ACM.21000327","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The objective of the study is to identify clinical and angiographic characteristics of patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) but without clinical manifestations of COVID-19 infection during the pandemic, compared with patients 1 year before the pandemic.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Observational study that included 138 consecutive patients hospitalized with STEMI who underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) without COVID-19 infection during the 2020 pandemic. A group of 175 STEMI patients treated with PCI in the year before the pandemic served as the control group.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>During the periods analyzed, compared with the control group, patients admitted during the pandemic without clinical manifestations of COVID-19 did not have significant differences in demographic characteristics, comorbidities, or delayed time and location of the acute myocardial infarction. Furthermore, there were no differences between the two groups concerning levels of CK-MB and NT-proBNP, or in inflammation markers and left ventricular ejection fraction. In patients without COVID-19 during the pandemic compared with control, we found a higher intracoronary thrombus burden (thrombus grade 5; 78.3% vs. 62.9%, respectively. p = 0.002). Accordingly, the use of glycoprotein IIB/IIIa inhibitors (37.7% vs. 26.3%, p = 0.03) was higher in these patients.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study demonstrates an increased thrombus burden in STEMI patients without clinical manifestation of COVID-19 during the pandemic compared with the same time period in the previous year.</p>","PeriodicalId":8360,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10153000","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":"[Assessment of coronary flow capacity by positron emission tomography in coronary artery disease].","authors":"Mauricio García-Cárdenas, Valente Fernández-Badillo, Adrián Espejel-Guzmán, Javier Serrano-Román, Enrique Solorzano-Pinot, Salvador Hernández-Sandoval, Erick Alexanderson-Rosas, Nilda Espínola-Zavaleta","doi":"10.24875/ACM.22000119","DOIUrl":"10.24875/ACM.22000119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8360,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10152991","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":"[Outcomes of pulmonary vein electrical isolation in patients younger than and older than 70 years].","authors":"Gustavo Maid, Santiago Sánchez-Bustamante, Juan Vergara, Florencia Duckwen, Gonzalo Fernández-Villar, Emiliano Rossi, Pablo Costa, Rodolfo Pizarro","doi":"10.24875/ACM.22000118","DOIUrl":"10.24875/ACM.22000118","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction and objectives: </strong>The objective of this study is to compare the clinical characteristics and outcomes of contemporary cohorts of patients undergoing catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF), stratified by age (< 70 years and ≥ 70 years).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This retrospective cohort study included patients who underwent catheter ablation for refractory AF. The minimum follow-up duration per patient was 12 months.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 239 patients were included in the study, with 171 (71.5%) in the < 70 years group and 68 (28.5%) in the ≥ 70 years group. The mean age of the study population was 62.4 years (SD 10.87). The < 70 years group had a mean age of 58.03 years (SD 9.71), while the ≥ 70 years group had a mean age of 73.4 years (SD 3.05). Furthermore, a higher proportion of paroxysmal AF was observed in patients < 70 years, whereas a higher proportion of persistent AF was found in patients ≥ 70 years. These differences were statistically significant. The recurrence rates after the initial ablation procedure were similar between the two groups (21.43% in the < 7 0 years group vs. 23.53% in the ≥ 70 years group, p = 0.79). Additionally, there were no significant differences in terms of complications. The < 70 years group experienced 18 complications, while the ≥ 70 years group had 5 complications (p = 0.472).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings of this study suggest that patients aged 70 years and older who undergo their first catheter ablation procedure for AF demonstrate similar clinical outcomes compared to patients younger than 70 years.</p>","PeriodicalId":8360,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10162034","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":"A thrombus trapped in a patent foramen ovale: a migrant out of the ordinary","authors":"Natalia R Nombera, Mauricio Guerra, Ma de Los Ángeles G Alvarado, Mary A Bernal","doi":"10.24875/ACM.22000220","DOIUrl":"10.24875/ACM.22000220","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8360,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10110359","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}