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Prevalence and treatment of diabetes and pre-diabetes in a real-world heart failure population: a single-centre cross-sectional study

Open Heart

Patients’ HF phenotype was determined using the latest available echocardiogram. Results In total, 2326 patients (59% male, mean age 76±13 years) with HF and at least one echocardiogram were assessed. The number of patients with previous DM diagnosis was assessed.

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Burden of Valvular Heart Diseases in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Population: The Bronx‐Valve Registry

Journal of the American Heart Association

The aim was to assess the burden and clinical correlates of VHD in a highly diverse area of the United States.Methods and ResultsIndividuals with echocardiographic diagnosis of native VHD between January 2010 and December 2019 at a quaternary care health system of the Bronx (New York, USA) were included.

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Cardiac arrest, defibrillated, diffuse ST depression and ST Elevation in aVR. Why?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

An echocardiogram showed: Left ventricular hypertrophy concentric. Academic Emergency Medicine 17(s1):S194; May 2010 This was done. A third ECG was done about 25 minutes after the first: This shows resolution of all apparent ischemia. The patient thus did not need immediate angiography. mmHg mean gradient. cm^2 valve area.

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Paced QRS morphology mimicking complete left bundle branch block induced by right ventricular pacing is associated with pacing?induced cardiomyopathy

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Methods We retrospectively screened 2009 patients who underwent pacemaker implantation from 2010 to 2020 in seven institutions. The paced QRS recorded immediately after implantation was analyzed.

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Artificial Intelligence methods for Improved Detection of undiagnosed Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)

European Journal of Heart Failure

Methods In a retrospective cohort study, we used an NLP pipeline applied to the Electronic Health Record (EHR) to identify patients with a clinical diagnosis of HF between 2010-2022. Of 3727 consecutive patients with HF and LVEF ≥ 50% on echocardiogram, only 8.3% Results were validated in a second, independent centre.

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Catheter ablation of typical atrial flutter improves cardiac chamber size and function

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Methods A retrospective study was conducted on 468 patients who underwent ablation for CTI dependent typical AFL at a single institution between 2010 and 2019. Echocardiographic data were analyzed at baseline before ablation, and at early follow-up within 1-year postablation.

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A Patient with Vertigo

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

5 years ago Similar Previous formal echocardiogram Inferior posterior with dyskinesis "Dyskinesis" is the technical echo term for LV aneurysm. At this point — I learned a bit more about today's patient: The patient is a man who had an inferior STEMI in 2010. We know today's patient had a documented inferior STEMI in 2010.