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Impact of Heart Transplant Allocation Changes on Waitlist Mortality and Clinical Practice in Pediatric and Adult Patients With Congenital Heart Disease and Cardiomyopathy

Circulation

Cohorts were grouped into preallocation and postallocation change eras: pediatric patients from January 1, 2011, to March 21, 2016, and January 1, 2017, to December 31, 2021; and adult patients from January 1, 2015, to October 17, 2018, and January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2021.

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Temporal Trend in Revascularization for Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy and Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundCurrent guidelines recommend revascularization in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM). A decline in CABG procedures was observed from 2007 to 2011 (annual percentage change, −11.5%;P=0.003), P=0.003), followed by stabilization. CABG and PCI had comparable 30‐day risk‐adjusted mortality risks.

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Mitigation of pacing‐induced cardiomyopathy with superficial right ventricular mid‐septal pacing: A long‐term retrospective comparison with apical pacing

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Abstract Introduction It remains unclear if pacing induced cardiomyopathy (PICM) may be minimized by standard pacing of the right ventricle (RV) at sites other than the RV apex. Methods and Results A retrospective evaluation was performed on all patients undergoing pacemaker implantation between 2011 and 2022. PICM occurred in 4.5%

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A young lady with wide complex tachycardia. My first time actually making this diagnosis de novo in real life in the ED!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Overall CMR findings are consistent with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. Here is a 2017 review article on ARVD in the New England Journal There is a 2010 publication by the Task Force in Diagnosis of ARVD: Diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia: proposed modification of the task force criteria.

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Evaluation of patients with implantable cardioverter?defibrillator in a Latin American tertiary center

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Chagas disease (ChD), prevalent in Brazil, is associated with increased ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF) events and SCD compared to other cardiomyopathies. Time periods were chosen based on the establishment of the Arrhythmia Service in 2011. Results Of the 885 patients included, 31% had ChD.

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ECG Blog #388 — Why Does Lead V1 Look Funny?

Ken Grauer, MD

In addition — there seemed to be significant fragmentation ( excessive notching of the QRS ) — which usually is indication of underlying "scar" from infarction, cardiomyopathy, or other form of underlying structural disease. The patient's younger brother was also diagnosed with "a cardiomyopathy". MRI confirmed ARVC.

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Additional Data From SEQUOIA-HCM Presented at HFSA Annual Scientific Meeting

DAIC

Director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center at the Lahey Hospital and Medical Center. Impact of Aficamten on Disease and Symptom Burden in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Results from SEQUOIA-HCM. Occurrence of Clinically Diagnosed Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in the United States. 30, 2024 — Cytokinetics, Inc.