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Depression Linked to Poor Cardiovascular Outcomes in Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection

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SHOW MORE Patients with SCAD and comorbid depression had greater rates of heart failure, cerebrovascular disease, acute kidney injury, and atrial fibrillation. Coronary Artery Dissection: Not Just a Heart Attack. June 21, 2023. vs 9.9%; RR, 1.287; 95% CI, 1.104-1.501; P =.001) 001) Acute kidney injury (9.8% StatPearls.

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AHA Adds Two New Directors

DAIC

Ashton has volunteered with the American Heart Association for more than a decade, frequently speaking at local Go Red for Women events. She has received numerous honors from the Association, including the 2024 Heart Saver Hero Award, the 2023 “Woman Changing the World Award” and the Go Red for Women Award in 2018.

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Sex Differences in Utilization of Donation After Circulatory Death Donors for Heart Transplantation and Associated Outcomes

Circulation: Heart Failure

Circulation: Heart Failure, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:The use of donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors for heart transplantation (HT) is increasing in the United States. During the study period, women made up 26% to 29% of donation after brain death transplants, but only 18% to 20% of DCD transplants.

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Similar burden of rare genetic variants in ischemic and non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Variants in the non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy group were found in the TTN, FLNC, LMNA, MYH7, and RBM20 genes.ConclusionsPatients with ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy undergoing heart transplant possessed a similar burden of rare disease-causing variants as those with non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy.

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Mid-Term Reassessment of Waitlist and Posttransplant Outcomes Under the 2018 Heart Allocation System: Improved All-Cause Survival

Circulation: Heart Failure

Circulation: Heart Failure, Ahead of Print. For the waitlist analysis, candidates were stratified into seasonally matched prepolicy (October 18, 2012–June 30, 2017) and postpolicy (October 18, 2018–June 30, 2023) groups, with a 1-year follow-up period. The 4-year post-transplant survival was similar between the groups (83.3%

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New Dodero Center at UH will Revolutionize Limb Salvage

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The Doderos previously established the Lorraine and Bill Dodero Chair in Heart Failure & Transplantation at UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute and, over the past two decades, have made leadership gifts to support UH Seidman Cancer, the Phase II expansion of UH Ahuja Medical Center, and UHs COVID response.

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Steatotic Liver Disease Subtypes Face Varying Risk of Adverse Liver Outcomes, Mortality

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Investigators defined adverse liver outcomes as the first occurrence of cirrhosis, decompensation, hepatocellular carcinoma, liver transplant, or liver-related death, identified either by 1 primary inpatient discharge diagnosis or 2 outpatient diagnoses separated by 30 days after the index date. December 13, 2023. JAMA Intern Med.