Journal of the American Heart Association

JANUARY 23, 2025

BackgroundAcute psychological stress may induce physiological changes predisposing individuals to adverse health outcomes through hemodynamic and vascular effects. By adding the cardiovascular reactivity risk score, the Cstatistic increased significantly by 10% (P<0.001).ConclusionsAmong

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Physiologically Speaking

JANUARY 5, 2024

Welcome to the Physiology Friday newsletter. Physiologically Speaking is a reader-supported publication. Importantly, all of the participants had recently undergone percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) — a surgical procedure in which a stent is placed in a coronary artery to open up a blockage.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The pullback pressure gradient is a novel index that discriminates focal from diffuse coronary artery disease based on fractional flow reserve pullbacks.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The Cleerly ISCHEMIA software provides noninvasive estimates of FFR values that help healthcare professionals make critical decisions in the management of patients with suspected coronary artery disease," said James P. "The Earls, MD , Chief Medical Officer of Cleerly. Bär S, Nabeta T, Maaniitty T. 2023 Dec 12:jead339.

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American College of Cardiology

MAY 24, 2024

The goal of the FIRE trial was to evaluate multivessel revascularization guided by coronary physiology compared with culprit-only revascularization among elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) and multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD).

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DAIC

MAY 8, 2024

1 Atherosclerosis is a systemic disease that affects multiple vascular regions and is particularly severe in PAD patients, where up to 80 percent suffer from concurrent coronary artery disease (CAD), historically linked with a mortality rate exceeding 50 percent within five years.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Meanwhile, the risk of suffering from cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been increasing with ageing. Cancer, atrial fibrillation (AF) and coronary artery disease share some common factors and interact with each other, such as obesity, aging, diabetes, and inflammation, but the potential specific mechanism is still unclear.

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DAIC

MAY 23, 2024

HeartFlow continues to be the clear market leader in developing clinically useful AI-powered tools for non-invasive diagnostic testing for coronary artery disease. The plaque technology is based on HeartFlow’s proprietary deep learning-enabled algorithms, which have been trained on more than 15 million coronary CT images.

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All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

MAY 26, 2024

Microvascular resistance evaluated whether the vasodilatory reserve capacity of coronary microcirculation was restored in the infarcted territory, regardless of concomitant epicardial coronary artery disease and aortic pressure. Immediate Microvascular Physiology After Mechanical Coronary Reperfusion of STEMI.

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Physiologically Speaking

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

” While an awe-inspiring anecdote, our knowledge of human limits, physiology, and the sheer number of participants in endurance sports is enough evidence to conclude that running a marathon won’t kill you. Physiologically Speaking is a reader-supported publication. Pheidippides’ story is provocative.

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All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

APRIL 21, 2024

Coronary angiography gives a visual impression about the severity of the stenosis. But it need not imply the actual functional significance of the stenosis in terms of flow physiology. FAME study showed that at one year follow up, rate of major adverse coronary events was reduced by approximately 30% by routinely measuring FFR.

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Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

JANUARY 15, 2024

The present study aims to investigate whether coronary sinus narrowing improves the indexes of coronary microcirculatory function.METHODS:Patients with refractory angina who had a clinical indication for reducer implantation underwent invasive physiological assessments before and 4 months after the procedure. at baseline to 15.42±11.36

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

This framework could be valuable for simulating RCTs that target continuous and highly heritable physiological variables. Starting with the 4,678 participants with the lowest genetic risk, we iteratively replaced low-risk participants with higher-risk ones until we matched SPRINTs SBP difference (15 mmHg) and standard treatment arm size.

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All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

MAY 2, 2024

It is a physiological adaptation helping athletes perform physical tasks better than non-athletes. A multimodality imaging approach to differentiate physiological changes due to athlete’s heart from significant cardiac ailment has been suggested by an expert consensus from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging.

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Coronary Artery Disease Journal

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Our results support a wider use of Angio-FFR in the cardiac catheterization laboratory to streamline our workflow for coronary physiologic assessment. Classifications: FFR,, stable ischemic disease and non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome.

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EMS 12-Lead

MARCH 19, 2023

He denied any known medical history, specifically: coronary artery disease, hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, heart failure, myocardial infarction, or any prior PCI/stent. Vital signs were noted to be unremarkable with respect to any hypo-hypertensive crisis, hypoxia, etc. Breath sounds were clear in all lung fields.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Share For people with OSA during sleep, there are recurrent episodes where the airway collapses and obstructs the passage of air to the lungs, resulting in: Lack of oxygen Significant variations in blood pressure, heart rate and other physiological metrics.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 20, 2018

If she had no risk factors, it is doubtful that she would have developed such extensive coronary artery disease as we see on the angiogram. For some reason (with debatable physiology), coronary occlusion often causes decrease in the high voltage of LVH on the EKG.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

The diagnostic coronary angiogram identified only minimal coronary artery disease, but there was a severely calcified, ‘immobile’ aortic valve. Any alteration in physiology can change "compensated" AS to "decompensated" AS. In the cath lab, the patient’s blood pressure remained low. Am J Cardiol 2011;107:495-500.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

MAY 10, 2024

In a study published by the American Heart Association, “Sex and Age Differences in the Association of Depression With Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease and Adverse Cardiovascular Events,” researchers investigated 3,237 patients (35% women) undergoing coronary angiography to evaluate for coronary artery disease (CAD).

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Physiologically Speaking

APRIL 24, 2024

9 Adults who sleep <6 hours each night have a 15% greater risk for CVD and 23% increased risk for coronary heart disease compared to those sleeping 7 hours or more. 12 Sleep duration is not only associated with diseases of the cardiovascular system, but also with direct biological markers of CVD risk.

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Heart BMJ

JANUARY 13, 2025

Background The relationship between atherosclerosis and endotypes of myocardial ischaemia with no obstructive coronary artery disease (INOCA) is unclear. Methods Coronary angiography and invasive coronary function tests were simultaneously acquired in the CorMicA cohort. smoking, 63.6% hypertension and 19.2%

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DAIC

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The FFRangio System obtains physiologic information from routine angiograms, eliminating the need for drug stimulation and invasive pressure wires. It provides physicians with quick and reliable intraprocedural FFRangio values for the entire coronary tree.

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Physiologically Speaking

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Physiologically Speaking is a reader-supported publication. Athletes with a family history of coronary artery disease had a 174% greater risk of CAC ≥100 and a staggering 335% increased risk of CAC ≥400. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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DAIC

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Data confirm the use of FFR CT and Plaque Analysis helps assess long-term risks, informing more personalized and effective treatment plans for patients with coronary artery disease. tim.hodson Wed, 10/30/2024 - 11:23 Oct. 27, 2024 — HeartFlow, Inc. IR versus 7.8% cardiologist at University Hospital of Southern Denmark.

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DAIC

MARCH 17, 2025

These measurements are used to assess the severity of coronary artery disease. edition of CardioLab offers improved signal quality for visualization of physiological signals using the Prucka 3 digital amplifier. EP Procedures For EP procedures, the AltiX AI.i

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MARCH 8, 2025

Circumstances attending 100 sudden deaths from coronary artery disease with coroners necropsies. Given the immediate physiologic chain reaction of intense autonomic dysfunction that followed on learning of her husband's death ( and which ultimately led to this patients demise ) I have to wonder WHEN ( and How? )

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Written by Willy Frick with edits by Ken Grauer An older man with a history of non-ischemic HFrEF s/p CRT and mild coronary artery disease presented with chest pain. A "biventricular pacemaker" is a pacemaker with an RV lead and an LV lead (usually via the coronary sinus) as in the above chest X-ray.

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