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Assessment of the presence and extent of coronary artery disease in postmenopausal women after an episode of unstable coronary artery disease : incremental value of exercise electrocardiography and thallium-201 SPECT
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- Aims To compare the incremental diagnostic properties of Thallium-201 (201TI) SPECT perfusion imaging with clinical and exercise test variables in a female population with a suspected high prevalence of coronary artery disease.Methods and Results We prospectively studied 121 postmenopausal women admitted to the coronary care unit with symptoms of unstable coronary artery disease and ECG changes suggestive of ischaemia. Incremental diagnostic logistic algorithms were developed. These included pretest variables (age; body mass index; previous myocardial infarction; myocardial markers at inclusion and type of anginal symptoms); exercise test (maximum workload; occurrence of ST-depression ≥ 0.1mV and peak heart rate); and 201TI scintigram (extent of thallium uptake abnormalities during exercise and presence of reversibility). End points were presence of coronary artery disease (250% diameter stenosis) and extent ('severe coronary artery disease' defined as left main, three vessel disease and two vessel disease involving proximal left anterior descending). Diagnostic accuracy and incremental value were assessed by receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. Incremental curve areas for disease presence were pretest 0.76 ±0.04, post-exercise ECG 0.83 ±0.04 (p<0.02 for the increment), and post-thallium scintigraphy 0.89 ±0.03 (p<0.02) and for disease extent were pretest 0.82 ±0.04, post-exercise ECG 0.89 ±0.03 (p<0.01 for the increment), and post thallium scintigraphy 0.92 ±0.02 (p = ns).Conclusion In postmenopausal women, stable after an episode of unstable coronary artery disease, there is an incremental value of adding 201TI SPECT to clinical parameters and exercise testing in the determination of coronary artery disease. In women with severe coronary artery disease there was no significant additive value of myocardial scintigraphy.
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Relationship between treatment delay and final infarct size in STEMI patients treated with abciximab and primary PCI
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Ingår i: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1471-2261 .- 1471-2261. ; 12:9, s. 1-9
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- BackgroundStudies on the impact of time to treatment on myocardial infarct size have yielded conflicting results. In this study of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), we set out to investigate the relationship between the time from First Medical Contact (FMC) to the demonstration of an open infarct related artery (IRA) and final scar size.Between February 2006 and September 2007, 89 STEMI patients treated with primary PCI were studied with contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (ceMRI) 4 to 8 weeks after the infarction. Spearman correlation was computed for health care delay time (defined as time from FMC to PCI) and myocardial injury. Multiple linear regression was used to determine covariates independently associated with infarct size.ResultsAn occluded artery (Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction, TIMI flow 0-1 at initial angiogram) was seen in 56 patients (63%). The median FMC-to-patent artery was 89 minutes. There was a weak correlation between time from FMC-to-patent IRA and infarct size, r = 0.27, p = 0.01. In multiple regression analyses, LAD as the IRA, smoking and an occluded vessel at the first angiogram, but not delay time, correlated with infarct size.ConclusionsIn patients with STEMI treated with primary PCI we found a weak correlation between health care delay time and infarct size. Other factors like anterior infarction, a patent artery pre-PCI and effects of reperfusion injury may have had greater influence on infarct size than time-to-treatment per se.
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- Alfredsson, Joakim, et al.
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Although women are less likely to be admitted to coronary care units, they are treated equally to men and have better outcome : A prospective cohort study in patients with non ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes
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Ingår i: Acute cardiac care. - : Informa Healthcare. - 1748-295X .- 1748-2941. ; 11:3, s. 173-180
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- Background: The aim of this study was to assess gender differences in admission level of care, management and outcome in patients with non ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE-ACS), initially admitted to either coronary care units (CCU) or general wards. Method: Patients admitted to CCUs were routinely registered in the RIKS-HIA registry. In addition, patients admitted to general wards with suspected ACS were also identified and registered. Multivariable regression analysis was used to adjust for baseline differences between the genders. Results: We included 570 consecutive patients with a discharge diagnosis of NSTE-ACS. Women were less likely to be admitted to coronary care units (56% versus 69%, P=0.002), even after adjustment (odds ratio (OR), 0.65; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.43-0.98). After adjustment for differences in baseline characteristics, women were treated similarly to men. We found no significant differences in crude short-, or long-term mortality between the genders. However, adjustment for background characteristics revealed lower one-year mortality in women (OR: 0.58; 95% CI: 0.34-0.99). Conclusion: In this study on patients with NSTE-ACS, women were less likely to be admitted to coronary care units. However, the overall treatment was as intensive for women as for men. Moreover, after adjustment, one-year mortality was lower in women.
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Gender differences in management and outcome in non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome
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Ingår i: Heart. - : BMJ Publishing group Ltd. - 1355-6037 .- 1468-201X. ; 93:11, s. 1357-1362
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- Objective: To study gender differences in management and outcome in patients with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome. Design, setting and patients: Cohort study of 53 781 consecutive patients (37% women) from the Register of Information and Knowledge about Swedish Heart Intensive care Admissions (RIKS-HIA), with a diagnosis of either unstable angina pectoris or non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction. All patients were admitted to intensive coronary care units in Sweden, between 1998 and 2002, and followed for 1 year. Main outcome measures: Treatment intensity and in-hospital, 30-day and 1 -year mortality. Results: Women were older (73 vs 69 years, p<0.001) and more likely to have a history of hypertension and diabetes, but less likely to have a history of myocardial infarction or revascularisation. After adjustment, there were no major differences in acute pharmacological treatment or prophylactic medication at discharge. Revascularisation was, however, even after adjustment, performed more often in men (OR 1.15, 95% CI, 1.09 to 1.21). After adjustment, there was no significant difference in in-hospital (OR 1.03, 95% CI, 0.94 to 1.13) or 30-days (OR 1.07, 95% CI, 0.99 to 1.15) mortality, but at 1 year being male was associated with higher mortality (OR 1.12, 95% CI, 1.06 to 1.19). Conclusion: Although women are somewhat less intensively treated, especially regarding invasive procedures, after adjustment for differences in background characteristics, they have better long-term outcomes than men.
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