Patient selection for adult ambulatory surgery: a narrative review

N Rajan, EB Rosero, GP Joshi - Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2021 - journals.lww.com
With migration of medically complex patients undergoing more extensive surgical
procedures to the ambulatory setting, selecting the appropriate patient is vital. Patient …

Heart failure with improved ejection fraction: Beyond diagnosis to trajectory analysis

AV Pensa, SS Khan, RV Shah, JE Wilcox - Progress in cardiovascular …, 2024 - Elsevier
Left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction represents a highly treatable cause of heart failure
(HF). A substantial proportion of patients with HF with reduced ejection fraction (EF; HFrEF) …

Ejection fraction and mortality: a nationwide register‐based cohort study of 499 153 women and men

S Stewart, D Playford, GM Scalia… - European journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aims We investigated the sex‐based risk of mortality across the spectrum of left ventricular
ejection fraction (LVEF) in a large cohort of patients in Australia. Methods and results …

Prognostic impact of acute decompensated heart failure in patients with heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction

A Schmitt, T Schupp, M Reinhardt… - … Heart Journal: Acute …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Aims This study sought to determine the prognostic impact of acute decompensated heart
failure (ADHF) in patients with heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction (HFmrEF) …

Association of neighbourhood‐level material deprivation with adverse outcomes and processes of care among patients with heart failure in a single‐payer healthcare …

D Bobrowski, A Dorovenis… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We studied the association between neighbourhood material deprivation, a metric
estimating inability to attain basic material needs, with outcomes and processes of care …

[HTML][HTML] The state of heart failure care in Canada: minimal improvement in Readmissions over time despite an increased number of evidence-based therapies

S Poon, B Leis, L Lambert, K MacFarlane, K Anderson… - CJC open, 2022 - Elsevier
Background An unanswered question is whether the combination of advances in medical
and device therapy over the past decade has translated into improved outcomes for patients …

Change in ejection fraction and long‐term mortality in adults referred for echocardiography

G Strange, D Playford, GM Scalia… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aims We investigated long‐term mortality associated with changes in left ventricular ejection
fraction (LVEF) in a large, real‐world patient cohort. Methods and results A total of 117 275 …

Plasma microrna expression profile for reduced ejection fraction in dilated cardiomyopathy

M Calderon-Dominguez, T Belmonte… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) is key to prognosis in dilated cardiomyopathy
(DCM). Circulating microRNAs have emerged as reliable biomarkers for heart diseases …

Health care use before first heart failure hospitalization: identifying opportunities to pre-emptively diagnose impending decompensation

K Anderson, HJ Ross, PC Austin, J Fang, DS Lee - Heart Failure, 2020 - jacc.org
Objectives This study sought to describe the pattern of health care contacts in patients
ultimately presenting with incident hospitalization for acute heart failure (HF) compared with …

Outcomes and healthcare resource utilization in adult congenital heart disease patients with heart failure

W Tsang, CK Silversides, M Rashid… - ESC Heart …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aims While heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of death in adults with congenital heart
disease (ACHD), few studies report contemporary outcomes after the first HF hospitalization …