OBJECTIVE To examine whether prospective bleeding risk estimates for patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention could improve the use of bleeding avoidance strategies and reduce bleeding. DESIGN Prospective cohort study comparing the use of bleeding avoidance strategies and bleeding rates before and after implementation of prospective risk stratification for peri-procedural bleedi...

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BACKGROUND/AIM Depressed heart rate variability (HRV) indicating autonomic disequilibrium and propensity to ventricular ectopy can be useful for risk stratification in patients following acute myocardial infarction (AIM). The aim of the study was to assess heart rate variability as a predictor of all-cause mortality in post-infarction patients. METHODS We analyzed the 24-hour electrocardiogra...

Depression after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is common (up to 40%) and increases risk of cardiac morbidity and mortality in the first year by more than two fold. However, current scarcity of data on etiopathogenesis of post-CABG depression hampers development of prevention or treatment strategies of post-CABG depression. “Vascular Depression” hypothesis posits that cerebrovascul...

More than 800,000 North Americans are admitted to the hospital each year with an acute myocardial infarction (MI) (1,2). Most of these patients survive until hospital discharge, but a substantial number of the survivors will die of out-of-hospital arrhythmic events (3). Approximately half the deaths that occur following acute MI are attributable to recurrent ischemic events or to congestive hea...

BACKGROUND The stratification of post-myocardial infarction (MI) patients at risk of sudden cardiac death remains important. The aim of the present study was to assess the prognostic value of novel T-wave morphology descriptors derived from resting 12-lead ECGs. METHODS AND RESULTS In 280 consecutive post-MI patients, a 12-lead ECG was recorded before discharge, optically scanned, and digitiz...

PURPOSE Pneumothoraces are the most frequently occurring complications of CT-guided percutaneous transthoracic pulmonary biopsies (PTPB). The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of pre-diagnostic lung emphysema on the incidence and extent of pneumothoraces and to establish a risk stratification for the evaluation of the pre-procedure complication probability. MATERIAL AND METHODS ...