BACKGROUND Limited information is available about relatively contemporary trends in the incidence and hospital case-fatality rates of cardiogenic shock in patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction. The purpose of this population-based study was to describe decade long trends (2001-2011) in the incidence and hospital case-fatality rates for patients who developed cardiogenic shock d...

INTRODUCTION Procalcitonin concentrations are considered as a component of the inflammatory response and as an acute-phase marker, after shock or tissue injury (i.e. burn, trauma, surgery) or infections and sepsis. No data are so far available on the dynamics of procalcitonin levels in patients with cardiogenic shock following ST-elevation myocardial infarction, with no clinical or laboratory s...

The mechanisms contributing to multiorgan dysfunction during cardiogenic shock are poorly understood. Our goal was to characterize the microcirculatory and mitochondrial responses following ≥ 10 hours of severe left ventricular failure and cardiogenic shock. We employed a closed-chest porcine model of cardiogenic shock induced by left coronary microembolization (n = 12) and a time-matched contr...

OBJECTIVE To review pathophysiology and management of hypovolaemic, cardiogenic and septic shock in a two-part presentation. DATA SOURCES Articles and published peer-review abstracts and a review of studies reported from 1994 to 1998 and identified through a MEDLINE search of the English language literature on septic shock, cardiogenic shock and hypovolaemic shock. SUMMARY OF REVIEW Shock i...

BACKGROUND Cardiogenic shock shares with septic shock common hemodynamic features, inflammatory patterns and most likely similar complications such as critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency in cardiogenic shock patients and to secondarily assess its prognostic value on 9...

We report the case of a six-year-old boy who presented with cardiogenic shock due to Kawasaki disease (KD). He was misdiagnosed at first as septic shock. After careful examination, he was diagnosed as KD complicated with acute coronary syndrome, which leads to cardiogenic shock. Cardiogenic shock is often neglected as a complication of KD, and it tends to be misdiagnosed. We hereby call attenti...

Cardiogenic shock is the leading cause of death among patients with acute coronary syndrome. This pathology characterized by high rates inhospital and annual mortality. In Russian literature, data on prevalence, diagnosis treatment cardiogenic are limited. Therefore, main aim this publication to increase awareness specialists about modern approaches condition. review discusses in detail causes ...

BACKGROUND Cardiogenic shock is a deadly complication of an acute myocardial infarction (MI). We sought to characterize differences in patient features, treatments, and outcomes of cardiogenic shock by MI classification: ST-segment-elevation MI (STEMI) versus non-ST-segment elevation MI (NSTEMI). METHODS AND RESULTS We compared differences in care by the shock status of 235 541 patients with ...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to assess long-term outcome and determine its predictors among 30-day survivors of cardiogenic shock. BACKGROUND Patients with cardiogenic shock have high in-hospital and 30-day mortality, but there are little data about those who survive beyond 30 days. METHODS We analyzed baseline, in-hospital, and survival data from patients in the U.S. with ST-segment elevat...