2022
Incremental Utility of 3D Printing to Guide the Surgical Management of Apical Aneurysm
Layoun H, Akintoye E, Guler E, O’Sullivan K, Krywanczyk A, Tong M, Harb S. Incremental Utility of 3D Printing to Guide the Surgical Management of Apical Aneurysm. JACC Case Reports 2022, 4: 1056-1059. PMID: 36062049, PMCID: PMC9434645, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.06.019.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2017
Usefulness of the Mitral Regurgitation Severity Index to Assess the Severity of Chronic Mitral Regurgitation
Afonso L, Shokr M, Akintoye E, Briasoulis A, Alesh I, Alani A, Mahajan N, Veeranna V, Mostafa A, Zmily H, Telila T, Zalawadiya S. Usefulness of the Mitral Regurgitation Severity Index to Assess the Severity of Chronic Mitral Regurgitation. The American Journal Of Cardiology 2017, 120: 304-308. PMID: 28550931, DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2017.04.027.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsBlood Flow VelocityChronic DiseaseEchocardiography, Doppler, ColorEchocardiography, TransesophagealFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansMaleMiddle AgedMitral ValveMitral Valve InsufficiencyPredictive Value of TestsReproducibility of ResultsRetrospective StudiesROC CurveSeverity of Illness IndexConceptsSevere mitral regurgitationMitral regurgitationTime-velocity integralVelocity integralNonsevere mitral regurgitationChronic mitral regurgitationInter-rater reproducibilityOptimal diagnostic accuracyDerivation cohortMitral inflowValidation cohortGood inter-rater reproducibilityHigh interobserver variabilityMR severityInter-rater agreementLevel IIMean differenceDiagnostic accuracyInterobserver variabilitySeverity IndexCut pointsRegurgitationPatientsCohortSeverity