2023
Lower extremity symptoms and ankle–brachial index screening as predictors of cardiovascular outcomes in Black adults
Lee M, Smolderen K, Ionescu C, Hillegass W, Romain G, Mena-Hurtado C. Lower extremity symptoms and ankle–brachial index screening as predictors of cardiovascular outcomes in Black adults. Vascular Medicine 2023, 28: 197-204. PMID: 37293738, DOI: 10.1177/1358863x231151729.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPeripheral artery diseaseAbnormal ABILower extremity symptomsNormal ABILeg symptomsHigh riskBlack adultsExtremity symptomsStepwise Cox proportional hazards modelKaplan-Meier survival curvesCox proportional hazards modelAnkle-brachial indexFramingham risk factorsJackson Heart StudyProportional hazards modelCardiovascular outcomesCause mortalityArtery diseaseAsymptomatic diseaseAdverse outcomesMean ageSymptom assessmentAsymptomatic participantsRisk factorsSymptomatic participants
2011
Left ventricular noncompaction and aneurysm revealed by left ventriculography
Ionescu CN, Turcot D. Left ventricular noncompaction and aneurysm revealed by left ventriculography. Catheterization And Cardiovascular Interventions 2011, 80: 109-111. PMID: 21954168, DOI: 10.1002/ccd.23322.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnticoagulantsCardiac CatheterizationDefibrillators, ImplantableEchocardiographyElectric CountershockElectrocardiography, AmbulatoryHeart AneurysmHeart VentriclesHumansIsolated Noncompaction of the Ventricular MyocardiumMaleMiddle AgedPredictive Value of TestsRadiographyStroke VolumeTachycardia, VentricularVentricular Function, LeftWarfarinConceptsLeft ventriculographyCardiac catheterizationNoninvasive testsVentricular noncompactionNonobstructive coronary artery diseaseCoronary artery diseaseLeft ventricular aneurysmLeft ventricular noncompactionArtery diseaseEjection fractionVentricular aneurysmRare caseCatheterizationNoncompactionVentriculographyAneurysmsPatientsDisease