2020
Assessment of right ventricular function following left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation—The role of speckle‐tracking echocardiography: A meta‐analysis
Barssoum K, Altibi A, Rai D, Kharsa A, Kumar A, Chowdhury M, Elkaryoni A, Abuzaid A, Baibhav B, Parikh V, Masri A, Amsallem M, Nanda N. Assessment of right ventricular function following left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation—The role of speckle‐tracking echocardiography: A meta‐analysis. Echocardiography 2020, 37: 2048-2060. PMID: 33084128, DOI: 10.1111/echo.14884.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRight ventricle free wall strainRight ventricle global longitudinal strainRight ventricular failureSpeckle-tracking echocardiographyRight ventricular failure patientsLeft ventricular assist deviceStandardized mean differenceTransthoracic echocardiographyPrediction of right ventricular failureSubgroup analysisAssessment of right ventricular functionVentricular assist deviceOdds ratioAssociated with worse outcomesFree wall strainGlobal longitudinal strainRight ventricular functionLeft ventricular assist device recipientsMeta-analysisMeta-analysis of published literaturePooled odds ratioRandom-effects modelNo significant differenceVentricular failureVentricular function
2018
Clinical outcomes of current medical approaches for Middle East respiratory syndrome: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
Morra M, Van Thanh L, Kamel M, Ghazy A, Altibi A, Dat L, Thy T, Vuong N, Mostafa M, Ahmed S, Elabd S, Fathima S, Le Huy Vu T, Omrani A, Memish Z, Hirayama K, Huy N. Clinical outcomes of current medical approaches for Middle East respiratory syndrome: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. Reviews In Medical Virology 2018, 28: e1977. PMID: 29664167, PMCID: PMC7169085, DOI: 10.1002/rmv.1977.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChronic renal diseaseMiddle East respiratory syndromeRenal diseaseSupportive treatmentEfficacy of antiviral drugsAssociated with worse outcomesAntiviral drugsIFN-treated groupLarge-scale prospective randomized studiesProspective randomized studyMonitoring of adverse eventsRisk of mortalitySystematic literature searchOlder age groupsMiddle east respiratory syndrome patientsIFN groupCase fatality rateRandomized studyClinical outcomesAdverse eventsPreexisting comorbiditiesIFN treatmentWorse outcomesSystematic reviewTherapeutic efficacy