2025
Defining Thresholds for Meaningful Health Status Changes Following Transfemoral Carotid Artery Stenting
Kluger J, Romain G, Mena‐Hurtado C, Grubman S, Pajarillo C, Cleman J, Scierka L, Smolderen K. Defining Thresholds for Meaningful Health Status Changes Following Transfemoral Carotid Artery Stenting. Catheterization And Cardiovascular Interventions 2025, 105: 927-937. PMID: 39789704, DOI: 10.1002/ccd.31410.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMinimal clinically important differenceHealth status changesHealth statusSF-36Visual analog scaleEQ-5DDistribution-based MCIDPhysical component scoreCarotid artery stentingDisease-specific instrumentHealth status improvementTransfemoral carotid artery stentingSymptom statusClinically important differenceTF-CASStatus changesGeneric instrumentsArtery stentingRegistry dataComponent scoresImportant differencePatients no changeStatus improvementAsymptomatic carotid stenosisHealth
2021
Patient representativeness of a peripheral artery disease cohort in a randomized control trial versus a real-world cohort: The CLEVER trial versus the PORTRAIT registry
Scierka LE, Jelani QU, Smolderen KG, Gosch K, Spertus JA, Mena-Hurtado C, Jones P, Dreyer RP. Patient representativeness of a peripheral artery disease cohort in a randomized control trial versus a real-world cohort: The CLEVER trial versus the PORTRAIT registry. Contemporary Clinical Trials 2021, 112: 106624. PMID: 34793986, DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2021.106624.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnkle Brachial IndexFemaleHealth StatusHumansMalePeripheral Arterial DiseaseQuality of LifeRegistriesConceptsOptimal medical therapyPeripheral artery diseasePatient characteristicsBaseline patient characteristicsPAD cohortPAD populationPORTRAIT registryExercise therapyPAD patientsPAD symptomsArtery diseaseFinal cohortMedical therapyProspective studyBurdensome diseaseControl trialHealth statusPatientsTherapyCohortCLEVER studyDiseaseMulticenterRevascularizationRCTsAssociation of sleep apnea with outcomes in peripheral artery disease: Insights from the PORTRAIT study
Jelani QU, Mena-Hurtado C, Gosch K, Mohammed M, Labrosciano C, Regan C, Scierka LE, Spertus JA, Nagpal S, Smolderen KG. Association of sleep apnea with outcomes in peripheral artery disease: Insights from the PORTRAIT study. PLOS ONE 2021, 16: e0256933. PMID: 34506511, PMCID: PMC8432750, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256933.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPeripheral artery diseasePeripheral Artery QuestionnaireSleep apneaHealth statusArtery diseaseSummary scoresDisease-specific Peripheral Artery QuestionnaireFive-year survival curvesHigh ankle-brachial indexPAQ summary scoreVascular specialty clinicsAnkle-brachial indexLog-rank testSleep apnea statusHealth status outcomesWorse health statusQuality of lifeBetter health statusCause mortalityMultivariable adjustmentPAD symptomsCoronary diseasePeripheral interventionsUS patientsMean age
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