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
2010
Long-term Outcome of Tako-tsubo Cardiomyopathy
Ionescu CN, Aguilar-Lopez CA, Sakr AE, Ghantous AE, Donohue TJ. Long-term Outcome of Tako-tsubo Cardiomyopathy. Heart Lung And Circulation 2010, 19: 601-605. PMID: 20655278, DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2010.06.667.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTako-tsubo cardiomyopathyLong-term outcomesMyocardial Infarction (TIMI) myocardial perfusion gradeCombined end pointMyocardial perfusion gradeLeft heart catheterisationSudden cardiac deathCardiac reasonsCardiogenic shockHeart catheterisationCardiac deathPerfusion gradeMean agePrognostic implicationsExcellent outcomesRetrospective analysisCaucasian femalePatientsEnd pointOutcomesFive-year periodCardiomyopathyTMPGStressor eventsCurrent data