Using data from the 2nd Gulf Registry of Acute Coronary Events (Gulf RACE-2) in 2008-09 we investigated the in-hospital complications and 1-year outcome of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in patients with systemic hypertension from 6 Gulf countries. Of 7847 consecutive patients admitted with ACS, 3746 (47.7%) had hypertension. Hypertension was more prevalent in women, in Arabs than non-Arabs and ...

In the theory of orthogonal polynomials, sum rules are remarkable relationships between a functional defined on a subset of all probability measures involving the reverse KullbackLeibler divergence with respect to a particular distribution and recursion coefficients related to the orthogonal polynomial construction. Killip and Simon (Killip and Simon (2003)) have given a revival interest to thi...

MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective study of patients admitted to the ICU with a diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome during a period of 4.5 years (1-Jan-2009 to 30-June-2013) in the province of Granada. We will use the database of the register of ischemic heart disease in Andalusia (group ARIAM). The statistical analysis was performed with a logistic regression model taking as binary dependen...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry is commonly used for monitoring critical patients, but its utility as a diagnostic marker of acute heart failure has not been assessed. This study analyzed the diagnostic role of oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry in a series of patients with acute myocardial infarction. METHODS In a prospective observational cohort study of 220...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to describe the occurrence and timing of heart failure (HF), associated clinical factors, and 30-day outcomes in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE-ACS). BACKGROUND Little is known about HF-complicating NSTE-ACS. METHODS Using pooled patient-level data from 7 clinical trials from 1994 to 2008, we describe the occurrence and tim...

BACKGROUND Factors related to socioeconomic status and health care quality and management may influence mortality and morbidity rates due to acute myocardial infarction (AMI). OBJECTIVE To compare mortality and morbidity in patients with AMI hospitalized in public and private hospitals. METHODS An observational study, with comparison groups. Clinical evaluation on admission, and recording o...

AIM This study sought to assess whether radial artery access improves clinical outcomes in patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction compared with femoral artery access. METHODS This is a single-centre, prospective observational registry of all STEMI and NSTEMI patients who underwent coronary angiography and/or primary PCI in the period January 2010 to December 2013. Primary endpoi...

Objective: To compare patients without previously diagnosed cardiovascular risk factors) and patients with one or more risk factors admitted with acute coronary syndrome. Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of patients admitted with first episode of acute coronary syndrome without previous heart disease, who were included in a national acute coronary syndrome registry. The patients wer...

To provide an understanding of the clinical characteristics of patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) and bundle branch block, experience from five centers was accumulated. Patients in whom bundle branch block first appeared after the onset of cardiogenic shock were excluded. In 432 patients, the most common types of block were left (38%) and right with left anterior fascicular block (3...

To provide an understanding of the clinical characteristics of patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) and bundle branch block, experience from five centers was accumulated. Patients in whom bundle branch block first appeared after the onset of cardiogenic shock were excluded. In 432 patients, the most common types of block were left (38%) and right with left anterior fascicular block (3...