Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy improves biochemical cardiac risk factors

2015 ◽  
Vol 221 (4) ◽  
pp. e1
Author(s):  
John M. Morton ◽  
Tara Mokharti ◽  
Archana A. Nair ◽  
Lindsey Voller ◽  
Nairi Strauch ◽  
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2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 414
Author(s):  
Shushmita Ahmed ◽  
Dylan Gwaltney ◽  
Chhavi Bajaj ◽  
Kate Keily ◽  
Jennifer Higa ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Taşar ◽  
Mehmet Kalender ◽  
Okay Güven Karaca ◽  
Ata Niyazi Ecevit ◽  
Salih Salihi ◽  
...  

Background: Carotid artery disease is not rare in cardiac patients. Patients with cardiac risk factors and carotid stenosis are prone to neurological and cardiovascular complications. With cardiac risk factors, carotid endarterectomy operation becomes challenging. Regional anesthesia is an alternative option, so we aimed to investigate the operative results of carotid endarterectomy operations under regional anesthesia in patients with cardiac risk factors. <br />Methods: We aimed to analyze and compare outcomes of carotid endarterectomy under regional anesthesia with cardiovascular risk groups retrospectively. Between 2006 and 2014, we applied 129 carotid endarterectomy ± patch plasty to 126 patients under combined cervical plexus block anesthesia. Patients were divided into three groups (high, moderate, low) according to their cardiovascular risks. Neurological and cardiovascular events after carotid endarterectomy were compared.<br />Results: Cerebrovascular accident was seen in 7 patients (5.55%) but there was no significant difference between groups (P &gt; .05). Mortality rate was 4.76% (n = 6); it was higher in the high risk group and was not statistically significant (P = .180). Four patients required revision for bleeding (3.17%). We did not observe any postoperative surgical infection.<br />Conclusion: Carotid endarterectomy can be safely performed with regional cervical anesthesia in all cardiovascular risk groups. Comprehensive studies comparing general anesthesia and regional anesthesia are needed. <br /><br />


Author(s):  
George Koulaouzidis ◽  
Amanda E. Yung ◽  
Diana E. Yung ◽  
Karolina Skonieczna-Żydecka ◽  
Wojciech Marlicz ◽  
...  

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan M. Frayne ◽  
Katherine M. Skinner ◽  
Lisa M. Sullivan ◽  
Karen M. Freund

The purpose of this article is to determine whether known cardiac risk factors are more prevalent among women veterans who report having sustained sexual assault while in the military. We surveyed a random sample of 3,632 women veterans using Veterans Administration (VA) ambulatory care nationally. Obesity, smoking, problem alcohol use, sedentary lifestyle, and hysterectomy before age 40 were found to be more common in women reporting a history of sexual assault while in the military than in women without such history. An association between myocardial infarction and prior sexual assault history may be mediated in part by known cardiac risk factors.


1995 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetislav Jelić ◽  
Siniša Radulović ◽  
Zora Nešković-Konstantinović ◽  
Miroslav Kreačić ◽  
Zorana Ristović ◽  
...  

Circulation ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 116 (suppl_16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver J Rider ◽  
Jane M Francis ◽  
Mohammed K Ali ◽  
Monique R Robinson ◽  
Stefan Neubauer

Objective Obesity has been linked to a spectrum of cardiovascular abnormalities from subclinical changes in cardiac structure to overt heart failure. Uncomplicated obesity (i.e. obesity without any other co-morbidity or cardiovascular risk factors) has been shown to cause increased LV mass and LV dilatation. Our hypothesis was that these changes are, at least in part, reversible following significant weight loss over one year. Method Forty-one obese (BMI 37.7 ± 7.4 SD) and 12 age, sex matched controls (BMI 21.6 ± 1.8 SD) with no identifiable cardiac risk factors underwent cardiac MR imaging for the assessment of LV Mass (g), LV end-diastolic volume (EDV; ml), stroke volume (SV; ml) and LV EF (%). Fourteen obese subjects underwent repeat imaging after a one year period of weight loss, averaging 14.6 ± 11.5 % total body weight. Results Obesity per se was associated with elevated LV mass (125 ± 27 vs 89 ± 23g; p<0.001), LV mass indexed to height (74.4 ± 14.3 vs 52.3 ± 11.4g/m; p<0.001) and EDV (147 ± 28 vs 119 ± 24 ml; p<0.001). ESV and SV were also elevated in obesity (47 ± 12 vs 39 ± 12ml; p=0.05, and 100 ± 14 vs 80 ± 18 ml; p<0.001, respectively). LV EF was similar between groups (p=0.83). After weight loss, there was a significant reduction in LV mass (by 16 ± 11g; 135 ± 31 vs 119 ± 28g; p<0.001), LV mass indexed to height (76.4 ± 15.7 vs 68.9 ± 12 g/m; p<0.001). EDV and ESV were significantly smaller after weight loss (146 ± 25 vs 133 ± 23 ml; p<0.001, and 43 ± 12 vs 41 ± 10 ml; p<0.001 respectively). LV EF and SV did not change significantly. Conclusion In subjects with obesity in the absence of identifiable cardiac risk factors, LV hypertrophy and LV dilatation were partially reversible after a one year period of weight loss.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Joshua M. Fisher ◽  
Sarah Badran ◽  
John T. Li ◽  
Jodie K. Votava-Smith ◽  
Patrick M. Sullivan

Abstract Objective To describe outcomes of acute coronavirus disease 2019 in paediatric and young adult patients with underlying cardiac disease and evaluate the association between cardiac risk factors and hospitalisation. Study design We conducted a retrospective single-institution review of patients with known cardiac disease and positive severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RT-PCR from 1 March, 2020 to 30 November, 2020. Extracardiac comorbidities and cardiac risk factors were compared between those admitted for coronavirus disease 2019 illness and the rest of the cohort using univariate analysis. Results Forty-two patients with a mean age of 7.7 ± 6.7 years were identified. Six were 18 years of age or more with the oldest being 22 years of age. Seventy-six percent were Hispanic. The most common cardiac diagnoses were repaired cyanotic (n = 7, 16.6%) and palliated single ventricle (n = 7, 16.6%) congenital heart disease. Fourteen patients (33.3%) had underlying syndromes or chromosomal anomalies, nine (21%) had chronic pulmonary disease and eight (19%) were immunosuppressed. Nineteen patients (47.6%) reported no symptoms. Sixteen (38.1%) reported only mild symptoms. Six patients (14.3%) were admitted to the hospital for acute coronavirus disease 2019 illness. Noncardiac comorbidities were associated with an increased risk of hospitalisation (p = 0.02), particularly chronic pulmonary disease (p = 0.01) and baseline supplemental oxygen requirement (p = 0.007). None of the single ventricle patients who tested positive required admission. Conclusions Hospitalisations for coronavirus disease 2019 were rare among children and young adults with underlying cardiac disease. Extracardiac comorbidities like pulmonary disease were associated with increased risk of hospitalisation while cardiac risk factors were not.


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