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1. Análisis de los datos del Registro Español de Cirugía Cardiaca (RECC) 2021-2022

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Lourdes Montero-Cruces, Manuel Carnero-Alcázar, Rafael Rodríguez-Lecocq, José C. Sureda-Barbosa, Jorge Rodríguez-Roda-Stuart, Juan J. Legarra-Calderón, Juan M. Gracia-Baena, Marta Matamala-Adell, Álvaro Pedraz-Prieto, Alejandro Adsuar-Gómez, Félix Gómez-Blasco, José F. Valderrama-Marcos, Nuria Arce-Ramos, Carlos E. Martín-López, Stefano Urso, Nora García-Borges, José A. Hernández-Campos, Pilar Gascón-García-Verdugo, and José López-Menéndez

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Cardiovascular surgery, Acquired cardiac disease, Aortic surgery, Valve surgery, Coronary artery bypass grafting, Medicine, Surgery, RD1-811
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Resumen: Introducción: Desde el 8 de febrero de 2021, la Sociedad Española de Cirugía Cardiovascular y Endovascular (SECCE) puso en marcha el Registro Español de Cirugía Cardiaca (RECC) que está disponible para las diferentes unidades de cirujanos cardiovasculares de nuestro país. Es una herramienta que permite recopilar datos de pacientes sometidos a cirugía cardiaca, vascular o endovascular. Tras dos años de desarrollo, hemos llevado a cabo un análisis de la calidad de la información obtenida para adquirir una visión general de su contenido. Métodos: La información ha sido analizada de forma anónima a nivel de paciente, hospital y provincia. Para la estimación de la mortalidad ajustada por riesgo se utilizó la escala de estimación de riesgo preoperatorio EuroSCORE II. Resultados: Se han incluido en el RECC un total de 7.087 intervenciones, de las cuales 6.267 se trataban de cirugías cardiacas mayores. Del total de intervenciones mayores, 53,9% eran cirugías valvulares, 25,2% de revascularización miocárdica y 14,9% de aorta. La mortalidad global de la serie fue de 5,0% y el índice de mortalidad ajustada al riesgo (IMAR) de 0,88. La calibración del EuroSCORE II en la muestra global fue buena en los pacientes de riesgo más bajo, aunque sobreestimó la mortalidad en los de alto riesgo. Conclusiones: El RECC se trata de una base de datos clínica nacional que permite el análisis de datos de pacientes con el fin de evaluar de forma precisa el volumen de la actividad, riesgo y resultados. A nivel local, podría utilizarse como una herramienta para mejorar la calidad de la atención y el desarrollo de programas correctivos. Abstract: Introduction: Since February 8, 2021, the Spanish Society of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery got under way the Spanish Registry of Cardiac Surgery (RECC), which is available for the different units of cardiovascular surgeons in our country. It is a tool that allows collect patient-level data of patients undergoing cardiac, vascular or endovascular surgery. After two years of development, we have carried out an analysis of the quality of the information obtained in order to acquire an overview of its content. Methods: The information has been analyzed anonymously at patient, hospital and province level. For risk-adjusted mortality estimation, the EuroSCORE II preoperative risk estimation scale was used. Results: A total of 7087 interventions have been included. Six thousand two hundred and sixty-seven were major cardiac surgeries: 53.9% valvular, 25.2% coronary artery bypass grafting, and 14.9% aortic procedures. The overall mortality was 5.0% and the risk-adjusted mortality rate was 0.88. The EuroSCORE II calibration in the overall sample was good in the lowest-risk patients, although it overestimated mortality in high-risk patients. Conclusions: RECC is a nationally defined clinical database in the field of cardiovascular surgery. RECC allows a patient-level data analysis in order to perform an accurate analysis of the volumen of activity, risk adjustment and results. Locally, it could be used as a tool to improve the quality of care and development of corrective programs.

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2023
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2. Analysis of age-related left ventricular collagen remodeling in living donors: Implications in arrhythmogenesis

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Laura García-Mendívil, María Pérez-Zabalza, Konstantinos Mountris, Sam Duwé, Nick Smisdom, Marta Pérez, Lluís Luján, Esther Wolfs, Ronald B. Driesen, José María Vallejo-Gil, Pedro Carlos Fresneda-Roldán, Javier Fañanás-Mastral, Manuel Vázquez-Sancho, Marta Matamala-Adell, Juan Fernando Sorribas-Berjón, Javier André Bellido-Morales, Francisco Javier Mancebón-Sierra, Alexánder Sebastián Vaca-Núñez, Carlos Ballester-Cuenca, Aida Oliván-Viguera, Emiliano Diez, Laura Ordovás, and Esther Pueyo

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Disease, Pathophysiology, Computational bioinformatics, Science
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Summary: Age-related fibrosis in the left ventricle (LV) has been mainly studied in animals by assessing collagen content. Using second-harmonic generation microscopy and image processing, we evaluated amount, aggregation and spatial distribution of LV collagen in young to old pigs, and middle-age and elder living donors. All collagen features increased when comparing adult and old pigs with young ones, but not when comparing adult with old pigs or middle-age with elder individuals. Remarkably, all collagen parameters strongly correlated with lipofuscin, a biological age marker, in humans. By building patient-specific models of human ventricular tissue electrophysiology, we confirmed that amount and organization of fibrosis modulated arrhythmia vulnerability, and that distribution should be accounted for arrhythmia risk assessment. In conclusion, we characterize the age-associated changes in LV collagen and its potential implications for ventricular arrhythmia development. Consistency between pig and human results substantiate the pig as a relevant model of age-related LV collagen dynamics.

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2022
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3. Automatic Quantification of Cardiomyocyte Dimensions and Connexin 43 Lateralization in Fluorescence Images

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Antoni Oliver-Gelabert, Laura García-Mendívil, José María Vallejo-Gil, Pedro Carlos Fresneda-Roldán, Katarína Andelová, Javier Fañanás-Mastral, Manuel Vázquez-Sancho, Marta Matamala-Adell, Fernando Sorribas-Berjón, Carlos Ballester-Cuenca, Narcisa Tribulova, Laura Ordovás, Emiliano Raúl Diez, and Esther Pueyo

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automated quantification, Connexin 43, fluorescent microscopy, lateralization, cardiomyocytes, Microbiology, QR1-502
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Cardiomyocytes’ geometry and connexin 43 (CX43) amount and distribution are structural features that play a pivotal role in electrical conduction. Their quantitative assessment is of high interest in the study of arrhythmias, but it is usually hampered by the lack of automatic tools. In this work, we propose a software algorithm (Myocyte Automatic Retrieval and Tissue Analyzer, MARTA) to automatically detect myocytes from fluorescent microscopy images of cardiac tissue, measure their morphological features and evaluate the expression of CX43 and its degree of lateralization. The proposed software is based on the generation of cell masks, contouring of individual cells, enclosing of cells in minimum area rectangles and splitting of these rectangles into end-to-end and middle compartments to estimate CX43 lateral-to-total ratio. Application to human ventricular tissue images shows that mean differences between automatic and manual methods in terms of cardiomyocyte length and width are below 4 μm. The percentage of lateral CX43 also agrees between automatic and manual evaluation, with the interquartile range approximately covering from 3% to 30% in both cases. MARTA is not limited by fiber orientation and has an optimized speed by using contour filtering, which makes it run hundreds of times faster than a trained expert. Developed for CX43 studies in the left ventricle, MARTA is a flexible tool applicable to morphometric and lateralization studies of other markers in any heart chamber or even skeletal muscle. This open-access software is available online.

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2020
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4. Disección de arterias coronarias: ¿y ahora qué hago?

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Marta Matamala-Adell, Neslim Gálvez-Álvarez, Elisa Ochoa-Rea, Jose Maria Vallejo-Gil, Manuel Vázquez-Sancho, Fernando Sorribas-Berjón, Javier Fañanás-Mastral, José Parrilla-Vidal, and Carlos Ballester-Cuenca

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Disección espontánea arterias coronarias, Enfermedad coronaria, Cirugía coronaria, Bypass coronario, Síndrome coronario agudo, Medicine, Surgery, RD1-811
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Objetivo: La disección de arterias coronarias es una entidad con escasa frecuencia. Su espectro clínico puede abarcar desde la muerte súbita, el infarto agudo de miocardio o la angina de pecho. No hay un consenso acerca de la mejor opción terapéutica. Métodos: Se analizan 4 casos acontecidos en los últimos años. Un varón de 56 años y una mujer de 50 años en los que se realiza cirugía de revascularización miocárdica, una mujer de 46 años en la que se implanta un stent, y una mujer de 48 años en la que se decide tratamiento médico. Resultados: Dichos pacientes presentaron una evolución favorable pudiendo ser dados de alta. En seguimiento, los pacientes sometidos a cirugía no han presentado otros eventos de interés, permaneciendo estables. En el caso de la paciente sobre la que se realizó intervencionismo presentó redisección con implante de nuevo stent a los 3 años. El último caso ha permanecido estable y ha sido dado de alta recientemente. Conclusiones: La conducta a seguir es variada sin existir consenso ni estandarización. Si el paciente está estable y el vaso es pequeño puede considerarse tratamiento médico. Si el paciente está inestable hay una mayor indicación de intervencionismo. En los casos de disección del tronco coronario izquierdo y multivaso la tendencia es hacia la cirugía de bypass coronaria. Dada la escasa incidencia de la enfermedad sería interesante el estudio de series mayores de casos para la confrontación de resultados y poder determinar de una manera más eficaz el mejor tratamiento a seguir.

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2015
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5. Age-associated changes in fibrosis amount and spatial organization and its effects on human ventricular electrophysiology.

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María Pérez-Zabalza, Laura García-Mendívil, Kostantinos A. Mountris, Nick Smisdom, José M. Vallejo-Gil, Pedro C. Fresneda-Roldán, Javier Fañanás-Mastral, Marta Matamala-Adell, Fernando Sorribas-Berjón, Manuel Vázquez-Sancho, Javier André Bellido-Morales, Francisco Javier Mancebón-Sierra, Alexánder Sebastián Vaca-Núñez, Carlos Ballester-Cuenca, Aida Oliván-Viguera, Laura Ordovás, and Esther Pueyo

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2021
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6. Improved Methods for Processing Optical Mapping Signals From Human Left Ventricular Tissues at Baseline and Following Adrenergic Stimulation.

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María Pérez-Zabalza, Emiliano R. Diez, Julia Rhyins, Konstantinos A. Mountris, José M. Vallejo-Gil, Pedro C. Fresneda-Roldán, Javier Fañanás-Mastral, Marta Matamala-Adell, Fernando Sorribas-Berjón, Manuel Vázquez-Sancho, Carlos Ballester-Cuenca, Margarita Segovia-Roldán, Aida Oliván-Viguera, and Esther Pueyo

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2020
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7. A Contemporary Picture of Enterococcal Endocarditis

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Juan M. Pericàs, Jaume Llopis, Patricia Muñoz, Juan Gálvez-Acebal, Martha Kestler, Maricela Valerio, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Miguel Á. Goenaga, Manuel Cobo-Belaustegui, Miguel Montejo, Guillermo Ojeda-Burgos, M. Dolores Sousa-Regueiro, Arístides de Alarcón, Antonio Ramos-Martínez, José M. Miró, Fernando Fernández Sánchez, Mariam Noureddine, Gabriel Rosas, Javier de la Torre Lima, Roberto Blanco, María Victoria Boado, Marta Campaña Lázaro, Alejandro Crespo, Josune Goikoetxea, José Ramón Iruretagoyena, Josu Irurzun Zuazabal, Leire López-Soria, Javier Nieto, David Rodrigo, Regino Rodríguez, Yolanda Vitoria, Roberto Voces, Ma Victoria García López, Radka Ivanova Georgieva, Guillermo Ojeda, Isabel Rodríguez Bailón, Josefa Ruiz Morales, Ana María Cuende, Tomás Echeverría, Ana Fuerte, Eduardo Gaminde, Miguel Ángel Goenaga, Pedro Idígoras, José Antonio Iribarren, Alberto Izaguirre Yarza, Xabier Kortajarena Urkola, Carlos Reviejo, Rafael Carrasco, Vicente Climent, Patricio Llamas, Esperanza Merino, Joaquín Plazas, Sergio Reus, Nemesio Álvarez, José María Bravo-Ferrer, Laura Castelo, José Cuenca, Pedro Llinares, Enrique Miguez Rey, María Rodríguez Mayo, Efrén Sánchez, Dolores Sousa Regueiro, Francisco Javier Martínez, Ma del Mar Alonso, Beatriz Castro, Dácil García Rosado, Ma del Carmen Durán, Ma Antonia Miguel Gómez, Juan Lacalzada, Ibrahim Nassar, Antonio Plata Ciezar, José Ma Reguera Iglesias, Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Carlos Costas, Jesús de la Hera, Jonnathan Fernández Suárez, Lisardo Iglesias Fraile, Víctor León Arguero, José López Menéndez, Pilar Mencia Bajo, Carlos Morales, Alfonso Moreno Torrico, Carmen Palomo, Begoña Paya Martínez, Ángeles Rodríguez Esteban, Raquel Rodríguez García, Mauricio Telenti Asensio, Manuel Almela, Juan Ambrosioni, Manuel Azqueta, Mercè Brunet, Marta Bodro, Ramón Cartañá, Carlos Falces, Guillermina Fita, David Fuster, Cristina García de la Mària, Delia García-Pares, Jaume Llopis Pérez, Francesc Marco, Asunción Moreno, David Nicolás, Salvador Ninot, Eduardo Quintana, Carlos Paré, Daniel Pereda, Juan M. Pericás, José L. Pomar, José Ramírez, Irene Rovira, Elena Sandoval, Marta Sitges, Dolors Soy, Adrián Téllez, José M. Tolosana, Bárbara Vidal, Jordi Vila, Iván Adán, Javier Bermejo, Emilio Bouza, Daniel Celemín, Gregorio Cuerpo Caballero, Antonia Delgado Montero, Ana García Mansilla, Ma Eugenia García Leoni, Víctor González Ramallo, Martha Kestler Hernández, Amaia Mari Hualde, Mercedes Marín, Manuel Martínez-Sellés, Cristina Rincón, Hugo Rodríguez-Abella, Marta Rodríguez-Créixems, Blanca Pinilla, Ángel Pinto, Pilar Vázquez, Eduardo Verde Moreno, Isabel Antorrena, Belén Loeches, Alejandro Martín Quirós, Mar Moreno, Ulises Ramírez, Verónica Rial Bastón, María Romero, Araceli Saldaña, Jesús Agüero Balbín, Carlos Armiñanzas Castillo, Ana Arnaiz, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, Manuel Cobo Belaustegui, María Carmen Fariñas, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Rubén Gómez Izquierdo, Iván García, Claudia González Rico, Manuel Gutiérrez-Cuadra, José Gutiérrez Díez, Marcos Pajarón, José Antonio Parra, Ramón Teira, Jesús Zarauza, Jorge Calderón Parra, Marta Cobo, Fernando Domínguez, Alberto Fortaleza, Pablo García Pavía, Jesús González, Ana Fernández Cruz, Elena Múñez, Antonio Ramos, Isabel Sánchez Romero, Tomasa Centella, José Manuel Hermida, José Luis Moya, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Enrique Navas, Enrique Oliva, Alejandro del Río, Jorge Rodríguez-Roda Stuart, Soledad Ruiz, Carmen Hidalgo Tenorio, Manuel Almendro Delia, Omar Araji, José Miguel Barquero, Román Calvo Jambrina, Marina de Cueto, Juan Gálvez Acebal, Irene Méndez, Isabel Morales, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, Emilio García, Juan Luis Haro, José Antonio Lepe, Francisco López, Rafael Luque, Luis Javier Alonso, Pedro Azcárate, José Manuel Azcona Gutiérrez, José Ramón Blanco, Antonio Cabrera Villegas, Lara García-Álvarez, José Antonio Oteo, Mercedes Sanz, Natividad de Benito, Mercé Gurguí, Cristina Pacho, Roser Pericas, Guillem Pons, M. Álvarez, A.L. Fernández, Amparo Martínez, A. Prieto, Benito Regueiro, E. Tijeira, Marino Vega, Andrés Canut Blasco, José Cordo Mollar, Juan Carlos Gainzarain Arana, Oscar García Uriarte, Alejandro Martín López, Zuriñe Ortiz de Zárate, José Antonio Urturi Matos, García-Domínguez Gloria, Sánchez-Porto Antonio, José Ma Arribas Leal, Elisa García Vázquez, Alicia Hernández Torres, Ana Blázquez, Gonzalo de la Morena Valenzuela, Ángel Alonso, Javier Aramburu, Felicitas Elena Calvo, Anai Moreno Rodríguez, Paola Tarabini-Castellani, Eva Heredero Gálvez, Carolina Maicas Bellido, José Largo Pau, Ma Antonia Sepúlveda, Pilar Toledano Sierra, Sadaf Zafar Iqbal-Mirza, Eva Cascales Alcolea, Ivan Keituqwa Yañez, Julián Navarro Martínez, Ana Peláez Ballesta, Eduardo Moreno Escobar, Alejandro Peña Monje, Valme Sánchez Cabrera, David Vinuesa García, María Arrizabalaga Asenjo, Carmen Cifuentes Luna, Juana Núñez Morcillo, Ma Cruz Pérez Seco, Aroa Villoslada Gelabert, Carmen Aured Guallar, Nuria Fernández Abad, Pilar García Mangas, Marta Matamala Adell, Ma Pilar Palacián Ruiz, Juan Carlos Porres, Begoña Alcaraz Vidal, Nazaret Cobos Trigueros, María Jesús Del Amor Espín, José Antonio Giner Caro, Roberto Jiménez Sánchez, Amaya Jimeno Almazán, Alejandro Ortín Freire, Monserrat Viqueira González, Pere Pericás Ramis, Ma Ángels Ribas Blanco, Enrique Ruiz de Gopegui Bordes, Laura Vidal Bonet, Ma Carmen Bellón Munera, Elena Escribano Garaizabal, Antonia Tercero Martínez, Juan Carlos Segura Luque, Cristina Badía, Lucía Boix Palop, Mariona Xercavins, Sónia Ibars, Eloy Gómez Nebreda, Ibalia Horcajada Herrera, Irene Menduiña Gallego, Héctor Marrero Santiago, Isabel de Miguel Martínez, Elena Pisos Álamo, Carmen Díaz Pedroche, Fernando Chaves, Santiago de Cossío, Francisco López Medrano, Ma Jesús López, Javier Solera, Jorge Solís, Carmen Ardanuy, Guillermo Cuervo Requena, Sara Grillo, and Alejandro Ruiz Majoral

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Aortic valve, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, relapses, Enterococci, Epidemiology, medicine.medical_treatment, heart failure, Heart failure, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Logistic regression, Prosthesis, prosthetic valves, Cohort Studies, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, enterococci, Internal medicine, Post-hoc analysis, medicine, Enterococcus faecalis, Endocarditis, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections, Aged, Bacteria, business.industry, infective endocarditis, ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING, Endocarditis, Bacterial, Middle Aged, Prosthetic valves, medicine.disease, medicine.anatomical_structure, Spain, Infective endocarditis, Cohort, epidemiology, Female, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, Relapses
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GAMES Investigators., [Background] Enterococcal endocarditis (EE) is a growing entity in Western countries. However, quality data from large studies is lacking., [Objectives] The purpose of this study was to describe the characteristics and analyze the prognostic factors of EE in the GAMES cohort., [Methods] This was a post hoc analysis of a prospectively collected cohort of patients from 35 Spanish centers from 2008 to 2016. Characteristics and outcomes of 516 cases of EE were compared with those of 3,308 cases of nonenterococcal endocarditis (NEE). Logistic regression and Cox proportional hazards regression analysis were performed to investigate risk factors for in-hospital and 1-year mortality, as well as relapses., [Results] Patients with EE were significantly older; more frequently presented chronic lung disease, chronic heart failure, prior endocarditis, and degenerative valve disease; and had higher median age-adjusted Charlson score. EE more frequently involved the aortic valve and prosthesis (64.3% vs. 46.7%; p < 0.001; and 35.9% vs. 28.9%; p = 0.002, respectively) but less frequently pacemakers/defibrillators (1.5% vs. 10.5%; p < 0.001), and showed higher rates of acute heart failure (45% vs. 38.3%; p = 0.005). Cardiac surgery was less frequently performed in EE (40.7% vs. 45.9%; p = 0.024). No differences in in-hospital and 1-year mortality were found, whereas relapses were significantly higher in EE (3.5% vs. 1.7%; p = 0.035). Increasing Charlson score, LogEuroSCORE, acute heart failure, septic shock, and paravalvular complications were risk factors for mortality, whereas prior endocarditis was protective and persistent bacteremia constituted the sole risk factor for relapse., [Conclusions] Besides other baseline and clinical differences, EE more frequently affects prosthetic valves and less frequently pacemakers/defibrillators. EE presents higher rates of relapse than NEE.

Published
2020

8. Minimally invasive system to reliably characterize ventricular electrophysiology from living donors

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Carlos Ballester-Cuenca, Laura García-Mendívil, José María Vallejo-Gil, Francisco Javier Mancebón-Sierra, Emiliano Raúl Diez, Fernando Sorribas-Berjón, Miguel Angel Marigil, Sofía Orós-Rodrigo, Estel Ramos-Marquès, Manuel Vázquez-Sancho, Maria Perez-Zabalza, Javier André Bellido-Morales, Alexánder Sebastián Vaca-Núñez, Konstantinos A. Mountris, Aida Oliván-Viguera, Ralf Köhler, Laura Ordovás, Javier Fañanás-Mastral, Pedro Carlos Fresneda-Roldán, Cristina Pastor, Esther Pueyo, and Marta Matamala-Adell

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0301 basic medicine, Cell biology, Tissue architecture, Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Molecular biology, Swine, Heart Ventricles, Cardiology, lcsh:Medicine, Action Potentials, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, MYOCARDIAL SLICE, Article, Membrane Potentials, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, LIVING DONORS, Living Donors, Animals, Humans, Medicine, Cellular organization, lcsh:Science, Multidisciplinary, business.industry, lcsh:R, ACTION POTENTIALS, purl.org/becyt/ford/3.1 [https], ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, Electrophysiological Phenomena, 3. Good health, Electrophysiology, 030104 developmental biology, Vital stain, Action potential duration, lcsh:Q, purl.org/becyt/ford/3 [https], Cardiac Electrophysiology, business, Core biopsy
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Cardiac tissue slices preserve the heterogeneous structure and multicellularity of the myocardium and allow its functional characterization. However, access to human ventricular samples is scarce. We aim to demonstrate that slices from small transmural core biopsies collected from living donors during routine cardiac surgery preserve structural and functional properties of larger myocardial specimens, allowing accurate electrophysiological characterization. In pigs, we compared left ventricular transmural core biopsies with transmural tissue blocks from the same ventricular region. In humans, we analyzed transmural biopsies and papillary muscles from living donors. All tissues were vibratomesliced. By histological analysis of the transmural biopsies, we showed that tissue architecture and cellular organization were preserved. Enzymatic and vital staining methods verifed viability. Optically mapped transmembrane potentials confrmed that action potential duration and morphology were similar in pig biopsies and tissue blocks. Action potential morphology and duration in human biopsies and papillary muscles agreed with published ranges. In both pigs and humans, responses to increasing pacing frequencies and β-adrenergic stimulation were similar in transmural biopsies and larger tissues. We show that it is possible to successfully collect and characterize tissue slices from human myocardial biopsies routinely extracted from living donors, whose behavior mimics that of larger myocardial preparations both structurally and electrophysiologically. Fil: Oliván Viguera, Aida. Universidad de Zaragoza; España Fil: Pérez Zabalza, María. Universidad de Zaragoza; España Fil: García Mendívil, Laura. Universidad de Zaragoza; España Fil: Mountris, Konstantinos A.. Universidad de Zaragoza; España Fil: Orós Rodrigo, Sofía. Universidad de Zaragoza; España Fil: Ramos Marquès, Estel. Universidad de Zaragoza; España Fil: Vallejo Gil, José María. University Hospital Miguel Servet; España Fil: Fresneda Roldán, Pedro Carlos. University Hospital Miguel Servet; España Fil: Fañanás Mastral, Javier. University Hospital Miguel Servet; España Fil: Vázquez Sancho, Manuel. University Hospital Miguel Servet; España Fil: Matamala Adell, Marta. University Hospital Miguel Servet; España Fil: Sorribas Berjón, Fernando. University Hospital Miguel Servet; España Fil: Bellido Morales, Javier André. University Hospital Miguel Servet; España Fil: Mancebón Sierra, Francisco Javier. University Hospital Miguel Servet; España Fil: Vaca Núñez, Alexánder Sebastián. University Hospital Miguel Servet; España Fil: Ballester Cuenca, Carlos. University Hospital Miguel Servet; España Fil: Marigil, Miguel Ángel. Hospital San Jorge; España Fil: Pastor, Cristina. Aragón Institute of Health Sciences; España Fil: Ordovás, Laura. Aragón Agency for Research and Development; España. Universidad de Zaragoza; España Fil: Köhler, Ralf. Aragón Institute of Health Sciences; España. Aragón Agency for Research and Development; España Fil: Diez, Emiliano Raúl. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Cátedra de Fisiología Humana Normal; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Medicina y Biología Experimental de Cuyo; Argentina Fil: Pueyo, Esther. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina; España. Universidad de Zaragoza; España

Published
2020

9. Automatic Quantification of Cardiomyocyte Dimensions and Connexin 43 Lateralization in Fluorescence Images

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Katarina Andelova, Manuel Vázquez-Sancho, Emiliano Raúl Diez, Narcisa Tribulova, Laura García-Mendívil, José María Vallejo-Gil, Carlos Ballester-Cuenca, Laura Ordovás, Pedro Carlos Fresneda-Roldán, Antoni Oliver-Gelabert, Esther Pueyo, Marta Matamala-Adell, Fernando Sorribas-Berjón, and Javier Fañanás-Mastral

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0301 basic medicine, Male, Spectrum analyzer, AUTOMATED QUANTIFICATION, Computer science, LATERALIZATION, Heart chamber, lcsh:QR1-502, Connexin, cardiomyocytes, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Biochemistry, Lateralization of brain function, Article, lcsh:Microbiology, CARDIOMYOCYTES, Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium-Transporting ATPases, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Software, medicine, Myocyte, Animals, Humans, lateralization, Myocytes, Cardiac, Rats, Wistar, Molecular Biology, Contouring, CONNEXIN 43, business.industry, Myocardium, purl.org/becyt/ford/3.1 [https], 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, FLUORESCENT MICROSCOPY, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Ventricle, Connexin 43, cardiovascular system, purl.org/becyt/ford/3 [https], business, automated quantification, Algorithms, Biomedical engineering, fluorescent microscopy
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Cardiomyocytes&rsquo, geometry and connexin 43 (CX43) amount and distribution are structural features that play a pivotal role in electrical conduction. Their quantitative assessment is of high interest in the study of arrhythmias, but it is usually hampered by the lack of automatic tools. In this work, we propose a software algorithm (Myocyte Automatic Retrieval and Tissue Analyzer, MARTA) to automatically detect myocytes from fluorescent microscopy images of cardiac tissue, measure their morphological features and evaluate the expression of CX43 and its degree of lateralization. The proposed software is based on the generation of cell masks, contouring of individual cells, enclosing of cells in minimum area rectangles and splitting of these rectangles into end-to-end and middle compartments to estimate CX43 lateral-to-total ratio. Application to human ventricular tissue images shows that mean differences between automatic and manual methods in terms of cardiomyocyte length and width are below 4 &mu, m. The percentage of lateral CX43 also agrees between automatic and manual evaluation, with the interquartile range approximately covering from 3% to 30% in both cases. MARTA is not limited by fiber orientation and has an optimized speed by using contour filtering, which makes it run hundreds of times faster than a trained expert. Developed for CX43 studies in the left ventricle, MARTA is a flexible tool applicable to morphometric and lateralization studies of other markers in any heart chamber or even skeletal muscle. This open-access software is available online.

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2020
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10. Prevalence of Colorectal Neoplasms Among Patients With Enterococcus faecalis Endocarditis in the GAMES Cohort (2008-2017)

Author

Juan M. Pericàs, Juan Ambrosioni, Patricia Muñoz, Arístides de Alarcón, Martha Kestler, Amaia Mari-Hualde, Asunción Moreno, Miguel Á. Goenaga, M. Carmen Fariñas, Regino Rodríguez-Álvarez, Guillermo Ojeda-Burgos, Juan Gálvez-Acebal, Carmen Hidalgo-Tenorio, Mariam Noureddine, José M. Miró, Fernando Fernández Sánchez, Gabriel Rosas, Javier de la Torre Lima, Roberto Blanco, María Victoria Boado, Marta Campaña Lázaro, Alejandro Crespo, Josune Goikoetxea, José Ramón Iruretagoyena, Josu Irurzun Zuazabal, Leire López-Soria, Miguel Montejo, Javier Nieto, David Rodrigo, Regino Rodríguez, Yolanda Vitoria, Roberto Voces, Ma Victoria García López, Radka Ivanova Georgieva, Guillermo Ojeda, Isabel Rodríguez Bailón, Josefa Ruiz Morales, Ana María Cuende, Tomás Echeverría, Ana Fuerte, Eduardo Gaminde, Miguel Ángel Goenaga, Pedro Idígoras, José Antonio Iribarren, Alberto Izaguirre Yarza, Xabier Kortajarena Urkola, Carlos Reviejo, Rafael Carrasco, Vicente Climent, Patricio Llamas, Esperanza Merino, Joaquín Plazas, Sergio Reus, Nemesio Álvarez, José María Bravo-Ferrer, Laura Castelo, José Cuenca, Pedro Llinares, Enrique Miguez Rey, María Rodríguez Mayo, Efrén Sánchez, Dolores Sousa Regueiro, Francisco Javier Martínez, Ma del Mar Alonso, Beatriz Castro, Dácil García Rosado, Ma del Carmen Durán, Ma Antonia Miguel Gómez, Juan Lacalzada, Ibrahim Nassar, Antonio Plata Ciezar, José Ma Reguera Iglesias, Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Carlos Costas, Jesús de la Hera, Jonnathan Fernández Suárez, Lisardo Iglesias Fraile, Víctor León Arguero, José López Menéndez, Pilar Mencia Bajo, Carlos Morales, Alfonso Moreno Torrico, Carmen Palomo, Begoña Paya Martínez, Ángeles Rodríguez Esteban, Raquel Rodríguez García, Mauricio Telenti Asensio, Manuel Almela, Manuel Azqueta, Mercè Brunet, Marta Bodro, Ramón Cartañá, Carlos Falces, Guillermina Fita, David Fuster, Cristina García de la Mària, Delia García-Pares, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Jaume Llopis Pérez, Francesc Marco, David Nicolás, Salvador Ninot, Eduardo Quintana, Carlos Paré, Daniel Pereda, Juan M. Pericás, José L. Pomar, José Ramírez, Irene Rovira, Elena Sandoval, Marta Sitges, Dolors Soy, Adrián Téllez, José M. Tolosana, Bárbara Vidal, Jordi Vila, Iván Adán, Javier Bermejo, Emilio Bouza, Daniel Celemín, Gregorio Cuerpo Caballero, Antonia Delgado Montero, Ana García Mansilla, Ma Eugenia García Leoni, Víctor González Ramallo, Martha Kestler Hernández, Amaia Mari Hualde, Mercedes Marín, Manuel Martínez-Sellés, Cristina Rincón, Hugo Rodríguez-Abella, Marta Rodríguez-Créixems, Blanca Pinilla, Ángel Pinto, Maricela Valerio, Pilar Vázquez, Eduardo Verde Moreno, Isabel Antorrena, Belén Loeches, Alejandro Martín Quirós, Mar Moreno, Ulises Ramírez, Verónica Rial Bastón, María Romero, Araceli Saldaña, Jesús Agüero Balbín, Carlos Armiñanzas Castillo, Ana Arnaiz, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, Manuel Cobo Belaustegui, María Carmen Fariñas, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Rubén Gómez Izquierdo, Iván García, Claudia González Rico, Manuel Gutiérrez-Cuadra, José Gutiérrez Díez, Marcos Pajarón, José Antonio Parra, Ramón Teira, Jesús Zarauza, Jorge Calderón Parra, Marta Cobo, Fernando Domínguez, Alberto Fortaleza, Pablo García Pavía, Jesús González, Ana Fernández Cruz, Elena Múñez, Antonio Ramos, Isabel Sánchez Romero, Tomasa Centella, José Manuel Hermida, José Luis Moya, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Enrique Navas, Enrique Oliva, Alejandro del Río, Jorge Rodríguez-Roda Stuart, Soledad Ruiz, Carmen Hidalgo Tenorio, Manuel Almendro Delia, Omar Araji, José Miguel Barquero, Román Calvo Jambrina, Marina de Cueto, Juan Gálvez Acebal, Irene Méndez, Isabel Morales, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, Emilio García, Juan Luis Haro, José Antonio Lepe, Francisco López, Rafael Luque, Luis Javier Alonso, Pedro Azcárate, José Manuel Azcona Gutiérrez, José Ramón Blanco, Antonio Cabrera Villegas, Lara García-Álvarez, José Antonio Oteo, Mercedes Sanz, Natividad de Benito, Mercé Gurguí, Cristina Pacho, Roser Pericas, Guillem Pons, M. Álvarez, A.L. Fernández, Amparo Martínez, A. Prieto, Benito Regueiro, E. Tijeira, Marino Vega, Andrés Canut Blasco, José Cordo Mollar, Juan Carlos Gainzarain Arana, Oscar García Uriarte, Alejandro Martín López, Zuriñe Ortiz de Zárate, José Antonio Urturi Matos, García-Domínguez Gloria, Sánchez-Porto Antonio, José Ma Arribas Leal, Elisa García Vázquez, Alicia Hernández Torres, Ana Blázquez, Gonzalo de la Morena Valenzuela, Ángel Alonso, Javier Aramburu, Felicitas Elena Calvo, Anai Moreno Rodríguez, Paola Tarabini-Castellani, Eva Heredero Gálvez, Carolina Maicas Bellido, José Largo Pau, Ma Antonia Sepúlveda, Pilar Toledano Sierra, Sadaf Zafar Iqbal-Mirza, Eva Cascales Alcolea, Ivan Keituqwa Yañez, Julián Navarro Martínez, Ana Peláez Ballesta, Eduardo Moreno Escobar, Alejandro Peña Monje, Valme Sánchez Cabrera, David Vinuesa García, María Arrizabalaga Asenjo, Carmen Cifuentes Luna, Juana Núñez Morcillo, Ma Cruz Pérez Seco, Aroa Villoslada Gelabert, Carmen Aured Guallar, Nuria Fernández Abad, Pilar García Mangas, Marta Matamala Adell, Ma Pilar Palacián Ruiz, Juan Carlos Porres, Begoña Alcaraz Vidal, Nazaret Cobos Trigueros, María Jesús Del Amor Espín, José Antonio Giner Caro, Roberto Jiménez Sánchez, Amaya Jimeno Almazán, Alejandro Ortín Freire, Monserrat Viqueira González, Pere Pericás Ramis, Ma Ángels Ribas Blanco, Enrique Ruiz de Gopegui Bordes, Laura Vidal Bonet, Ma Carmen Bellón Munera, Elena Escribano Garaizabal, Antonia Tercero Martínez, Juan Carlos Segura Luque, Cristina Badía, Lucía Boix Palop, Mariona Xercavins, Sónia Ibars. Eloy Gómez Nebreda, Ibalia Horcajada Herrera, Irene Menduiña Gallego Héctor Marrero Santiago, Isabel de Miguel Martínez, and Elena Pisos Álamo

Subjects
Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Colorectal cancer, Population, Colonoscopy, Enterococcus faecalis, Risk Factors, Internal medicine, medicine, Prevalence, Endocarditis, Humans, education, Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections, Aged, Retrospective Studies, Aged, 80 and over, education.field_of_study, medicine.diagnostic_test, biology, business.industry, Retrospective cohort study, General Medicine, Endocarditis, Bacterial, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, Infective endocarditis, Cohort, Female, business, Colorectal Neoplasms
Abstract

Objective: To investigate the rate of colorectal neoplasms (CRNs) in patients who have Enterococcus faecalis infective endocarditis (EFIE) with available colonoscopies and to assess whether this is associated with the identification of a focus the infection. Patients and Methods: Retrospective analysis of data from a prospective multicenter study involving 35 centers who are members of the Grupo de Apoyo para el Manejo de la Endocarditis en Espana [Support Group for the Management of Infective Endocarditis in Spain] cohort. A specific set of queries regarding information on colonoscopy and histopathology of colorectal diseases was sent to each participating center. Four-hundred sixty-seven patients with EFIE were included from January 1, 2008, to December 31, 2017, from whom data on colonoscopy performance and results were available in 411 patients. Results: One hundred forty-two (34.5%) patients had a colonoscopy close to the EFIE episode. The overall rate of colorectal diseases was 70.4% (100 of 142), whereas the prevalence of CRN (advanced adenomas and colorectal carcinoma) was 14.8% (21 of 142), with no significant differences between the group of EFIE of unknown focus and that with an identified focus. Conclusion: Our study adds to prior evidence suggesting a much higher rate of CRN among patients with EFIE than in the general population of the same age and sex. In addition, our findings suggest that this phenomenon might take place both in EFIE with an unknown and an identified source of infection.

Published
2019

11. Gentamicin may have no effect on mortality of staphylococcal prosthetic valve endocarditis

Author

Antonio Ramos-Martínez, Alejandro Muñoz Serrano, Arístides de Alarcón González, Patricia Muñoz, Ana Fernández-Cruz, Maricela Valerio, María Carmen Fariñas, Manuel Gutiérrez-Cuadra, José Ma Miró, Josefa Ruiz-Morales, Dolores Sousa-Regueiro, José Miguel Montejo, Juan Gálvez-Acebal, Carmen HidalgoTenorio, Fernando Domínguez, Fernando Fernández Sánchez, Mariam Noureddine, Gabriel Rosas, Javier de la Torre Lima, José Aramendi, Elena Bereciartua, Roberto Blanco, María Victoria Boado, Itxasne Cabezón Estébanez, Marta Campaña Lázaro, Josune Goikoetxea, Juan José Goiti, José Ramón Iruretagoyena, Josu Irurzun Zuazabal, Leire López-Soria, Miguel Montejo, Javier Nieto, David Rodríguez, Regino Rodríguez, Roberto Voces, Ma Victoria García López, Radka Ivanova Georgieva, Guillermo Ojeda, Isabel Rodríguez Bailón, Josefa Ruiz Morales, Ana María Cuende, Tomás Echeverría, Ana Fuerte, Eduardo Gaminde, Miguel Ángel Goenaga, Pedro Idígoras, José Antonio Iribarren, Alberto Izaguirre Yarza, Xabier Kortajarena Urkola, Carlos Reviejo, Rafael Carrasco, Vicente Climent, Patricio Llamas, Esperanza Merino, Joaquín Plazas, Sergio Reus, Nemesio Álvarez, José María Bravo-Ferrer, Laura Castelo, José Cuenca, Pedro Llinares, Enrique Miguez Rey, María Rodríguez Mayo, Efrén Sánchez, Dolores Sousa Regueiro, Francisco Javier Martínez, Ma del Mar Alonso, Beatriz Castro, Dácil García Rosado, Ma del Carmen Durán, Ma Antonia Miguel Gómez, Juan Lacalzada, Ibrahim Nassar, Antonio Plata Ciezar, José Ma Reguera Iglesias, Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Carlos Costas, Jesús de la Hera, Jonnathan Fernández Suárez, Lisardo Iglesias Fraile, Víctor León Arguero, José López Menéndez, Pilar Mencia Bajo, Carlos Morales, Alfonso Moreno Torrico, Carmen Palomo, Begoña Paya Martínez, Ángeles Rodríguez Esteban, Raquel Rodríguez García, Mauricio Telenti Asensio, Manuel Almela, Juan Ambrosioni, Manuel Azqueta, Mercè Brunet, Marta Bodro, Ramón Cartañá, Carlos Falces, Guillermina Fita, David Fuster, Cristina García de la Mària, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Jaume Llopis Pérez, Francesc Marco, José M. Miró, Asunción Moreno, David Nicolás, Salvador Ninot, Eduardo Quintana, Carlos Paré, Daniel Pereda, Juan M. Pericás, José L. Pomar, José Ramírez, Irene Rovira, Elena Sandoval, Marta Sitges, Dolors Soy, Adrián Téllez, José M. Tolosana, Bárbara Vidal, Jordi Vila, Iván Adán, Javier Bermejo, Emilio Bouza, Gregorio Cuerpo Caballero, Ana Fernández Cruz, Ma Eugenia García Leoni, Víctor González Ramallo, Martha Kestler Hernández, Mercedes Marín, Manuel Martínez-Sellés, Ma Cruz Menárguez, Cristina Rincón, Hugo Rodríguez-Abella, Marta Rodríguez-Créixems, Blanca Pinilla, Ángel Pinto, Pilar Vázquez, Eduardo Verde Moreno, Isabel Antorrena, Belén Loeches, Alejandro Martín Quirós, Mar Moreno, Ulises Ramírez, Verónica Rial Bastón, María Romero, Araceli Saldaña, Jesús Agüero Balbín, Carlos Armiñanzas Castillo, Ana Arnaiz, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, Manuel Cobo Belaustegui, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Rubén Gómez Izquierdo, Iván García, Claudia González Rico, José Gutiérrez Díez, Marcos Pajarón, José Antonio Parra, Ramón Teira, Jesús Zarauza, Pablo García Pavíaz, Jesús Gonzálezz, Beatriz Ordenz, Antonio Ramosz, Tomasa Centella, José Manuel Hermida, José Luis Moya, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Enrique Navas, Enrique Oliva, Alejandro del Río, Soledad Ruiz, Carmen Hidalgo Tenorio, Manuel Almendro Delia, Omar Araji, José Miguel Barquero, Román Calvo Jambrina, Marina de Cueto, Juan Gálvez Acebal, Irene Méndez, Isabel Morales, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, Arístides de Alarcón, Emilio García, Juan Luis Haro, José Antonio Lepe, Francisco López, Rafael Luque, Luis Javier Alonso, Pedro Azcárate, José Manuel Azcona Gutiérrez, José Ramón Blanco, Lara García-Álvarez, José Antonio Oteo, Mercedes Sanz, Natividad de Benito, Mercé Gurguí, Cristina Pacho, Roser Pericas, Guillem Pons, M. Álvarez, A.L. Fernández, Amparo Martínez, A. Prieto, Benito Regueiro, E. Tijeira, Marino Vega, Andrés Canut Blasco, José Cordo Mollar, Juan Carlos Gainzarain Arana, Oscar García Uriarte, Alejandro Martín López, Zuriñe Ortiz de Zárate, José Antonio Urturi Matos, Gloria García Domínguez, Antonio Sánchez-Porto, José Ma Arribas Leal, Elisa García Vázquez, Alicia Hernández Torres, Ana Blázquez, Gonzalo de la Morena Valenzuela, Ángel Alonso, Javier Aramburu, Felicitas Elena Calvo, Anai Moreno Rodríguez, Paola Tarabini-Castellani, Eva Heredero Gálvez, Carolina Maicas Bellido, José Largo Pau, Ma Antonia Sepúlveda, Pilar Toledano Sierra, Sadaf Zafar Iqbal-Mirza, Eva Cascales Alcolea, Pilar Egea Serrano, José Joaquín Hernández Roca, Ivan Keituqwa Yañez, Ana Peláez Ballesta, Víctor Soriano, Eduardo Moreno Escobar, Alejandro Peña Monje, Valme Sánchez Cabrera, David Vinuesa García, María Arrizabalaga Asenjo, Carmen Cifuentes Luna, Juana Núñez Morcillo, Ma Cruz Pérez Seco, Aroa Villoslada Gelabert, Carmen Aured Guallar, Nuria Fernández Abad, Pilar García Mangas, Marta Matamala Adell, Ma Pilar Palacián Ruiz, and Juan Carlos Porres

Subjects
Male, 0301 basic medicine, Microbiology (medical), Staphylococcus aureus, medicine.medical_specialty, Prosthesis-Related Infections, 030106 microbiology, medicine.disease_cause, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Cloxacillin, Vancomycin, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Endocarditis, Pharmacology (medical), Prospective Studies, Renal Insufficiency, 030212 general & internal medicine, Aged, Heart Failure, business.industry, Endocarditis, Bacterial, Middle Aged, Staphylococcal Infections, medicine.disease, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Regimen, Infectious Diseases, Heart Valve Prosthesis, Multivariate Analysis, Female, Gentamicin, Gentamicins, Rifampin, business, Complication, Rifampicin, medicine.drug
Abstract

Purpose: To analyze the influence of adding gentamicin to a regimen consisting of β-lactam or vancomycin plus rifampicin on survival in patients suffering from Staphylococcal prosthetic valve endocarditis (SPVE). Methods: From January 2008 to September 2016, 334 patients with definite SPVE were attended in the participating hospitals. Ninety-four patients (28.1%) received treatment based on β-lactam or vancomycin plus rifampicin and were included in the study. Variables were analyzed which related to patient survival during admission, including having received treatment with gentamicin. Results: Seventy-seven (81.9%) were treated with cloxacillin (or vancomycin) plus rifampicin plus gentamicin, and 17 patients (18.1%) received the same regimen without gentamicin. The causative microorganism was Staphylococcus aureus in 40 cases (42.6%) and coagulase-negative staphylococci in 54 cases (57.4%). Overall, 40 patients (42.6%) died during hospital admission, 33 patients (42.9%) in the group receiving gentamicin and 7 patients in the group that did not (41.2%, P = 0.899). Worsening renal function was observed in 42 patients (54.5%) who received gentamicin and in 9 patients (52.9%) who did not (p = 0.904). Heart failure as a complication of endocarditis (OR: 4.58; CI 95%: 1.84–11.42) and not performing surgery when indicated (OR: 2.68; CI 95%: 1.03–6.94) increased mortality. Gentamicin administration remained unrelated to mortality (OR: 1.001; CI 95%: 0.29–3.38) in the multivariable analysis. Conclusions: The addition of gentamicin to a regimen containing vancomycin or cloxacillin plus rifampicin in SPVE was not associated to better outcome.

Published
2018

12. Infective Endocarditis in Patients With Bicuspid Aortic Valve or Mitral Valve Prolapse

Author

Isabel Zegri-Reiriz, Arístides de Alarcón, Patricia Muñoz, Manuel Martínez Sellés, Victor González-Ramallo, Jose M. Miro, Carles Falces, Claudia Gonzalez Rico, Xabier Kortajarena Urkola, José Antonio Lepe, Regino Rodriguez Alvarez, Jose Maria Reguera Iglesias, Enrique Navas, Fernando Dominguez, Pablo Garcia-Pavia, Fernando Fernández Sánchez, Mariam Noureddine, Gabriel Rosas, Javier de la Torre Lima, José Aramendi, Elena Bereciartua, María José Blanco, Roberto Blanco, María Victoria Boado, Marta Campaña Lázaro, Alejandro Crespo, Josune Goikoetxea, José Ramón Iruretagoyena, Josu Irurzun Zuazabal, Leire López-Soria, Miguel Montejo, Javier Nieto, David Rodrigo, David Rodríguez, Regino Rodríguez, Yolanda Vitoria, Roberto Voces, María Victoria García López, Radka Ivanova Georgieva, Guillermo Ojeda, Isabel Rodríguez Bailón, Josefa Ruiz Morales, Ana María Cuende, Tomás Echeverría, Ana Fuerte, Eduardo Gaminde, Miguel Ángel Goenaga, Pedro Idígoras, José Antonio Iribarren, Alberto Izaguirre Yarza, Carlos Reviejo, Rafael Carrasco, Vicente Climent, Patricio Llamas, Esperanza Merino, Joaquín Plazas, Sergio Reus, Nemesio Álvarez, José María Bravo-Ferrer, Laura Castelo, José Cuenca, Pedro Llinares, Enrique Miguez Rey, María Rodríguez Mayo, Efrén Sánchez, Dolores Sousa Regueiro, Francisco Javier Martínez, María del Mar Alonso, Beatriz Castro, Dácil García Rosado, Mª del Carmen Durán, Mª Antonia Miguel Gómez, Juan Lacalzada, Ibrahim Nassar, Antonio Plata Ciezar, José Mª Reguera Iglesias, Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Carlos Costas, Jesús de la Hera, Jonnathan Fernández Suárez, Lisardo Iglesias Fraile, Víctor León Arguero, José López Menéndez, Pilar Mencia Bajo, Carlos Morales, Alfonso Moreno Torrico, Carmen Palomo, Begoña Paya Martínez, Ángeles Rodríguez Esteban, Raquel Rodríguez García, Mauricio Telenti Asensio, Manuel Almela, Juan Ambrosioni, Manuel Azqueta, Mercè Brunet, Marta Bodro, Ramón Cartañá, Carlos Falces, Guillermina Fita, David Fuster, Cristina García de la Mària, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Jaume Llopis Pérez, Francesc Marco, José María Miró, Asunción Moreno, David Nicolás, Salvador Ninot, Eduardo Quintana, Carlos Paré, Daniel Pereda, Juan Manuel Pericás, José Luis Pomar, José Ramírez, Irene Rovira, Elena Sandoval, Marta Sitges, Dolors Soy, Adrián Téllez, José M. Tolosana, Bárbara Vidal, Jordi Vila, Iván Adán, Javier Bermejo, Emilio Bouza, Daniel Celemín, Gregorio Cuerpo Caballero, Antonia Delgado Montero, Ana Fernández Cruz, Ana García Mansilla, María Eugenia García Leoni, Víctor González Ramallo, Martha Kestler Hernández, Amaia Mari Hualde, Mercedes Marín, Manuel Martínez-Sellés, María Cruz Menárguez, Cristina Rincón, Hugo Rodríguez-Abella, Marta Rodríguez-Créixems, Blanca Pinilla, Ángel Pinto, Maricela Valerio, Pilar Vázquez, Eduardo Verde Moreno, Isabel Antorrena, Belén Loeches, Alejandro Martín Quirós, Mar Moreno, Ulises Ramírez, Verónica Rial Bastón, María Romero, Araceli Saldaña, Jesús Agüero Balbín, Carlos Armiñanzas Castillo, Ana Arnaiz, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, Manuel Cobo Belaustegui, María Carmen Fariñas, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Rubén Gómez Izquierdo, Iván García, Claudia González Rico, Manuel Gutiérrez-Cuadra, José Gutiérrez Díez, Marcos Pajarón, José Antonio Parra, Ramón Teira, Jesús Zarauza, Fernando Domínguez, Pablo García-Pavía, Jesús González Mirelis, Beatriz Orden, Antonio Ramos, Marta Cobo-Marcos, Tomasa Centella, José Manuel Hermida, José Luis Moya, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Enrique Oliva, Alejandro del Río, Soledad Ruiz, Carmen Hidalgo Tenorio, Manuel Almendro Delia, Omar Araji, José Miguel Barquero, Román Calvo Jambrina, Marina de Cueto, Juan Gálvez Acebal, Irene Méndez, Isabel Morales, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, Emilio García, Juan Luis Haro, Francisco López, Rafael Luque, Luis Javier Alonso, Pedro Azcárate, José Manuel Azcona Gutiérrez, José Ramón Blanco, Lara García-Álvarez, José Antonio Oteo, Mercedes Sanz, Natividad de Benito, Mercé Gurguí, Cristina Pacho, Roser Pericas, Guillem Pons, Ángel Luis Fernández, Amparo Martínez, Arturo Prieto, Benito Regueiro, Marino Vega, Andrés Canut Blasco, José Cordo Mollar, Juan Carlos Gainzarain Arana, Oscar García Uriarte, Alejandro Martín López, Zuriñe Ortiz de Zárate, José Antonio Urturi Matos, Gloria García Domínguez, Antonio Sánchez-Porto, José Mª Arribas Leal, Elisa García Vázquez, Alicia Hernández Torres, Ana Blázquez, Gonzalo de la Morena Valenzuela, Ángel Alonso, Javier Aramburu, Felicitas Elena Calvo, Anai Moreno Rodríguez, Paola Tarabini-Castellani, Eva Heredero Gálvez, Carolina Maicas Bellido, José Largo Pau, María Antonia Sepúlveda, Pilar Toledano Sierra, Sadaf Zafar Iqbal-Mirza, Eva Cascales Alcolea, Pilar Egea Serrano, José Joaquín Hernández Roca, Ivan Keituqwa Yañez, Ana Peláez Ballesta, Víctor Soriano, Eduardo Moreno Escobar, Alejandro Peña Monje, Valme Sánchez Cabrera, David Vinuesa García, María Arrizabalaga Asenjo, Carmen Cifuentes Luna, Juana Núñez Morcillo, Mª Cruz Pérez Seco, Aroa Villoslada Gelabert, Carmen Aured Guallar, Nuria Fernández Abad, Pilar García Mangas, Marta Matamala Adell, Mª Pilar Palacián Ruiz, Juan Carlos Porres, Begoña Alcaraz Vidal, Nazaret Cobos Trigueros, María Jesús Del Amor Espín, José Antonio Giner Caro, Roberto Jiménez Sánchez, Amaya Jimeno Almazán, Alejandro Ortín Freire, Monserrat Viqueira González, Pere Pericás Ramis, Mª Ángels Ribas Blanco, Enrique Ruiz de Gopegui Bordes, Laura Vidal Bonet, Mª Carmen Bellón Munera, Elena Escribano Garaizabal, Antonia Tercero Martínez, and Juan Carlos Segura Luque

Subjects
Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, bicuspid aortic valve, Enfermedad cardiovascular, Heart Valve Diseases, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Intracardiac injection, 03 medical and health sciences, Tratamiento médico, 0302 clinical medicine, Bicuspid aortic valve, Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease, medicine, Mitral valve prolapse, Endocarditis, Humans, In patient, 030212 general & internal medicine, Registries, Antibiotic prophylaxis, Antibióticos, Aged, Endocarditis infecciosa, Mitral Valve Prolapse, antibiotic prophylaxis, business.industry, Incidence (epidemiology), Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Surgery, Infective endocarditis, Aortic Valve, Válvulas cardíacas, Female, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
Abstract

Background: There is little information concerning infective endocarditis (IE) in patients with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) or mitral valve prolapse (MVP). Currently, IE antibiotic prophylaxis (IEAP) is not recommended for these conditions. Objectives: This study sought to describe the clinical and microbiological features of IE in patients with BAV and MVP and compare them with those of IE patients with and without IEAP indication, to determine the potential benefit of IEAP in these conditions. Methods: This analysis involved 3,208 consecutive IE patients prospectively included in the GAMES (Grupo de Apoyo al Manejo de la Endocarditis infecciosa en España) registry at 31 Spanish hospitals. Patients were classified as high-risk IE with IEAP indication (high-risk group; n = 1,226), low- and moderate-risk IE without IEAP indication (low/moderate-risk group; n = 1,839), and IE with BAV (n = 54) or MVP (n = 89). Results: BAV and MVP patients had a higher incidence of viridans group streptococci IE than did high-risk group and low/moderate-risk group patients (35.2% and 39.3% vs. 12.1% and 15.0%, respectively; all p < 0.01). A similar pattern was seen for IE from suspected odontologic origin (14.8% and 18.0% vs. 5.8% and 6.0%; all p < 0.01). BAV and MVP patients had more intracardiac complications than did low/moderate-risk group (50% and 47.2% vs. 30.6%, both p < 0.01) patients and were similar to high-risk group patients. Conclusions: IE in patients with BAV and MVP have higher rates of viridans group streptococci IE and IE from suspected odontologic origin than in other IE patients, with a clinical profile similar to that of high-risk IE patients. Our findings suggest that BAV and MVP should be classified as high-risk IE conditions and the case for IEAP should be reconsidered. Sin financiación 18.639 JCR (2018) Q1, 3/136 Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems 9.280 SJR (2018) Q1, 1/365 Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine No data IDR 2018 UEM

Published
2018

13. Disección de arterias coronarias: ¿y ahora qué hago?

Author

Carlos Ballester-Cuenca, Neslim Gálvez-Álvarez, Elisa Ochoa-Rea, Fernando Sorribas-Berjón, José María Vallejo-Gil, Javier Fañanás-Mastral, Marta Matamala-Adell, Manuel Vázquez-Sancho, and José Parrilla-Vidal

Subjects
Enfermedad coronaria, Cirugía coronaria, business.industry, lcsh:R, lcsh:Surgery, Coronary artery bypass, lcsh:Medicine, Aortocoronary bypass, lcsh:RD1-811, Coronary artery disease, Disección espontánea arterias coronarias, Medicine, Síndrome coronario agudo, Surgery, Acute coronary syndrome, Coronary artery dissection spontaneous, Bypass coronario, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, Humanities
Abstract

ResumenObjetivoLa disección de arterias coronarias es una entidad con escasa frecuencia. Su espectro clínico puede abarcar desde la muerte súbita, el infarto agudo de miocardio o la angina de pecho. No hay un consenso acerca de la mejor opción terapéutica.MétodosSe analizan 4 casos acontecidos en los últimos años. Un varón de 56 años y una mujer de 50 años en los que se realiza cirugía de revascularización miocárdica, una mujer de 46 años en la que se implanta un stent, y una mujer de 48 años en la que se decide tratamiento médico.ResultadosDichos pacientes presentaron una evolución favorable pudiendo ser dados de alta. En seguimiento, los pacientes sometidos a cirugía no han presentado otros eventos de interés, permaneciendo estables. En el caso de la paciente sobre la que se realizó intervencionismo presentó redisección con implante de nuevo stent a los 3 años. El último caso ha permanecido estable y ha sido dado de alta recientemente.ConclusionesLa conducta a seguir es variada sin existir consenso ni estandarización. Si el paciente está estable y el vaso es pequeño puede considerarse tratamiento médico. Si el paciente está inestable hay una mayor indicación de intervencionismo. En los casos de disección del tronco coronario izquierdo y multivaso la tendencia es hacia la cirugía de bypass coronaria. Dada la escasa incidencia de la enfermedad sería interesante el estudio de series mayores de casos para la confrontación de resultados y poder determinar de una manera más eficaz el mejor tratamiento a seguir.AbstractObjectivesCoronary artery dissection is a rare clinical entity. Its clinical form of presentation has a wide spectrum from sudden death and acute myocardial infarction, to angina. There is no consensus about the best treatment.MethodsFour patients are presented: a 56 year-old male and a 50 year-old female who underwent coronary artery bypass surgery, a 46 year-old female who had percutaneous coronary artery revascularisation and a 48 year-old female who had medical treatment.ResultsThe patients who underwent surgery have been uneventful. The patient with coronary artery stenting had re-dissection and re-stenting. The woman who had medical treatment has been stable.ConclusionsAlthough the treatment of these patients is varied, there is no consensus, or standardisation. If a patient is stable and has small vessel disease, medical treatment can be a good option. If patient is unstable and has main or multi-vessel disease, coronary artery bypass surgery is preferred. Additional studies are needed to conduct a better evaluation of treatment.

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2015
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14. [Pacemaker implantation via a persistent left superior vena cava]

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Carlos Ballester-Cuenca, Marta Matamala-Adell, and José María Vallejo-Gil

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Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Pacemaker, Artificial, Vena Cava, Superior, business.industry, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Pacemaker implantation, Text mining, Internal medicine, Cardiology, Medicine, Humans, Persistent left superior vena cava, business, Aged
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2007

16. Chronological and biological aging of the human left ventricular myocardium: Analysis of microRNAs contribution

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Estel Ramos-Marquès, Elisa Garrido-Huéscar, Juan Carlos Oliveros, Javier André Bellido-Morales, Carlos Ballester-Cuenca, José María Vallejo-Gil, Francisco Javier Mancebón-Sierra, Gorka Muñiz, Javier Fañanás-Mastral, Aida Oliván-Viguera, Manuel F. Jiménez-Navarro, Carlos Gómez-González, Juan Fernando Sorribas-Berjón, Margarita Segovia-Roldan, Hazel Santander-Badules, Alberto Cebollada, Laura García-Mendívil, Maria Perez-Zabalza, Alexánder Sebastián Vaca-Núñez, Jose M. Villaescusa, Esther Pueyo, Marta Matamala-Adell, Laura Ordovás, Emiliano Raúl Diez, Manuel Vázquez-Sancho, Sabarathinam Srinivasan, Pedro Carlos Fresneda-Roldán, Rafael Torres-Pérez, [Ramos-Marquès,E, García-Mendívil,L, Pérez-Zabalza,M, Santander-Badules,H, Srinivasan,S, Garrido-Huéscar,E, Segovia-Roldán,M, Oliván-Viguera,A, Ordovás,L, Pueyo,E] Biomedical Signal Interpretation and Computational Simulation group (BSICoS), Aragón Institute of Engineering Research, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain. [Ramos-Marquès,E, Pueyo,E] BSICoS, IIS Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain. [Oliveros,JC, Torres-Pérez,R] Bioinformatics for Genomics and Proteomics, National Center of Biotechnology- Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain. [Cebollada,A] Biocomputation unit, IACS, Zaragoza, Spain. [Vallejo-Gil,JM, Fresneda-Roldán,PC, Fañanás-Mastral,J, Vázquez-Sancho,M, Matamala-Adell,M, Sorribas-Berjón,JF, Bellido-Morales,JA, Mancebón-Sierra,FJ, Vaca-Núñez,AS, Ballester-Cuenca,C] Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain. [Jiménez-Navarro,M] Heart Area, Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, CIBERCV, IBIMA, Universidad de Málaga, UMA, Málaga, Spain. [Villaescusa,JM] UGC Heart Area, Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria de Málaga, Fundación Pública Andaluza para la Investigación de Málaga en Biomedicina y Salud (FIMABIS), CIBERCV Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, University of Málaga, Madrid, Spain. [Gómez-González,C, Muñiz,G] Department of Pathology, San Jorge Hospital, Huesca, Spain. [Diez,E] Institute of Experimental Medicine and Biology of Cuyo (IMBECU), CONICET, Mendoza, Argentina. [Ordovás,L] ARAID Foundation, Zaragoza, Spain. [Pueyo,E] Biomedical Research Networking Center in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Zaragoza, Spain, and The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project was supported by the Common Fund of the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health, and by NCI, NHGRI, NHLBI, NIDA, NIMH, and NINDS.

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0301 basic medicine, Male, Aging, Phenomena and Processes::Genetic Phenomena::Phenotype [Medical Subject Headings], Cardiac fibrosis, Envejecimiento, Persons::Persons::Tissue Donors::Living Donors [Medical Subject Headings], Bioinformatics, Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Investigative Techniques::Epidemiologic Methods::Statistics as Topic::Probability::Risk::Risk Factors [Medical Subject Headings], Transcriptome, Organisms::Eukaryota::Animals::Chordata::Vertebrates::Mammals::Primates::Haplorhini::Catarrhini::Hominidae::Humans [Medical Subject Headings], 0302 clinical medicine, CDKN2A, Ventrículos cardíacos, Heart ventricles, Donadores vivos, MicroARNs, microRNA, transcriptomic age marker, Phenotype, Anatomy::Cardiovascular System::Heart::Heart Ventricles [Medical Subject Headings], 3. Good health, medicine.anatomical_structure, Heart aging, Disciplines and Occupations::Natural Science Disciplines::Biological Science Disciplines::Biology::Computational Biology [Medical Subject Headings], biological aging, Biomarker (medicine), Female, Redes reguladoras de genes, Senescence, gene regulation network, Heart Ventricles, Check Tags::Male [Medical Subject Headings], Phenomena and Processes::Genetic Phenomena::Genetic Structures::Base Sequence::Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid::Gene Regulatory Networks [Medical Subject Headings], Biology, Phenomena and Processes::Chemical Phenomena::Biochemical Phenomena::Biochemical Processes::Transcription, Genetic::Transcriptome [Medical Subject Headings], 03 medical and health sciences, Biological aging, Phenomena and Processes::Physiological Phenomena::Physiological Processes::Growth and Development::Aging [Medical Subject Headings], medicine, Humans, Living donors, Gene regulation network, Original Paper, Myocardium, biomarkers, Cell Biology, Original Articles, Anatomy::Cardiovascular System::Heart::Myocardium [Medical Subject Headings], medicine.disease, Transcriptoma, Chemicals and Drugs::Nucleic Acids, Nucleotides, and Nucleosides::Antisense Elements (Genetics)::RNA, Antisense::MicroRNAs [Medical Subject Headings], MicroRNAs, 030104 developmental biology, Biomarcadores, Miocardio, Check Tags::Female [Medical Subject Headings], Ventricle, heart aging, Transcriptomic age marker, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Biomarkers
Abstract

Aging is the main risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. In humans, cardiac aging remains poorly characterized. Most studies are based on chronological age (CA) and disregard biological age (BA), the actual physiological age (result of the aging rate on the organ structure and function), thus yielding potentially imperfect outcomes. Deciphering the molecular basis of ventricular aging, especially by BA, could lead to major progresses in cardiac research. We aim to describe the transcriptome dynamics of the aging left ventricle (LV) in humans according to both CA and BA and characterize the contribution of microRNAs, key transcriptional regulators. BA is measured using two CA‐associated transcriptional markers: CDKN2A expression, a cell senescence marker, and apparent age (AppAge), a highly complex transcriptional index. Bioinformatics analysis of 132 LV samples shows that CDKN2A expression and AppAge represent transcriptomic changes better than CA. Both BA markers are biologically validated in relation to an aging phenotype associated with heart dysfunction, the amount of cardiac fibrosis. BA‐based analyses uncover depleted cardiac‐specific processes, among other relevant functions, that are undetected by CA. Twenty BA‐related microRNAs are identified, and two of them highly heart‐enriched that are present in plasma. We describe a microRNA‐gene regulatory network related to cardiac processes that are partially validated in vitro and in LV samples from living donors. We prove the higher sensitivity of BA over CA to explain transcriptomic changes in the aging myocardium and report novel molecular insights into human LV biological aging. Our results can find application in future therapeutic and biomarker research., The biological age, measured by transcriptional markers, explains better than the chronological age the transcriptional dynamics of the human aging myocardium. microRNAs that change expression in the aging left ventricle are identified. Such microRNAs potentially regulate genes with cardiac‐specific functions. Cardiac‐enriched microRNAs that increase or decrease with biological age are present in plasma. They are thus candidate biomarkers to represent the biological age of the heart.

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17. Una imagen contemporánea de la endocarditis enterocócica

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Pericàs, Juan M., Jaume Llopis, Patricia Muñoz, Juan Gálvez Acebal, Martha Kestler, Maricela Valerio, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Miguel Goenaga, Manuel Cobo Belaustegui, Miguel Montejo, Guillermo Ojeda-Burgos, Dolores Sousa Regueiro, Arístides de Alarcón, Antonio Ramos-Martínez, Miró, José M., Fernando Fernández Sánchez, Mariam Noureddine, Gabriel Rosas, Javier de la Torre Lima, Roberto Blanco, María Victoria Boado, Marta Campaña Lázaro, Alejandro Crespo, Josune Goikoetxea, José Ramón Iruretagoyena, Josu Irurzun Zuazabal, Leire López-Soria, Javier Nieto, David Rodrigo, Regino Rodríguez, Yolanda Vitoria, Roberto Voces, Victoria García López, M., Radka Ivanova Georgieva, Guillermo Ojeda, Isabel Rodríguez Bailón, Josefa Ruiz Morales, Ana María Cuende, Tomás Echeverría, Ana Fuerte, Eduardo Gaminde, Miguel Ángel Goenaga, Pedro Idígoras, José Antonio Iribarren, Alberto Izaguirre Yarza, Xabier Kortajarena Urkola, Carlos Reviejo, Rafael Carrasco, Vicente Climent, Patricio Llamas, Esperanza Merino, Joaquín Plazas, Sergio Reus, Nemesio Álvarez, José María Bravo-Ferrer, Laura Castelo, José Cuenca, Pedro Llinares, Enrique Miguez Rey, María Rodríguez Mayo, Efrén Sánchez, Francisco Javier Martínez, Del Mar Alonso, M., Beatriz Castro, Dácil García Rosado, Del Carmen Durán, M., Antonia Miguel Gómez, M., Juan Lacalzada, Ibrahim Nassar, Antonio Plata Ciezar, Reguera Iglesias, José M., Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Carlos Costas, Jesús de la Hera, Jonnathan Fernández Suárez, Lisardo Iglesias Fraile, Víctor León Arguero, José López Menéndez, Pilar Mencia Bajo, Carlos Morales, Alfonso Moreno Torrico, Carmen Palomo, Begoña Paya Martínez, Ángeles Rodríguez Esteban, Raquel Rodríguez García, Mauricio Telenti Asensio, Manuel Almela, Juan Ambrosioni, Manuel Azqueta, Mercè Brunet, Marta Bodro, Ramón Cartañá, Carlos Falces, Guillermina Fita, David Fuster, Cristina García de la Mària, Delia García-Pares, Jaume Llopis Pérez, Francesc Marco, Asunción Moreno, David Nicolás, Salvador Ninot, Eduardo Quintana, Carlos Paré, Daniel Pereda, Pericás, Juan M., Pomar, José L., José Ramírez, Irene Rovira, Elena Sandoval, Marta Sitges, Dolors Soy, Adrián Téllez, Tolosana, José M., Bárbara Vidal, Jordi Vila, Iván Adán, Javier Bermejo, Emilio Bouza, Daniel Celemín, Gregorio Cuerpo Caballero, Antonia Delgado Montero, Ana García Mansilla, Eugenia García Leoni, M., Víctor González Ramallo, Martha Kestler Hernández, Amaia Mari Hualde, Mercedes Marín, Manuel Martínez-Sellés, Cristina Rincón, Hugo Rodríguez-Abella, Marta Rodríguez-Créixems, Blanca Pinilla, Ángel Pinto, Pilar Vázquez, Eduardo Verde Moreno, Isabel Antorrena, Belén Loeches, Alejandro Martín Quirós, Mar Moreno, Ulises Ramírez, Verónica Rial Bastón, María Romero, Araceli Saldaña, Jesús Agüero Balbín, Carlos Armiñanzas Castillo, Ana Arnaiz, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, María Carmen Fariñas, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Rubén Gómez Izquierdo, Iván García, Claudia González Rico, Manuel Gutiérrez-Cuadra, José Gutiérrez Díez, Marcos Pajarón, José Antonio Parra, Ramón Teira, Jesús Zarauza, Jorge Calderón Parra, Marta Cobo, Fernando Domínguez, Alberto Fortaleza, Pablo García Pavía, Jesús González, Ana Fernández Cruz, Elena Múñez, Antonio Ramos, Isabel Sánchez Romero, Tomasa Centella, José Manuel Hermida, José Luis Moya, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Enrique Navas, Enrique Oliva, Alejandro del Río, Jorge Rodríguez-Roda Stuart, Soledad Ruiz, Carmen Hidalgo Tenorio, Manuel Almendro Delia, Omar Araji, José Miguel Barquero, Román Calvo Jambrina, Marina de Cueto, Irene Méndez, Isabel Morales, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, Emilio García, Juan Luis Haro, José Antonio Lepe, Francisco López, Rafael Luque, Luis Javier Alonso, Pedro Azcárate, José Manuel Azcona Gutiérrez, José Ramón Blanco, Antonio Cabrera Villegas, Lara García-Álvarez, José Antonio Oteo, Mercedes Sanz, Natividad Benito, Mercé Gurguí, Cristina Pacho, Roser Pericas, Guillem Pons, Álvarez, M., Fernández, A. L., Amparo Martínez, Prieto, A., Benito Regueiro, Tijeira, E., Marino Vega, Andrés Canut Blasco, José Cordo Mollar, Juan Carlos Gainzarain Arana, Oscar García Uriarte, Alejandro Martín López, Zuriñe Ortiz de Zárate, José Antonio Urturi Matos, García Domínguez Gloria, Sánchez Porto Antonio, Arribas Leal, José M., Elisa García Vázquez, Alicia Hernández Torres, Ana Blázquez, Gonzalo de la Morena Valenzuela, Ángel Alonso, Javier Aramburu, Felicitas Elena Calvo, Anai Moreno Rodríguez, Paola Tarabini-Castellani, Eva Heredero Gálvez, Carolina Maicas Bellido, José Largo Pau, Antonia Sepúlveda, M., Pilar Toledano Sierra, Sadaf Zafar Iqbal-Mirza, Eva Cascales Alcolea, Ivan Keituqwa Yañez, Julián Navarro Martínez, Ana Peláez Ballesta, Eduardo Moreno Escobar, Alejandro Peña Monje, Valme Sánchez Cabrera, David Vinuesa García, María Arrizabalaga Asenjo, Carmen Cifuentes Luna, Juana Núñez Morcillo, Cruz Pérez Seco, M., Aroa Villoslada Gelabert, Carmen Aured Guallar, Nuria Fernández Abad, Pilar García Mangas, Marta Matamala Adell, Pilar Palacián Ruiz, M., Juan Carlos Porres, Begoña Alcaraz Vidal, Nazaret Cobos Trigueros, María Jesús Del Amor Espín, José Antonio Giner Caro, Roberto Jiménez Sánchez, Amaya Jimeno Almazán, Alejandro Ortín Freire, Monserrat Viqueira González, Pere Pericás Ramis, Ángels Ribas Blanco, M., Enrique Ruiz de Gopegui Bordes, Laura Vidal Bonet, Carmen Bellón Munera, M., Elena Escribano Garaizabal, Antonia Tercero Martínez, Juan Carlos Segura Luque, Cristina Badía, Lucía Boix Palop, Mariona Xercavins, Sónia Ibars, Eloy Gómez Nebreda, Ibalia Horcajada Herrera, Irene Menduiña Gallego, Héctor Marrero Santiago, Isabel de Miguel Martínez, Elena Pisos Álamo, Carmen Díaz Pedroche, Fernando Chaves, Santiago de Cossío, Francisco López Medrano, Jesús López, M., Javier Solera, Jorge Solís, Carmen Ardanuy, Guillermo Cuervo Requena, Sara Grillo, and Alejandro Ruiz Majoral

18. Improved Methods for Processing Optical Mapping Signals From Human Left Ventricular Tissues at Baseline and Following Adrenergic Stimulation

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Carlos Ballester-Cuenca, Esther Pueyo, Marta Matamala-Adell, Emiliano Raúl Diez, Aida Oliván-Viguera, Margarita Segovia-Roldan, Maria Perez-Zabalza, José María Vallejo-Gil, Kostantinos A Mountris, Fernando Sorribas-Berjón, Pedro Carlos Fresneda-Roldán, Manuel Vázquez-Sancho, Julia Rhyins, and Javier Fañanás-Mastral

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0301 basic medicine, Signal processing, Noise measurement, Noise (signal processing), Computer science, HUMAN VENTRICULAR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, purl.org/becyt/ford/1.2 [https], White noise, Avalanche photodiode, purl.org/becyt/ford/1 [https], 03 medical and health sciences, Electrophysiology, 030104 developmental biology, 0302 clinical medicine, OPTICAL MAPPING, DRIFT REMOVAL, Optical mapping, SIGNAL PROCESSING, OMAP, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Biomedical engineering
Abstract

Optical mapping (OM) allows ex vivo measurement of electrophysiological signals at high spatio-temporal resolution, but the signal-to-roise ratio is commonly low. A variety of software options have been proposed to extract relevant information from OM recordings, being ElectroMap the most advanced tool currently available. In this study, improved methods are presented for processing OM signals of cardiac transmembrane voltage. A software called OMap is developed that incorporates novel techniques into ElectroMap for improved baseline drift removal, spatiotemporal filtering and characterization of action potential duration (APD) maps. In synthetically generated signals contaminated with baseline wander, white noise and the combination of both, the errors in APD maps between noisy and clean signals are remarkably lower for OMap than for ElectroMap, particularly for high noise levels. In OM signals recorded from human ventricular tissue specimens, OMap allows to clearly characterize the APD shortening effect induced by ß-adrenergic stimulation, whereas ElectroMap renders highly overlapped APD distributions for baseline and ß-adrenergic stimulation. In conclusion, improved methods are proposed and tested to characterize human ventricular electrophysiology from noisy OM recordings. Fil: Perez Zabalza, Maria. Universidad de Zaragoza; España Fil: Diez, Emiliano Raúl. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Medicina y Biología Experimental de Cuyo; Argentina Fil: Rhyins, Julia. Northeastern University; Estados Unidos Fil: Mountris, Kostantinos A.. Universidad de Zaragoza; España Fil: Vallejo Gil, Jose M.. Hospital Miguel Servet; España Fil: Fresneda Roldan, Pedro C.. Hospital Miguel Servet; España Fil: Fananas-Mastral, Javier. Hospital Miguel Servet; España Fil: Matamal Adell, Marta. Hospital Miguel Servet; España Fil: Sorribas Berjon, Fernando. Hospital Miguel Servet; España Fil: Vazquez Sancho, Manuel. Hospital Miguel Servet; España Fil: Ballester Cuenca, Carlos. Hospital Miguel Servet; España Fil: Segovia Roldan, Margarita. Universidad de Zaragoza; España Fil: Olivan Viguera, Aida. Universidad de Zaragoza; España Fil: Pueyo, Esther. Universidad de Zaragoza; España

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19. Contemporary use of cefazolin for MSSA infective endocarditis: analysis of a national prospective cohort

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Laura Herrera-Hidalgo, Patricia Muñoz, Ana Álvarez-Uría, David Alonso-Menchén, Rafael Luque-Marquez, Encarnación Gutiérrez-Carretero, María Del Carmen Fariñas, Jose Maria Miró, Miguel Angel Goenaga, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, Basilio Angulo-Lara, Lucia Boix-Palop, Arístides de Alarcón, Fernando Fernández Sánchez, José Mª García de Lomas, Gabriel Rosas, Javier de la Torre Lima, Elena Bereciartua, María José Blanco Vidal, Roberto Blanco, María Victoria Boado, Marta Campaña Lázaro, Alejandro Crespo, Laura Guio Carrión, Mikel Del Álamo Martínez de Lagos, Gorane Euba Ugarte, Ane Josune Goikoetxea, Marta Ibarrola Hierro, José Ramón Iruretagoyena, Josu Irurzun Zuazabal, Leire López-Soria, Miguel Montejo, Javier Nieto, David Rodrigo, Regino Rodríguez, Yolanda Vitoria, Roberto Voces, Mª Victoria García López, Radka Ivanova Georgieva, Guillermo Ojeda, Isabel Rodríguez Bailón, Josefa Ruiz Morales, Ignacio Álvarez Rodríguez, Harkaitz Azkune Galparsoro, Elisa Berritu Boronat, Mª Jesús Bustinduy Odriozola, Cristina del Bosque Martín, Tomás Echeverría, Alberto Eizaguirre Yarza, Ana Fuentes, Miguel Ángel Goenaga, Muskilda Goyeneche del Río, Ángela Granda Bauza, José Antonio Iribarren, Xabier Kortajarena Urkola, José Ignacio Pérez-Moreiras López, Ainhoa Rengel Jiménez, Karlos Reviejo, Alberto Sáez Berbejillo, Elou Sánchez Haza, Rosa Sebastián Alda, Itziar Solla Ruiz, Irati Unamuno Ugartemendia, Diego Vicente Anza, Iñaki Villanueva Benito, Mar Zabalo Arrieta, Rafael Carrasco, Vicente Climent, Patricio Llamas, Esperanza Merino, Joaquín Plazas, Sergio Reus, Alberto Bouzas, Brais Castelo, José Cuenca, Laura Gutiérrez, Lucía Ramos, María Rodríguez Mayo, Joaquín Manuel Serrano, Dolores Sousa Regueiro, Francisco Javier Martínez, Mª del Mar Alonso, Beatriz Castro, Teresa Delgado Melian, Javier Fernández Sarabia, Dácil García Rosado, Julia González González, Juan Lacalzada, Lissete Lorenzo de la Peña, Alina Pérez Ramírez, Pablo Prada Arrondo, Fermín Rodríguez Moreno, Antonio Plata Ciezar, José Mª Reguera Iglesias, Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Carlos Costas, Jesús de la Hera, Jonnathan Fernández Suárez, Lisardo Iglesias Fraile, Víctor León Arguero, José López Menéndez, Pilar Mencia Bajo, Carlos Morales, Alfonso Moreno Torrico, Carmen Palomo, Begoña Paya Martínez, Ángeles Rodríguez Esteban, Raquel Rodríguez García, Mauricio Telenti Asensio, Manuel Almela, Juan Ambrosioni, Manuel Azqueta, Mercè Brunet, Marta Bodro, Ramón Cartañá, Guillermo Cuervo, Carlos Falces, Mariana J Fernández-Pittol, Guillermina Fita, David Fuster, Cristina García de la Mària, Delia García-Pares, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Jaume Llopis Pérez, Francesc Marco, José M. Miró, Asunción Moreno, David Nicolás, Salvador Ninot, Eduardo Quintana, Carlos Paré, Daniel Pereda, Juan M. Pericás, José L. Pomar, José Ramírez, Mercè Roque, Irene Rovira, Elena Sandoval, Marta Sitges, Dolors Soy, Adrián Téllez, José M. Tolosana, Bárbara Vidal, Jordi Vila, Iván Adán, David Alonso, Juan Carlos Alonso, Javier Bermejo, Emilio Bouza, Gregorio Cuerpo Caballero, Antonia Delgado Montero, Agustín Estévez, Ramón Fortuny Ribas, Esther Gargallo, Mª Eugenia García Leoni, Ana González Mansilla, Francisco Javier González Moraga, Víctor González Ramallo, Martha Kestler Hernández, Amaia Mari Hualde, Marina Machado, Mercedes Marín, Manuel Martínez-Sellés, Rosa Melero, Diego Monzón, María Olmedo, Álvaro Pedraz, Blanca Pinilla, Ángel Pinto, Cristina Rincón, Hugo Rodríguez-Abella, Marta Rodríguez-Créixems, Eduardo Sánchez-Pérez, Antonio Segado, Neera Toledo, Maricela Valerio, Pilar Vázquez, Eduardo Verde Moreno, Sofía de la Villa, Isabel Antorrena, Belén Loeches, Mar Moreno, Ulises Ramírez, Verónica Rial Bastón, María Romero, Sandra Rosillo, Jesús Agüero Balbín, Cristina Amado Fernández, Carlos Armiñanzas Castillo, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, Manuel Cobo Belaustegui, María Carmen Fariñas, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Marta Fernández Sampedro, Iván García, Claudia González Rico, Laura Gutiérrez-Fernández, Manuel Gutiérrez-Cuadra, José Gutiérrez Díez, Marcos Pajarón, José Antonio Parra, Ramón Teira, Jesús Zarauza, Jorge Calderón Parra, Marta Cobo, Fernando Domínguez, Pablo García Pavía, Ana Fernández Cruz, Antonio Ramos-Martínez, Isabel Sánchez Romero, Tomasa Centella, José Manuel Hermida, José Luis Moya, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Enrique Navas, Enrique Oliva, Alejandro del Río, Jorge Rodríguez-Roda Stuart, Soledad Ruiz, Carmen Hidalgo Tenorio, Sergio Sequera, Manuel Almendro Delia, Omar Araji, José Miguel Barquero, Román Calvo Jambrina, Marina de Cueto, Juan Gálvez Acebal, Irene Méndez, Isabel Morales, José Antonio Lepe, José López-Haldón, Rafael Luque-Márquez, Guillermo Marín, Antonio Ortiz-Carrellán, Eladio Sánchez-Domínguez, Luis Javier Alonso, Pedro Azcárate, José Manuel Azcona Gutiérrez, José Ramón Blanco, Estíbaliz Corral Armas, Lara García-Álvarez, José Antonio Oteo, Antonio Barros Membrilla, Antonino Ginel Iglesias, Sara Grillo, Rubén Leta Petracca, Joaquín López-Contreras, María Alba Rivera Martínez, M. Álvarez, A.L. Fernández, Amparo Martínez, A. Prieto, Benito Regueiro, E. 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Infective endocarditis, Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus, Cefazolin, Antistaphylococcal penicillin, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
Abstract

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the real use of cefazolin for methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) infective endocarditis (IE) in the Spanish National Endocarditis Database (GAMES) and to compare it with antistaphylococcal penicillin (ASP). Methods: Prospective cohort study with retrospective analysis of a cohort of MSSA IE treated with cloxacillin and/or cefazolin. Outcomes assessed were relapse; intra-hospital, overall, and endocarditis-related mortality; and adverse events. Risk of renal toxicity with each treatment was evaluated separately. Results: We included 631 IE episodes caused by MSSA treated with cloxacillin and/or cefazolin. Antibiotic treatment was cloxacillin, cefazolin, or both in 537 (85%), 57 (9%), and 37 (6%) episodes, respectively. Patients treated with cefazolin had significantly higher rates of comorbidities (median Charlson Index 7, P

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2023
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