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Direct Oral Anticoagulants For Stroke Prevention In Patients With Atrial Fibrillation And Bioprosthetic Heart Valves, Vardhmaan Jain, Kirtipa Bhatia, Devika Aggarwal, Agam Bansal, Bharat Narasimhan, Michael J. Hendrickson, Sameer Arora, Michael J. Ricciardi, Arman Qamar
Direct Oral Anticoagulants For Stroke Prevention In Patients With Atrial Fibrillation And Bioprosthetic Heart Valves, Vardhmaan Jain, Kirtipa Bhatia, Devika Aggarwal, Agam Bansal, Bharat Narasimhan, Michael J. Hendrickson, Sameer Arora, Michael J. Ricciardi, Arman Qamar
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Triggers And Outcomes Of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy In Cancer Patients, Antoine Addoumieh, Dinu Balanescu, Teodora Donisan, Juan Lopez-Mattei, Peter Kim
Triggers And Outcomes Of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy In Cancer Patients, Antoine Addoumieh, Dinu Balanescu, Teodora Donisan, Juan Lopez-Mattei, Peter Kim
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Background: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) is a well described entity characterized by transient and reversible left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction. Primary TC is triggered by psychological or emotional stress, whereas secondary TC could be due to trauma, surgery or medications. We aimed to compare outcomes in primary TC and secondary TC in cancer patients. Methods: We retrospectively identified 80 patients who presented with TC to MD Anderson between December 2008 and January 2019. Baseline characteristics were obtained. We identified the triggers leading to TC. Univariate analysis was done using Cox regression. Kaplan Meier method (KM) was used to compare survival based …