Benoit Diebold

TL;DR: Patients who tolerated a full ECMO weaning trial and had aortic VTI ≥10 cm, LVEF >20–25%, and TDSa ≥6 cm/s at minimal ECMO flow were all successfully weaned, and further studies are needed to validate these simple and easy-to-acquire Doppler echocardiography parameters as predictors of subsequent EC MO weaning success in patients recovering from severe cardiogenic shock.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated noninvasively that both the aortic arch diameter and the elastic modulus are increased in patients with sustained uncomplicated essential hypertension, and that both age and blood pressure act independently as factors that alter the arterial wall of subjects with sustained essential hypertension.

TL;DR: Patients with type 2 diabetes had more diffuse coronary atherosclerosis, a greater prevalence of mild, moderate and severe stenoses and a two-fold higher occlusion rate than patients without diabetes, even after adjustment for age, gender, body mass index, hypertension, lipid parameters, smoking, family history of cardiovascular events and ischemic symptoms.

TL;DR: By systematic echocardiographic screening of the first-degree relatives of 17 patients who underwent mitral-valve repair, four pedigrees showing an autosomal dominant inheritance of the trait are identified, demonstrating the genetic heterogeneity of the disease.

TL;DR: The overall results are not in favor of a role of these RAS genetic polymorphisms in the development of coronary atherosclerosis.