Nagesh S. Anavekar

TL;DR: Even mild renal disease, as assessed by the estimated GFR, should be considered a major risk factor for cardiovascular complications after a myocardial infarction.

TL;DR: A new classification of the CRS with 5 subtypes that reflect the pathophysiology, the time-frame, and the nature of concomitant cardiac and renal dysfunction is presented to help physicians characterize groups of patients, provides the rationale for specific management strategies, and allows the design of future clinical trials with more accurate selection and stratification of the population under investigation.

TL;DR: LVEF is a powerful predictor of cardiovascular outcome in heart failure patients across a broad spectrum of ventricular function, and once elevated to a range above 45%, ejection fraction does not further contribute to assessment of cardiovascular risk inheart failure patients.

TL;DR: Baseline echocardiographic measures of ejection fraction, end-diastolic volume, and infarct segment length were highly predictive of outcomes including total mortality, death or hospitalization for heart failure, or death or any cardiovascular event (heart failure, MI, stroke, resuscitated sudden death), even after adjustment for known covariates.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that decreased right ventricular systolic function is a major risk factor for death, sudden death, heart failure, and stroke after myocardial infarction.