The Impact of Positive Inotropic Therapy on Hemodynamics and Organ Function in Acute Heart Failure: A Differentiated View
Authors: Juan Cheko, Nikolaos Patsalis, Julian Kreutz, Dimitar Divchev, Georgios Chatzis, Bernhard Schieffer, Birgit Markus Conclusion: Patients with acute decompensated HF benefit from positive inotropic therapy during short-term follow-ups. In particular, patients with DCM, those after levosimendan therapy and those with SR/PM, seem to benefit most from inotropic therapy. For the full article click here
Comparing elective and emergency caesarean section by using bioimpedance method
Authors: Zuhal Çavuş, Ayşe Vahapoğlu, Ülkü Aygen Türkmen, Fatma Ketenci Gencer, Elif Yıldız Conclusion: Understanding normal hemodynamic values before, during, and after C/S is feasible and might help the clinician assess patients’ cardiac performance with a reliable noninvasive technique. NICaS might be a reliable tool to evaluate patients’ baseline values and diagnose complications earlier during […]
Noninvasive Hemodynamic Evaluation Following TAVI for Severe Aortic Stenosis
Authors: Tzlil Grinberg, Yaron Aviv, Mordehay Vaturi, Leor Perl, Maya Wiessman, Hanna Vaknin-Assa, Pablo Codner, Yaron Shapira, Ran Kornowski, Katia Orvin Conclusion: Unique short‐term adaptive hemodynamic changes were observed using NICaS in patients with AS soon after TAVI. Noninvasive hemodynamic evaluation immediately following TAVI may contribute to the understanding of complex hemodynamic changes and merits […]
Correlation of Impedance Cardiography-Derived and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance-Derived Stroke Volumes
Authors: Pedram Hassan-Tash, Umar Ismail, Iain D C Kirkpatrick, Amir Ravandi, Davinder S Jassal, Brett Hiebert, Malek Kass, Richard A Krasuski, Ashish H Shah Conclusion: NICaS derived hemodynamic measurements compare favorably with those from CMR. This technology allows rapid, continuous, and noninvasive hemodynamic evaluation that may augment clinical assessment in the outpatient and inpatient settings. […]
Non-invasive hemodynamic evaluation following TAVI for severe aortic stenosis
Authors: K Orvin, T Grinberg, R Kornowski, Maya Wiessman, Yaron Aviv, Leor Perl CONCLUSION: A unique pattern of short and longer-term adaptive hemodynamic changes was demonstrated using the NICaS system among patients undergoing TAVI. These findings require validation and further research into their underlying mechanism if NICaS is to be used as a bedside monitoring […]
Lack of Concordance Between Parameters Defining Cardiogenic Shock in Patients With ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Authors: Triston Eastman, Mirna Ragheb, Mullein Thorleifson, Brett Hiebert, Kunal Minhas, Malek Kass, Amir Ravandi and Ashish Shah Conclusion: Our study is the first to describe poor congruity between the current parameters defining CS. Such limitations raise the need to objectively define CS so that these high-risk patients can be identified early in the course […]
Non-Invasive Hemodynamic Whole-Body Bioimpedance Indices for the Early Detection of Cancer Treatment-Related Cardiotoxicity: A Retrospective Observational Study
Authors: Nili Schamroth Pravda, Shaul Lev , Osnat Itzhaki Ben Zadok, Ran Kornowski, Zaza Iakobishvili Conclusion: GGI, a parameter measured by WBI, can reliably correlate to biomarker evidence of heart failure in patients after chemotherapy. Its use as a screening tool for cardiotoxicity in patients with ongoing anticancer therapy is promising. For the full article […]
Accurate noninvasive continuous monitoring of cardiac output by whole body electrical bioimpedance
Authors: Gad Cotter , Yaron Moshkovitz, Edo Kaluski, Amram J Cohen, Hilton Miller, Daniel Goor, Zvi Vered The results of the study indicate that the measurements taken by the NICaS are accurate in rapid, noninvasive measurement and follow-up of CO in a wide range of cardiac clinical situations. For the full article click here
The Clinical Research of NICaS for Monitoring Changes of Cardiac Function in Patients with Sepsis (part 2)
Authors: Zhu Yan Second Military Medical University CONCLUSION: (1) In patients with sepsis thrombocytopenia, a high SOFA score indicates that the patient is in critical condition and the prognosis is poor. (2) sepsis patients with too fast a heart rate suggest poor prognosis. (3) The response of the cardiovascular system was closely related to the […]
The Clinical Research of NICaS for Monitoring Changes of Cardiac Function in Patients with Sepsis (two part study – part 1)
Authors: Zhu Yan Second Military Medical University CONCLUSION: NICaS can measure the cardiac output and stroke volume in sepsis patients as accurate as ultrasonic Cardiogram, and the exclusive GGI figure NICaS provides has a positive correlation with EF of Ultrasonic Cardiogram but without significance, which may be attributed to the fact that the GGI is […]