Reparación percutánea borde a borde mitral en insuficiencia mitral degenerativa compleja: ¿es realmente una contraindicación?

Transcatheter edge to edge repair (TEER) represents an effective alternative to valve repair surgery in patients with severe primary mitral regurgitation in whom surgical risk is unacceptable. Adequate prior echocardiographic study is essential for the success of the therapy.  Different prognostic scores and criteria have been published to guide the patient selection. We report the case of a 77-year-old woman admitted to our hospital with acutely decompensated heart failure in whom a severe primary mitral regurgitation with a complex valvular anatomy was effectively treated by TEER.El tratamiento percutáneo borde a borde (TPBB) es una alternativa eficaz a la cirugía de reparación valvular en los pacientes con insuficiencia mitral primaria severa y riesgo quirúrgico prohibitivo.  Para el éxito de la terapia, es fundamental un adecuado estudio ecocardiográfico previo. Existen diferente scores pronósticos y criterios que son útiles en la selección del paciente. Se presenta una mujer de 77 años que ingresa en nuestro hospital por un cuadro de insuficiencia cardiaca aguda secundaria a una insuficiencia mitral primaria severa con anatomía valvular compleja tratada de forma eficaz mediante TPBB

Use of a multimedia classroom with connection to Hemodynamic Laboratories for the comprehensive practical training of the medical student in the area of Cardiology

La aplicabilidad práctica de los conocimientos teóricos adquiridos durante las clases magistrales constituye una parte esencial en la formación del futuro médico. Sin embargo, las prácticas en quirófanos y en Laboratorios de Cardiología Intervencionista son deficientes. El aforo es limitado por motivos de seguridad. Además, la visibilidad es reducida y la comunicación entre el operador y el alumno puede ser difícil por la presencia del enfermo. Desarrollar un nuevo modelo de prácticas clínicas complementarias a las convencionales ayudaría a que los alumnos adquieran la capacitación básica requerida. El objetivo principal de este proyecto es conseguir que los alumnos obtengan una visión práctica e integral del paciente cardiológico, proporcionando las herramientas necesarias a través de un Aula Multimedia con conexión directa a los Laboratorios de Hemodinámica y a las bases de datos clínicos de la UGC de Cardiología del Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía. Esta acción de Innovación Docente pretende mejorar los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje de la Cardiología y realizar una simulación clínica del proceso de diagnóstico, tratamiento y alta hospitalaria de un paciente cardiológico. Adicionalmente, este sistema podría proporcionar al docente una herramienta objetiva para la evaluación de las prácticas clínicas de estudiantes del área de Ciencias de la Salud.The practical applicability of the theoretical knowledge acquired during the lectures constitutes an essential part of the training of the future doctor. However, the practices in operating rooms and Interventional Cardiology Laboratories are deficient. Capacity is limited for security reasons. In addition, visibility is reduced, and communication between the operator and the student can be difficult due to the patient's presence. Developing a new model of clinical practices complementary to conventional ones would help students acquire the basic training required. The main objective of this project is to ensure that students obtain a realistic and comprehensive view of the cardiology patient, providing the necessary tools through a Multimedia Classroom with a direct connection to the Hemodynamic Laboratories and the clinical databases of the UGC of Cardiology of the Reina Sofía University Hospital. This Teaching Innovation action aims to improve the teaching-learning processes of Cardiology and carry out a clinical simulation of the process of diagnosis, treatment, and hospital discharge of a cardiac patient. Additionally, this system could provide the teacher with an objective tool for evaluating the clinical practices of students in the area of Health Sciences

Relationship between overweight and obesity and cardiac dimensions and function in a paediatric population.

Obesity in adults is associated with left ventricular hypertrophy, dilatation, and myocardial fibrosis, as well as heart failure and coronary heart disease. These associations have been studied to a lesser extent in the paediatric population. This study aims to investigate the relationship between obesity and cardiac structure and function in the paediatric population. In a southern Spanish village, we selected all inhabitants aged 6-17 years stratifying by age, gender, and educational centres. We performed a complete transthoracic echocardiogram evaluating all the cardiac morphological and functional parameters commonly measured in an echocardiographic study. There were 212 children and adolescents included. Of them, 48.1% were males. The mean age was 10.9 ± 3.0 years. A total of 106 (50%) were normal weight, 57 (26.9%) overweight, and 49 (23.1%) obese. Sex and age were similar in all three groups. Overweight and obesity were associated with larger left ventricular end-diastolic and end-systolic volumes (p  Childhood obesity is independently associated with larger heart chambers, greater left ventricle mass, and smaller left ventricle ejection fraction. • Childhood obesity is related to the development of cardiovascular risk factors and is considered an epidemic of the twenty-first century; its prevalence is rising. • Childhood overweight and obesity lead to changes in cardiac structure and function which, although not considered clinically pathological, are significant and a result of obesity, and which behave as unfavourable incipient alterations at an early age

The Role of Left Atrial Longitudinal Strain in the Diagnosis of Acute Cellular Rejection in Heart Transplant Recipients.

Our aim was to investigate the role of left atrial longitudinal strain (LALS) in the non-invasive diagnosis of acute cellular rejection (ACR) episodes in heart transplant (HTx) recipients. Methods: We performed successive echocardiographic exams in 18 consecutive adult HTx recipients in their first year after HTx within 3 h of the routine surveillance endomyocardial biopsies (EMB) in a single center. LALS parameters were analyzed with two different software. We investigated LALS association with ACR presence, as well as inter-vendor variability in comparable LALS values. Results: A total of 147 pairs of EMB and echo exams were carried out. Lower values of LALS were significantly associated with any grade of ACR presence. Peak atrial longitudinal strain (PALS) offered the best diagnostic value for any grade of ACR, with a C statistic of 0.77 using one software (95% CI 0.68−0.84,