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Carotid Atherosclerosis and Stroke in Atrial Fibrillation

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By Wobo Bekwelem, Paul Jensen, Faye L. Norby, Elsayed Z. Soliman, Sunil K. Agarwal, Gregory Y. H. Lip, Wei Pan, Aaron R. Folsom, W. T. Longstreth Jr, Alvaro Alonso, Susan R. Heckbert
| stroke.ahajournals.org
Background and Purpose—Whether consideration of carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) and carotid plaque would improve risk prediction of ischemic stroke in persons with atrial fibrillation (AF) is unknown. The purpose of this study was to assess the improvement in risk prediction of stroke by adding cIMT and carotid plaque to the CHA DS -VASc (variables age, heart failure, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, myocardial infarction, and peripheral arterial disease) score.
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Early Access to the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory for Patients Resuscitated From Cardiac Arrest Due to a Shockable Rhythm: The Minnesota Resuscitation Consortium Twin Cities Unified Protocol

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By Emily Caldwell, Santiago Garcia, Qi Wang, Brian Mahoney Verified, Michael J. Mooney, Todd Drexel, Wobo Bekwelem, Ganesh Raveendran, Lucinda Hodgson, Selcuk Adabag, Ralph Frascone, Gregory Helmer, Charles Lick, Marc Conterato, Kenneth Baran, Bradley Bart, Fouad Bachour, Steven Roh, Carmelo Panetta, Randall Stark, Mark Haugland, Keith Wesley
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Methods and Results Eleven hospitals with 24/7 percutaneous coronary intervention capabilities agreed to provide early (within 6 hours of arrival at the Emergency Department) access to the CCL with the intention to perform coronary revascularization for outpatients who were successfully resuscitated from ventricular fibrillation/ventricular tachycardia arrest. Other inclusion criteria were age >18 and <76 and presumed cardiac etiology.
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