Tuberculosis continues to be a major concern for health-care workers throughout the world. The numbers of tuberculosis cases have declined steadily in western and central Europe, North and South America, and the Middle East, and have increased in countries of the former Soviet Union and in sub-Saharan Africa. In the United States, there were a total of 14,871 tuberculosis cases (5.1/100,000 population) during 2003, representing a 1.9% decline in the rate from 2002. Tuberculosis rates…
From 1989 to 2003, a total of 279 distinct positive culture findings for M tuberculosis were identified. The annual incidence rates per 100,000 populations are shown in Figure 1. The incidence in 1989 was 5.2/100,000, decreased to 3.5/100,000 in 1993, increased to 11.1/100,000 in 1998, and reached 7.6/ 100,000 in 2003. An increasing trend in incidence rates of culture-positive tuberculosis was observed during the study period. This was statistically significant (x2 = 19.647; p = 0.0001)….
The present study demonstrates that in a surgical population of patients undergoing CABG, the existence of preoperative NSTE-ACS is associated with a significantly higher mortality within 30 days and a higher incidence of major adverse cardiac events, such as PMI or LCOS, depending on the degree of preoperative cTnI serum elevation. Furthermore, a pre-CABG cTnI level could be shown to be used as an incremental prognostic variable in this patient cohort. cTnI serum levels were…
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a major cause of iVx morbidity and mortality throughout the world, The number of cases of tuberculosis showed an initial decline in the United States from 84,304 in 1953 to 22,201 in 1985. The number of reported cases of tuberculosis in the United States increased in 1992 by 18%. The reversal of the downward trend was due to multiple factors, including the AIDS epidemic and the emergence of drug resistance. Drug resistance…
From January 2001 to September 2004, preoperative cTnI was measured in 1,978 consecutive patients scheduled for isolated CABG. Preoperative cTnI values were available in 1,978 of 3,124 patients who fulfilled the inclusion criteria and in whom primary isolated CABG had been performed. Among these patients, negative preoperative cTnI levels ( 1.5 ng/mL) [Fig 1]. There were no significant differences between most perioperative patient characteristics of the remaining 1,146 CABG patients, who were initially not enrolled…
Clinical End Points The primary end point of the study was in-hospital mortality, defined as death from any cause within 30 days after surgery or during the same time period of hospitalization as well as postoperative MACE during the period of hospitalization including perioperative MI (PMI) and low cardiac output syndrome (LCOS). Secondary study end points were other postoperative complications such as stroke, new-onset ventricular arrhythmia , major bleeding, necessity for rethoracotomy, and postoperative renal failure requiring…
Risk stratification and outcomes research is an emerging issue in cardiovascular surgery and particularly in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) to predict morbidity and mortality as a measure of health-care performance. Although most risk scores give consistent predictions, the extent of acute preoperative myocardial injury in unstable coronary artery disease (CAD) ranging from microinfarctions due to preexisting microembolizing unstable plaques up to non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS) and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) have…
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