Journal ArticleESC Heart Fail · February 2025
AIMS: One treatment option for refractory ventricular arrythmias is stellate ganglion block (SGB). We examined differences in SGB success by patient and arrhythmia characteristics and predictors of successful SGB. METHODS AND RESULTS: This was a multicente ...
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Journal ArticleAnesth Analg · January 1, 2025
BACKGROUND: Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with increased dementia risk, yet its role in postoperative neurocognitive disorders is unclear. Here, we studied whether the severity of untreated obstructive sleep apnea is associated with the severity of ...
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Journal ArticleJACC Clin Electrophysiol · April 2024
BACKGROUND: Ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF) are life-threatening conditions and can be refractory to conventional drug and device interventions. Stellate ganglion blockade (SGB) has been described as an adjunct, temporizing i ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Heart Assoc · July 18, 2023
Background Splanchnic nerve modulation (SNM) is an emerging procedure to reduce cardiac filling pressures in heart failure. Although the main contributor to reduction in cardiac preload is thought to be increased venous capacitance in the splanchnic circul ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2022
Patients with chronic non-cancer pain on opioid therapy can present with acute pain, most often after surgery. Escalations in opioid dosing often occur in these patients, and weaning of opioids after the acute event can be challenging due to fear of worsen ...
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Journal ArticleJACC Heart Fail · April 2021
OBJECTIVES: The authors estimated changes of stressed blood volume (SBV) induced by splanchnic nerve block (SNB) in patients with either decompensated or ambulatory heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). BACKGROUND: The splanchnic vascular c ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Hypertens Rep · October 23, 2020
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To highlight the indications, procedural considerations, and data supporting the use of stellate ganglion blockade (SGB) for management of refractory ventricular arrhythmias. RECENT FINDINGS: In patients with refractory ventricular arrhy ...
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Journal ArticleJACC Heart Fail · September 2020
OBJECTIVES: We hypothesized that splanchnic nerve blockade (SNB) would attenuate increased exercise-induced cardiac filling pressures in patients with chronic HF. BACKGROUND: Chronic heart failure (HF) is characterized by limited exercise capacity driven i ...
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Journal ArticleJACC Clin Electrophysiol · May 2020
OBJECTIVES: This study sought to describe our institutional experience with establishing a neurocardiology service in an attempt to provide autonomic modulation as a treatment for ventricular arrhythmias (VAs). BACKGROUND: Treatment-refractory VAs are comm ...
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Chapter · March 19, 2018
Abdominal pain prompts about 16 million visits a year to primary care offices in the United States and is a major source of morbidity, lost productivity, and healthcare costs. About two million patients continue on to visit a specialist, usually a gastroen ...
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Journal ArticlePerioper Med (Lond) · 2018
Opioid use has risen dramatically in the past three decades. In the USA, opioid overdose has become a leading cause of unintentional death, surpassing motor vehicle accidents. A patient's first exposure to opioids may be during the perioperative period, a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Cardiovasc Electrophysiol · December 2017
INTRODUCTION: Treatment refractory ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) are often driven and exacerbated by heightened sympathetic tone. We aim to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies of a temporary percutaneous stellate ganglion blo ...
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