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Observational studyJournal of the American Heart Association2024

Treatment Adherence Rates and Long-Term Mortality in a Quaternary Multidisciplinary Heart Team: An Observational Cohort.

David A McNamara, Mahrukh F Akram, Andrea L Burgess, DeeAnn Stickland, Stacie M VanOosterhout, Jessica L Parker, Ryan D Madder, David Wohns, Charles L Willekes, Richard F McNamara

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Observational study in Journal of the American Heart Association, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Designing and Implementing a Heart Team: Institutional Experiences Over the Past 10 Years.Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

David A McNamaraDivision of Cardiology, Frederick Meijer Heart and Vascular Institute Corewell Health Grand Rapids MI USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8015-8515
Mahrukh F AkramDivision of Internal Medicine Corewell Health/Michigan State University College of Human Medicine Grand Rapids MI USA.
Andrea L BurgessDivision of Cardiology, Frederick Meijer Heart and Vascular Institute Corewell Health Grand Rapids MI USA.
DeeAnn SticklandDivision of Cardiology, Frederick Meijer Heart and Vascular Institute Corewell Health Grand Rapids MI USA.
Stacie M VanOosterhoutDivision of Cardiology, Frederick Meijer Heart and Vascular Institute Corewell Health Grand Rapids MI USA.
Jessica L ParkerOffice of Research and Education Corewell Health Grand Rapids MI USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8764-7656
Ryan D MadderDivision of Cardiology, Frederick Meijer Heart and Vascular Institute Corewell Health Grand Rapids MI USA.
David WohnsDivision of Cardiology, Frederick Meijer Heart and Vascular Institute Corewell Health Grand Rapids MI USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6606-2261
Charles L WillekesDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Frederick Meijer Heart and Vascular Institute Corewell Health Grand Rapids MI USA.
Richard F McNamaraDivision of Cardiology, Frederick Meijer Heart and Vascular Institute Corewell Health Grand Rapids MI USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundA multidisciplinary heart team (HT) approach to patients with complex coronary artery disease has a class IB recommendation, yet there are limited data on adherence to HT treatment recommendations and long-term clinical follow-up. The objective of this study was to assess adherence rates to HT recommendations and assess long-term mortality rates among patients with complex CAD. METHODS AND

resultsSix hundred eighty-four sequential HT cases for complex coronary artery disease from January 2015 to May 2017 were reviewed. After excluding cases with significant comorbid valve disease, baseline characteristics were compared based on HT treatment recommendations: optimal medical therapy, percutaneous coronary intervention, and coronary artery bypass grafting. Adherence rates were manually extracted, and 5-year mortality rates were obtained from the Michigan Death Registry. Seventy-two percent of 405 included patients were men (mean age 66±11 years), with high rates of medical comorbidities. Estimated surgical risk scores were lowest in the coronary artery bypass grafting group. Optimal medical therapy was recommended in 138 patients (34%), percutaneous coronary intervention in 95 (23%), and coronary artery bypass grafting in 172 (42%). Adherence to HT recommendations across groups was high (96%) and did not differ between treatment groups. Over 5 years of follow-up, there were 119 deaths, resulting in a cumulative mortality rate of 29%.

conclusionsIn the largest HT cohort in the United States to date, high rates of adherence to HT recommendations were observed among high-risk patients with coronary artery disease. High rates of adherence to HT recommendations were observed irrespective of treatment group recommendation, suggesting that HT recommendations were individualized and acceptable to both patients and physicians alike.

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Coronary Artery DiseasePatient Care TeamTreatment Adherence and ComplianceAgedCohort StudiesCoronary Artery BypassFemaleGuideline AdherenceHumansMaleMichiganMiddle AgedPercutaneous Coronary InterventionRegistriesRetrospective StudiesRisk Factorsadherence ratescardiovascular diseasecoronary artery diseaseheart teammortality ratesmultidisciplinary team

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PMID39119965
PMCPMC11963926

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