- 著者
- Yuji Suzuki Osamu Nishiyama Toshiaki Sakai Masanobu Niiyama Tomonori Itoh Motoyuki Nakamura
- 出版者
- 一般社団法人 日本内科学会
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.53, no.7, pp.717-720, 2014 (Released:2014-04-01)
- 参考文献数
- 14
- 被引用文献数
- 6 7
A 42-year-old woman with a history of aspirin-induced asthma was admitted with severe chest pain. Emergency coronary angiography revealed coronary artery spasms. The administration of vasodilators did not suppress the anginal symptoms, and the differential white blood cell count continued to show eosinophilia. The patient's symptoms of aspirin-induced asthma, eosinophilia and other allergic states led to the diagnosis of Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS). After starting betamethasone therapy, the eosinophilia and cardiac symptoms rapidly disappeared. Although coronary vasospasms related to CSS are rare, the present case suggests that a differential white blood cell count should be obtained in patients with refractory coronary vasospasms.
- 著者
- Koto Sasaki Yorihiko Koeda Reisuke Yoshizawa Yuh Ishikawa Masaru Ishida Tomonori Itoh Yoshihiro Morino Hidenori Saitoh Hiroyuki Onodera Tetsuji Nozaki Yuko Maegawa Osamu Nishiyama Mahito Ozawa Takuya Osaki Akihiro Nakamura
- 出版者
- The Japanese Circulation Society
- 雑誌
- Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.CJ-23-0188, (Released:2023-08-10)
- 参考文献数
- 19
- 被引用文献数
- 2
Background: It has been reported that patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) transferred to low-volume primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) hospitals (<115/year) in low population density areas experience higher in-hospital mortality rates. This study compared in-hospital outcomes of patients admitted to high-volume primary PCI hospitals (≥115/year) with those for other regional general hospitals.Methods and Results: Retrospective analysis was conducted on data obtained from 2,453 patients with AMI admitted to hospitals in Iwate Prefecture (2014–2018). Multivariate analysis revealed that the in-hospital mortality rate of AMI among patients in regional general hospitals was significantly higher than among patients in high-volume hospitals. However, no significant difference in mortality rate was observed among patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary PCI. Although no significant difference was found in the in-hospital mortality rate of patients with Killip class I STEMI, significantly lower in-hospital mortality rates were observed in patients admitted in high-volume hospitals for Killip classes II, III, and IV.Conclusions: Although in-hospital outcomes for patients with STEMI undergoing primary PCI were similar, patients with heart failure or cardiogenic shock exhibited better in-hospital outcomes in high-volume primary PCI hospitals than those in regional general hospitals.