Screening for preclinical left ventricular dysfunction
Circulating multimarker approach to identify patients with preclinical left ventricular remodelling and/or diastolic dysfunction
... All cardiac chamber volumes and mass measures were measured according to current guidelines indexed to body surface area. 6 DD was graded according to the 2009 guidelines. 7 Brie fly, as previously used by our group, two ...
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Association of Novel Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Stress With Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Dysfunction: Implications for Screening
... Strengths and Limitations The present study included a community-based sample from a large epidemiological study, used echocardiographic mea- surements with excellent reproducibility, and studied a panel of biomarkers ...
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Left Ventricular Dysfunction in Preeclampsia: An Echocardiographic study
... particularly if pre-eclamptic develop pulmonary edema more often than non-pregnant women. Further preeclampsia is a recognised predisposing factor for peripartum cardiomyopathy and future cardiovascular disease. ...
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Copeptin in Hemodialysis Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction
... Our hypothesis is that hemodialysis patients may have vari- ous stimulating factors for vasopressin release irrelevant to plasma osmolality and body fluid volume, for example, a decrease in effective circulating volume, ...
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Left Ventricular Dysfunction: The Perspective of Echocardiography in Ghana
... of left ventricular dysfunction (LVD) in patients who were referred for ...had left ventricular diastolic dysfunction, mitral regurgita- tion and tricuspid ...
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COPD advances in left ventricular diastolic dysfunction
... arteries, and sustained alveolar hypoxia induces pulmonary vascular remodeling. 24 Pulmonary HTN is observed in half of the patients with severe COPD. 25 Moreover, ~ 25% of mild- to-moderate patients with COPD without ...
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On myocardial siderosis and left ventricular dysfunction in hemochromatosis
... Conclusion In conclusion, our data show myocardial siderosis is com- mon in HFE-HC patients (33%) presenting with iron over- load (serum ferritin >1000 μg/L), a value associated with increased risk of liver damage in ...
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Diastolic And Systolic Right Ventricular Dysfunction Precedes Left Ventricular Dysfunction In Patients Paced From Right Ventricular Apex
... Clinical evaluation: A thorough clinical evaluation and resting 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) were done at admission, on day 7 after PPI and on follow up at 1 month and 6 months. Patients were discharged with a ...
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Intracellular sodium and contractile dysfunction in left ventricular hypertrophy
... Muscle mass increase was, of necessity, estimated from the whole heart weight assuming that only the left ventricle increased in size as a result o f aortic-constriction. This is not an unreasonable assumption as ...
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Early detection of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in Chagas' disease
... in left ventricular diastolic function. This evidences of preclinical myocardial damage and would hence allow to stratify the risk, to optimize medical treatment and improve the qual- ity and ...
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Left ventricular dysfunction in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
... of left ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction in asymptomatic, normotensive type 2 diabetes mellitus ...for left ventricular dysfunction both Diastolic as well as ...
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Procalcitonin as A Predictor of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction in Sepsis Patients
... Subjects and Method: This was a cross-sectional study. A sample of 71 sepsis patients aged >18 years old admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) from November 2016 to March 2017was selected for this study. The ...
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Modeling left ventricular diastolic dysfunction: classification and key indicators
... if left atrial and pulmonary pressures are severely elevated, and diminished blood return lowers right atrial and central venous ...right ventricular ejection fraction is always abnormal even though LV ...
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Prevention of airway hyperresponsiveness induced by left ventricular dysfunction in rats
... the left atrial pressure and thus the end-diastolic left ventricular pressure, we used this parameter to express the haemodynamic con- sequence of a ...
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Procalcitonin as a Predictor of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction in Sepsis Patients
... TNF-. ZDV measured by applying a quanti- tatives and which enzyme immuno-assay with human TNF-. 71FSF1AHS (R&D systemsInc., Minneapolis, MN, USA); the reagent kit used for human TNF-. was also from R&D Systems. ...
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Significance of Electrocardiographic QTc Interval on Assessment of Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Hypertensive Patient: A Simple Screening Tool
... METHODS This study is a cross sectional diagnostic study of patients suspected of having left ventricular diastolic dysfunction at Adam Malik Hospital Medan based on history taking and clinical ...
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Left ventricular dysfunction by strain echocardiography in thalassemia patients: a pilot study
... A study by Rodrigues, et al, compared cardiac function in thalassemia major patients with anemic patients and showed that cardiac alterations found in thalassemia group are caused by iron overload and not by anemia. 11 ...
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Prevalence of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
... systolic dysfunction is directly proportional to severity of ...coexisting left ventricular dysfunction like cough, dyspnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea and ...
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A novel porcine model of early left ventricular dysfunction for translational research
... Keywords: left ventricular dysfunction, heart failure, porcine model Introduction Over the last decade, use of disease-modifying therapies (angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin II ...
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Hospitalization rate and outcomes in patients with left ventricular dysfunction receiving hemodialysis
... Left ventricular EF was assessed for all patients by certified, well-trained echocardiography technicians prior to the initia- tion of dialysis. The procedure and results were supervised, reported, and ...
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