Valvular Disease
Comparison of P-wave dispersion in healthy dogs, dogs with chronic valvular disease and dogs with disturbances of supraventricular conduction
... chronic valvular disease and the atrial enlargement the P-wave dispersion is also higher than in healthy dogs, although no significant correlation between the size of left atria and Pd was ...
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Echocardiographic pattern of rheumatic valvular disease in a contemporary sub-Saharan African pediatric population: an audit of a major cardiac ultrasound unit in Yaounde, Cameroon
... A total of 65 participants out of 1130 (5.8 %) aged 18 year old or younger met the diagnostic criteria for RHD (Fig. 1). Out of the 65 children, 31 (47.7 %) were males. Participants’ age ranged from 4 to 18 years, with a ...
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PULMONARY FUNCTION IN MITRAL VALVULAR DISEASE: DISTRIBUTION AND DIFFUSION CHARACTERISTICS IN RESTING PATIENTS
... The oxygen saturation of the mixed venous blood was estimated, either on the basis of average values for arterio-venous difference found in other patients with mitral stenosis or on the [r] ...
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Vol 30, No 5 (2017)
... heart disease in more than a half of the cases. Carcinoid heart disease is typically characterised by morphological and functional modifications of right-sided ...heart disease in the absence of ...
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Noninvasive Surrogates for Left Ventricular Filling Pressure in Patients with Valvular Heart Disease
... While invasively measured left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP) is the gold standard for evaluating filling pressures, management of chronic patients is better served by noninvasive measurements which are re- ...
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A quadricuspid aortic valve in an asymptomatic 40 year old man: a case report
... of valvular disease at presentation, our patient was totally asymptom- atic; aortic valve repair by tricuspidization technique was preferred to valve replacement, but data about the clinical approach in ...
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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging to assess myocardial fibrosis in valvular heart disease
... heterogeneous disease, broadly classified as organic (primary) or functional (sec- ondary) based on the underlying ...intrinsic valvular disease whereas functional MR is caused by regional and/or ...
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Surgery in the Acute Phase of Infective Endocarditis: 5 Years after Our Initial Experience
... The mortality rate in the two series is essentially the same (15.3%, 17%) which is comparable to a Tunisian series (13%) [16]. Tunisia is a country like ours with the same epidemiological characteristics. But seems ...
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Impact of valvular heart disease on activities of daily living of nonagenarians: the leiden 85-plus study a population based study
... heart valvular disease were evaluated by ...Significant valvular heart disease included any mitral or aortic stenosis severity, moderate or severe mitral regurgitation, moderate or severe ...
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Heart disease as a risk factor for dementia
... heart disease in all its forms, including coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, atrial fibrillation, valvular disease, and heart ...
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Surgical Management of Coexisting Coronary Artery and Valvular Heart Disease
... of valvular disease was determined by echocardiography, and preoperative coronary arterio- graphy was performed in all patients over the age of 40 years to assess the extent of coronary artery ...ficant ...
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<p>Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 and Osteopontin Gene Expression in Epicardial Adipose Tissue from Patients with Coronary Artery Disease Is Associated with the Presence of Calcified Atherosclerotic Plaques</p>
... Purpose: It has been proposed that the cardiovascular effects of obesity are related to epicardial adipose tissue (EAT), which seems to play an active role on the development and calci fi cation of atherosclerotic ...
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The new face of rheumatic heart disease in South West Nigeria
... Conclusion: The prevalence of RHD has declined considerably as a result of improvements in the primary health care delivery system, with widespread use of appropriate antibiotic therapy for sore throats resulting in the ...
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Prediabetes: Pathogenesis and Adverse Outcomes
... Infective Endocarditis is an important serious complication of Valvular Heart Disease, but is oftenly missed in clinical evaluation. With proper understanding of varied clinical profile and application of ...
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A cardioembolic stroke
... lar heart disease, had evidence of left ventricular damage and had a cerebral infarction of undetermined cause at her first admission for stroke. Despite this, she did not undergo TEE. If endocarditis was already ...
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The influence of surgical technique on early posttransplant atrial fibrillation — comparison of biatrial, bicaval, and total orthotopic heart transplantation
... pretransplant valvular heart dis- ease, an enlarged left atrium after HTX, mitral regurgitation after HTX, and non-TO (BA and BC) as significant risk fac- tors for early posttransplant ...
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The Harvard Cooperative Stroke RegistryA prospective registry
... Patitants with lacunar or thrombotic strokes had about the same prevalence of prior stroke and the same lack of atrial fibrillation and valvular heart disease. Patients with lacuna[r] ...
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Effect of right side median nerve stimulation along with structured multi sensory coma stimulation program on level of consciousness and neurobehavioral functions among diffuse axonal injury patients.
... ¾ Presence of brain stem injury or infarction, which was confirmed by imaging studies ¾ History of Congenital heart disease / valvular dysfunction / unstable angina & cardiomyopathy, pul[r] ...
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<p>Chronic Kidney Disease And Associated Risk Factors Among Cardiovascular Patients</p>
... An eGFR was calculated separately for men and women using an equation with Modi fi cation of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD): 28 GFR (expressed in mL/min/1.73 m 2 ) = 186 × [SCr (mg/dl)] – 1.154 × (age) − 0.203 × ...
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Post-operative left atrial volume index is a predictor of the occurrence of permanent atrial fibrillation after mitral valve surgery in patients who undergo mitral valve surgery
... The enrolled patients were classified into the two groups according to the occurrence of permanent AF or main- tained sinus rhythm after MV surgery (normal sinus rhythm [NSR] group vs. AF group). Post-operative new onset ...
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