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... central upper portion of the interventricular septum. In many respects this may be a more crucially important synchro• nizing location than is the attachment of free right ventricular wall to the left ventricle along the lines of either the anterior or the posterior interventricular sulci. All three ...
... central upper portion of the interventricular septum. In many respects this may be a more crucially important synchro• nizing location than is the attachment of free right ventricular wall to the left ventricle along the lines of either the anterior or the posterior interventricular sulci. All three ...
Paper - Journal of American Science
... Abstract: The cardioprotective effects of melatonin are consistent with its ability to scavenge free radical. However free radicals are considered as preconditioning factors, helping the heart to withstand consequent attacks of ischemic reperfusion injury. So, this study aimed to clarify whether mel ...
... Abstract: The cardioprotective effects of melatonin are consistent with its ability to scavenge free radical. However free radicals are considered as preconditioning factors, helping the heart to withstand consequent attacks of ischemic reperfusion injury. So, this study aimed to clarify whether mel ...
Effect of Definition on Incidence of Postinfarction
... much more common than the 15% incidence customarily quoted (by rub)." Moreover, they noted that if an "observer demands the presence of a pericardial friction rub," the diagnosis of pericarditis may be "unrecognized in spite of typical pain." Others46 warned that requiring a friction rub to diagnose ...
... much more common than the 15% incidence customarily quoted (by rub)." Moreover, they noted that if an "observer demands the presence of a pericardial friction rub," the diagnosis of pericarditis may be "unrecognized in spite of typical pain." Others46 warned that requiring a friction rub to diagnose ...
Left Ventricular Volume and Function Assessment: A Comparison
... management, and prognosis of patients with different cardiovascular diseases. Echocardiography by itself plays a pivotal role in assessing the LV systolic function, mainly by calculating the LVEF, and is as such deemed the most widely employed method. Cardiac catheterism and radionucleotide ventricu ...
... management, and prognosis of patients with different cardiovascular diseases. Echocardiography by itself plays a pivotal role in assessing the LV systolic function, mainly by calculating the LVEF, and is as such deemed the most widely employed method. Cardiac catheterism and radionucleotide ventricu ...
Cardiac Imaging for Coronary Artery Disease
... • To evaluate bypass graft patency • Congenital cardiac lesions • Quantify ventricular muscle mass, chamber volumes, and function (CO and EF) ...
... • To evaluate bypass graft patency • Congenital cardiac lesions • Quantify ventricular muscle mass, chamber volumes, and function (CO and EF) ...
Catheter Ablation for Cardiac Arrhythmias
... reducing the risk of entering the left atrium through trans-septal puncture. Because these ablations are very focused and confined to the right side of the heart, complications are less than with other ablations. The main complication of ablation is high-grade AV block that may require placement of ...
... reducing the risk of entering the left atrium through trans-septal puncture. Because these ablations are very focused and confined to the right side of the heart, complications are less than with other ablations. The main complication of ablation is high-grade AV block that may require placement of ...
Left Ventricular Volume and Function Assessment: A Comparison
... management, and prognosis of patients with different cardiovascular diseases. Echocardiography by itself plays a pivotal role in assessing the LV systolic function, mainly by calculating the LVEF, and is as such deemed the most widely employed method. Cardiac catheterism and radionucleotide ventricu ...
... management, and prognosis of patients with different cardiovascular diseases. Echocardiography by itself plays a pivotal role in assessing the LV systolic function, mainly by calculating the LVEF, and is as such deemed the most widely employed method. Cardiac catheterism and radionucleotide ventricu ...
Mean pulmonary arterial pressure after percutaneous mitral
... treatment option for hemodynamically significant mitral stenosis (MS) and has become the procedure of choice in patients with suitable valve anatomy.1---5 However, the procedural success of PMV is assessed on the basis of clinical and echocardiographic outcomes in studies with relatively short follow ...
... treatment option for hemodynamically significant mitral stenosis (MS) and has become the procedure of choice in patients with suitable valve anatomy.1---5 However, the procedural success of PMV is assessed on the basis of clinical and echocardiographic outcomes in studies with relatively short follow ...
Guidelines for cardiac pacing and cardiac - Af
... State-of-the-art management of congestive heart failure (CHF), besides alleviating symptoms, preventing major morbidity, and lowering mortality, increasingly strives to prevent disease progression, in particularly the transition between asymptomatic LV dysfunction and overt CHF. ...
... State-of-the-art management of congestive heart failure (CHF), besides alleviating symptoms, preventing major morbidity, and lowering mortality, increasingly strives to prevent disease progression, in particularly the transition between asymptomatic LV dysfunction and overt CHF. ...
Electrophysiology Products
... Catheter ablation procedures present the potential for significant x-ray exposure, which can result in acute radiation injury as well as increased risk for somatic and genetic effects, to both patients and laboratory staff due to the x-ray beam intensity and duration of the fluoroscopic imaging. Cat ...
... Catheter ablation procedures present the potential for significant x-ray exposure, which can result in acute radiation injury as well as increased risk for somatic and genetic effects, to both patients and laboratory staff due to the x-ray beam intensity and duration of the fluoroscopic imaging. Cat ...
Myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury
... take advantage of full benefits of myocardial reperfusion. Figure modified from Cardiovascular Research (93). ...
... take advantage of full benefits of myocardial reperfusion. Figure modified from Cardiovascular Research (93). ...
Specialty Training Curriculum Paediatric Cardiology
... indications for and the interpretation of cardiac catheterisation and angiography. Those wishing to specialise in this field, however, will require an additional 2 years of training, obtaining concentrated experience in invasive techniques. This training should take place in an educationally approve ...
... indications for and the interpretation of cardiac catheterisation and angiography. Those wishing to specialise in this field, however, will require an additional 2 years of training, obtaining concentrated experience in invasive techniques. This training should take place in an educationally approve ...
Polarographic Oxygen, the Epicardial Electrocardiogram and
... which the epicardial lead was placed. Note variation in rapidity of fall in different iscuemic episodes, but similarity of fall rates for each episode. This similarity may be partly due to placement of electrodes more often in central than in border locations. ...
... which the epicardial lead was placed. Note variation in rapidity of fall in different iscuemic episodes, but similarity of fall rates for each episode. This similarity may be partly due to placement of electrodes more often in central than in border locations. ...
Sudden Cardiac Arrest During Sports Activity in Middle Age
... University and all participating hospitals. Sudden cardiac arrest was defined as a sudden unexpected pulseless condition; if unwitnessed, subjects were included if observed alive and symptom-free within 24 hours of their sudden arrest. During the adjudication process, patients with known non-cardiac ...
... University and all participating hospitals. Sudden cardiac arrest was defined as a sudden unexpected pulseless condition; if unwitnessed, subjects were included if observed alive and symptom-free within 24 hours of their sudden arrest. During the adjudication process, patients with known non-cardiac ...
the role of open mitral valve repair or replacement for severe mitral
... function and reduced long-term survival. Correction at the time of valve surgery is now performed in all our patients. The procedure of choice is the Maze procedure which has a 98% drug free cure rate of atrial fibrillation at three months of followup. Excision of the left atrial appendage is an int ...
... function and reduced long-term survival. Correction at the time of valve surgery is now performed in all our patients. The procedure of choice is the Maze procedure which has a 98% drug free cure rate of atrial fibrillation at three months of followup. Excision of the left atrial appendage is an int ...
Regulation of Coronary Blood Flow During Exercise
... doi:10.1152/physrev.00045.2006.—Exercise is the most important physiological stimulus for increased myocardial oxygen demand. The requirement of exercising muscle for increased blood flow necessitates an increase in cardiac output that results in increases in the three main determinants of myocardia ...
... doi:10.1152/physrev.00045.2006.—Exercise is the most important physiological stimulus for increased myocardial oxygen demand. The requirement of exercising muscle for increased blood flow necessitates an increase in cardiac output that results in increases in the three main determinants of myocardia ...
Chapter 35 - Extras Springer
... echocardiography. Echocardiography is a versatile, low-cost, and portable technique that is available clinically in nearly all medical centers and subsequently is the most widely utilized cardiac testing modality. The diagnosis of CAD by echocardiography is based on the concept that acute myocardial ...
... echocardiography. Echocardiography is a versatile, low-cost, and portable technique that is available clinically in nearly all medical centers and subsequently is the most widely utilized cardiac testing modality. The diagnosis of CAD by echocardiography is based on the concept that acute myocardial ...
Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Is Associated With Increased Infarct
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Advances in Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
... The online-only Data Supplement is available at http://circep.ahajournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1161/CIRCEP.111.962720/-/DC1. Correspondence to Siew Yen Ho, PhD, FRCPath, Cardiac Morphology Unit, Children’s Services, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney St, London SW3 ...
... The online-only Data Supplement is available at http://circep.ahajournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1161/CIRCEP.111.962720/-/DC1. Correspondence to Siew Yen Ho, PhD, FRCPath, Cardiac Morphology Unit, Children’s Services, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney St, London SW3 ...
12-lead Electrocardiogram in Acute Coronary Syndrome
... 5.1.1 Biochemical changes during myocardial ischemia ...................................................................................................... 37 5.1.2 ST-segment depression in subendocardial ischemia ...................................................................................... ...
... 5.1.1 Biochemical changes during myocardial ischemia ...................................................................................................... 37 5.1.2 ST-segment depression in subendocardial ischemia ...................................................................................... ...
Acute Myocardial Infarction: Serial Cardiac MR Imaging Shows a
... The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the local ethics committee. Written informed consent was obtained prior to inclusion of a patient in our study. We included patients with AMI who successfully underwent percutaneous coronary reperfusion by implantation of a bare metal stent within 12 h ...
... The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the local ethics committee. Written informed consent was obtained prior to inclusion of a patient in our study. We included patients with AMI who successfully underwent percutaneous coronary reperfusion by implantation of a bare metal stent within 12 h ...
2011 ACCF/AHA Guidelines for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft
... does not imply that the recommendation is weak. Many important clinical questions addressed in the guidelines do not lend themselves to clinical trials. Although randomized trials are unavailable, there may be a very clear clinical consensus that a particular test or therapy is useful or effective. ...
... does not imply that the recommendation is weak. Many important clinical questions addressed in the guidelines do not lend themselves to clinical trials. Although randomized trials are unavailable, there may be a very clear clinical consensus that a particular test or therapy is useful or effective. ...
Revascularization to Improve Survival: Non
... does not imply that the recommendation is weak. Many important clinical questions addressed in the guidelines do not lend themselves to clinical trials. Although randomized trials are unavailable, there may be a very clear clinical consensus that a particular test or therapy is useful or effective. ...
... does not imply that the recommendation is weak. Many important clinical questions addressed in the guidelines do not lend themselves to clinical trials. Although randomized trials are unavailable, there may be a very clear clinical consensus that a particular test or therapy is useful or effective. ...
Diagnosing primary diastolic heart failure
... measurements, an unreliable index of performance if not first normalized or corrected, with often substantial shifts in the timing of ventricular relaxation. Evaluation of ventricular relaxation should, therefore, include timing of this phase of the cardiac cycle with respect to the onset of systole ...
... measurements, an unreliable index of performance if not first normalized or corrected, with often substantial shifts in the timing of ventricular relaxation. Evaluation of ventricular relaxation should, therefore, include timing of this phase of the cardiac cycle with respect to the onset of systole ...
ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Acute
... rational and widely accepted have been associated with substantial adverse effects on mortality (2). Despite the recognized importance of empirical evidence to guide therapeutic decisions, it has been only since the advent of computers that computational and organizational capabilities have begun to ...
... rational and widely accepted have been associated with substantial adverse effects on mortality (2). Despite the recognized importance of empirical evidence to guide therapeutic decisions, it has been only since the advent of computers that computational and organizational capabilities have begun to ...