left atrial size
... Most investigators attribute left atrial enlargement to change in the left atrial pressure consequent to valvular obstruction and consider atrial fibrillation to be secondary phenomenon 456. The Mechanical obstruction to flow across the mitral valve results in increased left atrial pressure with a r ...
... Most investigators attribute left atrial enlargement to change in the left atrial pressure consequent to valvular obstruction and consider atrial fibrillation to be secondary phenomenon 456. The Mechanical obstruction to flow across the mitral valve results in increased left atrial pressure with a r ...
Principles of Vectorial Analysis of EKG`s (cont`d)
... In figure B, the depolarization vector is large because half of the ventricle is depolarized. Lead II should be largest voltage when compared to I and III when the mean vector is 60o. In figure C, left side is slower to depolarize. In figure D, the last part to depolarize is near the left base of th ...
... In figure B, the depolarization vector is large because half of the ventricle is depolarized. Lead II should be largest voltage when compared to I and III when the mean vector is 60o. In figure C, left side is slower to depolarize. In figure D, the last part to depolarize is near the left base of th ...
Cardiac Rehabilitation - Northwestern Medicine
... Experiencing any kind of an alcohol-related hangover In any environmental factors that are out of the ordinary, such as wind, high heat and humidity, cold temperature, smog or pollution alerts Feeling excessive fatigue; exercise on top of excessive fatigue can stress an already run-down system ...
... Experiencing any kind of an alcohol-related hangover In any environmental factors that are out of the ordinary, such as wind, high heat and humidity, cold temperature, smog or pollution alerts Feeling excessive fatigue; exercise on top of excessive fatigue can stress an already run-down system ...
Center 6: Heart Rate Activity
... 2. Set up the Heart Rate Monitor. Follow the directions for your type of Heart Rate Monitor. Using a Hand-Grip Heart Rate Monitor a. Grasp the handles of the Hand-Grip Heart Rate Monitor. Place the fingertips of each hand on the reference areas of the handles (see Figure 1). b. The left hand grip an ...
... 2. Set up the Heart Rate Monitor. Follow the directions for your type of Heart Rate Monitor. Using a Hand-Grip Heart Rate Monitor a. Grasp the handles of the Hand-Grip Heart Rate Monitor. Place the fingertips of each hand on the reference areas of the handles (see Figure 1). b. The left hand grip an ...
Cardiac arrhythmias
... particularly the case when the arrhythmia is chronic. The examiner, and the informed patient, can usually detect the characteristic pattern in the pulse or the heart beat. In the neck veins, the A waves produced by contraction of the right atrium will be absent, and the intensity of the first heart s ...
... particularly the case when the arrhythmia is chronic. The examiner, and the informed patient, can usually detect the characteristic pattern in the pulse or the heart beat. In the neck veins, the A waves produced by contraction of the right atrium will be absent, and the intensity of the first heart s ...
ethical and medical considerations in heart transplantation in children
... a few hours or days, rarely weeks. In the last years more and more people are speaking about using the organs collected from these children in transplant. This is possible only with the consent of the parents to donate their anencephalic child’s organs in order to give another child with serious hea ...
... a few hours or days, rarely weeks. In the last years more and more people are speaking about using the organs collected from these children in transplant. This is possible only with the consent of the parents to donate their anencephalic child’s organs in order to give another child with serious hea ...
Allschwil, 8 September 2005
... A positive vasoreactivity was defined by a reduction in pulmonary artery mean pressure (PAPm) 10 mmHg to reach an absolute value of PAPm ≤ 40mmHg with an increased or unchanged cardiac output after challenge with NO (20 PPM) ...
... A positive vasoreactivity was defined by a reduction in pulmonary artery mean pressure (PAPm) 10 mmHg to reach an absolute value of PAPm ≤ 40mmHg with an increased or unchanged cardiac output after challenge with NO (20 PPM) ...
PDF - Circulation
... patients with thoracic or thoracoabdominal aneurysm followed by 3-D reconstruction of CT scans. These studies are summarized in Table 4. In contrast to these studies, we found an expansion rate of ⫺0.10 cm/year. We suspect that in patients without congenital heart disease or abnormal connective tiss ...
... patients with thoracic or thoracoabdominal aneurysm followed by 3-D reconstruction of CT scans. These studies are summarized in Table 4. In contrast to these studies, we found an expansion rate of ⫺0.10 cm/year. We suspect that in patients without congenital heart disease or abnormal connective tiss ...
Patient Education Guide: Severe Aortic Stenosis
... considered at high risk for surgery. These patients may be candidates for a therapy called transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), which allows Heart Teams to replace a diseased aortic heart valve without open-chest surgery. TAVR enables the placement of a balloonexpandable heart valve into t ...
... considered at high risk for surgery. These patients may be candidates for a therapy called transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), which allows Heart Teams to replace a diseased aortic heart valve without open-chest surgery. TAVR enables the placement of a balloonexpandable heart valve into t ...
med texts
... panic attacks. Mitral valve prolapse is generally the most benign of the various types of heart murmurs, and is probably genetic in origin. It is the most common valvular disorder in industrialized nations at the present, since the risk of heart murmurs from rheumatic fever has been reduced. Mitral ...
... panic attacks. Mitral valve prolapse is generally the most benign of the various types of heart murmurs, and is probably genetic in origin. It is the most common valvular disorder in industrialized nations at the present, since the risk of heart murmurs from rheumatic fever has been reduced. Mitral ...
CHAPTER 12 Cardiac Image Analysis: Motion and Deformation
... Metaxas [1], or Denney and Prince [17].) This has the advantage of being more robust to noise than the first approach, as it uses more of the tag line and can also provide partial information in regions where there are few intersections. This becomes especially useful in the case of the right ventri ...
... Metaxas [1], or Denney and Prince [17].) This has the advantage of being more robust to noise than the first approach, as it uses more of the tag line and can also provide partial information in regions where there are few intersections. This becomes especially useful in the case of the right ventri ...
ECG Waveform tip.pdf
... Q wave represents septal depolarization. First negative deflection after P wave. R wave is first positive deflection after P wave. S wave is first negative deflection after R wave. Measured from beginning of first waveform to end of last waveform in complex Duration: Less than .10 second (use .12 fo ...
... Q wave represents septal depolarization. First negative deflection after P wave. R wave is first positive deflection after P wave. S wave is first negative deflection after R wave. Measured from beginning of first waveform to end of last waveform in complex Duration: Less than .10 second (use .12 fo ...
Heart failure and neuroendocrine activation: diagnostic
... their possible role in pathophysiology and their relation to prognostic and diagnostic information. Plasma levels of noradrenaline (NA), renin, vasopressin, endothelin-1, atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and tumour necrosis factor-a (TNF-a) are all elevated in heart ...
... their possible role in pathophysiology and their relation to prognostic and diagnostic information. Plasma levels of noradrenaline (NA), renin, vasopressin, endothelin-1, atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and tumour necrosis factor-a (TNF-a) are all elevated in heart ...
this PDF file - Journal of Student Affairs in Africa
... complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and well documented in developed countries. There is a paucity of data from developing regions, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, on the prevalence of PMI despite an increasing incidence of CAD and concomitant increase in PCI. Dr Tsabedze, et ...
... complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and well documented in developed countries. There is a paucity of data from developing regions, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, on the prevalence of PMI despite an increasing incidence of CAD and concomitant increase in PCI. Dr Tsabedze, et ...
Model 5391 - KentuckyOne Health
... especially suited for stimulation of the heart in the following cases: • treatment of patients before an operation, whereby an implantable pacemaker is being inserted. • treatment of tachyarrhythmia. • treatment of special cases of acute myocardial infarction. • treatment of patients after heart sur ...
... especially suited for stimulation of the heart in the following cases: • treatment of patients before an operation, whereby an implantable pacemaker is being inserted. • treatment of tachyarrhythmia. • treatment of special cases of acute myocardial infarction. • treatment of patients after heart sur ...
MED-TEXT 1 Question #41 http://www
... panic attacks. Mitral valve prolapse is generally the most benign of the various types of heart murmurs, and is probably genetic in origin. It is the most common valvular disorder in industrialized nations at the present, since the risk of heart murmurs from rheumatic fever has been reduced. Mitral ...
... panic attacks. Mitral valve prolapse is generally the most benign of the various types of heart murmurs, and is probably genetic in origin. It is the most common valvular disorder in industrialized nations at the present, since the risk of heart murmurs from rheumatic fever has been reduced. Mitral ...
ANATOMICAL CORRELATION OF CARDIAC ELECTRICAL
... physiologic avenue for electrical conduction between the ventricles. By its proximity within the central fibrous body (the right fibrous trigon) the AV bundle is closely related to the annuli of the aortic, mitral and tricuspid valves. The AV bundle has a dual blood supply from the AV nodal artery o ...
... physiologic avenue for electrical conduction between the ventricles. By its proximity within the central fibrous body (the right fibrous trigon) the AV bundle is closely related to the annuli of the aortic, mitral and tricuspid valves. The AV bundle has a dual blood supply from the AV nodal artery o ...
Biology 20 - Patricia Schwandt Courses
... Investigate the relationship between cardiac output and heart rate Cardiac output is the volume of blood pumped by each ventricle per minute. Because humans have a closed circulatory system, the cardiac output is the same as the volume of blood that traverses the systemic or pulmonary circulations p ...
... Investigate the relationship between cardiac output and heart rate Cardiac output is the volume of blood pumped by each ventricle per minute. Because humans have a closed circulatory system, the cardiac output is the same as the volume of blood that traverses the systemic or pulmonary circulations p ...
Fig. 1
... reported case of reflex-mediated sinus node arrest and AV block induced by RF ablation of an AV nodal slow pathway. A reflex mechanism in our case is suggested by the fact that asystole duration was longer than that of direct stimulation of efferent vagal fibres, which would only last for 1 to 2 s af ...
... reported case of reflex-mediated sinus node arrest and AV block induced by RF ablation of an AV nodal slow pathway. A reflex mechanism in our case is suggested by the fact that asystole duration was longer than that of direct stimulation of efferent vagal fibres, which would only last for 1 to 2 s af ...
AEMED A 20-Year-Old Patient with Idiopathic Non
... an electrophysiology study; rather, we discharged the patient with the recommendation to see an electrophysiologist on an elective manner. In conclusion, idiopathic ventricular tachycardia should be considered in the differential diagnosis in cases presenting to emergency department with palpitation ...
... an electrophysiology study; rather, we discharged the patient with the recommendation to see an electrophysiologist on an elective manner. In conclusion, idiopathic ventricular tachycardia should be considered in the differential diagnosis in cases presenting to emergency department with palpitation ...
Your Mental and Emotional Health
... but one in four produces no symptoms and is detected only when routine tests are done later. ...
... but one in four produces no symptoms and is detected only when routine tests are done later. ...
wimj October.qxd - West Indian Medical Journal
... index of suspicion is still required for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis, the incidence of which has not decreased over the past few decades. Use of clinical judgement and modern technology since the advent of transthoracic endocardiogram (TTE), which the Duke Criteria relied on, is importan ...
... index of suspicion is still required for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis, the incidence of which has not decreased over the past few decades. Use of clinical judgement and modern technology since the advent of transthoracic endocardiogram (TTE), which the Duke Criteria relied on, is importan ...