Microfluidic perfusion system for maintaining viable
... (BioTek Instruments Inc.). All results were corrected for background absorbance and expressed as the average of duplicate samples. 4 Electrochemical monitoring of the total ROS. Electrochemical measurements were performed with the three-electrode system integrated onto the perfusion chip by a Palmse ...
... (BioTek Instruments Inc.). All results were corrected for background absorbance and expressed as the average of duplicate samples. 4 Electrochemical monitoring of the total ROS. Electrochemical measurements were performed with the three-electrode system integrated onto the perfusion chip by a Palmse ...
15 jmscr
... distributed into three groups, aerobic zone group (n=13),anaerobic zone group(n=13) and control group(n=13). The subjects reported to the laboratory between 8-9a.m. after an overnight fast. They were instructed to avoid caffeine and alcohol consumption for 24h and not to perform any physical activit ...
... distributed into three groups, aerobic zone group (n=13),anaerobic zone group(n=13) and control group(n=13). The subjects reported to the laboratory between 8-9a.m. after an overnight fast. They were instructed to avoid caffeine and alcohol consumption for 24h and not to perform any physical activit ...
Percutaneous mitral valve repair: an overview of new interventional
... Evalve MitraClip® system The MitraClip system utilizes a clip with a coaxial catheter system. The tip of the outer guide catheter is delivered to the left atrium utilizing a standard trans-septal approach. The guide catheter is 24-French proximally, and tapers to 22-French at the point where it cros ...
... Evalve MitraClip® system The MitraClip system utilizes a clip with a coaxial catheter system. The tip of the outer guide catheter is delivered to the left atrium utilizing a standard trans-septal approach. The guide catheter is 24-French proximally, and tapers to 22-French at the point where it cros ...
INCIDENCE, PREDICTORS AND OUTCOMES OF MYOCARDIAL
... Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has emerged as a less invasive therapeutic alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for patients with severe aortic stenosis at very high-risk or prohibitive perioperative risk. Compared to conventional openheart surgery, TAVR procedures a ...
... Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has emerged as a less invasive therapeutic alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for patients with severe aortic stenosis at very high-risk or prohibitive perioperative risk. Compared to conventional openheart surgery, TAVR procedures a ...
Status post coronary stent placement
... relieve narrowing or obstruction of. Many advances have been made in the percutaneous treatment of coronary artery disease during the past 30 years. Although balloon angioplasty alone is still performed. The First Stents One such device was the stent -- a metal tube or "scaffold" that was. Backgroun ...
... relieve narrowing or obstruction of. Many advances have been made in the percutaneous treatment of coronary artery disease during the past 30 years. Although balloon angioplasty alone is still performed. The First Stents One such device was the stent -- a metal tube or "scaffold" that was. Backgroun ...
Understanding diastolic heart failure
... a group of subjects with treated hypertension, the most common risk factor for this form of heart failure, despite a normal resting echocardiogram, there were already substantial abnormalities of both systolic and diastolic function which were only apparent on exercise. Thus these studies have demon ...
... a group of subjects with treated hypertension, the most common risk factor for this form of heart failure, despite a normal resting echocardiogram, there were already substantial abnormalities of both systolic and diastolic function which were only apparent on exercise. Thus these studies have demon ...
Mitral Valve Clip for Treatment of Mitral Regurgitation: OHTAC
... mitral regurgitation, New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class, and quality of life (by 4 or 5 points on a scale of 100) from baseline values Very low quality of evidence indicates that percutaneous mitral valve clip repair may provide a survival advantage, at least during the first 1 to 2 ...
... mitral regurgitation, New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class, and quality of life (by 4 or 5 points on a scale of 100) from baseline values Very low quality of evidence indicates that percutaneous mitral valve clip repair may provide a survival advantage, at least during the first 1 to 2 ...
Applied Military Physiology by Wennblom and Terzic
... powerful of the four heart chambers. This chamber must contract to generate sufficient pressure to pump blood through the entire body. When a person is sitting or standing, the left ventricle must contract with enough force to overcome the effect of gravity, which tends to pool blood in the lower ex ...
... powerful of the four heart chambers. This chamber must contract to generate sufficient pressure to pump blood through the entire body. When a person is sitting or standing, the left ventricle must contract with enough force to overcome the effect of gravity, which tends to pool blood in the lower ex ...
Relation of insulin to left ventricular geometry and function in African
... Paul Hopkins, Dalane W. Kitzman, Dabeeru C. Rao, and Donna K. Arnett Background: It has been suggested that the trophic effects of insulin may contribute to left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy in hypertension, but few population-based data exist to assess the potential impact of insulin level on LV st ...
... Paul Hopkins, Dalane W. Kitzman, Dabeeru C. Rao, and Donna K. Arnett Background: It has been suggested that the trophic effects of insulin may contribute to left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy in hypertension, but few population-based data exist to assess the potential impact of insulin level on LV st ...
ENDOCARDIAL SCLEROSIS IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN* We
... under the term "fetal endocarditis." At that early date intrauterine inflammation was considered as the most likely cause of fetal endocarditis and by the end of the 19th century this explanation was widely accepted for most congenital cardiac anomalies. Studies were reported which included gross ch ...
... under the term "fetal endocarditis." At that early date intrauterine inflammation was considered as the most likely cause of fetal endocarditis and by the end of the 19th century this explanation was widely accepted for most congenital cardiac anomalies. Studies were reported which included gross ch ...
SUDDEN DEATH IN YOUNG ATHLETES
... restriction from competition may reduce the risk of sudden death [6]. Despite the high prevalence of ECG abnormalities, such as T-wave inversion in right precordial leads and ventricular arrhythmias with a left bundle branch block morphology at preparticipation evaluation, the majority of sudden dea ...
... restriction from competition may reduce the risk of sudden death [6]. Despite the high prevalence of ECG abnormalities, such as T-wave inversion in right precordial leads and ventricular arrhythmias with a left bundle branch block morphology at preparticipation evaluation, the majority of sudden dea ...
Correspondence Latent pre-excitation: exposure of
... accessory pathway. It is therefore quite understand- have the same effect. Atrioventricular transmission able for Robinson et al to seek to explain this during sinus rhythm would then not be caused by interesting phenomenon in terms of the location of actual conduction of the atrial impulse through ...
... accessory pathway. It is therefore quite understand- have the same effect. Atrioventricular transmission able for Robinson et al to seek to explain this during sinus rhythm would then not be caused by interesting phenomenon in terms of the location of actual conduction of the atrial impulse through ...
Crayfish Heart
... in the absence of any neural input. The cells throughout the heart beat in a coordinated fashion because they are electrically coupled and beat at the same rate as the pacemaker cells in the sino-atrial and atrial-ventricular nodes. In most vertebrates, the blood is pumped into a closed circulatory ...
... in the absence of any neural input. The cells throughout the heart beat in a coordinated fashion because they are electrically coupled and beat at the same rate as the pacemaker cells in the sino-atrial and atrial-ventricular nodes. In most vertebrates, the blood is pumped into a closed circulatory ...
СARRENT ISSUES OF THE AORTIC FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY
... of glomus cells accumulations in the adventitia of small aortic branches within 1 mm of their origin. The interest of pathologists in reflexogenic areas of the heart and aorta in the 50–60s of the XX century is clear as it was the period of experimental and later clinical heart transplant. N. M. Byk ...
... of glomus cells accumulations in the adventitia of small aortic branches within 1 mm of their origin. The interest of pathologists in reflexogenic areas of the heart and aorta in the 50–60s of the XX century is clear as it was the period of experimental and later clinical heart transplant. N. M. Byk ...
Ischemic Nucleotide Breakdown Increases During Cardiac
... with 154mM NaCl. The ventricles were homo- to Bradford [a, using bovine serum albumin genized essentially as described for the neo- as the standard. natal hearts. For the preparation of cardiomyocytes, the procedure of Farmer et al. [16] was Statistics partly followed. A modified Tyrode solution [17 ...
... with 154mM NaCl. The ventricles were homo- to Bradford [a, using bovine serum albumin genized essentially as described for the neo- as the standard. natal hearts. For the preparation of cardiomyocytes, the procedure of Farmer et al. [16] was Statistics partly followed. A modified Tyrode solution [17 ...
Amiodarone monitoring protocol - Derbyshire Medicines Management
... reduced in signs of overdosage and plasma levels may be measured. ...
... reduced in signs of overdosage and plasma levels may be measured. ...
Screening for Cardiovascular Disease and Risk Factors
... reduction therapy to the level of risk ...
... reduction therapy to the level of risk ...
ESC Guidelines on Diabetes, Pre-diabetes and Cardiovascular
... Data derived from a single randomized clinical trial or large non-randomized studies Consensus of opinion of the experts and/or small studies, retrospective studies, registries ...
... Data derived from a single randomized clinical trial or large non-randomized studies Consensus of opinion of the experts and/or small studies, retrospective studies, registries ...
Increased Plasma Levels of Brain Natriuretic Peptide in
... the ventricles, and its plasma levels have been shown to be markedly increased in patients with chronic congestive heart failure. This study was designed to examine the plasma levels of brain natriuretic peptide as well as atrial natriuretic peptide in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Meth ...
... the ventricles, and its plasma levels have been shown to be markedly increased in patients with chronic congestive heart failure. This study was designed to examine the plasma levels of brain natriuretic peptide as well as atrial natriuretic peptide in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Meth ...
EAE/ASE Recommendations for Image Acquisition and Display
... avoids geometric assumptions; (2) the assessment of regional left ventricular (LV) wall motion and quantification of systolic dyssynchrony; (3) presentation of realistic views of heart valves; (4) volumetric evaluation of regurgitant lesions and shunts with 3DE color Doppler imaging; and (5) 3DE str ...
... avoids geometric assumptions; (2) the assessment of regional left ventricular (LV) wall motion and quantification of systolic dyssynchrony; (3) presentation of realistic views of heart valves; (4) volumetric evaluation of regurgitant lesions and shunts with 3DE color Doppler imaging; and (5) 3DE str ...
EAE/ASE recommendations for image acquisition and display using
... avoids geometric assumptions; (2) the assessment of regional left ventricular (LV) wall motion and quantification of systolic dyssynchrony; (3) presentation of realistic views of heart valves; (4) volumetric evaluation of regurgitant lesions and shunts with 3DE color Doppler imaging; and (5) 3DE str ...
... avoids geometric assumptions; (2) the assessment of regional left ventricular (LV) wall motion and quantification of systolic dyssynchrony; (3) presentation of realistic views of heart valves; (4) volumetric evaluation of regurgitant lesions and shunts with 3DE color Doppler imaging; and (5) 3DE str ...
Computational Fluid Dynamics Applied to Cardiac Computed
... performance of FFRCTA was superior to CTA stenosis for diagnosing ischemic lesions, the latter of which demonstrated an accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, PPV, and NPV of 58.5%, 91.4%, 39.6%, 46.5%, and 88.9%, respectively. Case examples of non–ischemia-causing and ischemia-causing stenoses can be s ...
... performance of FFRCTA was superior to CTA stenosis for diagnosing ischemic lesions, the latter of which demonstrated an accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, PPV, and NPV of 58.5%, 91.4%, 39.6%, 46.5%, and 88.9%, respectively. Case examples of non–ischemia-causing and ischemia-causing stenoses can be s ...
Improved myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury in mice
... effects against I/R injury (9), and CD18 or ICAM-1 KO mice show reduced infarct size in I/R injury (10). Postischemic cardiac lymph can induce ICAM-1 (11) and IL-6 (2) expressions, which are inhibited by antiTNF-␣ antibody (2). Chemokines such as IL-8 and MCP-1, which are induced by TNF-␣, mediate t ...
... effects against I/R injury (9), and CD18 or ICAM-1 KO mice show reduced infarct size in I/R injury (10). Postischemic cardiac lymph can induce ICAM-1 (11) and IL-6 (2) expressions, which are inhibited by antiTNF-␣ antibody (2). Chemokines such as IL-8 and MCP-1, which are induced by TNF-␣, mediate t ...
Editorial Review Abnormalities of the coronary circulation
... the left ventricle and d is the left ventricular wall thickness. This value represents a mean value for the full thickness of the ventricular wall; stress is underestimated for the subendocardium and overestimated for the subepicardium [32]. Thus myocardial oxygen requirements can be reduced for a g ...
... the left ventricle and d is the left ventricular wall thickness. This value represents a mean value for the full thickness of the ventricular wall; stress is underestimated for the subendocardium and overestimated for the subepicardium [32]. Thus myocardial oxygen requirements can be reduced for a g ...