Congestive Heart Failure
May 19, 2020
Introduction Beta blockers (BBs) are an important class of drugs, with numerous indications in cardiology, emergency and general medicine. The indications include heart failure (HF), acute myocardial ...
Apr 28, 2020
A seven-year-old, spayed female, domestic longhair cat was referred for management of a sudden aortic thromboembolism (ATE). Echocardiography showed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with severe left atrial...
Mar 30, 2020
Background Coronary artery disease is the primary etiology for sudden cardiac arrest in adults, but potential differences in the incidence and utility of invasive coronary testing between resuscitated...
Mar 30, 2020
View or Download AHA Statement (PDF) The American Heart Association (AHA) has issued interim guidance for CPR and emergency cardiovascular care for patients with known or suspected coronavirus (C...
Mar 20, 2020
The epithet of acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) is volume overload. ADHF is associated with a rising number of hospital admission for volume overload. Medication non-compliance, excessive salt...
Feb 28, 2020
To assess the prevalence of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis and its relationship with vascular risk factors among patients with congestive heart failure.Population-based cross-sectional study...
Feb 13, 2020
The cardio-protective effects of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiovascular progenitor cells (CPC) are largely mediated by the paracrine release of extracellular vesicles (EV). We aime...
Feb 13, 2020
The purpose of the current study was to determine whether aortic blood pressure (BP) and arterial stiffness are greater in patients with controlled resistant hypertension (RHTN) than controlled non-re...
Feb 13, 2020
Background Plasma renin levels were determined in the academia-driven, EU-funded "Labeling of Enalapril from Neonates up to Adolescents" (LENA) project to evaluate its role in pediatric heart failure....
Feb 13, 2020
The regeneration capacity of cardiomyocytes (CMs) is retained in neonatal mouse hearts but is limited in adult mouse hearts. Myocardial infarction (MI) in adult hearts usually leads to the loss of lar...
Feb 13, 2020
Chinese herbal preparations (CHPs) have been reported to be effective in the management of chronic heart failure (CHF); they are beneficial in improving cardiac function, reducing hospital stays and r...
Feb 12, 2020
In regard to the assessment of performance in cardiopulmonary exercise tests, oxygen uptake (VO2) at anaerobic threshold (AT) and respiratory compensation point (RCP) has been suggested to have a prog...
Feb 10, 2020
Patients with the dual burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and chronic congestive heart failure (HF) experience unacceptably high rates of symptom load, hospitalization, and mortality. Currently, c...
Feb 04, 2020
Fractional excretion of urea (FEUrea) is often used to understand the etiology of acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients receiving diuretics. While FEUrea demonstrates diagnostic superiority over fract...
Feb 04, 2020
CONTEXT;: The left ventricular filling pressure (LVFP) is correlated to right atrial pressure (RAP) in heart failure. We compared diagnostic value of the inferior vena cava (IVC) measurements to the...
Feb 04, 2020
Pathological cardiac hypertrophy is a classical hallmark of heart failure. At the molecular level, inhibition of histone deacetylase (HDAC) enzymes attenuate pathological cardiac hypertrophy in vitro ...
Feb 04, 2020
In patients with heart failure, fluid alteration and low muscle strength frequently coexist because of their reduced physical activity and sedentary behavior; however, few studies have evaluated the e...
Feb 04, 2020
The safety and efficacy of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition (ACEI) after heart transplantation (HT) is unknown. This study examined long-term clinical outcomes after ACEI in HT recipients.The ...
Jan 30, 2020
Accelerated atherosclerosis remains the major cause of late death (after 5 years) in SLE. Yet, the 'traditional' cardiovascular risk equations (such as Framingham) consistently underestimate the risk....
Jan 30, 2020
Cardiac cachexia is common in people and dogs with congestive heart failure (CHF). However, the prevalence and effects of cardiac cachexia in cats are unknown.To determine the prevalence of cachexia a...