Abstract:
:We present a case of a 87-year-old patient presenting with signs suggestive of new-onset heart failure which lead to the diagnosis of a large right ventricular mass occupying the entire cavity and extending to the right ventricular outflow tract.
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Acta Cardioljournal_title
Acta cardiologicaauthors
Briasoulis A,Siddiqui F,Siddiqui S,Mohamad T,Afonso Ldoi
10.1080/ac.70.1.3064600subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2015-02-01 00:00:00pages
86-7issue
1eissn
0001-5385issn
1784-973Xjournal_volume
70pub_type
杂志文章abstract::This study was conducted to determine the zinc status and assess relationship between serum zinc and in vivo cell mediated immunity (CMI) in patients with rheumatic heart disease (RHD). The study comprised 22 patients with active rheumatic heart disease (ARHD), 15 patients with chronic rheumatic heart disease without ...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1992-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), combined with optimal medical therapy (OMT), is an established treatment for patients with advanced chronic heart failure (ACHF). In ACHF, carvedilol at the dose used in clinical trials, reduces morbidity and mortality. However, patients often do not tolerate the drug ...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1080/ac.66.5.2131081
更新日期:2011-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study is to determine plasma fibronectin level and its relationships with plasma lipids, lipoproteins and C-reactive protein (CRP) levels in patients with dyslipidaemia during lipid-lowering therapy. METHODS:Plasma levels of fibronectin, CRP, fibrinogen, lipids and lipoproteins in 38 pat...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2143/AC.57.6.2005466
更新日期:2002-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Creatine kinase (CK) and its isoenzyme CK-MB are important tools for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. The content of CK-MB relative to total CK in myocardial cells is variable; it is low in normal myocardium and increased several-fold in hypoxic myocardium. We tested the hypothesis that CK-MB mass (CK-MBm...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1997-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to examine the practice of cardiac bradycardia pacing in an electrophysiology laboratory and to evaluate the safety and efficacy of pacemaker implantation by cardiologists in this setting. METHODS AND RESULTS:We evaluated a consecutive series of the first 500 permanent pacemaker...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1999-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:We investigated the survival of patients who had undergone elective reconstruction of the ascending aorta for degenerative aneurysms. The long-term survival was compared to an age- and sex-matched case-control population. An analysis of risk factors, influencing survival was made. METHODS AND RESULTS:From Ma...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/ac.68.4.2988887
更新日期:2013-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The effects of cigarette smoking on the circadian rhythm of heart rate variability (HRV) are not known. METHODS:We studied the effects of cigarette smoking on the circadian rhythm of HRV in 24 smoking and 21 non-smoking healthy subjects. Twenty-four hour ambulatory electrocardiograms were recorded and time ...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2143/AC.55.5.2005757
更新日期:2000-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The present study is a revision of the patterns of the jugular and hepatic tracings, two non-invasive tracings of the venous system. The study was performed in 40 subjects; 30 of them were normal while 10 had minor conditions affecting the left heart. The time of onset and peak of the various waves was statistically e...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1983-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::An early exercise stress test was carried out in 116 patients 8 to 14 days after a myocardial infarction. This test is in good agreement with the late maximal stress test performed 8 weeks after the infarction, both tests being positive together in 86.4% and negative in 84.6% of the cases. Residual coronary insufficie...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1983-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The Cardiology Foundation supported by the perspicacious Princess Lilian was created in 1958. As an introduction to this symposium, the challenges that the cardiologist and surgeon encountered in 1958, are recalled as well as the essential problems requiring solutions in that era of evolving cardiac surgery. ...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2004-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::In order to study the arterial blood supply of the sinus atrial node in the Dog, the authors have performed the post-mortem injection of the arterial branches going to this node. They observed 65 cases and they came to the following conclusions: in 31 cases (47.7%) the sinus atrial node is supplied by the artery of th...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1975-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::This is a report on a prospective case-control study, in which a group of patients with an electrocardiographic diagnosis of QTc-prolongation (cases) was compared with a group of patients with a normal QTc (controls) for the presence of potential causative factors. Twelve cases and twelve carefully-matched controls we...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1993-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:This study sought to compare characteristics and management of myocardial infarction in men and women, and whether a difference in management would translate into a difference in in-hospital mortality. METHODS AND RESULTS:Data were prospectively collected in 2,519 patients (801 women) admitted in all hospita...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.2143/AC.56.3.2005637
更新日期:2001-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Enalapril is a new angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor which, when absorbed by the digestive tract, is converted to enalaprilat. This metabolite is, in fact, the active form of enalapril. Its duration of action is sufficiently long so that enalapril can be administered in a single daily dose. Enalapril has been pr...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1986-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Background: Cardiovascular rehabilitation and retraining seek to increase cardiorespiratory fitness and to manage certain risk factors such as smoking, hypercholesterolaemia and sedentary lifestyle. Such lifestyle changes can be influenced by a combination of health determinants. Aim: The purpose of this study is to a...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/00015385.2019.1639269
更新日期:2019-07-17 00:00:00
abstract::We describe the case of a 44-year-old man, with a history of recurrent syncopal episodes and effort angina, the latter attributed to cardiac syndrome-X, who was admitted to our department because of a syncopal episode. During his hospitalization laboratory investigations including haematologic and blood chemical findi...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1999-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report the M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiographic findings in a patient with familial amyloidosis. The diagnosis was made by the clinical picture and histologic evidence of amyloid in peripheral nerve biopsy. Though the patient had no clinical sign of heart failure, extensive involvement of the heart was demo...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1981-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Between March 1982 and March 1991, 225 heart transplantations (HTx) have been performed in 220 patients suffering end stage cardiac disease. Thirteen percent were females and 87% were males. Age range was from 5 to 68 years. The underlying cardiac disease was ischemic cardiopathy in 51.5%, congestive dilated cardiomyo...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1991-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::A 67-year-old Caucasian woman presented with chest pain suggestive of acute pericarditis. On initial evaluation the apical ballooning variant of stress-related cardiomyopathy (CMP) was present. The stress CMP and acute pericarditis resolved within a week. The patient returned in four weeks with early cardiac tamponade...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2143/AC.65.3.2050358
更新日期:2010-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/00015385.2017.1420438
更新日期:2017-12-22 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/00015385.2020.1869671
更新日期:2021-01-12 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/00015385.2017.1335454
更新日期:2017-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1978-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Atrial bigeminy is a supraventricular arrhythmia rarely associated with severe symptoms. We report the case of a 22-year-old woman with no prior cardiac disease presenting with exercise intolerance since several months. No apparent heart disease other than a spontaneous conducted atrial bigeminy with a short coupling ...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/ac.66.4.2126602
更新日期:2011-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The relation between cardiovascular diseases and serum immunoglobulin E (Ig E) levels has been investigated by different authors. Serum Ig E may play a direct role in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases, or it may only be a marker formed during pathological mechanisms. In this study, we determined serum Ig E l...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1997-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Understanding intercultural, regional and interracial differences in blood pressure and anthropometric indices may help to determine the contributors of mortality from coronary artery disease in different populations. DESIGN AND SETTING:In this article we used data collected from two different countries: (a)...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2143/AC.64.6.2044738
更新日期:2009-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:The European Society of Cardiology designated 2008 as the year of imaging. However, despite the intense focus on the many types of imaging and the relative benefits of each one, the optimal modalityfor the diagnosis of coronary artery disease remains controversial. Among the currently available techniques, co...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/ac.66.2.2071253
更新日期:2011-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::A clinical, electrocardiographic and coronarographic study of ten cases shows that surelevation of ST-segment during exercise (without any signs of infarction) correspond to very different clinical situations of anatomical state of coronary vessels, occurrence of coronary spasm and evolution of the ischemic disease. "...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1977-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Left ventricular-right atrial communication is a relatively rare surgically corrigible congenital heart defect. We report a case with review of the literature. ...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1987-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Red cell distribution width (RDW) is a measure of variation in the volume of circulating erythrocytes and has recently emerged as a powerful prognostic marker in heart failure. We studied the effect of 5-month, home-based cardiac rehabilitation on RDW. METHODS AND RESULTS:Sixty-two patients (age: median 67 y...
journal_title:Acta cardiologica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/ac.68.6.8000009
更新日期:2013-12-01 00:00:00