Comparison of diagnostic criteria for acute kidney injury in cardiac surgery.

abstract：Background::Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Brazil, and primary prevention care may be guided by risk stratification tools. The Framingham (FRS) and QRISK-2 (QRS) risk scores estimate 10-year overall cardiovascular risk in asymptomatic individuals, but the instrument of c...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Garcia GT,Stamm AMNF,Rosa AC,Marasciulo AC,Marasciulo RC,Battistella C,Remor AAC

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To study anatomical limitation of coronary angioplasty, as alternative therapy in patients with multivessel disease and submitted to bypass surgery. METHODS:In 380 patients with multivessel disease and submitted to previous coronary bypass surgery, age ranged from 41 to 72 (average = 51) years, being 68% males...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Pimentel Filho WA,Ascer E,Buchler JR,de Assis SF,Hirschfeld R,Soares Neto MM,Neves MF,Pinheiro LF,Araújo EC,Armelin E

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasma levels of brain natriuretic peptides have better diagnostic accuracy compared to clinical-radiologic judgment for acute heart failure. In acute coronary syndromes (ACS), the prognostic value of acute heart failure is incorporated into predictive models through Killip classification. It is not establis...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Souza TMB,Cerqueira AMS Jr,Suerdieck JG,Sá NC,Sodré GS,Correia VCA,Lacerda YF,Fonseca LL,Noya-Rabelo MM,Correia LCL

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Behavioral scientists consistently point out that knowledge does not influence decisions as expected. GRACE Score is a well validated risk model for predicting death of patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). However, whether prognostic assessment by this Score modulates medical decision is not known. ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Carvalhal MC,Souza TMB,Suerdieck J,Lopes F,Correia VCA,Lacerda YF,Sá N,Sodré GS,Rabelo MMN,Correia LCL

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To verify the hypothesis that the pulmonary vein pulsatility index is higher in fetuses of diabetic mothers than it is in normal fetuses of nondiabetic mothers. METHODS:Twenty-four fetuses of mothers with either gestational or previous diabetes (cases), and 25 normal fetuses of mothers without systemic disea...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Zielinsky P,Piccoli AL Jr,Teixeira L,Gus EI,Mânica JL,Satler F,Vaz H,Nicoloso LH,Luchese S,Sheid M,Marcantonio S,Hatém D

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Changes in the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene may contribute to the increase in blood pressure and consequently to the onset of heart failure (HF). The role of polymorphism is very controversial, and its identification in patients with HF secondary to Chagas disease in the Brazilian population is r...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Silva SJD,Rassi S,Pereira ADC

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lifestyle intervention programs can reduce the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and, therefore, reduce the risk for cardiac disease, one of the main public health problems nowadays. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to compare the effects of three types of approach for lifestyle change programs in ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Saboya PP,Bodanese LC,Zimmermann PR,Gustavo AD,Macagnan FE,Feoli AP,Oliveira MD

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Benzathine penicillin G every 3 weeks is the standard protocol for secondary prophylaxis for recurrent rheumatic fever. OBJECTIVE:Assess the effect of Benzathine penicillin G on Streptococcus sanguinis and Streptococcus oralis in patients with cardiac valvular disease due to rheumatic fever receiving second...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Aguiar AA,Sampaio RO,Sampaio JL,Spina GS,Neves RS,Moreira LF,Grinberg M

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myocardial performance index (MPI), demonstrates both systolic and diastolic functions of the left ventricle. Presystolic wave (PSW) is frequently detected on Doppler examination of the left ventricular outflow tract and possible mechanism of PSW is impaired LV compliance and left ventricular stiffness. OBJ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Kul S,Dursun İ,Ayhan S,Sayin MR,Üçüncü Ö,Bülbül NE,Ateş AH,Akyüz AR

更新日期：2019-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early exposure to obesity favors greater risks of cardiovascular factors such as dyslipidemia. OBJECTIVES:To establish the prevalence of dyslipidemia, and to evaluate its association with nutritional status of the adolescents attended at the ambulatory of the Adolescent Health Studies Center of the Universi...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Vizentin NP,Cardoso PMS,Maia CAG,Alves IP,Aranha GL,Giannini DT

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Percutaneous intervention in patients with bioprosthetic mitral valve dysfunction is an alternative to conventional surgical treatment. OBJECTIVES:To report the first Brazilian experience with transseptal transcatheter bioprosthetic mitral valve-in-valve implantation (transseptal-TMVIV). METHODS:Patients w...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Nicz PFG,Melo PHMC,Brito PHF,Lima EN,Silva RCE,Prudente ML,Fernandes FH,Deininger MO,Lopes MACQ,Petrucci FS,Reis Filho FR,Marino MA,Bernardes RC,Melo EP,Oliveira MAP,Mangione JA,Mangione FM,Falcão CHE,Martins ECC,Lu

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In chronic Chagas disease (ChD), impairment of cardiac autonomic function bears prognostic implications. Phase‑rectification of RR-interval series isolates the sympathetic, acceleration phase (AC) and parasympathetic, deceleration phase (DC) influences on cardiac autonomic modulation. OBJECTIVE:This study i...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Nasario-Junior O,Benchimol-Barbosa PR,Pedrosa RC,Nadal J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patients who underwent heart transplantation (HTX) experience a reduction in the elevation that is usual in systolic blood pressure during exercise testing. Of unknown origin, this phenomenon varies in frequency and intensity. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between systolic blood pressu...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Salles AF,Machado CV,Cordovil A,Leite WA,Moisés VA,de Almeida DR,Carvalho AC,Oliveira Filho JA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atrial fibrillation is the most common persistent arrhythmia, and is the main factor that leads to thromboembolism. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the value of left atrial diameter combined with CHA2DS2-VASc score in predicting left atrial/left atrial appendage thrombosis in non-valvular atrial fibrillation. MET...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Zhang Y,Yuan YQ

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Changes in the behavior of the circadian rhythm can be deleterious, leading to target-organ damage, which suggests that they can have a prognostic significance and, eventually, can also demand therapeutic intervention. OBJECTIVE:To describe and compare the circadian rhythms of blood pressure (BP) in normote...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Hekman PR,Barbisan JN,Menezes HS,Antonello V

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this paper is to review clinical and laboratory features of this unusual pathology and its complications, indicating transcatheter embolization as a first choice for its management. Our case report is of a seven year-old child, with complex pulmonary arteriovenous fistula of the anterior segment of right su...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： de Melo JC,de Araújo AP,Monteiro Eda S,Rongel EB,Felipe H,Ferreira MC,Tavares W,Medeiros R

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The search for quality requires assessment tools in the various subdivisions of a health complex. In diagnostic medicine, they are scarce and in ergometry suggestions of indicators were not found. OBJECTIVE:To establish indicator for quality control on ergometry based on III Guidelines of the Brazilian Card...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Meneghelo RS,Morhy SS,Zucchi P

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the efficiency of a non-surgical treatment of the femoral false aneurysm following cardiac catheterization using the color Doppler echocardiography monitorization. METHODS:From August 1993 to October 1996, 17 patients were evaluated by the color Doppler echocardiography, 7 women and 10 men, between...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Engelhorn CA,Picheth FS,Castro Júnior N,Dabul Júnior NM,Engelhorn AL,Casagrande C

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the use of resistive exercise in the study of endothelial dysfunction in heart failure (HF) comparatively to reactive hyperemia (RH). METHODS:Eighteen patients with heart failure and 15 normal volunteers were submitted to intermittent handgrip exercise in a pneumatic bag, at an intensity that cor...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： de Carvalho RT,Vieira ML,Romano A,Kopel L,Lage SG

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies have been attempting to ascertain the risks of Sleep Apnea Syndrome (SAS) and its morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE:The main objective was to verify whether SAS increases the risk of death; the secondary objective was to evaluate its morbidity in relation to cardiovascular disease and the n...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Fonseca MI,Pereira T,Caseiro P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although team-based care is recommended for patients with hypertension, results of this intervention in a real-world setting are missing in the literature. OBJECTIVE:To report the results of a real-world long-term team-based care for hypertensive patients we conducted this study. METHODS:Data of hypertensi...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Jardim TV,Souza ALL,Barroso WKS,Jardim PCBV

更新日期：2020-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common cancer type in the male sex after skin cancer. Among the several types of treatment for prostate cancer, the androgen deprivation therapy has been highly recommended in patients with metastatic or locally advanced disease, which probably results in increased survival. However...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Ribeiro AF,Camara C,Segre CA,Srougi M,Serrano CV Jr

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study electrophysiological characteristics that enable the identification and ablation of sites of chagasic tachycardia. METHODS:Thirty-one patients with chronic Chagas' heart disease and sustained ventricular tachycardia (SVT) underwent electrophysiological study to map and ablate that arrhythmia. Fiftee...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Távora MZ,Mehta N,Silva RM,Gondim FA,Hara VM,de Paola AA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate cardiac arrhythmias during and after pregnancy in women with Chagas' disease without apparent heart disease using dynamic electrocardiography. METHODS:Twenty pregnant women with Chagas' disease without apparent heart disease aged 19 to 42 years (26.96 +/- 3.6) and a control group of 20 non-chagas...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Acha RE,Rezende MT,Guzman Heredia RA,Silva AC,Rezende ES,Souza CA

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Lupus anticoagulant and anticardiolipin antibodies (aCL) have been associated with thrombosis, recurrent abortion, and thrombocytopenia in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), but their relationship with cardiac disease is less clear. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association betw...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Falcao CA,Alves IC,Chahade WH,Duarte AL,Lucena-Silva N

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The exercise treadmill test can be used in ventricular dysfunction patients for functional capacity or predicting prognosis. The cardiac image with 123I MIBG shows cardiac sympathetic activation. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the relationship between exercise treadmill test variables and cardiac image changes in 12...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Rocha Messias L,de Queiroz Carreira MÂ,Ribeiro de Miranda SM,Cunha de Azevedo J,Ambrósio Gava I,Campos Rodrigues R,Maróstica E,Lucas da Nóbrega AC,Tinoco Mesquita C

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To study if dopamine in dopaminergic doses (1.5 and 4.0 micrograms/kg/min) had some effect on the pulmonary vasoconstriction mechanism, and if in those doses the drug had some action on systemic and pulmonary hemodynamic variables, as well as in the pulmonary gas exchange. METHODS:Seventeen normal mongrel dogs...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： de Araújo FG,Romaldini H,Bogossian M,Afonso JE,Uehara C

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the effectiveness of acute ischemic preconditioning (IP), based on somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) monitoring, as a method of spinal cord protection and to asses SSEP importance in spinal cord neuromonitoring. METHODS:Twenty-eight dogs were submitted to spinal cord ischemic injury attaine...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Mônaco BA,Benício A,Contreras IS,Mingrone LE,Ballester G,Moreira LF

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth hormone (GH), the main regulator for post-natal growth, has important metabolic actions on different tissues, similar or opposite to insulin like growth factor I (IGF-I), mainly produced by the liver after the binding of GH to its receptor. Experiments with animal models indicate an important role of GH on insu...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Oliveira CR,Meneguz-Moreno RA,Aguiar-Oliveira MH,Barreto-Filho JA

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the cardiovascular outcome in patients with the undetermined form of Chagas' disease and whether or not it is related to the infectious disease in the long-term. METHODS:One hundred and sixty patients were prospectively followed-up at three month intervals for up to 177 mo...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Ianni BM,Mady C,Arteaga E,Fernandes F

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00