Association between immunological diseases and their similar clinical manifestations.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The analysis of immediate and long-term results of mitral valvoplasty by balloon catheter (MVRBC) are still lacking in literature, mainly in the national context. OBJECTIVE:To assess the immediate and late results of patients submitted to mitral valve repair by balloon catheter. METHOD:A total of 330 conse...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Cardoso LF,Ayres CV,Bento AM,Tarasoutchi F,Vieira ML,Grinberg M

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the factors associated with the risk of in-hospital death in acute myocardial infarction in the Brazilian public health system in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. METHODS:Sectional study of a sample with 391 randomly drawn medical records of the hospitalizations due to acute myocardial infarction recorded in...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Escosteguy CC,Portela MC,Medronho Rde A,de Vasconcellos MT

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the in-hospital results and clinical follow-up of young patients (< 50 years) with multivessel coronary artery disease undergoing stent implantation in native coronary arteries and to compare their results with those of patients with single-vessel coronary artery disease. METHODS:We retrospectively...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Anello AL,Moscoso I,Tófano RJ,Salman AA,Cristóvão SA,Mauro MF,Batista de O Neto J,Mangione JA

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inappropriate lifestyles have been responsible for the leading causes of mortality. The purpose of the Fantastic Lifestyle Questionnaire is to help physicians involved in health prevention to identify and assess their patients' lifestyles. OBJECTIVE:To translate and validate the Fantastic Lifestyle Question...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Rodriguez Añez CR,Reis RS,Petroski EL

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence of risk factors for cardiovascular diseases in employees of the research center at Petrobras. METHODS:In a cross-sectional study, employees of the research center at Petrobras were assessed clinically and by laboratory testing from March 2000 and February 2001. Those who did not a...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Matos Mde F,Souza e Silva NA,Pimenta AJ,da Cunha AJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Woman, 67 years old, with unstable angina and history of myocardial revascularization: left internal thoracic artery to anterior descending artery and graft with radial artery (RA) to right coronary artery branches. Coronariography showed stenosis of 90% in the RA graft, treated with conventional stent. After two mont...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Meireles GC,Kreimer S,Galon MZ,Marchiori GG

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 22q11.2 deletion syndrome is the most frequent human microdeletion syndrome. The phenotype is highly variable, being characterized by conotruncal heart defect, facial dysmorphisms, velopharyngeal insufficiency, learning difficulties and mental retardation. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to in...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Belangero SI,Bellucco FT,Kulikowski LD,Christofolini DM,Cernach MC,Melaragno MI

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of nutritional attention on the lipid profile and nutritional status of hypercholesterolemic patients attended in health centers of Belo Horizonte. METHODS:Using nutritional attendance patient record cards from two health units, the evolution of the lipid profile and the nutritional stat...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Batista Mda C,Franceschini Sdo C

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chemotherapy with doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide, although efficient for treating breast cancer, is associated with cardiovascular complications. Recent studies seek to identify methods that can early detect cardiological and vascular changes as a strategy to decrease the incidence of cardiovascular comorb...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Souza CA,Simões R,Borges KBG,Oliveira AN,Zogeib JB,Alves B,Malachias MVB,Drummond-Lage AP,Rezende BA

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two male black patients, 18 and 12-year-old, with mental retardation and typical elfin face, presented with severe supravalvular aortic stenosis, thus characterizing Williams's or aortic supravalvular stenosis syndrome. Both were submitted to surgical treatment of the stenosis, and are asymptomatic after a one and fou...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Benchimol CB,Araújo JO,Féres JG,Carvalho LA,Przytyk RN,Netto MS,Moll J,Gomes EF,Araújo Filho R,Saad E

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a girl with chronic rheumatic valvar heart disease who developed infective endocarditis and two complications, ischemic stroke due to cerebral embolic event and mycotic aneurysm of the superior mesenteric artery. ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Liphaus BL,Goldenstein-Schainberg C,Kitamura LM,Silva CA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a case of a 65-year-old male patient who, after complaint about retrosternal discomfort and going through a thoracic radiography with mediastinal enlargement, was submitted to magnetic resonance angiography, which detected a right aortic arch with aberrant left subclavian artery and Kommerell divert...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Barranhas AD,Indiani JM,Marchiori E,Santos AA,Rochitte CE,Nacif MS

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the report of a 46-year-old patient with the preoperative diagnosis of an atrial septal defect (ASD) of the ostium secudum type. After sternectomy, partial agenesis of the left pericardium was diagnosed. It is our opinion that, if the radiographic picture is suggestive of this entity, a clinical search for car...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Lobo Filho JG,Oliveira RR,de Siqueira RP,Landim RM,de Albuquerque JM,Gomes CB,Borges E,Leitão MC,Paes Júnior JN

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To quantify the percentage of contractility of different myocardial segments in patients with Chagas' disease by measuring myocardial strain and to assess the differences in the radial and longitudinal ventricular contractile function in the undetermined and dilated forms of chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy as...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Silva CE,Ferreira LD,Peixoto LB,Monaco CG,Gil MA,Ortiz J,Ianni BM,Andrade JL,Mathias Júnior W,Barretto AC

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) risk factors (RF) and myocardial ischemia in a sample of asymptomatic diabetic patients treated on an outpatient basis. METHODS:From 80 type 2 diabetic patients initially recruited at an university outpatient endocrinology clinic, with no symptoms ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Monteiro Fd Jr,Cunha Fda S,Salgado Filho N,Barbosa JB,Furtado JR,Ferreira PA,Nina V,Lages J,Santana N

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Risk scores for cardiac surgery cannot continue to be neglected. OBJECTIVE:To assess the performance of "Age, Creatinine and Ejection Fraction Score" (ACEF Score) to predict mortality in patients submitted to elective coronary artery bypass graft and/or heart valve surgery, and to compare it to other scores...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Mejía OA,Matrangolo BL,Titinger DP,Faria LB,Dallan LR,Galas FR,Lisboa LA,Dallan LA,Jatene FB

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of cardiac implantable electronic devices after death has become a source of controversy. There are no uniform recommendations for such management in Brazil; practices rely exclusively on institutional protocols and regional custom. When the cadaver is sent for cremation, it is recommended to remove the...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Oliveira JC,Fagundes AA,Alkmim-Teixeira R,Baggio Junior JM,Armaganijan L,d'Avila A,Saad EB,Andrade VS,Moraes LGB,Kuniyoshi R,Rezende AGDS,Pimentel M,Rodrigues TDR,Brito Junior HL,Nadalin E,Pisani CF,Arfelli E,Cintra FD

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the benefit resulting from the use of abciximab associated with primary angioplasty. The following parameters were analyzed in-hospital, at 30 days, and 6 months: (a) flow in the culprit artery; (b) ventricular function; (c) combined outcome of death, acute myocardial infarction, and additional reva...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Brito ML,Souza Filho NF,Moura V AV,Lavalle LA,Darwich RZ,Leal M,Munhoz EC

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a 20 year old young man having the permanent form of junctional reciprocating tachycardia complicated by ventricular fibrillation (VF) is reported. A number of antiarrhythmic drugs either as single or combined therapy fail to control tachycardia. Paroxisms of a faster palpitation which never lasted longer th...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Sternick EB,Gerken LM,Azevedo Sobrinho AL,Barbosa MR,Gontijo B,Vrandecic M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) experience elevated cardiac stress because of the repetitive and intermittent character of dialysis. Changes in ventricular electrical systole induced by necessary dialysis significantly contribute to predict sudden death due to arrhythmia in ESKD. OBJECTIVE:The...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Valentim B,Pereira A,Coelho P,Pereira T

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the presence of risk factors (RF) for coronary disease in a group of university students (US). METHODS:We studied 123 US, 88 (71.55%) females, mean age 21 +/- 3.52 years, submitted to questionary, interview, physical examination and serum analises. Eighty six women informed about oral contraceptive...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Romagna Cavalheiro PT,da Rosa EM,Vargas Avila AO

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 54-year-old man with Chagas cardiomyopathy that was submitted to a heart transplantation and five months later presented a progressive increase in liver enzymes. Diagnosis of chronic active hepatitis was confirmed by histopathologic studies. A transitory interruption of treatment with azathioprine and the posterior ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： de Carvalho VB,Fonseca FA,de Oliveira e Silva A,Molina FR,Santo GC,dos Santos TE,de Souza EF,Macruz R,Zerbini Ede J

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Little has been studied on heart rate and its relationship with metabolic disorders. Objective:To identify possible association between heart rate (HR) and metabolic disorders in children and adolescents. Methods:This cross-sectional study evaluated 2.098 subjects, aged between 7 and 17 years. The variable...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Silva CFD,Burgos MS,Silva PTD,Burgos LT,Welser L,Sehn AP,Horta JA,Mello ED,Reuter CP

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To present a technical proposal based on the experience of 130 implantations using a simplified technique for coronary sinus catheterization, based on the atrial component of the intracavitary electrogram and radiological anatomy. METHODS:From October, 2001 to October, 2004, 130 biventricular pacemaker impla...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Souza FS,Mortati NL,Braile DM,Vieira RW,Rojas SO,Rabelo AC,Souza JM,Oliveira SA

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To study the autonomic behavior of the escape rhythm in congenital complete heart block (CCHB), using heart rate variability (HRV). METHODS:A group of 10 asymptomatic patients with CCHB and narrow QRS was studied, 7 females; mean age = 14 +/- 9 years. The following time domain indexes were analyzed from a 24 h...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Boghossian SH,Maia IG,Seidler G,Costa AM,Cruz Filho F,Alves PA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnosis of arterial hypertension based on measurements of blood pressure in the office has low accuracy. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the prevalence of masked hypertension (MH) and white-coat hypertension through home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) in pre-hypertensive and stage 1 hypertensive patients. ME...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Barroso WKS,Feitosa ADM,Barbosa ECD,Miranda RD,Brandão AA,Vitorino PVO,Ribeiro LPS,Gomes MM

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To analyse the actual contribution of digital angiography in the angioplasty setting and to assess its utility to optimize angioplasty results. METHODS:One hundred patients with single vessel coronary artery disease, without previous angioplasty or coronary artery bypass graft surgery, who underwent angioplast...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Pinto IM,Sousa AG,Feres F,Tanajura LF,Mattos LA,Cano MN,Maldonado G,Fontes VF,Sousa JE

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the high prevalence and clinical importance of atrial fibrillation (AF), there is no Brazilian study describing the clinical profile of patients with AF and the most used treatment strategy (rhythm control vs. rate control). OBJECTIVE:Assess the most common treatment on AF in an outpatient specializ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Oliveira LH,Mallmann FB,Botelho FN,Paul LC,Gianotto M,Abt Rde B,Silva NJ,Luize CM,Nogueira FL,Carvalho RS,Paola AA,Cirenza C

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:By reducing the specificity associated with loss of information, the influence of attenuation of the breasts is very important in myocardial perfusion studies. However, although several studies have been conducted over the past years, little has been developed to determine accurately the influence of the cha...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Oliveira A,Meguerian BA,Mesquita CT

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Excessive weight is a cardiovascular risk factor since it generates a chronic inflammatory process that aggravates the endothelial function. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the endothelial function in individuals with excess weight and mild dyslipidemia using brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (BAFMD), and the as...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Menti E,Zaffari D,Galarraga T,Lessa JR,Pontin B,Pellanda LC,Portal VL

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00