Comparison of immediate results and follow-up of patients with single-vessel and multivessel coronary artery disease younger than 50 years of age undergoing coronary stent implantation.

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the antihypertensive efficacy and tolerability of captopril 50 mg + hydrochlorothiazide 25 mg daily in mild to moderate primary hypertension. METHODS:Out-patients (n = 471) with mild to moderate hypertension, diastolic blood pressure (DBP) 95-115 mmHg, with 15 days of washout, were included to the ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Velasco-Cornejo IF,Martin LC,Franco RJ

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the increasing use of the cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) method and the frequent implementation of such method in new services, we describe herein, in a step-by-step format, the acquisition techniques that are necessary for a complete cardiac approach, of the main anatomical planes of the heart used by CMR. ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Nacif MS,Oliveira Junior AC,Carvalho AC,Rochitte CE

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:There is no consensus regarding the impact of stenting on long-term endothelial function. There have been reports of increased endothelial dysfunction with sirolimus-eluting stents as compared to bare metal stenting (BMS). OBJECTIVE:This study aims to assess the impact of BMS and the effect of oral sirolimu...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Fernandes RW,Dantas JM,Oliveira DC,Bezerra HG,Brito FS Jr,Lima VC

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence of hyperhomocystinemia in patients with acute ischemic syndrome of the unstable angina type. METHODS:We prospectively studied 46 patients (24 females) with unstable angina and 46 control patients (19 males), paired by sex and age, blinded to the laboratory data. Details of diets, ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Tavares JR,D'Almeida V,Diniz DC,Terzi CA,Cruz EN,Stefanini E,Andriollo A,Paola AA,Carvalho AC

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading causes of death in our population. There was a progressive decrease in mortality due to CVD up to 2005. OBJECTIVE:To update the trends in mortality from cardiovascular diseases in Brazil and in the metropolitan region of São Paulo (MRSP) from 1990 to 2009. METH...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Mansur Ade P,Favarato D

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To verify the efficacy and safety of the creation of a barrier with radiofrequency (RF) in the tricuspid annulus and the vena cava ostium (TA-IVC). METHODS:Nine consecutive patients, 7 males, with age ranging from 36 to 76 years, with paroxysmal (7 patients) or permanent (2) type I atrial flutter (negative P w...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Sosa EA,Scanavacca MI,Lewandowski A,Kuniyoshi R,Magalhães L,Sarabanda A,Piccioni JL,Bellotti G,Pileggi F

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the relation between P-wave and QT dispersions in elderly patients with heart failure. METHODS:Forty-seven elderly patients (75.6+/-6 years) with stable heart failure in NYHA functional classes II or III and with ejection fractions of 37+/-6% underwent body surface mapping to analyze P-wave and QT ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Szlejf C,Rays J,Gebara OC,Vieira NW,Pierri H,Nussbacher A,Serro-Azul JB,Samesima N,Pastore CA,Wajngarten M

更新日期：2002-11-01 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：:A 39-year-old female patient with refractory heart failure has been studied. On February, 1982 she was submitted to right lobar thyroidectomy for remotion of the left thyroid lobe. Following the surgery, she had signs of hypocalcemia and the diagnosis of secondary hypoparathyroidism and heart failure had been made. Se...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Musse NS,Albanesi Filho FM,Barbosa EC,Ginefra P

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

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：OBJECTIVE:To determine the diagnostic accuracy of echocardiography for indicating surgery without catheterization in patients with congenital heart disease through a prospective analysis and comparison of the echocardiographic diagnosis with the intraoperative findings, or invasive study, or both. METHODS:From Februar...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Lopes LM,Damiano AP,Moreira GN,Azevedo TJ,Nagamatsu CT,Tavares GM,Guerra VC,Silva JP,Furlanetto G,Salvador AB

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The decision of stopping cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in patients brought to emergency room in arrest remains a challenge. Such decision is even more difficult when someone is brought by bystanders, after an acute loss of consciousness without any out-of-hospital care. To evaluate the probability of surv...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： César LA,Pamplona D,Ferreira JF,de Brito Júnior F,Uchida AH,Moretti MA,Pfeferman E,Amato RV,da Luz PL,Bellotti G,Pileggi F

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic exercise and food restriction (FR) have directionally opposite changes in transcription of molecular structures of calcium handling and thyroid hormone (TH) status. OBJECTIVE:Evaluate the association of chronic exercise and FR on serum thyroid hormones and gene transcription of molecular structures ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Sugizaki MM,Leopoldo AP,Conde SJ,Campos DS,Damato R,Leopoldo AS,Nascimento AF,Oliveira Júnior Sde A,Cicogna AC

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To detect myocardial ischemia during dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE). METHODS:Two hundred and seventy one patients were studied; 63 (23%) underwent coronary angiography within a month of DSE. Angiograms were analyzed independently by 3 angiographers, and coronary lesions larger than 50% of luminal occ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Mathias Júnior W,Doya EH,Ribeiro EE,Silva LA,Gasques A,Salvadori RA,Duprat Filho R

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to analyse the effectiveness of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) closure by the video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS). METHODS:The technique was utilized in 6 newborn lambs firstly. Three to four small incisions (3 to 10mm) were used in each animal to permit the introduction of lung re...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Jatene FB,Assad RS,Pêgo-Fernandes P,Jatene MB,Monteiro R,Aiello VD,Rocha e Silva R,Barbero-Marcial M,Jatene AD

更新日期：1994-12-01 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 lipid profile and nutritional parameters from adolescents with family history of premature coronary artery disease (CAD) and assess the effects of nutritional counseling. METHODS:The study included 48 adolescents of both gender and with ages ranging from 10 and 19 years old (case group, n=18; contr...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Mendes GA,Martinez TL,Izar MC,Amancio OM,Novo NF,Matheus SC,Bertolami MC,Fonseca FA

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erdheim-Chester Disease is a rare entity, classified as an inflammatory myeloid neoplasm, with an unknown incidence, occurring preferentially in men after 50 years of age. Classically, it has a multisystemic presentation, with the skeletal system being the most frequently affected (90% of the patients), followed by ge...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Costa IBSDS,Abdo ANR,Bittar CS,Fonseca SMR,Moraes ASHT,Kalil Filho R,Pereira J,Hajjar LA

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the prevalence of systemic hypertension in two different populations: a representative sample of the adult urban population of Porto Alegre, and individuals who sought blood pressure measurement in a hypertension prevention and control campaign. METHODS:A cross-sectional study was carried out invo...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Fuchs SC,Petter JG,Accordi MC,Zen VL,Pizzol AD Jr,Moreira LB,Fuchs FD

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:Studies on hypermobility have aroused great interest in the last decades, as they are associated to musculoskeletal disorders, as well as abnormalities in several organic systems, such as the mitral valve prolapse. Therefore, in this study, data on the association between joint hypermobility and the mitral valve prola...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Cavenaghi S,Marino LH,Oliveira PP,Lamari NM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-invasive cardiological methods have been used for the identification of myocardial damage in Chagas disease. OBJECTIVE:To verify whether the rest/stress myocardial perfusion scintigraphy is able to identify early myocardial damage in the indeterminate form of Chagas disease. METHODS:Eighteen patients w...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Abuhid IM,Pedroso ER,Rezende NA

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The echocardiogram of a twenty-year-old man, previously healthy, suffering from paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea and fatigue after moderate exertion that intensified over a period of about ten days, showed the left atrium myxoma working as severe mitral stenosis. ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Vilela EP,Moura L,Pepe D,Nunes E,Erthal F,Campana E

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:We describe a rare case of permanent pacemaker implantation in a pregnant woman with rheumatic mitral valve disease previously undergoing percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty. She presented symptomatic advanced atrioventricular block of non-reversible cause and manifest in the third trimester of gestation. ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Esper RB,Furtado RH,Tarasoutchi F,Spina GS,Grinberg M,Avila WS

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize the cardiac electrophysiologic effects of cocaine. METHODS:In 8 dogs (9-13 kg), electrophysiologic parameters and programmed stimulation were undertaken using transvenous catheters at baseline, and after cocaine intravenous infusion (12 mg/kg bolus followed by 0.22 mg/kg/min for 25 minutes). ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Fenelon G,Uchoa J,Otobone JR,Reis M,do Amaral JL,de Paola AA

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient with subaortic stenosis due to the insertion of anomalous chordae tendineae of the mitral valve in the interventricular septum (mitral web) associated with mitral stenosis with diagnosis made by bidimensional echocardiographic study with Doppler and confirmed by hemodynamic study. The patient was submitted to ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Groppo AA,Santos GG,Simões RM,Haddad VL,Stolf NA

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors consider the possibility of using color Doppler of the ductus venosus and the measurement of nuchal translucency as a screening test for alterations in fetal cardiac functions in the first trimester of gestation. Review of the literature suggests that the combination of the ultrasonographic measurement of ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Murta CG,Moron AF,de Avila MA

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There have been few studies on cardiovascular risk factors in adolescents with different degrees of obesity. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate metabolic effects associated with different degrees of obesity in adolescents and their impact on cardiovascular risks. METHODS:Cross-sectional study of 80 obese adolescents, d...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Lavrador MS,Abbes PT,Escrivão MA,Taddei JA

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00