Endomyocardial fibrosis associated with massive calcification of the left ventricle.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data from over 4 decades have reported a higher incidence of silent infarction among patients with diabetes mellitus (DM), but recent publications have shown conflicting results regarding the correlation between DM and presence of pain in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). OBJECTIVE:Our primary o...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Nicolau JC,Barbosa CJ,Franci A,Baracioli LM,Franken M,Lima FG,Giraldez RR,Kalil Filho R,Ramires JA,Giugliano RP

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug intoxication with disulfiram is a rare condition that may lead to severe and potentially fatal cardiovascular manifestations such as cardiogenic shock. We report the case of a female patient with refractory shock after deliberate self-poisoning with disulfiram. Clinical, biochemical and echocardiographic assessme...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Jerónimo A,Meira C,Amaro A,Campello GC,Granja C

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic aspects of elderly patients with cardiovascular disease in Brazil. METHODS:Elderly patients with cardiovascular disease treated in 36 centers of cardiology and geriatrics were investigated through a questionnaire applied to those who had an appointment duri...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Taddei CF,Ramos LR,de Moraes JC,Wajngarten M,Libberman A,Santos SC,Savioli F,Dioguardi G,Franken R

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the general population, regular practice of physical exercises is associated with improved physical capacity and reduction of cardiovascular events. Concerning patients with chronic kidney disease, a population with significant impairment of physical capacity and high rates of cardiovascular mortality, fe...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Henrique DM,Reboredo Mde M,Chaoubah A,Paula RB

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The occurrence of minute-ventilation oscillations during exercise, named periodic breathing, exhibits important prognostic information in heart failure. Considering that exercise training could influence the fluctuation of ventilatory components during exercise, we hypothesized that ventilatory variability d...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Castro RRT,Lima SP,Sales ARK,Nóbrega ACLD

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the relation between the evolution of cognitive performance and the prognosis of elderly patients after compensation of advanced heart failure. METHODS:Thirty-one patients older than 64 (68 +/- 7) years and admitted with New York Heart Association class IV heart failure and ejection fraction = 0.45...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Ochiai ME,Franco LL,Gebara OC,Nussbacher A,Serro-Azul JB,Pierri H,Rays J,Barretto AC,Wajngarten M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This analysis was undertaken to determine the composite incidence of cumulative adverse events (death, reinfarction, disabling stroke, and target vessel revascularization) at the end of the first year after acute myocardial infarction, in diabetic patients who underwent coronary stenting or primary coronary b...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Mattos LA,Grines CL,Sousa JE,Sousa AG,Stone GW,Cox D,Garcia E,Morice MC,O'Neill W,Grines L,Boura J

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ischemic preconditioning is a method that prepares and protects cells to tolerate a long period of ischemia with the least possible injury. OBJECTIVES:Evaluate the influence of ischemic preconditioning over left ventricular function during off-pump myocardial revascularization. METHOD:Forty patients with c...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Succi JE,Gerola LR,Succi GM,Almeida RA,Novais LS,Rocha B

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To analyse the performance of the artificial cardiac stimulation with the VVIR pacemaker whose sensor is adjusted by the variations of the autonomic nervous system in Chagas disease patients with deficiency of the conduction system. METHODS:Forty-seven Chagas disease patients have been studied, 28 male between...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Greco OT,Ardito RV,Souza DR,Schaldach M

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data on the management and prognosis of patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and multivessel disease are limited in Brazil, showing that the available revascularization strategies should be investigated. OBJECTIVE:To assess the outcomes of complete revascularization versus treatm...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Cadore JC,Furtado MV,Tumelero R,Tognon A,Krepsky AM,Cadore D,Ruschel KB,Bedin JC,Conte T,Polanczyk CA

更新日期：2020-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a female patient with obstructive lesions in the right and left carotid, right renal, left subclavian and left common iliac arteries which were percutaneously treated. ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Tumelero RT,Teixeira JC,Duda NT,Tognon AP,Rossato M

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rate of saphenous vein graft failure one year after coronary artery bypass grafting ranges from 10% to 25%. The aim of this study was to explore whether atorvastatin can reduce accumulation of vascular smooth muscle cells to inhibit intimal hyperplasia via p38 MAPK pathway inhibition. METHODS:Forty-five...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Chu T,Huang M,Zhao Z,Ling F,Cao J,Ge J

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Antihypertensive therapy with thiazides decreases coronary events in elderly patients. However, the influence of diuretics on myocardial ischemia has not been fully investigated. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of chlorthalidone and diltiazem on myocardial ischemia. METHODS:Following a random...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Serro-Azul JB,de Paula RS,Gruppi C,Pinto L,Pierri H,Nussbacher A,Gebara O,Moffa P,Pereira-Barreto AC,Wajngarten M

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the frequency and prevalence of congenital heart defects in a tertiary care center for children with heart diseases. METHODS:We carried out an epidemiological assessment of the first medical visit of 4,538 children in a pediatric hospital from January 1995 to December 1997. All patients with conge...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Miyague NI,Cardoso SM,Meyer F,Ultramari FT,Araújo FH,Rozkowisk I,Toschi AP

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical and epidemiological studies have demonstrated a strong association between eating habits and chronic diseases, particularly cardiovascular events, although not all the mechanisms of action are understood. OBJECTIVE:To describe and analyze the cardiovascular risk (CVR) in vegetarians and omnivores r...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Teixeira Rde C,Molina Mdel C,Zandonade E,Mill JG

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A healthy 44 year-old male patient presented a calcified mass in the middle mediastinum on a chest film. During diagnostic investigation cineangiograms showed a rupture of the left sinus of Valsalva forming a large pseudoaneurysm that produced important distortion of the left coronary artery and it's main branches. Th...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Barbosa V,Kopel L,Oliveira SA,Barretto AC,Mady C,Bellotti G,Pileggi F

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) in children is an increasingly common practice. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate, in our institution, the results of RFA in children younger than 15 years. METHODS:A total of 125 children submitted to RFA between May 1991 and May 2010 were analyzed. RESULTS:Sixty-seven (53.6%) children ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Melo SL,Scanavacca MI,Pisani C,Darrieux F,Hachul D,Hardy C,Camargo PR,Atik E,Sosa EA

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is considerable controversy regarding the diagnosis of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), and there are over 30 different definitions. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the incidence and risk factors for the development of AKI following cardiac surgery according to the RIFLE, AKIN and KDIGO criteria, and compare the prog...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Sampaio MC,Máximo CA,Montenegro CM,Mota DM,Fernandes TR,Bianco AC,Amodeo C,Cordeiro AC

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:Despite being relatively recent, a growing and significant accumulation of experimental and clinical evidence has been observed that points to a gradual state of immune-inflammatory activation in patients with heart failure (HF). High levels of several cytokines are found in the circulation and cardiac muscle of indiv...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Candia AM,Villacorta H Jr,Mesquita ET

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the characteristics of the patients receiving medical care in the Ambulatory of Hypertension of the Emergency Department, Division of Cardiology, and in the Emergency Unit of the Clinical Hospital of the Ribeirão Preto Medical School. METHODS:Using a protocol, we compared the care of the same hyp...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Nobre F,Chauchar F,Viana JM,Pereira GJ,Lima NK

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effect of vaccination against the influenza virus on the mortality due to cardiovascular diseases (CVD) remains controversial. OBJECTIVE:To analyze the mortality by CVD before and after the start of the vaccination against the Influenza virus in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. METHODS:We analyzed the mo...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Mansur Ade P,Favarato D,Ramires JA

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess advanced heart failure (HF) treatment in relation to reduction of ventricular filling pressures, with the use of greater doses of vasodilators, through invasive hemodynamic monitoring. METHODS:Nineteen advanced HF patients were studied, in whom Swan-Ganz catheter was inserted to direct administrati...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Almeida Júnior GL,Esporcatte R,Rangel FO,Rocha RM,Gouvêa e Silva Gde M,Tura BR,Jorge JK,Drumond LE,Albanesi Filho FM

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A white male patient, 59 years old, with two prior surgical myocardial revascularization and unstable angina, was submitted to coronary arteriography that showed: all the saphenous vein grafts patent and obstruction of 75% in the saphenous vein graft to the second marginal branch of left circumflex artery. Left intern...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Pimentel Filho WA,Büchler JR,Assis SF,Araújo EC,Neves Filho M,Pinheiro LF,de Souza JA,Ascer E,Ribas W,Vieira VD

更新日期：1992-03-01 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: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 detect the prevalence of systemic hypertension in children and to establish the relation between blood pressure levels and sex, age, ethnicity, weight, and height. METHODS:The prevalence of systemic hypertension and its relation to sex, age, ethnicity, weight, and height were studied in 611 students aged ...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： de Rezende DF,Scarpelli RA,de Souza GF,da Costa JO,Scarpelli AM,Scarpelli PA,de Carvalho GB,D'Agostini HM,Pedrosa JC

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The study of frequency, modalities and course of neurological complications of infective endocarditis (IE), as well as the current indication and value of supplementary examinations. METHODS:Sixty-three patients with IE, 39 with native valve and 24 with valvar prosthesis, were prospectively studied; the mean a...

journal_title：Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia

authors： Lunardi W,Grinberg M,Scaff M,Antelmi I,Mutarelli E,Kajita LJ,Esteves A,Tarasoutchi F,Cardoso LF,Rossi E

更新日期：1993-12-01 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