Incidence of pulmonary hypertension in COPD and its relation to inflammatory marker interleukin-1
Background Many COPD patients present with severe PH defined by a pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) > 5 WU as measured by right heart catheterization (RHC), and inflammation is thought to be contributing strongly to pulmonary vascular remodeling in ...
Sherif Ahmed Eissa +4 more
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Cardiac Doppler Variation with Volume Status Changes in General Intensive Care [PDF]
Num grupo de 64 doentes de uma Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos, 24 dos quais submetidos a ventilação mecânica, foi determinada a influência da modificação da volémia nas características do Doppler cardíaco, através da negativização do balanço ...
Fernandes, AP +5 more
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Aim. To compare main central hemodynamic parameters obtained by pulmonary artery catheterization and transthoracic echocardiography (TTE).Material and methods.
V. V. Ryabov +4 more
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Preserved endothelium-dependent vasodilation in coronary segments previously treated with balloon angioplasty and intracoronary irradiation [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Abnormal endothelium-dependent coronary vasomotion has been reported after balloon angioplasty (BA), as well as after intracoronary radiation. However, the long-term effect on coronary vasomotion is not known.
Carlier, S.G. (Stephan) +11 more
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Complication of a Swan-Ganz catheter: an intravascular knot. [PDF]
Canitrot R, Lhermusier T, Servoz C.
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Echocardiography curriculum development for physician assistants using entrustable professional activities [PDF]
BACKGROUND: With the projected increase of cardiovascular disease in the aging population, a higher demand for echocardiography use is predicted. However, there is a shortage in the supply of cardiologists, to the point that a 2009 American College of ...
Moon, Saemyi
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Posicionamento do cateter venoso central em pacientes de UTI. um estudo propectivo. [PDF]
Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Departamento de Clínica Cirúrgica, Curso de Medicina, Florianópolis ...
Búrigo, Cristiano da Costa Pereira
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Reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction [PDF]
Studies of the pathophysiology of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) have shown that in most pa- tients a thrombus forms over a ruptured ather- oma in the infarct-related coronary artery and obstructs the ...
Collen, D. +11 more
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Pulmonary tumour thrombotic microangiopathy or chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension?-diagnosed by pulmonary wedge aspiration cytology using a Swan-Ganz catheter: a case report. [PDF]
Shimojo T +4 more
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Critical role of right heart catheterization in the evaluation of the appropriateness of transcatheter repair of severe tricuspid valve regurgitation: a case report. [PDF]
Maeder MT +4 more
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