Perivalvular Abscess of Tricuspid Valve: A Rare Complication of Infective Endocarditis [PDF]
Journal of Tehran University Heart Center, 2010 Infective endocarditis is a serious complication of intravenous (IV) drug abuse, with a reported mortality of 5 to 10%. A 21-year-old man, who was an intravenous drug abuser, presented with fever and dyspnea.
Ali Reza Moaref +2 more
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Novel pathways of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction [PDF]
, 2016 INTRODUCTION: Diastolic heart failure (HF) i.e., HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) accounts for ~50% of all clinical HF presentations; but unlike systolic HF i.e., HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), there are no evidenced based ...
Li, Shanpeng
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Visualization of Minute Mechanical-Excitation/Relaxation Wave-front Propagation in Myocardial Tissue [PDF]
, 2010 Unlike the case of skeletal muscle, the direction of myocardial contraction does not coincide with the direction of work necessary to eject the intraventricular blood, contributing to great complexity of the wall deformation sequence of cardiac ...
Hiroshi Kanai, Motonao Tanaka
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Isolated Biventricular Noncompaction in an adult with severe pulmonary hypertension : an association reviewed. [PDF]
, 2012 Biventricular noncompaction is a recently recognized rare form of cardiomyopathy. It is characterized by altered structure of myocardial wall as a result of intrauterine arrest of compaction of the myocardial fibers in absence of coexisting congenital
Awasthy, Neeraj +2 more
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Three-dimensional structure of the flow inside the left ventricle of the human heart
, 2013 The laboratory models of the human heart left ventricle developed in the last decades gave a valuable contribution to the comprehension of the role of the fluid dynamics in the cardiac function and to support the interpretation of the data obtained in ...
Cenedese, A. +3 more
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Ethnical variations in the incidence of congenital heart defects in Gorgan, Northern Iran: A single-center study [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common congenital anomaly in newborns. This study was performed to determine the live birth incidence of CHD by ethnicity and sex in Gorgan, Northern Iran.
Golalipour, M.J. +4 more
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Gastric pseudoaneurysm in the setting of Loey’s Dietz Syndrome [PDF]
, 2012 Loey’s Dietz syndrome is a disorder of connective tissue caused by a mutation in the genes that encode transforming growth factor (TGF) beta receptor 1 and 2.
Johston, Troy Alan, Likes, Maggie L.
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MODERN METHODS OF MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE DIAGNOSTICS AND PREVALENCE ASSESSMENT IN YOUNG PEOPLE
Российский кардиологический журнал, 2010 The paper presents echocardiography examination results in healthy young people. The prevalence of classic and nonclassic mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is assessed. The prevalence of primary myxomatous MVP is independent of gender or age, while non-classic
E. G. Malev +3 more
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Revista Colombiana de Cardiología, 2006 Este artículo describe la historia de la ecocardiografía de contraste, las características físicas de las microburbujas de los agentes de contraste, las principales herramientas instrumentales (índice mecánico, foco y enfoque, número de imágenes por ...
Carlos Cubides +3 more
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Color and pulsed Doppler in fetal echocardiography [PDF]
Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2004 openaire +2 more sources