Thyroid function tests and resting heart rate in Graves’ disease: a prospective longitudinal study [PDF]
Endocrine ConnectionsObjective: Increased resting heart rate (RHR) is a typical sign of thyrotoxicosis. RHR may therefore serve as a monitoring tool, but longitudinal data on continuous measures of RHR and thyroid hormones are sparse.
Beatrice Egger +11 more
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Heart transplant rejection pathology [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2022 Background/Aim. Heart transplantation is the most effective way to treat patients in the terminal stage of heart failure. Endomyocardial biopsy has proven to be a safe and appropriate technique, with little sampling error, and remains, to this day, one ...
Stojićević Andrea +6 more
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Comparison of Custodiol® and modified St. Thomas cardioplegia for myocardial protection in coronary artery bypass grafting [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2020 Background/Aim. Custodiol® is a hyperpolarizing cardioplegic solution which has been used in our national cardiac surgical practice exclusively for the heart transplant surgery.
Cvetković Dragan +12 more
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Association between aortic stenosis severity and contractile reserve measured by two-dimensional strain under low-dose dobutamine testing [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2013 Background/Aim. Early detection of left ventricle (LV) systolic dysfunction could be a clue for surgical treatment in patients with significant aortic stenosis (AS).
Banović Marko +5 more
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Changes in respiratory and cardiac functions of mandibular deficient patients after treatment with a removable functional appliance [PDF]
Journal of Oral Health and Oral Epidemiology, 2020 Background: There is no study on respiratory or cardiac function of mandibular deficient patients before or after treatment. This preliminary trial was conducted for the first time to assess respiratory/cardiac parameters of such patients before and ...
Sayed Mohammad Mousavi +4 more
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023 BackgroundThere is a possibility that cardiac morphometric characteristics are associated with the lipid profile, that is, the composition and concentration of triglycerides, total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, and others lipoproteins in young smokers without ...
Ana Natália Ribeiro Batista +9 more
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Functional tests in patients with ischemic heart disease
Journal of Medicine and Life, 2022 Lately, easier and shorter tests have been used in the functional evaluation of cardiac patients. Among these, walking speed (WS) and Timed Up and Go (TUG) tests are associated with all-cause mortality, mainly cardiovascular and the rate of re-hospitalization, especially in the elderly population.
Avram, Rodica Lucia +9 more
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Impact of dexmedetomidine on hemodynamics in rabbits [PDF]
Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira, 2018 Purpose: To evaluate the effects of single intravenous administration of Dexmedetomidine (DEX) on hemodynamics in rabbits. Methods: A total of 32 New Zealand white rabbits were randomly divided into the control group (Group C), Group D1 (2.75 μg/kg ...
Jianjun Ren +4 more
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Clinical course of infants with congenital heart disease who developed thyroid dysfunction within 100 days [PDF]
Annals of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2017 Purpose We investigated the clinical course of infants with congenital heart disease (CHD) who experienced thyroid dysfunction within 100 days of birth.
Hye Jin Lee +5 more
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THE QUEST OF A HEART FUNCTION TEST [PDF]
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1919 Early in the war, Sir James Mackenzie 1 proposed that in the examination of the hearts of applicants for military service more stress be laid on how the heart responds to effort. He says that if the applicant can undergo severe bodily exertion without distress, it is fairly safe to assume that any irregularity or systolic murmur present is without ...
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