Surgical ventricular restoration for patients with heart failure
On an annual basis, heart failure affects millions of people globally. Despite improvements in medications and percutaneous interventions, heart failure secondary to ischemic cardiomyopathy remains an important health issue.
Ali Fatehi Hassanabad +1 more
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Selecting patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy for ICDs [PDF]
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Cleland, John G.F. +2 more
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Serum Zinc Level in Dilated and Ischemic Cardiomyopathy [PDF]
Background: Serum trace element alteration has been reported in dilated and ischemic cardiomyopathy. The reports were controversial. We have studied serum Zinc level in cardiomyopathy patients in northern province of Mazandaran and compared them with ...
Ali Ghayemian +2 more
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Background An increase in beat‐to‐beat variability of repolarization (BVR) predicts arrhythmia onset in experimental models, but its clinical translation is not well established. We investigated the temporal changes in BVR before nonsustained ventricular
Matthew Amoni +9 more
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Assessment of biventricular function by three-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography in adolescents and young adults with human immunodeficiency virus infection. a pilot study. [PDF]
Background. The purpose of the study was to assess biventricular parameters of wall deformation with three-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (3DSTE) in adolescents and young adults with human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV) on ...
Ajassa, Camilla +12 more
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Circulating microRNAs as biomarkers of Chagas cardiomyopathy
BackgroundChagas cardiomyopathy (CHCM) is the most important clinical manifestation of Chagas disease. The analysis of cardiac miRNAs may contribute to predicting the progression to CHCM in Chagas indeterminate phase and/or to the differential diagnosis ...
Laura Antonietti +13 more
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Sudden cardiac death in patients with ischemic heart failure undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting results from the STICH randomized clinical trial (Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Failure) [PDF]
Background—The risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in patients with heart failure following CABG has not been examined in a contemporary clinical trial of surgical revascularization. This analysis describes the incidence, timing and clinical predictors of
Al-Khatib, Sana M. +19 more
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NON ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY – A CASE REPORT
Cardiomyopathies are a group of diseases characterized by the structural and functional abnormalities of the heart muscles in the absence of other illnesses that might be responsible for the observed myocardial anomaly.
Anny Ashiq Ali Anny Ashiq Ali +1 more
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The effectiveness of the cardiac resynchronization in a patient with ischemic cardiomyopathy [PDF]
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in multiple and large trials has been demonstrated to improve symptoms and decrease hospitalization and mortality of patients when used in addition to optimal medical therapy.
Bătăiosu, Constantin +5 more
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Six-minute walk distance after coronary artery bypass grafting compared with medical therapy in ischaemic cardiomyopathy [PDF]
Background: In patients with ischaemic left ventricular dysfunction, coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) may decrease mortality, but it is not known whether CABG improves functional capacity.
Al-Khalidi, Hussein R. +17 more
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