Systolic PA pressures and inflammatory markers had more weight in predicting ... Prevalence, risk factors for progression and management for valvular regurgitation at the time of LVAD implant to ...

Because life expectancy and the prevalence of risk factors such as hypertension, obesity and diabetes are rising globally, heart failure (HF) is growing into a major health problem. Impairment of ...

Data from [9]. Heart failure (HF) is growing into a major health problem. HF guidelines place a special emphasis on the detection of subclinical left ventricular (LV) systolic and diastolic ...

Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension occurs in a proportion of patients with prior acute pulmonary embolism and is characterised by breathlessness, persistently raised pulmonary pressures and ...

The prevalence of LV diastolic dysfunction was significantly higher in the multiparity than in the low-parity group. The multiparity group had significantly lower E and e´ septal velocities and E/A ...

When the pulmonary hypertension is due to pulmonary artery stenosis, it appears that the right ventricular pressure increases up to 90 mm Hg, likewise the rise in pulmonary artery resistance induces ...

The term dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) refers to a spectrum of heterogeneous myocardial disorders that are characterized by ventricular dilation and depressed myocardial ... Cardiac amyloidosis usually ...

Background The right ventricle is multicompartmental in orientation. Objective To assess the normal differential function of the right ventricular (RV) inflow, apical and outflow compartments, also ...

The right ventricle pumps blood to the lungs ... Also, when cardiologists talk about heart failure, they often specify whether the cardiac dysfunction primarily affects the systolic portion of cardiac ...

Men with PAH had a larger right heart size and worse survival than women, independent of body size and functional status, a ...