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Effects of beta-blockers on heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a meta-analysis.
... Figure 4. Sensitivity analyses. A: Leave-one-out analysis; B: Subgroup analyses. The adjusted subgroup was those studies that performed multivariate analysis to obtain Relative Risks, and the provided RRs were directly ...
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Diastolic function is associated with quality of life and exercise capacity in stable heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction
... Interestingly, our results did not indicate a correlation between the MLWHFQ score and the 6MWT distance, indicating that diastolic dysfunction, rather than walk distance, plays a major role in decreasing quality of ...
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Clinical outcome of high-risk patients with severe aortic stenosis and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction undergoing medical treatment or TAVI.
... Methods: We investigated clinical outcomes of high-risk patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing medical treatment (n = 71) or TAVI (n = 256) stratified by left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ...
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Preoperative left ventricular ejection fraction and left atrium reverse remodeling after mitral regurgitation surgery
... All patients had a comprehensive transthoracic echocardio- gram prior to surgery (Vivid7®; GE Vingmed Ultrasound, Horton, Norway), using a 2–4 MHz multifrequential transducer. Echocardiography was repeated between 2 and ...
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Cardiomyopathy and cell therapy: ejection fraction improvement and cardiac muscle mass increasing, after a year of bone marrow stem cells transplantation, by magnetic resonance image
... The idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC) is one of the major public health problems in the western world. Patients with IDC in functional class IV (New York Health Association - NYHA), even after therapeutic ...
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Relationship between cardiac ejection fraction and blood pressure in coronary heart patients
... The applicability of the study derives from the relationship between decreased systolic blood pres- sure in coronary arteries and the presence of reduced cardiac ejection fraction. Once aware of this knowl- ...
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Age, Creatinine and Ejection Fraction Score no Brasil: Comparação com o InsCor e o EuroSCORE.
... Objetivo: Avaliar o desempenho do Age, Creatinine and Ejection Fraction Score (ACEF Score) na predição de mortalidade dos pacientes submetidos à cirurgia de revascularização miocárdi[r] ...
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Phenotype Mapping of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
... Adapted from: Shah SJ, Kitzman DW, Borlaug BA, van Heerebeek L, Zile MR, Kass DA, Paulus WJ. Phenotype-specific treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a multiorgan roadmap. ...
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Prevalence of symptomatic heart failure with reduced and with normal ejection fraction in an elderly general population-the CARLA study.
... Systolic dysfunction is primarily considered as reduced contrac- tion ability of the heart muscle resulting in a decreased ejection fraction. In contrast, diastolic dysfunction is characterized by a ...
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Arq. Bras. Cardiol. vol.88 número3 en a06v88n3
... ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) were measured by QGS and Segami software programs to evaluate the influence of gender, age, weight, height, heart rate, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood ...
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Arq. Bras. Cardiol. vol.91 número3
... ventricular ejection fraction as measured by 3D ECHO were slightly higher than those measured using 2D ECHO, although without statistical significance ...
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Braz. J. Cardiovasc. Surg. vol.29 número3
... in the artery supplying segments with the greatest perfusion defect. At 5 years, stem cell therapy was associated with increased LVEF (from 24.3±6.5% to 30.0±5.1%; P=0.02), increased 6-minute walk distance (from 344±90 m ...
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Reduced Right Ventricular Function Predicts Long-Term Cardiac Re-Hospitalization after Cardiac Surgery.
... All patients had CMR imaging performed according to the study protocol at New York Meth- odist Hospital. Imaging analysis and reporting were also carried out solely at our institution. CMR was performed using a 1.5-Tesla ...
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Myocardial Viability: From PARR-2 to IMAGE HF - Current Evidence and Future Directions
... CABG: coronary artery bypass grafting; CAD: coronary artery disease; CRT: cardiac resynchronization therapy; EF: ejection fraction; ICD: implantable cardiac defibrillator; LV: left vent[r] ...
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The relationship between serum uric acid level and concentration of proangiogenic mononuclear progenitor cells in patients with chronic heart failure
... Transthoracic ultrasonic echocardiography was performed according to a conventional procedure on ACUSON apparatus, SIEMENS, Germany, in В-mode regimen and tissue Doppler echocardiog- raphy regimen from parasternal, ...
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Braz. J. Cardiovasc. Surg. vol.20 número2
... Situs solitus was seen at levocardia. The venoatrial, atrioventricular and ventriculoarterial connections were concordant. Thickening of the left atrioventricular (mitral) and aortic valves was evidenced as was ...
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Correlação entre medidas ecocardiográfica e invasiva da pressão diastólica final...
... Introduction: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is important and prevalent manifestation of atherosclerosis. The assessment of diastolic function by mitral Doppler echocardiographic parameters has limitations in patients ...
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Arq. Bras. Cardiol. vol.93 número1
... Background: Decreased contractile reserve may already be present in asymptomatic patients with aortic regurgitation and normal ejection fraction (EF), thus indicating the need for freq[r] ...
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Arq. Bras. Cardiol. vol.94 número3
... In this study, we have demonstrated that preserved LVEF is a prevalent and morbid condition among hospitalized HF patients in a Brazilian teaching hospital. Patients with acute decompensated HF and preserved LVEF ...
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Arq. Bras. Cardiol. vol.96 número2
... The patients' ages ranged from 80 to 89 years (average 82.46), median of 82.00, and standard deviation of ± 2.31. The in-hospital mortality was 11% (18 patients). The causes of death (Table 2) included: respiratory ...
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