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... We studied 39 patients, 21 males and 18 females, with a mean age of 58±10.71 years (38-75 years) and a diagnosis of unstable angina, who were treated at the Emergency Unit of the Heart Institute of the Hospital ... See full document

... In our patients undergoing partial ileal bypass surge- ry, a persistent 30% to 35% reduction in total cholesterol occurred, making the significant regression of the xantho- mas and also [r] ... See full document

... The diagnosis and monitoring of tricuspid valve ano- malies, such as Ebstein’s anomaly and valvar dysplasia, du- ring uterine life have shown that a potential exists for the de- velopmen[r] ... See full document

... The administration of adenosine is a useful diagnostic tool for establishing the differential diagnosis between supraven- tricular tachycardia (mediated by an accessory pathway or by nod[r] ... See full document

... Na Correlação Anatomoclínica publicada em Arq Bras Cardiol, vol 80 (nº 6), 643-8, 2003, as figuras dos eletrocardiogramas foram trocadas. Eis as corretas:[r] ... See full document

... used the criteria of SLEDAI (Systemic Lupus Erythema- tosus Disease Activity Index) 22.. All patients studied had at.[r] ... See full document

... Among the causes of myocardial infarction without coronary atherosclerosis, but with obstruction, we can cite the following diseases: Arteritis, such as the syphilitic arteritis, granulo[r] ... See full document

... 20. Abizaid A, Mehran R, Bucher TA, et al. Does diabetes influence clinical recurrence after coronary stent implantation? J Am Coll Cardiol 1997; 29(suppl-A): A-188. 21. Savage MP, Fischman DL, Slota P, et al. ... See full document

... 1 - Female mortality in 15- to 49-year-old women due to cardiovascular diseases, neoplasms, diseases of the respiratory system, lesions and poisoning, and infectious and parasitic diseas[r] ... See full document

... The technique applied consisted of measuring the perime- ter of the anterior leaflet and implanting, according to this measurement, a flexible bovine pericardium prosthesis for reinforce[r] ... See full document

... risk factors: the extension of the coronary artery disease, wi- th involvement of three or more arteries; the extension of previous myocardial infarction reflected in the patient’s cli- [r] ... See full document

... Both anomalies have peculia- rities in Noonan’s syndrome; in pulmonary valve stenosis, valves are often dysplasic, differing from the dome format and without the commissural fusion obser[r] ... See full document

... disease is strongly related to the aetiology of heart failure and cellular rejection. Halle AA, Disciascio G, Massin EK, et al. Coronary angioplasty, atherectomy and bypass surgery in ca[r] ... See full document

... Because of the severe implications and because no studies involving the clinical significance of the in-hospital reocclusion after direct mechanical reperfusion and PTCA have been publis[r] ... See full document

... To select the most important variables for assessing the probability of death, we used multivariate analysis, whi- ch identified the following preoperative risk factors (Table III): fema[r] ... See full document

... Force-length relationship of cardiac muscle and the association of cross bridges with actin - When cardiac muscle is lengthened at the ascending limb of the force-len- gth relationship, [r] ... See full document

... excellent evolution of patients with severe aortic regurgita- tion, as long as normal ventricular function was present, emphasizes the finding that the on-set of left ventricular dysfunc[r] ... See full document

... Without improvement in the pain, the patient deve- loped heart failure and underwent a hemodynamic study, which showed normal coronary arteries and extensive ventricular impairment.. Dur[r] ... See full document

... The mean systolic pressure upon maximum exercise was lower in the patients using beta-blockers than in the other groups (p<0.05), the values being the following: 179±20mmHg for the be[r] ... See full document

... 2) Clinical cases - Four clinical cases were proposed to assess the knowledge of each physician regarding the recommendations of the II Brazilian Guidelines Conference on Dyslipidemias, [r] ... See full document