Share on Facebook heart failure Dictionary Thesaurus Medical Acronyms Wikipedia Related to heart failure:congestive heart failure 1.a condition in which the heart is unable to pump an adequate amount of blood to the tissues, usually resulting in breathlessness, swollen ankles, etc. ...
I’m not sure for whom Kotecha and Fox’s concise overview of investigating suspected heart failure was intended.1 If, as I suspect, it was GPs, it would be of limited use. The authors appropriately emphasise the importance of measuring serum natriuretic peptide, but I’m unsure how widely...
Myocardial InfarctionNatriuretic Peptide, BrainEchocardiographyMagnetic Resonance Imaging, CineHeart FailureMaleComment in BMJ. 2013;346:f3565. Comment on BMJ. 2013;346:f2442.doi:10.1136/bmj.f3564Broughton, C.Rigby, J.Satchithananda, D.BMJBmj...
Conversely, pathways involving natriuretic peptides and positive adaptations in intracellular calcium handling exhibit protective effects on the left ventricle. These mechanisms collectively impose strain on the heart, giving rise to the phenotypic expression of the heart failure spectrum. This expression man...
Heart failure after myocardial infarction: a review The effects of survival after myocardial infarction on the prevalence of chronic heart failure have not been well characterized. We reviewed studies of the... JP Hellermann,SJ Jacobsen,BJ Gersh,... - 《American Journal of Medicine》 被引量: ...
Heart failure 1 1 50th Anniversary Historical Article Introduction In this edition of the Journal, we release the second in a series of reviews of influential articles that have been previously published in ACC journals, including the American Journal of Cardiology (from 1958 to 1982), and J...
motor neurons impose their rhythmic electrical activity on heart muscle fibers by means of direct excitatory synapses. Without neural input, the heart ceases to beat. Other invertebrates, including gnathobdellid leeches and some insects, have hearts that can produce a myogenic beat but require rhythm...
Solomon, MD; for the PROVE-HF Investigators JAMA Original Investigation Effect of Sacubitril-Valsartan vs Enalapril on Aortic Stiffness in Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction Akshay S. Desai, MD, MPH; Scott D. Solomon, MD; Amil M. Shah, MD; Brian L. Claggett, PhD; James C. Fang...
Cancer is a life-altering event causing considerable psychological distress. However, information on the total burden of psychiatric disorders across all common adult cancers and therapy exposures has remained scarce. Here, we estimated the risk of self-
Background Sleep disordered breathing is common and of prognostic significance in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Complex sleep apnoea (complexSA) is defined as the emergence of central sleep apnoea during continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment in patients with obstructive sl...