Denise is a 78-year-old retired nurse, who was diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse of her heart. A heart murmur was detected during routine examination prior to her hysterectomy 12 years ago. A cardiac echocardiogram at that time demonstrated severe mitral regurgitation (leak) but she w...
In certain cases, additional tests may have been used at the discretion of the attending doctors. The doctors carefully analyzed all the examination results and subsequently determined the final diagnostic outcomes. Next, our CHDdECG used only pediatric ECG data to identify CHD cases, by integrating...
Diagnosing heart disease involves a range of screening tests and, sometimes, tracking devices. Your doctor will ask you about your symptoms, your health history, and any heart disease risk factors you may have. He or she will also give you a physical exam in order to listen to your heart,...
During the examination, all patients maintained their daily activities without specific limitations. Holter recordings in the HF patients were not performed during acute decompensated HF, and were only performed in patients with a stable condition. In the control group, Holter recordings were performed ...
Careful evaluation of the patient's history and physical examination (including signs of congestion, such as jugular venous distention) can provide important information about the underlying cardiac abnormality in heart failure (HF). [3] However, other studies and/or tests may be necessary to identi...
and the patient was euvolaemic on examination. Lab tests were obtained and revealed a normal complete blood count and basic metabolic panel with the exception of mildly low sodium levels of 133 mEq/L (normal range, 13...
Obesity reduces VO2 in ml/kg/min out of proportion to HF severity and has led to examination of peak VO2 corrected for lean body mass (LBM), where LBM was defined as: actual body weight × (1 − % body fat/100) in ml/min/kg of LBM. When corrected for LBM, a peak VO2≤19...
Upon examination, he was stable and apyretic but showed signs of reduced heart sounds and pitting oedema in his lower limbs. Blood tests revealed eosinophilia (980/mm3—normal range 0–700/mm3), increased total IgE con...
All tests were two-tailed, and p values ≤ 0.05 were considered statistically significant. All statistical analyses were performed with SAS version 9.2 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA). Results Patients In 2009, 10,601,284 people underwent nationwide health check-ups. People who were (...
The results of univariate and multiple linear regressions of cardiometabolic risk markers with LVM index in men and women are shown in Table 2. For men, in the univariate analysis, each cardiometabolic risk marker, except the endurance exercise performance, was significantly correlated with LVM index...