Full size image Capillary density and pro-ANP Expression analysis Because capillary density could not be reliably analyzed in the Gomori silver staining, we developed HeartJ also for immunofluorescence stainings of the murine cohort using WGA, CD31, and DAPI (Fig. 6A). As in the evaluation with...
In this condition, the heart works less efficiently than normal. CHF is characterized by weakened heart muscle that contracts with less strength and efficiency5 and may be caused because of the heart muscles being too stiff, or the heart muscles being too weak to squeeze the blood out of the...
Normal heart sounds are the result of abrupt apposition of valve cusps at the time of valve closure and are easily detected by auscultation. Each of the four valves projects its closure sound with maximal intensity to a defined and distinct area over the anterior chest wall. These sites of ...
Nevertheless, while the PQ/RR regression residuals overlap in the complete population, the hyperbolic PQ/RR regression residuals involving hysteresis corrected RR intervals were larger than the hyperbolic PQ/RR regression residuals based on either of the other RR interval expressions only in 1 female ...
P<0.001). Male sex in both phenotypes was associated with a larger absolute BV (7.0±1.6 versus 5.1±1.3 liters;P<0.001) and higher frequency of large BV and plasma volume expansions above normal (bothP<0.001), whi...
In the presence of a normal left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), the diagnosis of HF is less evident. Inclusion of patients whose complaints of low exercise tolerance and dyspnea are caused by noncardiac causes is therefore more likely in HFNEF than in HFREF trials. The present review ...
appreciate the size of the MVSA in this patient by noting that a retrospective review of cardiac computed tomography scans from 3402 patients revealed eight MVSAs, and the MVSA diameter ranged between 1.0 and 2.2 cm, ...
Full size table We simulated thresholds for 1000 model A fibers and 1000 model B fibers randomly positioned in the nerve cross section. We assumed a truncated normal distribution of diameters which we restricted to two standard deviations from the mean (A fibers: 7 to 11 μm, B fibers: ...
Full size image Table 3 shows that AW presents a high correlation of HR mean values with the GS in all situations (always higher than 0.998), while the correlation of PV and GS decreases as the level of physical activity increases. Table 3 Pearson correlation coefficients (r) of HR mean ...
Full size image Effect of training on subjective training tolerance The number of ‘worse than normal’ scores on the DALDA was 1.3 ± 1.0 units at LT. This value almost certainly increased to 7.3 ± 3.4 units at HT (ES = 2.54 ± 0.62; P = 0.001), before ...