5. disease of heart valve(s) Congestive Heart Failure •The heart does not adequately pump blood, which results in the inability to meet the metabolic needs of the body •Factors: preload, afterload and myocardial contractility (F&E, muscle itself, blood flow) ...
Heart valve disease (HVD) is the most common cardiac manifestation in the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). Valve lesions should be described according to the established definition. HVD is progressive despite anticoagulant/antiplatelet treatments. Around 4-6% of patients with HVD in APS will require ...
Sound waves produce images of your heart during an echocardiogram. This is a common test to see your heart beating and pumping blood. The images from an echocardiogram can help identify heart disease, detect congenital heart defects before birth and check for problems with the valves or chambers ...
How your heart medications or treatments are working that you have received for your heart disease. This test monitors your heart rate, breathing, blood pressure with an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG), and how tired you feel during the test. An exercise stress test: Identifies and predicts if...
- 《Journal of Heart Valve Disease》 被引量: 182发表: 2002年 The role of stress testing in evaluation of asymptomatic patients with aortic stenosis. haemodynamic consequences of aortic stenosis.Recent findingsBoth exercise stress test and exercise stress echocardiography are strictly contraindicated in ...
People can be born with heart disease. A True B False 11 Has heart disease ever been responsible for half of the deaths in America? A Yes B No 12 The most common type of heart disease in the U.S. is: A Coronary artery disease B Atrial fibrillation C Mitral valve prolapse...
"In the past, clinicians could have been falsely reassured by the results of the less sensitive troponin test, discharging patients that appeared to not have heart disease. This new high sensitivity test is the tool they needed, prompting them to look deeper and helping them to identify and tr...
Valsalva test- when the heart is monitored during the Valsalva maneuver, there is a characteristic complex sequence of cardiocirculatory events, departure from which indicates disease or malfunction. Medical Eponyms © Farlex 2012 Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a...
size and shape of the heart, pumping efficiency of the heart, valve abnormalities and other uses. It works like sonar, waves are transmitted into the chest and the reflection of the waves off the various parts of the heart is analyzed by sophisticated equipment. Well that will be short descr...
People can be born with heart disease. A True B False 11 Has heart disease ever been responsible for half of the deaths in America? A Yes B No 12 The most common type of heart disease in the U.S. is: A Coronary artery disease B Atrial fibrillation C Mitral valve prolapse...