Peripheral Venoconstriction in Human Congestive Heart Failure

Peripheral venoconstriction in human congestive heart failure.

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IN CHILDREN: A SURVEY OF 114 PATIENTS

During a period of four years between June, IS, 1988 to June, IS, 1992 one hundred and fourteen patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) were admitted to the pediatric department of Taleghani General Hospital. During the above period, 192 patients with heart disease were hospitalized at this department and CHF was the cause of admission in 59.4% of them. Congenital heart disease (CHO) w...

Endothelin in human congestive heart failure.

BACKGROUND Although recent investigations report the elevation of plasma endothelin (ET) in congestive heart failure (CHF), it remains unclear if this elevation is that of the biologically active peptide ET-1 or of its precursor big-ET. Furthermore, it is unclear if such elevation is associated with increased myocardial ET and if the molecular form from cardiac tissue is altered ET. Last, it re...

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE Human myocardial histologic characteristics in congestive heart failure

The purpose of this study was to identify the histologic characteristics of human myocardium in congestive heart failure (CHF) by cellular hypertrophy, nuclear area, endocardial thickness, and percentage of fibrosis and to correlate histologic findings to cause, severity, and duration of disease. Right ventricular endomyocardial biopsies from 109 patients were quantitatively analyzed. Ten patie...

Peripheral Venoconstriction in Hunan

V ENOCONSTRICTION has been suggested as an explanation for a variety of observations made on animals and humans suffering from cardiac decompensation.'-5 We have used the method described by Litter and coworkers for measuring peripheral venous distensibility' to study this aspect of congestive heart failure in man. The method measures the increment of limb volume occurring in response to a know...