BACKGROUND The predominant complication of bioprostheses is structural valve deterioration and the consequences of reoperation. The purpose of the study was to determine the mortality and risk assessment of that mortality for mitral bioprosthetic failure. METHODS AND RESULTS From 1975 to 1999, 1 973 patients received a heterograft bioprosthesis in 2 152 operations. The procedures were perform...

پژوهش حاضر به بررسی این مسأله می‌پردازد که چگونه نوعِ متد آموزشی می‌تواند بر میزان اضطراب زبانی دانشجویان زبان‌های خارجی تأثیر بگذارد. یک گروه 40 نفره از دختر و پسر در سطح پیش‌دانشگاهی به‌عنوان جامعه آماری انتخاب شدند. آموزش زبان فرانسه دو هفته‌ی اول، طریق گرامر-ترجمه انجام شد. پایان هفته تست تعیین مقیاس کلاس خارجی: FLCAS، بعمل آمد. دوم نوع رویکرد کنشی تغییر یافت. پس مجدداً فراگیران نتایج حاصله ن...

BACKGROUND Mild stages of heart failure might be difficult to diagnose in severely obese individuals with a body mass index (BMI) >40 kg/m(2). Measurement of the N-terminal fragment of pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is feasible for detecting cardiac impairment. The aims of our study were to measure NT-proBNP in plasma of severely obese patients and to compare the results with result...

BACKGROUND Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) improves symptoms, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and survival in patients with heart failure and wide QRS, however, long term clinical outcome is unknown. AIMS To identify predictors of mortality and evaluate the effects of CRT after long term follow-up. METHODS Consecutive patients treated with CRT between 1997 and 2002 were in...

INTRODUCTION Chagas disease is a major cause of cardiomyopathy and sudden death in our country. It has a high mortality when their patients develop New York Heart Association (NYHA) class IV. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to analyze the clinical outcome of patients with Chagas' cardiomyopathy with congestive heart failure with optimized pharmacological therapy, undergoing cardiac r...

Although heart failure (HF) is equally prevalent in men and women, women with HF are more likely to report decreased quality of life and are more likely to die of the disease compared with men. Moreover, HF has been studied less extensively in women and no study has specifically addressed women with New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III HF using a qualitative method. This pilot study soug...

AIMS Although the benefit of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in selected patients with heart failure is well established, its effect on mortality in New York Heart Association (NYHA) class IV patients remains unclear. Our study evaluated the effect of CRT on urgent transplant-free survival in NYHA class IV patients treated with CRT, compared with medication-only treatment. METHODS AND...

اساس برنامه‌ریزی و مدیریت صحیح داشتن آمار اطلاعات دقیق به‌هنگام است. یکی از مهم‌ترین بخش کشاورزی میزان تولید سالیانة هر محصول یا سطح زیرکشت ابزارهایی که در کمترین زمان با هزینة پایین دقت مناسب، می‌تواند محصولات را محاسبه کند دانش فنّاوری سنجش ‌از دور این تحقیق، دو روش طبقه‌بندی شبکة عصبی مصنوعی ماشین بردار پشتیبان استفاده‌ شده غالب منطقه، شامل هشت کلاس، تصاویر سری زمانی سنتینل‌ـ2 برآورد براساس ن...

BACKGROUND Current clinical practices used to functionally classify heart failure (HF) are time-consuming, expensive, or require complex calculations. This study aimed to design an inquiry list from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that could be used in routine clinical practice to resolve these problems. METHODS The severity of documented HF in 115 patients was classifie...