A. Transapical trans-catheter aortic valve implantation in the presence of a mitral prosthesis. Masa ventricular izquierda inapropiada en una población de adultos jóvenes To the Editor, The concept of inappropriate left ventricular mass (iLVM) 1 was introduced to distinguish between compensatory increases in LVM and clinically relevant, maladaptive changes. 2 iLVM is that which exceeds the expe...

Abbreviations: BSA – basic surface area, H-LVH – hypertension with left ventricular hypertrophy, H­NLVH – hypertension with­ out left ventricular hypertrophy, IVST – interventricular septum thickness in diastole, LEPR – leptin receptor, LVDd – left ven­ tricular end­diastolic diameter, LVH – left ventricular hypertro­ phy, LVM – left ventricular mass, LVMI – left ventricular mass index, PVST – ...

Several advances in dialysis therapies have been made. Still, the mortality in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) remains high at rates exceeding 15%. Cardiovascular disease from heart failure or sudden death remains an important cause for mortality in these groups. The most common cardiac anomaly in ESRD is cardiac hypertrophy and this has been observed in 75% of patients at the time of starting d...

An insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) gene has been associated with increased risk for myocardial infarction, cardiomyopathy, carotid thickening, and cardiac hypertrophy. However, a conclusive agreement about the role of ACE genotype in the genetics of cardiovascular disease has not yet been reached. This study was undertaken to investigate the rela...

Objective. Little is known about the relations of fitness and fatness to left ventricular structure and function in obese adolescents. This project had 2 purposes: 1) to determine the correlations of cardiovascular fitness and adiposity to left ventricular parameters in obese adolescents; and 2) to see the effect of 8 months of physical training (PT) at low and high intensities. Design. Obese 1...

Background Automatic segmentation of the left ventricle (LV) is desirable to assess the cardiac parameters end-diastolic volume (EDV), end-systolic volume (ESV), ejection fraction (EF) and left ventricular mass (LVM) since manual segmentation is time consuming and observer dependent. A physiologically correct segmentation of the left ventricle requires careful consideration of the long axis dis...

BACKGROUND Plasma ghrelin exerts widespread bioactivities. Although it is effectively removed from the blood by a single course of haemodialysis, peritoneal clearance of ghrelin is uncertain. Our study aimed to determine (i) whether there is a correlation between plasma ghrelin levels and characteristics of peritoneal ghrelin clearance, and (ii) whether plasma ghrelin levels significantly impac...

Association of Increased Plasma Cardiotrophin-1 With Left Ventricular Mass Indexes in Normotensive Morbid Obesity To the Editor: We read with great interest the article by López et al,1 who hypothesize that cardiotrophin-1 (CT-1), a cytokine that induces cardiomyocyte growth, may be abnormally upregulated in hypertensive patients with inappropriate left ventricular mass (LVM), suggesting that a...

OBJECTIVE Our objective was to compare the degree of change in hemodynamics and left ventricular mass (LVM) regression after aortic valve replacement (AVR) with stentless, stented and mechanical valves. METHODS Patients greater than 59 years of age had AVR for aortic stenosis with the stentless xenograft (Cryolife-O'Brien, CLOB), stented xenograft (Carpentier-Edwards, C-E) or mechanical valve...

BACKGROUND Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a well known independent risk factor for cardiovascular events. It has been shown that combination of left ventricular mass (LVM) and relative wall thickness (RWT) can be used to identify different forms of left ventricular (LV) geometry. Prospective studies have shown that LV geometric patterns have prognostic implications, with the worst progno...