Neuroendocrine activation is known to occur in patients with congestive heart failure, but there is uncertainty as to whether this occurs before or after the presence of overt symptoms. In the Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction (SOLVD), a multicenter study of patients with ejection fractions of 35% or less, we compared baseline plasma norepinephrine, plasma renin activity, plasma atrial na...

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INTRODUCTION Left ventricular hypertrophy and diastolic dysfunction in children and adolescents with essential hypertension tend to be underdiagnosed. The aims of this study were to investigate left ventricular hypertrophy and diastolic dysfunction in the subjects with essential hypertension defined by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. METHODS A total of 38 Korean subjects aged 9-19 years...

background: cardiac dysfunction due to chronic anemia and hemosiderosis are the major causes of death among patients with thalassemia intermedia. this study was performed to compare the cardiac function in thalassemia intermedia patients with normal subjects by means of echocardiography. materials and methods: this was a case-control study performed on 22 patients affected by thalassemia interm...

Left-ventricular non-compaction is a myocardial disease of the left ventricle, characterized by exces¬sive trabeculations. The diagnosis relies based on echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. We report case 23-years-old patient diagnosed for ventricular non compaction revealed sinus node dysfunction. This underlines importance using multimodality imaging approach to enable qui...