Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia, and congestive heart failure is an increasingly frequent diagnosis as our population tends to age. Appropriate management of these patients has engaged clinicians for many years. It was long appreciated that atrial fibrillation, per se, without associated cardiac disease could result in congestive heart failure and that prompt...

1N T GENERAL, previous investigators have concluded that the capillary permeability to proteins is either normal or increased in patients with congestive failure." I t is difficult to reconcile such results with the consistent finding of increased plasma volume in congestive heart failure. In a previous study of normal individuals, iodinated serum albumin was used to measure the transcapillary ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the incidence of congestive heart failure and the survival in patients with congestive heart failure in Rochester, Minn, in 1981 with that observed in 1991. METHODS Population-based, descriptive epidemiological study with ecological and individual level comparisons over time. Olmsted County, Minnesota, where the Rochester Epidemiology Project provides passive surveillance...

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Two young White brothers had dilated (congestive) cardiomyopathy. The elder came to autopsy after a chronic course of congestive cardiac failure, the younger underwent repeated cardiac catheterization and transvenous right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy specimens demonstrated histopathological features in keeping with a diagnosis of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. These brothers may have ...

Introduction Up regulation of coagulation factors is a less understood phenomenon in congestive heart failure. Existing literature supports the fact that levels of von Willebrand factor, fibrinogen, ICAM, PECAM, P-selectin, d-dimer, fibrinogen, vascular cell adhesion molecules and platelet aggregation are significantly elevated in congestive heart failure [1-8]. The most frequently noted compli...

Few data are available on patients with multiple native valvular heart disease (VHD). To assess the characteristics, management, and survival of VHD. Among 5087 ≥ 1 severe left-sided VHD included in EURObservational II Survey, 3,571 had a single (group A, 70.2%), 363 one moderate other ipsilateral valve B, 7.1%) 1,153 (22.7%) 2 VHDs (left-sided and/or tricuspid regurgitation [TR], group C). Pat...

introduction: the clinical and paraclinical characteristics of patients with congestive heart failure (chf) have been described by a number of previous studies, but very little information is available on this issue in iran. this study aimed to delineate the clinical and paraclinical characteristics of iranian patients hospitalized with chf. methods: during an observational, analytical, descrip...

Background—Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac dysrhythmia and a source of considerable morbidity and mortality, but lifetime risk for AF has not been estimated. Methods and Results—We included all participants in the Framingham Heart Study who were free of AF at index ages of 40 years and older. We estimated lifetime risks for AF (including atrial flutter) to age 95 years, with...

To analyze the clinical effect of amiodarone in treatment congestive heart failure with ventricular arrhythmias elderly is objective study. A total 62 patients complicated arrhythmia who received our hospital from January 2020 to June 2021 were enrolled and randomly divided into conventional group group. The was given diuretic cardiotonic treatment, while on basis efficacy arrhythmias, adverse ...