The effects of acute volume loading were examined on indices of left ventricular (LV) function in conscious, unrestrained and intact, tranquilized baboons. Experiments were conducted 1-3 mo after implantation of ultrasonic transducers to measure LV internal diameter and wall thickness, and miniature LV pressure gauges and aortic and left atrial catheters. In 10 intact, tranquilized baboons, rap...

background: exercise and rehabilitation are important methods for decreasing the risk factors of coronary artery disease (cad). we aimed to evaluate the effect of the cardiac rehabilitation (cr) exercise program on the cardiac structure and physiology in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (pci). methods: in this randomized controlled study, 146 patients with cad were divided...

Results After aortic valve replacement there was a decrease in the ascending aorta and aortic root dimensions (p = 0.001, p = 0.001 respectively). Left ventricular end-diastolic diameter and ejection fraction did not changed significantly after AVR. There were the correlations between the preoperative ascending aortic size and the preoperative and after the first year left ventricular end-diast...

The effects of norepinephrine (0.1 and 1.0 Mg/kg, iv) on coronary blood flow and resistance, left ventricular pressure and diameter, dP/dt, (dP/dt)/P, and the velocity (Vlso) of myocardial fiber shortening were studied in conscious dogs. When the heart rate was held constant, norepinephrine caused an initial reduction in coronary vascular resistance which was associated with increases in mean a...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of systolic and diastolic dysfunction in patients of end stage renal disease (ESRD) on haemodialysis. METHODS Seventy patients with ESRD were subjected to two-dimensional and M mode echocardiography for determination of systolic and diastolic dysfunction. All patients were evaluated clinically, biochemically and radiologically and were diagnosed as chronic k...

conclusions in this study there is no correlation between the main lv diastolic indices derived by spect and echocardiography, may be due to the main changes in the last version of guidline for assessment of lv diastolic function by echocardiography. results the population study consisted of 19 male and 30 female with the average age of 58.2 years.there is a mild negative correlation between pf...

Aging decreases the distensibility of large elastic arteries; however, the effects of age on the functional parameters of muscular, medium-sized arteries are not well determined. This study evaluated the consequences of aging on the functional parameters of the carotid and radial arteries in normotensive men. A total of 62 elderly subjects (aged 74+/-2 years) were compared with 87 young subject...

An approach to the quantitative assessment of left ventricular (LV) diastolic stiffness in man has been developed utilizing strip-chart recordings of simultaneous ultrasonic LV dimensions, LV pressure, and electrocardiogram (ECG). In 23 patients without regional abnormalities of contraction, LV pressure, and LV internal diameter (D = distance between endocardial surfaces of LV posterior wall an...

OBJECTIVE To asses the values of echocardiographic measurements in normal children without cardiopathy and to build percentile curves, relating them to the body surface (BS, m(2)). METHODS We analyzed M-mode echocardiographic measurements for children between one and 144 months of age. We assessed right ventricular diastolic diameter (RVDd, mm) and left ventricular diastolic diameter (LVDd, m...