Among dialysis patients, only 23% have a normal echocardiogram, about 10% have recurrent or chronic congestive heart failure, and 17% have asymptomatic ischemic heart disease. The predisposing factors for congestive heart failure are dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic hyperkinetic disease, and ischemic heart disease. Dilated cardiomyopathy, a disorder of systolic function, includes among its ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the correlation between the levels of urine calcium integrin binding protein-1 (CIB1) and serum precursor N-terminal brain natriuretic peptide (pro-BNP) and ischemic heart failure. PATIENTS AND METHODS 30 patients diagnosed as acute ischemic heart failure for the first time in our hospital from January to August 2016 were continuously selected as the observation group...

BACKGROUND Circulatory system diseases are the first cause of death in Brazil. OBJECTIVE To analyze the evolution of mortality caused by heart failure, by ischemic heart diseases and by ill-defined causes, as well as their possible relations, in Brazil and in the geoeconomic regions of the country (North, Northeast, Center-West, South and Southeast), from 1996 to 2011. METHODS Data were obt...

OBJECTIVE Ceruloplasmin was elevated in patients with coronary heart disease, but the relationship between ceruloplasmin and heart failure was still unknown. We aimed to evaluate ceruloplasmin in heart failure patients and assess association between ceruloplasmin and the extent of heart failure. METHODS AND RESULTS 202 heart failure patients were divided into ischemic (78 with coronary stenos...

There is a tremendous amount of evidence about the beneficial roles of statins, as related to primary and secondary prevention, for patients with ischemic heart disease. Many cardiologists are prescribing these drugs to their patients regardless of the left ventricular systolic function, and especially for patients with old myocardial infarction. After the report on the post-hoc analysis of the...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Heart failure with preserved systolic function accounts for almost 40% of heart failure cases. Prognosis is similar to that in patients with a low left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). However, it is not clear whether the etiology of heart failure with preserved systolic function has an effect on prognosis. METHODS We assessed 95 consecutive patients admitted ...

heart failure is common in patients with chronic renal disease, either as a complication of renal failure or from shared risk factors, or is the major cause of death in patients on dialysis. at present, end stage renal disease (esrd) patients who have systolic heart failure are considered high-risk for surgery; and nephrologists and cardiologists are reluctant to refer these patients for kidney...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The long-term risk of specific stroke subtypes among heart failure patients is largely unknown. We examined short-term and long-term risk of ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in heart failure patients and in a general population comparison cohort. METHODS In this nationwide cohort study (1980-2012), we used Danish populat...

background: echocardiographic evaluations of the longitudinal axis of the left ventricular (lv) function have been used in the diagnosis and assessment of heart failure with normal ejection fraction (hfnef). the evaluation of the global and segmental peak systolic longitudinal strains (pslss) by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (ste) may correlate with conventional echocardiogr...