Heart failure is a growing health problem in the western world. Over the age of 40, the prevalence of heart failure is higher in men than in women, but this ratio is reversed after the age of 80. The aetiology of heart failure is mainly arterial hypertension in women, although ischemic heart disease can be important as well. The genetic basis for diff erences in aetiology is the chromosomic XY ...

background: we sought to determine the frequency of the risk factors for congestive cardiac failure (ccf) in a tertiary care hospital in peshawar, pakistan. methods: this retrospective, observational study was conducted in the department of cardiology, postgraduate medical institute, lady reading hospital peshawar, from march 2005 to september 2007. relevant information regarding the risk facto...

abstract background: infectious agents such as chlamydia pneumonia or helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) have been linked to ischemic heart disease (ihd) as the epidemiologic studies have shown. other studies believed that raised plasma fibrinogen level has been claimed as a possible link between h. pylori infection and ihd. methods: an analytic cross-sectional study was undertaken on 261 patients...

background: embolus is one of the causes of ischemic stroke that can be due to cardiac sources such as valvular heart diseases and atrial fibrillation and atheroma of the aorta. transesophageal echocardiography (tee) is superior in identifying potential cardiac sources of emboli. due to insufficient data on tee findings in ischemic stroke in iran, the present study was done to evaluate tee in d...

  Background: Embolus is one of the causes of ischemic stroke that can be due to cardiac sources such as valvular heart diseases and atrial fibrillation and atheroma of the aorta. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is superior in identifying potential cardiac sources of emboli. Due to insufficient data on TEE findings in ischemic stroke in Iran, the present study was done to evaluate TEE in...

Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) improvement is the cornerstone of LV reverse remodelling. It prognosticates heart failure with reduced (HFrEF). There limited data on clinical factors that predict LVEF among non-ischemic cardiomyopathy (NICM) patients in Malaysia.

during a period of four years between june, is, 1988 to june, is, 1992 one hundred and fourteen patients with congestive heart failure (chf) were admitted to the pediatric department of taleghani general hospital. during the above period, 192 patients with heart disease were hospitalized at this department and chf was the cause of admission in 59.4% of them. congenital heart disease (cho) was t...

Aim . Evaluate the overall effectiveness of cardiac contractility modulation (CCM) therapy in patients with chronic heart failure various etiology. Methods The study included 61 (NYHA class II-III), ejection fraction 20-40% and narrow QRS <130 ms, who were implanted CCM devices. Depending on etiology failure, ischemic cardiomyopathy prevailed (41 patients). All performed echocardiography, 6-...