The structural and functional abnormalities that lead to cardiac death are coronary artery disease and left ventricular abnormalities related to remodelling (left ventricular hypertrophy, left ventricular systolic dysfunction, and left ventricular fibrosis). Aldosterone adversely affects all of these processes. It produces both a vasculopathy and left ventricular dysfunction and fibrosis. Endot...

introduction: psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by plaques covered with silvery scales. psoriasis is highly prevalent in different countries in the world, including iran. several studies have reported a significant association between psoriasis and cardiovascular diseases. this study aimed to evaluate the relationship between psoriasis and cardiac disease using echo...

Ethanol consumption is associated with left ventricular dysfunction in heavy ethanol drinkers. The effect of moderate ethanol intake on left ventricular function in hypertension, however, is unknown. We investigated the relationship between ethanol consumption and cardiac changes in nonalcoholic hypertensive patients. In 335 patients with primary hypertension, we assessed daily ethanol consumpt...

BACKGROUND Left-ventricular dysfunction associated with COPD exacerbation is frequently underestimated. We tested whether finger plethysmography waveform change during the Valsalva maneuver could aid in the distinction between patients with COPD exacerbation with and without left-ventricular dysfunction. METHODS We included 102 subjects with COPD exacerbation and 51 subjects with acute heart ...

this paper presents the case of a 35 year-old woman with symptoms of heart failure from the last month. a physical examination at admission showed paleness, dyspnea, peripheral edema and fatigue. in a two-dimensional echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography, normal thickness but severe left and right ventricular dysfunction with severe pericardial effusion and thickened pericardium...

In order to assess the role of right ventricular and left ventricular dysfunction in patients with cardiogenic shock associated with combined right ventricular and inferior myocardial infarction, we reviewed the clinical records and haemodynamic data of 18 patients with inferior myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock. Six of these patients had haemodynamic evidence of right ventricular dys...

Left ventricular systolic dysfunction related to ventricular arrhythmias is a relatively poorly understood entity. To increase our knowledge base, we describe 5 patients in whom the link between ventricular dysfunction and ventricular arrhythmia was unequivocally established. All patients had repetitive monomorphic ventricular arrhythmias and left ventricular systolic dysfunction (ejection frac...

conclusions despite the widespread use of 2d lvef and its good agreement with ventriculography, strain analysis seems to be more reliable as a quantitative tool for ventricular assessment. results the lvef values obtained by the two methods of ventriculography and echocardiography were not significantly different. the highest correlation regarding the echocardiographic lvef was obtained in the ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of right and left ventricular dysfunction in a prescreened population of patients with severe pulmonary disease, and to analyze the relationship between right and left ventricular function. DESIGN Retrospective record review of 434 patients with severe pulmonary disease. PATIENTS Patients with end-stage pulmonary disease, including alpha1-antitrypsin de...