Besides its severe neurological injuries, spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) commonly causes cardiac complications. These complications could include three different aspects of cardiac diseases, that is, electrocardiographic abnormalities, myocardial injuries, and left ventricular dysfunction. These complications not only may lead to misdiagnosis of SAH as myocardial infarction, but also...

s Objectives: The aim of this study is to show the effects of left ventricular hypertrophy and geometric patterns on the left ventricular diastolic function in patients with essential hypertension. In addition, it’s aimed to identify whether the diastolic dysfunction is associated with systolic dysfunction. Finally, to determine the occurrence of the diastolic dysfunction in hypertensive patien...

BACKGROUND Screening for patients with asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction is of considerable importance because they may benefit from early treatment with angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors. It has been suggested that atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), and cyclic guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cGMP) might be useful markers for screening. OBJECTIVE ...

noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium is an embryonic cardiomyopathy that is increasingly being recognized. noncompaction of lv myocardium, right ventricular myocardium, or both can occur in isolation, in congenital heart diseases, in valvular heart diseases, in neuromuscular disorders, skeletal abnormalities and in endocrinologic abnormalities. clinical manifestations of ventricular non-...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To investigate the role of endothelial dysfunction on left ventricular remodeling in patients with chronic kidney disease and to evaluate the correlation between endothelial dysfunction and left ventricular remodeling. METHODS Seventy-three patients with chronic kidney disease as study-group and thirty healthy volunteers as control-group were enrolled in the present study. All...