in order to identify left ventricular diastolic function in patients with betathalassemia major and normal systolic function by noninvasive m-mode and doppler echocardiography, an analytic study was designed in a university hospital in sari. we have studied 44 patients (23 men and 21 women), mean age 15.48±2.16 (range 12 to 20) and 43 age and sex matched control subjects. peak flow velocity in ...

conclusions the eft, as measured by echocardiography, with a cut off value 2.95 mm has a strong association with premature cad. results among baseline characteristics, waist circumference, triglyceride levels, cigarette smoking and history of statin use were significantly higher in the cad group. the body mass index (bmi) was significantly higher in the non-cad group. according to echocardiogra...

Performance on the Embedded Figures Test (EFT) has been interpreted as a reflection of local/global perceptual style, weak central coherence and/or field independence, as well as a measure of intelligence and executive function. The variable ways in which EFT findings have been interpreted demonstrate that the construct validity of this measure is unclear. In order to address this lack of clari...

conclusions in this study we showed that eft, measured by echocardiography is higher in subjects with ai when compared to healthy controls. epicardial fat thickness had the best independent correlation with ai in multiple logistic regression analysis. incidentaloma is also associated with increased left ventricular mass index and cimt. adrenal incidentaloma patients may show early cardiac chang...

Previous studies on the prognostic significance of serum levels of androgens in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) have yielded conflicting results. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between serum concentration of testosterone and mortality in men with systolic CHF. A total of 175 elderly men (age ≥ 60 years) with CHF were recruited. Total testosterone (TT) and sex ho...

BACKGROUND The association between epicardial fat thickness (EFT) and premature coronary artery disease (CAD) has not been elaborately studied. OBJECTIVES In the present study, we sought whether such a relationship between EFT and CAD exists. PATIENTS AND METHODS Sixty two consecutive subjects, under 50 years of age, who underwent coronary angiography (CAG) with the aspect of CAD, were incl...

BACKGROUND Ventricular premature beats (VPBs) are one of the most common rhythm abnormalities. Structural heart diseases such as myocardial hypertrophy and left ventricular dysfunction are associated with VPBs. However, the exact mechanism of VPBs in patients without structural heart disease has not been revealed yet. Epicardial fat tissue (EFT) is a visceral fat around the heart. Increased EFT...

conclusions chronic smoking caused left ventricular diastolic dysfunction. acute intake caused left and right ventricular diastolic dysfunction. changes persisted up to 30 minutes after smoking, although diastolic blood pressure returned to normal state. objectives the current study aimed to evaluate the acute and chronic effects of smoking on the left and right ventricular (rv) diastolic funct...

In the previous studies on k-edge fault tolerance with respect to hypercubes Qn , matrices for generating linear k-EFT(Qn) graphs were used. Let EFT L(n, k) denote the set of matrices that generate linear k-EFT(Qn) graphs. A matrix in EFT L(n, k) with the smallest number of rows among all matrices in EFT L(n, k) is optimal. We use eftL(n, k) to denote the difference between the number of rows a...

conclusions there is a significant increased incidence of mortality, prolonged hospitalization, and rehospitalization in symptomatic patients with severe tr. therefore, we recommend more aggressive approach toward tv repair or replacement in these patients regardless of pap and systolic function. results heart failure (50%) was the most cause of death. mean years of survival from diagnosis of s...