Several observational studies have indicated that selection of pacing mode may be important for the clinical outcome in patients with symptomatic bradycardia, affecting the development of atrial fibrillation (AF), thromboembolism, congestive heart failure, mortality and quality of life. In this paper we present and discuss the most recent data from six randomized trials on mode selection in ...

We hypothesized that uptitration of ? blockade and adjustment of pacing parameters to achieve a prevalence of single chamber atrial inhibited rate-responsive (AAIR) pacing in patients with dual-chamber implantable cardioverter--defibrillators (ICDs) would result in maximization of ?-blocker dosage and thus decrease appropriate ICD therapies. We included ...

PurposeThe optimal pacing mode with either single chamber atrial pacemaker (AAI or AAIR) or dual chamber pacemaker (DDD or DDDR) is still not clear in sinus-node dysfunction (SND) and intact atrioventricular (AV) conduction.Materials and MethodsPatients who were implanted with permanent pacemaker using AAI(R) (n = 73) or DDD(R) (n = 113) were compared.ResultsThe baseline characteristics were ...

Changes in left ventricular internal diameter resulting from increasing intrapericardial pressure induced by increasing the pericardial fluid volume were studied in closed chest, anaesthetized dogs. Left ventricular internal diameters were measured by pla...

A 49-year-old male patient presented with recently acquired vertigo induced by noise or pressure to the left ear. With appropriate stimulation, oscillopsia with a rotatory component could be reproduced in videooculography. Cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) showed increased amplitudes and a lowered threshold on the ...

We report on a 44-year-old woman presenting with chest pain and dyspnoea without previous stress-related events. By means of echocardiography severe left ventricular dysfunction and wall motion abnormalities resembling stress-induced cardiomyopathy (Tako Tsubo) were seen. Laboratory investigation revealed thyrotoxicosis and elevated cardiac markers. Six ...

primarily the anterior left ventricle. The mechanism of the occlusive ...... during fibrillation induced by a decrease in extracellular ...

... fold higher than the normal operating output induced ventricular fibrillation in ... animal was stimulated with output electrodes on the left hindquarter to ...

... Certain exercise induced electrocardiographic arrhythmias, such as ventricular or supraventricular tachycardia, or left bundle branch block, also are ...

A left-handed patient suddenly developed a right hemiparesis, mirror-reading, and mirror-writing. Although he could discriminate between right and left on himself, he demonstrated right/left spatial disorientation. We propose that his right/left spatial disorientation was induced by a scanning ...

A loop of wire travels from the right to the left through an inhomogeneous magnetic field as shown in the animation. The induced emf in the loop is shown in Volts as is the direction of the induced current.

... Pressure taps were installed on the lower surface of the left wing to measure the change in the pressures distributions induced by the jets. ...

This book shows that constituent structure analysis induces an irregular order of linear composition which is the direct cause of extreme computational inefficiency. It proposes an alternative left-associative grammar which operates with a regular order of linear compositions. Left-associative grammar is based on building up and ...

out in atomic hydrogen and neon. In each case the existence of left-handed properties is predicted that a slab of left- handed materials is able, for instance, to focus light into a spot much smaller than the occurrence of a left-handed domain in hydrogen and neon gases with Ref"rg

A case of isolated left main coronary artery stenosis ten years following irradiation of the mediastinum for Hodgkin's disease is presented. Aortic biopsies were consistent with changes suggestive of radiation arteritis.

... 1a) or under the outer margin of the left wing of the 0- to 4-day-old pupa ( ... 2 Normal wing color patterns of P. xuthus. Left wings of the (a) male and (b) female show ... ...

The dynamic changes in the coronary circulation and the response to drugs were studied following experimentally induced coronary insufficiency. Flow measurements were made in the left circumflex and descending branches of the coronary artery, and in the a...

BackgroundThe left cerebral hemisphere predominance in human focal epilepsy has been observed in a few studies, however, there is no related systematic study in epileptic animal on hemisphere predominance. The main goal of this paper is to observe if the epileptiform discharges (EDs) of Pilocarpine-induced epileptic rats could present difference between ...

Melatonin has blocked adventitious movements induced by L-dopa in intact mice. It has reversed the adventitious turning to the right, and it has induced running to the left in mice receiving L-dopa after a lesion in the right caudate nucleus.

personal life. We hope that he stays with us for a long time. .... stress- inducing life events. So when. I left the cozy confines of the ...

... We studied heart-arterial interaction in hypertension- induced left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) using a LV time- varying elastance model coupled ...

... mice. A left inguinal mammary gland tumor was first detected (approximately 1 cm) at 40 days post initial NMU injection. ...

... was used to monitor the iodine concentration transients which arose in the left ventricular lumen and in a discrete region of the myocardium after an ...

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: Potential field in the heart in transvenous de- fibrillation (wire electrodes in the right ventricle; LV/RV=left/right ventricle; LA/RA= left/right atrium; LL/RL=left/right lung; PA=pulmonary artery; skm mapping, resulting from de- fibrillation induced fields can be obtained and used to op- timize electrode

with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) has induced regression of many morphological and functional-based studies enabled by the use of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) in some patients awaiting cardiac remodeling: lessons from left ventricular assist device experiments. J Card Fail. 2002; ...

Shone's anomaly describes a complex involving multiple left sided cardiac obstructions, namely, parachute deformity of the mitral valve, supravalvular ring of the left atrium, subaortic stenosis and aortic coarctation. We are reporting a case of Shone's anomaly characterised by aortic recoarctation, mitral supravalvular membrane, bicuspid aortic valve, ...

tachycardia. B: stretch-induced ventricular fibrillation. MAP, monophasic action potential; LVV, left of regional heterogeneity in the left ventricle. In: Theory of Heart, edited by Glass L, Hunter P, and Mc, and Zerhouni EA. Temporal evolution of the three dimensional defor- mation in the ischemic human left ...

Cortico-limbic brain activity associated with anger may be susceptible to nicotine and, thus, may contribute to smoking initiation and nicotine addiction. The purpose of the study was to identify the brain regions that are most reactive to nicotine and show the greatest association with anger task performance. Twenty adult nonsmokers (9 women, 11 men) participated in two laboratory sessions to ...

A case of obstructive jaundice due to radiation-induced hepatic duct stricture is reported. The patient received postoperative radiation for left adrenal carcinoma, seven years prior to this admission. The sequelae of hepatobiliary radiation and their management are discussed briefly.

Low levels of carboxyhemoglobin can cause significant changes in coronary blood flow. Hypoxia induced by the elevation of COHb appears to have a different effect on the cardiovascular system than hypoxia induced by lowering the inspired oxygen. If the ins...

A three-year-old male child with Wilm's tumor of left kidney and right sided unilateral renal agenesis is reported. The left renal vein was located posterior to the aorta. He was managed with medical measures alone. The initial phase of treatment was complicated by chemotherapy induced dislodgment of the tumor fragment and subsequent ...

A patient with congestive cardiomyopathy, induced by ventricular tachycardia, is presented. The patient had chronic ventricular tachycardia, which persisted 4 months and was eventually successfully treated by an antitachycardia pacemaker. A severe left ventricular dysfunction persisted after treatment for some days and then gradually resolved. After 3 ...

We present the case of a 75-year-old woman with a medical history of rheumatoid arthritis treated with hydroxychloroquine, who was admitted with acute left-sided heart failure due to a hydroxychloroquine-induced cardiomyopathy as supported by endomyocardial biopsy. PMID:21826515

An exercise test may be characterized as positive because of the production of either electrocardiographic ST-segment depression or elevation. The relationship of exercise-induced ST-segment deviation to the specific motion abnormalities of the individual segments of the left ventricular wall was investigated. The first 280 subjects to enter the Program of ...

Photoplethysmography (PPG) measures the cardiac-induced fluctuations and other changes in tissue blood volume by light transmission measurement. In the current study, light transmission was simultaneously measured in the two index fingers of healthy subjects, while the brachial artery in the left arm was occluded by a pressure cuff, so that no PPG signal ...

The internal mammalian body plan is laterally asymmetric with a consistent handedness such that some organs are placed on one side (stomach on the left, for example) and paired organs are not symmetric (for example, there are more lung lobes on the right). Some chemical teratogens can affect the development of asymmetry, and some can cause asymmetric defects in overtly ...

Inappropriate left ventricular mass is present when the value of left ventricular mass exceeds individual needs to compensate hemodynamic load imposed by increased blood pressure. The goal of this study was to investigate whether plasma concentration of cardiotrophin-1, a cytokine that induces exaggerated hypertrophy in cardiomyocytes ...

The present study is an angiographic demonstration of coronary artery spasm during both spontaneous and exercise-induced angina in three patients with variant angina. In each case, clinical, ECG, coronary angiographic, and left ventriculographic observations were made at rest, during spontaneous angina, and during exercise-induced ...

Impaired left ventricular function and extensive coronary artery disease are important determinants of prognosis after acute myocardial infarction. The ability of clinical and predischarge submaximal exercise test variables to predict multivessel coronary artery disease and impaired left ventricular function was assessed in 62 survivors of acute myocardial ...

Startle-induced epilepsy was observed in a 5-year-old boy with epidermal nevus syndrome. He manifested linear nevus on the face and neck, mild mental retardation, and right hemiparesis. Massive myoclonus, followed by tonic seizures, had been triggered by unexpected auditory stimuli since 3 years of age. The startle-induced seizures were the only epileptic ...

Sniffing out of sight always the same colorless and odorless solution containing no thermal agents while viewing a bottle with colored water increases sensitivity of the left nostril/right hemisphere (RH) for warming sensations and sensitivity of the right nostril/left hemisphere (LH) for cooling sensations. It is likely that engagement in a temperature ...

The case of a right-to-left shunt-induced hypoxemia with an abnormal return of the inferior vena cava (AIVCR) into the left atrium (LA) is reported in a 30-year-old male with cyanosis and polycythemia. The chest X ray and the lung CT scan was normal. Spirometry was normal but the transfert-CO coefficient (KCO) was lowered. Hypoxemia ...

Radionuclide angiocardiography was used to assess cardiac function during isometric handgrip and bicycle exercise in ten normal volunteers and in 20 patients with documented coronary artery disease. Handgrip stress evoked a small increase in cardiac output that resulted from a concomitant increase i heart rate and no change in left-left-ventricular function. The most reliable ...

Infectious endocarditis sometimes causes coronary embolism which induces acute myocardial infarction. A 59-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with a diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction accompanied by left ventricular free wall rupture and papillary muscle rupture. We perfomed mitral valve replacement combined with repair of ...

Improved multiwire chamber having means for resolving the left/right ambiguity in the location of an ionizing event. The chamber includes a plurality of spaced parallel anode wires positioned between spaced planar cathodes. Associated with each of the anode wires are a pair of localizing wires, one positioned on either side of the anode wire. The localizing wires are connected ...

We analyze the properties of microstructured materials with negative refraction, the so-called left-handed metamaterials. We consider a two-dimensional periodic structure created by arrays of wires and split-ring resonators embedded into a nonlinear dielectric, and calculate the effective nonlinear electric permittivity and magnetic permeability. We demonstrate that the ...

Left subclavian arterioesophageal fistula resulting from chicken bone ingestion is a rare occurrence. The authors report the death of a 42-year-old Thai female with mental retardation who presented to the hospital with severe hematemesis and arrested Death occurred about 24 hours after laparotomy due to hypovolemic shock Postmortem examination revealed a chicken bone embedded ...

Violent coughing is associated with a multitude of complications including rib fractures and diaphragmatic rupture. In this report we present a case of a 70-year-old male with the rare combination of both complications resulting in herniation of bowel into the left hemithorax and subcutaneously between the separated ribs. Surgical repair was performed via a ...

We report a case of pulmonary edema experienced in a patient with severe left ventricular dysfunction without an obvious cause. Thus, we tested the hypothesis of a dynamic increase in the severity of (ischemic) mitral regurgitation. Right- and left-heart cardiac catheterization was performed before and after 2 minutes of maximal handgrip. We observed an ...

Experimental left varicocele (ELV) is known to induce bilateral changes in the rat testis that, where comparisons are possible, are similar to the changes induced by unilateral varicocele in the human. In the present study, we have determined whether or not left adrenal products are important to the changes ...

A novel approach has been employed to characterize the effects of a cardioactive drug on left ventricular haemodynamics and volume by simultaneously determining cardiac stroke volume (thermodilution) and left ventricular ejection fraction (nuclear probe). The effects of glyceryl trinitrate were evaluated in 12 patients with angiographically proven coronary ...

Left-sided expression of Nodal in the lateral plate mesoderm (LPM) during early embryogenesis is a crucial step in establishing the left-right (L-R) axis in vertebrates. In the chick, it was suggested that chick Cerberus (cCer), a Cerberus/Dan family member, induces Nodal expression by antagonizing bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) ...

Hemobilia occurred in a 70 year old female from the left hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm induced by PTBD. A Tracker-18 catheter introduced into the left lateral posterior hepatic artery superselectively and embolization was performed with both sponge gel and Ivalon. This new coaxial catheter system allowed selective occlusion of the ...

A 1.5-year-old, spayed, female dachshund was presented with a cataract and lens-induced uveitis in the left eye. The cataract progressed from immature to hypermature in 4 months. Phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation was performed and the dog remains visual in the left eye 1 year post-surgery.

and negative refractive index. We demonstrate bistable switching and tunable nonlinear transmission, we study defect-induced bistable switching in these band-gap structures and compare the effects obTunable transmission and bistability in left-handed band-gap structures Michael W. Feise,a) Ilya V

Paroxysmal atrioventricular (AV) block was induced by exercise in an otherwise healthy young man. The only abnormalities demonstrated at comprehensive cardiac evaluation were: 1) angiographic systolic narrowing of the left anterior descending coronary artery, and 2) reversible radionuclide hypoperfusion of the septum during exercise. It is postulated that ...

, Naka Y, Oz MC, Marks AR, Burkhoff D. Left ventricular assist device support normalizes left and right ventricular assist device support in patients with severe heart failure: a primary role of mechanical ventricular assist device- induced reverse ventricular remodeling. Prog Cardiovasc Dis 43:19-26, 2000. Heerdt

We describe a case of secondary hypertension caused by renal arteriovenous fistula. An 8-year old girl was hospitalized with a severe headache, vomiting, and seizure. Renal angiography demonstrated multiple renal arteriovenous fistula and increased blood renin concentration in the left renal vein. Thus, left renal arteriovenous fistula and renin ...

A switch in the expression of myosin heavy chain isoform (MHC) alpha to beta is observed with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and heart failure. This switch is associated with a defect in myocardial energy production and contractile dysfunction. Similar MHC isoform profile is observed in the fe...

We discuss how a three-level system can be used to change the frequency-dependent magnetic permeability of an atomic gas to be significantly different from 1. We derive the conditions for such a scheme to be successful and briefly discuss the resulting macroscopic electrodynamics. We find that it may be possible to obtain left-handed electrodynamics for an atomic gas using ...

at a 6-mm-diameter area of left ventricle (see Fig. 34.1). We detected saturation and subsequent decay.E., and Kalman, J.M. (1999) Left atrial mechanical function after brief duration atrial fibrillation. J. Am. Coll to terminate atrial and ventricular fibrillation. If shock-induced changes in transmembrane potential

Development in the 1950s of the transseptal technique for left heart catheterization is described. Initial studies in animals and human cadavers were followed up by left atrial puncture with measurements of left atrial and left ventricular (LV) pressure (the latter using a small plastic catheter) in patients with ...

A 76-year-old patient presented with a recurrent mass of a malignant chondrosarcoma in the right infratemporal fossa and in the left maxillary sinus with orbital invasion. The patient was treated with a palliative intention with MR-guided laser-induced thermotherapy using a modified applicator technique. Following treatment clinical symptoms improved and ...

Cardiovascular changes induced by weightlessness were assessed by ultrasound echography and doppler using the As de coeur device. During the flight the left atrium and ventricle volumes were decreased. Despite the reduction of the stroke volume, the cardi...

Reversing prisms are known to produce symptoms of motion sickness, and have been used to provide a chronic stimulus for training subjects on symptom recognition and regulation. However, testing procedures with reversing prisms have not been standardized. ...

Contents include: Left ventricular induced respiratory changes in angina pectoris; The clinical, hemodynamic, and coronary arteriographic chronology of intractable angina pectoris; Coronary heart disease: asymptomatic phase and intractable angina pectoris...

... The classroom/open area was used for briefing/debriefing subjects, ... back 45 degrees, (3) tilt left 45 degrees, (4) tilt right 45 degrees, with retum to ...

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Mar 1, 2011 ... It excites left-hand-polarized shear Alfven waves and their harmonics via the ... shock-induced deformations and transformations, creating new mineral ... Numerical experiments have indicated great sensitivity to the ...

... The helicity Pcic of the incident light varied from -1 (left handed circular, cr) to + 1 (right handed circular, or) according to Pcirc = sin 2p were p is the ...

A loop of wire travels from the right to the left through an inhomogeneous magnetic field. (The green line is at x=0 is for your reference.) The induced emf in the loop is shown in Volts in the animation.

The wire on the right is pulled to the right for 5 seconds and then to the left for 5 seconds as shown. You may pause the simulation and read the coordinate values by click-dragging the mouse at any time. The meter displays the induced emf in millivolts.

, that is, the arrival of an action potential at the synapse induces the secretion of a neurotransmitter) or a decrease (inhibitory synapse). Left: Schematic diagram showing release of neurotransmitter as vesicle of neurotransmitters that causes a change in the membrane conductance of the postsynaptic neuron. This postsynaptic

number of defects in films from which H has evolved is much less than the number of H atoms that have left the films. If hydrogen is mediating the annealing of light-induced...

Cardiokymography (CKG) is a non-invasive test to detect stress induced motion abnormalities of the anterior left ventricular wall of the heart for coronary artery disease (CAD). CKG involves translation of heart wall motion into a variable electrical sign...

A study was undertaken to induce myocardial infarction in unanesthetized monkeys. During surgery, a snare was placed loosely around the left anterior descending coronary artery in 60 monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Several days later, myocardial infarction was ...

Mar 1, 2011 ... It excites left-hand-polarized shear Alfven waves and their harmonics via the ... shock-induced deformations and transformations, creating new mineral ... Numerical experiments have indicated great sensitivity to the ...

Mar 1, 2011 ... It excites left-hand-polarized shear Alfven waves and their harmonics via ... shock-induced deformations and transformations, creating new mineral phases ... Numerical experiments have indicated great sensitivity to the ...

A 64-year-old male with giant left atrium and giant coronary sinus, who had aortic valve regurgitation, prosthesis valve paravalvular leakage in mitral position and prosthesis valve malfunction in tricuspid valve position, was successfully treated with double valve replacement, paravalvular leakage repair and volume reduction of left atrium and coronary ...

Anomalous aortic origin of the coronary artery is a rare cardiac anomaly which induces myocardial ischemia and is associated with sudden death. We operated on a 25-year-old female with syncopal episodes who had an intramural left coronary artery. A neo-ostium was created in the left sinus but the initial neo-ostium seemed small because ...

An elderly gentleman had a dissection of the left main coronary artery (LMCA) during coronary angiography. There were critical lesions in the left anterior descending (LAD) and left circumflex arteries. Both the LMCA and the LAD lesions were successfully stented in the same sitting. Thereafter the patient remained symptom free and the ...

?-dl-Difluoromethylarginine (DFMA) and ?-dl-difluoromethylornithine (DFMO), specific irreversible inhibitors of putrescine biosynthesis were applied to Nicotiana tabacum var. Xanthi nc during floral induction. DFMO, but not DFMA, induced a phenotype in tobacco that resembles the transformed phenotype attributed to the root-inducing, ...

A case is presented of a 17-month-old female who acutely refused to bear weight on her left leg. A mass was felt and initially thought to represent a neoplasm. There were no constitutional symptoms. MRI demonstrated an area of edema involving the vastus medialis, vastus intermedius, and vastus lateralis with central fluid collection. Culture of the fluid component yielded no ...

A 14-year-old girl developed a radiation-induced sarcoma of the left breast after successful combined surgical and radiation therapy of a left adrenal carcinoma when she was 9 months old. The breast lesion was histologically described as a stromal sarcoma with fibrosarcomatous and myxosarcomatous areas. The second primary lesion and ...

Granulomatous lens-induced uveitis was diagnosed in a mature male barred owl. Initial ocular examination revealed a large white mass in the left eye. Differential diagnoses for the mass included intraocular granuloma, neoplasia, foreign body, bacterial or fungal enophthalmitis, and fibrotic hematoma. After enucleation of the left ...

Field tests have been carried out which permitted direct measurement of disconnect switch operation induced transients in an operating 500 kV substation. These measurements indicate that transients do not exceed 2 pu at the point of measurement and that the trapped charge left on the load side is less than 0.3 pu. Further study of the way in which ...

Left ventricular hypertrophy is considered a risk for cardiac failure. In an attempt to understand the molecular basis of antioxidant changes during ventricular hypertrophy, we have used isoproterenol treated rats. Our studies showed that administration of high doses of isoproterenol induced oxidative and nitrosative stress, expressed as decreased level of ...

Chest trauma can lead to various cardiac complications ranging from simple arrhythmias to myocardial rupture. A variety of injuries to the coronary arteries, including laceration, thrombosis, intimal dissection, arteriovenous fistula and pseudoaneurysm formation following blunt trauma have been rarely reported. We report a very unusual case of distal embolization of left ...

BackgroundValvular aortic stenosis is the most common cause of left ventricular hypertrophy due to gradually increasing pressure work. As the stenosis develop the left ventricular hypertrophy may lead to congestive heart failure, increased risk of perioperative complications and also increased risk of sudden death. A functional porcine model imitating the ...

1 Because controversy exists regarding the effects of dihydroergotamine (DHE) on the performance of underperfused myocardium, the effects of DHE were investigated in a model of exercise-induced regional myocardial dysfunction in conscious dogs. 2 We also investigated a possible functional antagonism between DHE and nitroglycerin that might reduce the latter drug's antianginal ...

AimsOur aim was to test the hypothesis that the repeated, binge administration of methamphetamine would produce oxidative stress in the myocardium leading to structural remodeling and impaired left ventricular function.Methods and resultsEchocardiography and Millar pressure�volume catheters were used to monitor left ventricular structure and function in ...

We investigated changes in behavior and brain glucose metabolism in a rat chronic mild stress (CMS) model of depression. The CMS model has been used to mimic depression in humans by using various chronic mild stressors in a 4 weeks period. In the present study, we have developed a combination of tests examining behavior (open field test) and hedonic measure (sucrose preference test) after exposure ...

The aim of this study was to establish whether analysis of the left ventricular pressure waveform provides indicative information about cardiac load and contractility and to develop an algorithm for computer-based assessment of changes in these variables. In eight healthy standard breed anaesthetized open-chest pigs, a high frequency response guide-wire mounted pressure sensor ...

Reading epilepsy (RE) is an idiopathic reflex epilepsy syndrome characterized by perioral myoclonic jerks (PMJs) during reading associated with left-dominant frontotemporal spike-wave discharges (SWDs). To better understand the pathophysiology of this syndrome, we studied a 45-year-old patient using magnetic source imaging (MSI). The patient underwent two whole-head ...

A chronically implanted inflatable balloon was used to produce distension of a left pulmonary vein at its junction with the left atrium in trained conscious dogs. Balloon inflation caused a fall in the amounts of water drunk in response to injection of isoproterenol, infusion of hypertonic NaCl, or overnight water deprivation. There was also a significant ...

Consistent left-right patterning is a fascinating and biomedically important problem. In the chick embryo, it is not known how cells determine their position (left or right) relative to the primitive streak, which is required for subsequent asymmetric gene expression cascades. We show that the subcellular localization of Vangl2, a core planar cell polarity ...

Viewing another person's hand actions enhances excitability in an observer's left and right primary motor (M1) cortex. We aimed to determine whether viewing communicative hand actions alters this bilateral sensorimotor resonance. Using single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), we measured excitability in the left and right M1 while right-handed ...

Viewing another person's hand actions enhances excitability in an observer's left and right primary motor (M1) cortex. We aimed to determine whether viewing communicative hand actions alters this bilateral sensorimotor resonance. Using single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), we measured excitability in the left and right M1 while right-handed ...

Blood pressure elevation has numerous sequelae, including myocardial infarction, stroke, congestive heart failure, end-stage renal disease, and peripheral vascular disease in adults. The impact of blood pressure elevation on target organs in children and adolescents has been less well studied. The most useful measure of cardiac effects of hypertension is the echocardiogram. Studies have now ...

Seven men ranging in age from 35 to 63 years with a chest pain syndrome and cineangiographically documented systolic narrowing of the left anterior descending coronary artery underwent thallium-201 myocardial scintigraphy and gated cardiac blood pool imaging. Grade II (50 to 75 percent) systolic coronary arterial constriction was present in three patients and grade III ...

Spontaneously hypertensive rats were given an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor (benazepril or quinapril) or hydralazine and were left for up to 6 hr. To examine whether administration of antihypertensive agents affects expression of immediate early genes in left ventricular myocardium, groups of rats were sacrificed at 1, 3, and 6 hr after ...

Positron emission tomography was used to examine the cerebral networks underlying number comparison and multiplication in eight normal volunteers. Cerebral blood flow was measured within anatomical regions of interest defined in each subject using magnetic resonance imaging. Three conditions were used: rest with eyes closed, mental multiplication of pairs of arabic digits and larger-smaller ...

The occurrence of atrial tachycardias (AT) is a direct function of the volume of atrial tissue ablated in the patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Thus, the incidence of AT is highest in persistent AF patients undergoing stepwise ablation using the strategic combination of pulmonary vein isolation, electrogram based ablation and left atrial linear ablation. Using deductive ...

Nucleation in 30 pct rolled high-purity aluminum samples was investigated by the electron backscattering pattern method before and after annealing. A total of 29 nuclei including two twins were observed, and approximately one third of these nuclei had orientations not detected in the deformed state. Possible orientation relations between these nuclei and the deformed state were by 20 to 55 deg ...

Nucleation in 30 pct rolled high-purity aluminum samples was investigated by the electron backscattering pattern method before and after annealing. A total of 29 nuclei including two twins were observed, and approximately one third of these nuclei had orientations not detected in the deformed state. Possible orientation relations between these nuclei and the deformed state were by 20 to 55 deg ...

Platypnea-orthodeoxia is a rare syndrome characterized by dyspnea induced by the upright position and relieved by supine position and an arterial deoxygenation increased by the upright position which improves during recumbency. In many cases, this syndrome has been associated with patent foramen ovale and right-to-left shunt. Several anatomical factors ...

Vitamin D? and nicotine (VDN) serve as an animal model of arterial calcification. The vascular calcification induced by the VDN model is always accompanied by compensatory left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy and impaired cardiac performance. To determine the possible mechanisms that are responsible for the effects of VDN on the LV, a 2-DE based proteomics ...

We present a 46-year-old man who developed repetitive focal tonic-clonic seizure-like involuntary movement in the left lower extremity after a left basal ganglia (BG) hemorrhage. His symptoms were induced only by voluntary movement of the left lower extremity and were followed by transient paralysis. ...

We report the rare presentation of lacunar stroke syndrome secondary to single perforator mouth occlusion from radiation-induced middle cerebral artery (MCA) stem arteriopathy. A 30-year-old female had acute-onset right-sided ataxic hemiparesis and dysarthria. As a child, she had a medulloblastoma of the posterior fossa and had surgery followed by cranial radiotherapy. She had ...

The concentration of myocardial cyclic AMP was measured in 9 dogs by radioimmunoassay after the administration of aminophylline. Fourteen dogs served as control. The concentration of cyclic AMP in the left ventricle was the highest and the lowest value was obtained in the right atrium in the control dogs. Ventricular fibrillations were induced immediately ...

In a prospective double blind randomised study in 25 consecutive patients a conventional ionic contrast medium (Urografin 370) was compared with the new non-ionic medium iohexol 350 ( Omnipaque ) in left ventriculography and coronary arteriography. In left ventriculography there was a clear patient preference for iohexol by both a visual analogue scale and ...

This report presents an interesting case of acute myocardial stunning secondary to catecholamine surge from a phaeochromocytoma. A 39-year-old British Asian man was admitted with chest pain, labile blood pressure, dynamic ECG changes and positive troponin I level. Echocardiogram showed severe global impairment of his left ventricular systolic function but sparing of the basal ...

Perinephritic hypertension was produced in dogs by wrapping one kidney with silk and removing the contralateral kidney 1 week later. Mean arterial pressure rose from 104 +/- 3 to 156 +/- 11 mm Hg, while left ventricular free wall weight, normalized for body weight, was increased by 49%. Muscarinic, cholinergic receptor density measured with (/sup 3/H)-quinuclidinyl benzilate, ...

Left ventricular function was investigated in 86 patients with single vessel coronary artery disease before and three to six months after successful angioplasty. Before angioplasty thallium-201 perfusion scintigraphy and technetium-99m gated equilibrium ventriculography in most patients showed that stress testing (exercise and ice water stimulation and isometric handgrip ...

Since the description of late diastolic mitral regurgitation (MR) detected by left ventriculography, the risk of overestimating systolic MR has been pointed out. However, it has not been well studied by pulsed Doppler echocardiography, though this method is thought to be extremely useful to analyze systolic MR. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of pulsed ...

We showed that the paraphenylenediamine (PPD) poisoning caused myocarditis but there is no data on the echocardiographic features. We report a case of myocarditis induced by PPD poisoning with echographic data. After ingestion of 5 g of PPD, a 18-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with asphyxia and rhabdomyolysis. An electrocardiogram showed ventricular extrasystoles ...

BACKGROUND: Pharmacological and ablative therapies for atrial fibrillation (AF) have suboptimal efficacy. Newer gene-based approaches that target specific mechanisms underlying AF are likely to be more efficacious in treating AF. Parasympathetic signaling appears to be an important contributor to AF substrate. OBJECTIVE: To develop a non-viral gene-based strategy to selectively inhibit vagal ...

Stress-induced cardiomyopathy, which is also known as takotsubo cardiomyopathy, is a cardiac syndrome of a transient, reversible left ventricular dysfunction that is caused by emotional and/or physical stress and surgery. Its clinical manifestations are similar to those of myocardial ischemia without a coronary artery lesion. ...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of the embryo transfer (ET) maneuvers on plasma progesterone concentrations in recipient Lama glama females and the relationship between the site the embryo was transferred to and corpus luteum (CL) localization. Experiment I (effect of transcervical threading): adult non-pregnant, non-lactating llama females were randomly assigned into two ...

We have previously shown that patients with resistant hypertension and hyperaldosteronism have increased brain natriuretic peptide suggestive of increased intravascular volume. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that hyperaldosteronism contributes to cardiac volume overload. Thirty-seven resistant hypertensive patients with hyperaldosteronism (urinary aldosterone ? 12 ?g/24h and plasma ...

Convergent findings point to a left-sided specialization for the representation of learned actions in right-handed humans, but it is unknown whether analogous hemispheric specialization exists for motor skill learning. In the present study, we explored this question by comparing the effects of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over either ...

BackgroundRFCA has been established as an effective and curative therapy for severely symptomatic PVC from the outflow tract in structurally normal hearts. However, it is unknown whether PVCs originating from the left ventricular septum, are effectively eliminated by RFCA. This study aimed to investigate electrophysiologic characteristics and effects of Radiofrequency catheter ...

Radiofrequency ablation of the atrioventricular (AV) junction may be performed using either a right- or left-sided approach. This study prospectively compared the left-sided approach with persistent attempts from the right side in patients in whom initial radiofrequency applications on the right side were unsuccessful. Twenty-one of 54 patients did not ...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of oligomeric grape seed proanthocyanidins (GSP) on isoproterenol (ISO)-induced cardiac remodeling in rats. ISO was given subcutaneously (5 mg x kg(-1), sc, 7 days) to induce cardiac remodeling in rats. Therapeutic groups were given GSP (50, 100, and 150 mg x kg(-1)) after ISO treatment. After 2 weeks ...

This paper evaluates the modifications induced by ischemia and ischemia�reperfusion in mice after permanent or transient, respectively, ligation of the left coronary artery and establishes a correlation among the extent of ischemia, electrocardiograph features, and infarct size. The left coronary artery was ligated 1 mm distal from ...

A 23-year-old man had received irradiation for a benign ear problem at the age of 1 year. Twenty years later, a malignant left parotid carcinoma and a right jugular foramen schwannoma developed. Earlier reports in the literature suggest that radiation can induce tumors in the head and neck. The localization of both tumors and the histological features of ...

? An otherwise-healthy 13-year-old girl with previously normal nails developed longitudinal pigmented bands on multiple fingernails. Physical examination revealed faintly pigmented bands on multiple fingernails and on the left fifth toenail. We believed that the cause of the pigmented bands was onychophagia-induced longitudinal melanonychia, a rare ...

of salmon is from left to right, and the farm locations are shown by vertical dotted lines in the first rowEpizootics of wild fish induced by farm fish Martin Krkosek* , Mark A. Lewis*, Alexandra Morton , L driven aquaculture growth by 10% annually over the last decade. The association of fish farms

We present the case of a patient with a biventricular myocardial infarction induced by cocaine and a large left and a smaller right ventricular apical thrombus. Serial multiplane transesophageal echocardiography was used to document the morphological course of the thrombi during anticoagulation therapy over a period of 6 weeks. PMID:11175070

Trimetazidine (TMZ) is effective for the treatment of ischemic cardiomyopathy; however, little is known about the effect of TMZ in established injury-induced heart failure. When rats with established infarct-induced heart failure were treated for 12 weeks with TMZ there was no effect on left ventric...

Cardiopulmonary Function in RatsWith Lung Hemorrhage Induced by Pulsed Ultrasound Exposure Jeffery using superthreshold exposure conditions known to produce sig- nificant lung hemorrhage. Methods. In 1 in the left lung of each rat. In a second group of 6 rats, 5 foci of ultrasound-induced hemorrhage were

Ionizing radiation has been known to induce malignant transformation in human beings. Radiation-induced sarcomas are a late sequel of radiation therapy. Most sarcomas have been reported to occur after exposure to a radiation dose of 55 Gray (Gy) and above, with a dose ranging from 16 to 112 Gys. Spindle cell sarcomas, arising after radiotherapy given to ...

We present preliminary findings on the effectiveness of panretinal photocoagulation in preventing neovascular glaucoma in eyes with radiation-induced ocular ischemia. Our study group consisted of 20 patients who developed radiation-induced ocular ischemia following cobalt-60 plaque radiotherapy for a choroidal or ciliary body melanoma. Eleven of the 20 ...

Background and objectives: Whereas injury to the left hemisphere induces aphasia, injury to the right hemisphere's perisylvian region induces an impairment of emotional speech prosody (affective aprosodia). Left-sided medial frontal lesions are associated with reduced verbal fluency with relatively intact ...

The heart and the brain, most oxygen-dependent organs, may be severely affected after carbon monoxide (CO) exposure. CO induced cardiotoxicity may occur as a consequence of moderate to severe CO poisoning, including angina attack, myocardial infarct, arrhythmias, and heart failure. We present a rare case of CO poisoning induced cardiomyopathy with ...

The heart and the brain, most oxygen-dependent organs, may be severely affected after carbon monoxide (CO) exposure. CO induced cardiotoxicity may occur as a consequence of moderate to severe CO poisoning, including angina attack, myocardial infarct, arrhythmias, and heart failure. We present a rare case of CO poisoning induced cardiomyopathy with ...