• Radiograph shows acute pulmonary edema in a patient who was admitted with acute anterior myocardial infarction. (medscape.com)
  • The effect of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) on left ventricular (LV) diastolic function has not been systematically investigated in patients treated for unstable angina or ischemia after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). (psu.edu)
  • Among hypertensive patients, the mortality rate was higher only among those admitted with ST-elevation myocardial infarction. (who.int)
  • Any history of first myocardial infarction [2]. (who.int)
  • Myocardial Infarction. (vin.com)
  • In cats with myocardial infarction inferred by echocardiography, ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers may be justified. (vin.com)
  • Compared to patients with HFpEF, those with HFmrEF were more likely to have comorbid acute myocardial infarction, infection and coronary artery disease, had higher level of N-terminal pro B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), cardiac troponin, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), white blood cell (WBC). (researchsquare.com)
  • The study involved patients with unstable angina (UA), comorbid hypertension (AH), myocardial infarction in 55.5% of cases. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • A1 - Denesiuk,E V, PY - 2016/4/20/entrez PY - 2016/4/20/pubmed PY - 2016/5/6/medline SP - 72 EP - 6 JF - Likars'ka sprava JO - Lik Sprava IS - 5-6 N2 - The study involved patients with unstable angina (UA), comorbid hypertension (AH), myocardial infarction in 55.5% of cases. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • 3 Heart failure is becoming increasingly common as the U.S. population ages and survival rates after acute myocardial infarction increase. (aafp.org)
  • Isoproterenol was administered in rats to induce myocardial infarction. (scialert.net)
  • Among cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), myocardial infarction (MI) accounts for majority of death and disability and has high incidence rate in both developed and developing countries as seen over the past quarter century (Agrawal et al . (scialert.net)
  • 2006). Reduction of death incidences and prevention of myocardial infarction are of utmost importance. (scialert.net)
  • However, no single study has comprehensively evaluated the efficacy of TMZ in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). (hindawi.com)
  • For AMI patients undergoing PCI, TMZ reduced circulating biomarkers of myocardial infarction, reduced values of ALT, AST, and glucose, and improved cardiac function compared with the control group. (hindawi.com)
  • Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) may be accompanied by hyperglycemia, hepatic insufficiency, and renal failure [ 1 - 4 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Because of changes in human life rhythm and diet, the incidence of hyperglycemia and acute myocardial infarction is increasing. (hindawi.com)
  • In addition, hyperglycemia has a significant negative impact on restenosis for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) that underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) [ 13 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Assessment of Myocardial Diastolic Dysfunction as a Result of Myocardial Infarction and Extracellular Matrix Regulation Disorders in the Context of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy. (nih.gov)
  • Multiple studies have found that the incidence of hospitalization for acute Myocardial Infarction (MI) and admissions for most diagnoses have decreased by as much as 40-50% during the pandemic 6 - 8 . (scialert.net)
  • Although cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction or severe recurrent ischaemia were not proven better with ronalazine, the individual component of recurrent ischaemia was significantly reduced by ranolazine - demonstrated as safe. (escardio.org)
  • Exposed workers showed very little increased morbidity, but exposure dependent increases in pathological changes such as increased frequency of angina and myocardial infarction, systolic and diastolic blood velocity, increased symptoms of muscular weakness, increased low density of lipoproteins, increased fasting blood sugar, increased proportion of abnormal sperm forms, and increased incidence of retinal abnormalities. (cdc.gov)
  • Acute inferior myocardial infarction on an ECG. (medscape.com)
  • Apical left ventricular (LV) dyskinesis (ventricular aneurysm) after an anterior myocardial infarction. (medscape.com)
  • ABSTRACT This study in May 2002, part of the Jordan Department of Statistics national cross- sectional, multistage employment and unemployment survey, measured the prevalence of self- reported myocardial infarction (MI) and the association with modifiable risk factors among Jordanians aged 40+ years. (who.int)
  • [ 3 ] While termed ischaemia with no obstructive CAD (INOCA) and myocardial infarction with no obstructive CAD (MINOCA), [ 3 ] it is also sometimes called 'female-pattern' cardiovascular disease along with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) because these occur more commonly in women, and the relative paucity of studies of women has resulted in therapeutic deserts for these conditions. (medscape.com)
  • The combined primary end points (PEs) in the Nordic Diltiazem Study were fatal and nonfatal stroke, fatal and nonfatal myocardial infarction, and other cardiovascular deaths. (lu.se)
  • Left atrial volume increased, paralleling the severity of symptoms and the degree of diastolic dysfunction. (thoracickey.com)
  • The origin of diastolic dysfunction in HCM is multifactorial, with changes at the molecular (mutations, calcium economy and sensitivity), myocardial tissue (hypertrophy, fibrosis, and disarray), and global (geometry, ischemia) LV levels. (thoracickey.com)
  • BACKGROUND:Obesity is characterized by impaired cardiac energetics, which may play a role in the development of diastolic dysfunction and inappropriate shortness of breath. (ox.ac.uk)
  • CONCLUSIONS:In obesity, cardiac energetics are further deranged during inotropic stress, in association with continued diastolic dysfunction. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Increased hydrostatic pressure leading to pulmonary edema may result from many causes, including excessive intravascular volume administration, pulmonary venous outflow obstruction (eg, mitral stenosis or left atrial [LA] myxoma), and LV failure secondary to systolic or diastolic dysfunction of the left ventricle. (medscape.com)
  • It can be used as an indicator of diastolic dysfunction. (wikipedia.org)
  • Journal of Critical Care, Volume 14, Issue 4, Pages 177-185 anaesthetist.com >Diastolic dysfunction Lara Hopley and Jo van Schalkwyk. (wikipedia.org)
  • The main pathophysiological correlate is impaired left ventricular filling, resulting in diastolic dysfunction with increased end-diastolic left ventricular pressure ( P LV,ED ), with consequent pulmonary congestion, increased stimulation of pulmonary vagal irritant receptors (J-receptors) and enhanced chemosensitivity of central and peripheral carbon dioxide receptors. (ersjournals.com)
  • In this case, congestive heart failure may represent underlying anemia (eg, Rh sensitization, fetal-maternal transfusion), arrhythmias (usually supraventricular tachycardia), or myocardial dysfunction (myocarditis or cardiomyopathy). (medscape.com)
  • In older children, congestive heart failure may be caused by left-sided obstructive disease (valvar or subvalvar aortic stenosis or coarctation), myocardial dysfunction (myocarditis or cardiomyopathy), hypertension, renal failure,[1] or, more rarely, arrhythmias or myocardial ischemia. (medscape.com)
  • Diastolic dysfunction results from decreased ventricular compliance, necessitating an increase in venous pressure to maintain adequate ventricular filling. (medscape.com)
  • Causes of primary diastolic dysfunction include an anatomic obstruction that prevents ventricular filling (eg, pulmonary venous obstruction), a primary reduction in ventricular compliance (eg, cardiomyopathy, transplant rejection), external constraints (eg, pericardial effusion), and poor hemodynamics after the Fontan procedure (eg, elevated pulmonary vascular resistance). (medscape.com)
  • Myocardial deformation imaging by 2D speckle tracking echocardiography for assessment of diastolic dysfunction in murine cardiopathology. (otago.ac.nz)
  • Diastolic dysfunction has a major impact on symptom status, functional capacity, medical treatment, and prognosis in both systolic and diastolic heart failure (HF), irrespective of the cause. (bmj.com)
  • Diastolic dysfunction is the predominant cardiac abnormality in this syndrome, which is associated with increased risk of hospitalisation and death. (bmj.com)
  • Indeed, such a definition of diastolic HF has been adopted by the majority of previous reports, w5 and is supported by the results of recent studies which indicate that the presence of diastolic dysfunction may be assumed in patients presenting with HF and normal LV ejection fraction (LVEF). (bmj.com)
  • Nonetheless, a recent review has highlighted the disconnect between Doppler echo measurements and true diastolic properties of the left ventricle, and has questioned the prevailing assumption that HF with preserved systolic function is always caused by diastolic dysfunction. (bmj.com)
  • w8 For these reasons, recent guidelines have called for invasive determination of diastolic dysfunction to make a definite diagnosis of diastolic HF, 6 although the feasibility of this approach is limited. (bmj.com)
  • Echocardiographic assessment of diastolic function makes the diagnosis of diastolic HF more specific, allows serial assessment of the response of diastolic dysfunction to treatment, and facilitates inclusion of more homogeneous populations into intervention trials. (bmj.com)
  • This results from diastolic dysfunction, the principal pathophysiologic consequence of a wide range of heart muscle disorders, most prominent of which are hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or restrictive cardiomyopathy. (vin.com)
  • Diastolic dysfunction is the principal pathophysiologic consequence of a wide range of phenotypically heterogeneous myocardial disorders. (vin.com)
  • These alterations promote ventricular stiffness and loss of compliance (diastolic dysfunction). (vin.com)
  • We speculated that this myocardial factor could be diastolic dysfunction. (diva-portal.org)
  • Cardiac dysfunction was observed as a decrease in mean arterial pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR), left ventricular rate of peak positive and negative pressure change {(+) and (-) LV dP/dt} and elevated left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP) following ISP administration. (scialert.net)
  • Several structural abnormalities, such as myocyte hypertrophy, diffuse interstitial myocardial fibrosis, and impaired coronary microvascular perfusion, have been associated with diabetic hearts, as well as diastolic and systolic dysfunction. (news-medical.net)
  • Study II demonstrated decreased myocardial perfusion (MP) during adenosine induced hyperemia in non-fibrotic myocardium even without diastolic dysfunction in young HCM patients, but not subjects at risk or controls, indicating that microvascular disease can be the cause of MP decrease. (dissertations.se)
  • Over time, chronic pressure overload and compensatory LV hypertrophy result in reduced compliance of the LV, with the subsequent development of diastolic dysfunction and increased LV end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP). (medscape.com)
  • Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a congenital or acquired disorder characterized by marked ventricular hypertrophy with diastolic dysfunction (eg, due to valvular aortic stenosis, coarctation. (msdmanuals.com)
  • A variety of observations suggest that coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) is related to the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease, including myocardial ischaemia and heart failure. (medscape.com)
  • Specifically, does primary CMD lead to ventricular remodelling/diastolic dysfunction and HFpEF or do alterations in myocardial remodelling/diastolic dysfunction observed in HFpEF lead to secondary CMD, i.e. the chicken or the egg? (medscape.com)
  • This is consistent with a growing body of work from our group showing that women with CMD often have left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction, [ 5 , 11 , 12 ] and are at increased risk of developing HFpEF. (medscape.com)
  • The exact mechanism(s) contributing to CMD-related diastolic dysfunction, however, remains incompletely understood. (medscape.com)
  • Although there were some statistically significant differences in terms of pulsed and TDI echocardiographic parameters between the treatmentand control groups, these values could not clearly be adoptedas a diastolic dysfunction and myocardial performance indices were not influenced. (bvsalud.org)
  • To assess the relation between reduction of stenosis severity and improvement in diastolic function in this setting, 42 patients with either unstable angina (n = 22) or post-AMI ischemia (n = 20) were serially monitored by Doppler echocardiography 8 ± 5 hours before and 2 ± 1 days after PTCA. (psu.edu)
  • Felypressin does not affect directly the myocardium, but it is a powerful vasoconstrictor of the heart, which can lead to angina attacks with myocardial ischemia in patients with some heart circulation deficiency 17 . (bvsalud.org)
  • We assessed whether, in obesity, derangement of energetics and diastolic function is further altered during acute cardiac stress. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The capacity of the heart to adapt to short-term changes in preload or afterload is remarkable, but sudden or sustained changes in preload (e.g., acute mitral regurgitation, excessive intravenous hydration), afterload (e.g., aortic stenosis, severe uncontrolled hypertension), or demand (e.g., increased demand because of severe anemia or hyperthyroidism) may lead to progressive failure of myocardial function. (aafp.org)
  • Through this mechanism, TMZ is thought to correct disturbances in myocardial cellular homeostasis that result from acute ischemic damage and to protect against cardiomyocyte injury [ 14 , 15 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • 427.8 Other specified cardiac dysrhythmias 427.81 Sick sinus syndrome 427.89 Sinus bradycardia, NOS 427.9 Cardiac dysrhythmia unspecified Gallop rhythm 428 Heart failure 428.0 Congestive heart failure unspecified 428.1 Left heart failure Pulmonary edema, acute 428.2 Systolic heart failure 428.3 Diastolic heart failure 428.4 Heart failure, combined, unspec. (wikipedia.org)
  • Acute myocardial infarct (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, is a condition characterized by ischemic injury and necrosis of the cardiac muscle. (medscape.com)
  • 4 w6 w7 Zile and colleagues demonstrated that at least one abnormal index of diastolic function was present in patients with HF and normal systolic function. (bmj.com)
  • These patients present with exertional dyspnoea in the context of normal systolic function, and in this situation, symptoms may be ascribed to diastolic HF. (bmj.com)
  • This clinical in which pulmonary edema occurs in the setting of abnormal diastolic function and relatively normal systolic function has been termed diastolic heart failure . (vin.com)
  • Diastolic stress echocardiography has been applied in several clinical settings, including patients with normal systolic function and with myocardial diastolic relaxation at rest. (escardio.org)
  • Diastolic stress echocardiography has been applied in several clinical settings, including patients with normal systolic function and patients with ischemic heart disease. (escardio.org)
  • Because conventional Doppler echocardiographic methods inadequately assess diastolic function in HCM, the aim of this study was to determine local and global left ventricular (LV) relaxation mechanics in patients with HCM. (thoracickey.com)
  • In addition, significant positive effects could be confirmed on absolute and predicted peak oxygen consumption, oxygen consumption at the individual aerobic-anaerobic threshold, oxygen pulse, as well as left atrial size, and transmitral flow patterns (mean early diastolic lengthening velocity and the ratio of peak early Doppler mitral inflow velocity to this lengthening velocity). (ersjournals.com)
  • Doppler echocardiography is ideally suited for assessment of diastolic function, being widely available, non-invasive, and less expensive than other techniques. (bmj.com)
  • Blood pressure is measured either indirectly (oscillometric sphygmomanometry or Doppler ultrasonography) or directly when a catheter is placed in an artery and connected to a pressure transducer that allows constant and continuous evaluation of systolic, mean and diastolic blood pressure. (vin.com)
  • The patients were evaluated in terms of aortic elastic parameters, right and left ventricular systolic and diastolic function using conventional, pulsed Doppler and tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) echocardiographic parameters.Results:Fifteen infants were in the LPC group, 16 in the IVA group, and 20 in the control group. (bvsalud.org)
  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is characterized by myocardial hypertrophy, fiber disarray, and fibrosis interfering with myocardial force generation and relaxation. (thoracickey.com)
  • HCM is associated with myocardial hypertrophy, disarray, increased loose connective tissue, and fibrosis that may interfere with myocardial force generation as well as its relaxation. (thoracickey.com)
  • Hearts from cats with ventricular hypertrophy (HCM), and restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) are affected by complex intrinsic and extrinsic factors that affect left ventricular diastolic performance. (vin.com)
  • The increasing population with HCM genotype with little or no detectable myocardial hypertrophy along with the increased risk for cardiac events even in these individuals are important aspects that emphasize the stringent need to improve early diagnosis of HCM in the young. (dissertations.se)
  • In these studies, we sought to investigate indices of early cardiovascular changes in young individuals with or without myocardial hypertrophy on echocardiography. (dissertations.se)
  • Additionally, myocardial hypertrophy results in increased wall tension and myocardial oxygen consumption. (medscape.com)
  • Additionally, by echocardiography, we assessed left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), left ventricular end-diastolic dimension (LVEDD), and cardiac output (CO). Results . (hindawi.com)
  • Longitudinal strain and systolic and early diastolic strain rates were lower than normal in patients with HCM, whereas their circumferential values were higher. (thoracickey.com)
  • This tool is ideal to assess diastolic function of the left ventricle by placing a sample volume at the mitral annulus, where changes in tissue motion are often detected prior to changes in blood flow spectrums through the same valve. (visualsonics.com)
  • The current study hypothesized that GLS has an incremental prognostic association in HF patients with diabetes that is beyond plasma HF biomarkers, CMR markers of myocardial fibrosis, and LV ejection fraction. (news-medical.net)
  • Study IV suggests adverse changes of circulating biomarkers reflecting myocardial matrix remodeling, microfibrosis and vascular endotheliopathy in the early stage of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the young. (dissertations.se)
  • The multifactorial nature of CVD is forgotten when we read about studies that emphasize that half of people with myocardial infarctions have lipids in the desirable range. (aacc.org)
  • Hypertension is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), contributing to 35% of myocardial infarctions (MIs) and strokes, and 49% of heart failures (2). (cdc.gov)
  • More than two thirds of myocardial infarctions occur in lesions that are less than 60% severe. (medscape.com)
  • CONCLUSIONS: LV myocardial structure and function differ in SHF and DHF because of distinct cardiomyocyte abnormalities. (amsterdamumc.org)
  • Myocardial disease due to primary myopathic abnormalities or inborn errors of metabolism must be investigated. (medscape.com)
  • In several conditions, substantial abnormalities involving myocardial structure or function appear to promote adverse outcome, thereby providing raison d'être for pharmacologic intervention. (vin.com)
  • These microvascular changes were associated with abnormalities in diastolic myocardial function measured by TDI. (dissertations.se)
  • BACKGROUND: To support the clinical distinction between systolic heart failure (SHF) and diastolic heart failure (DHF), left ventricular (LV) myocardial structure and function were compared in LV endomyocardial biopsy samples of patients with systolic and diastolic heart failure. (amsterdamumc.org)
  • We used 2D strain imaging to analyze myocardial tissue displacement in the long and short axes to evaluate myocardial mechanics and to define local and global diastolic LV mechanics in patients with HCM. (thoracickey.com)
  • Chez les patients hypertendus, le taux de mortalité était plus élevé uniquement chez les patients admis pour un infarctus du myocarde avec sus-décalage du segment ST. Après ajustement des résultats en fonction des variables de référence, l'hypertension s'est révélé être un facteur prédictif indépendant de l'insuffisance cardiaque (OR = 1,31) et de l'accident vasculaire cérébral (OR = 2,47). (who.int)
  • Paradoxically, the role of diastolic function assessment is more difficult to define in patients with diastolic HF. (bmj.com)
  • These data suggest that a diagnosis of diastolic HF may accurately be made as a diagnosis of exclusion, 4 albeit in a highly selected population of relatively young, predominantly male patients who were scheduled to undergo cardiac catheterisation (contrasting with the large clinical population of elderly, hypertensive, predominantly female patients with HF and preserved systolic function). (bmj.com)
  • 26 weeks of treatment with empagliflozin reduced the myocardial glucose metabolic rate by 45.1% in patients with type 2 diabetes. (consultantlive.com)
  • Treatment with empagliflozin was linked to a significant reduction in the myocardial glucose metabolic rate in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) without coronary artery disease, according to recent findings. (consultantlive.com)
  • Study data from the prospective, randomized FIORE trial suggest treatment with empagliflozin reduced the myocardial glucose metabolic rate in patients by 45.1% after 26 weeks of trial, compared with glimepiride treatment. (consultantlive.com)
  • The study, " Effects of 26 weeks of treatment with empagliflozin vs glimepiride on the myocardial glucose metabolic rate in patients with type 2 diabetes: The randomized, open-label, crossover, active-comparator FIORE trial ," was published in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism . (consultantlive.com)
  • Similar relationships have been demonstrated for patients with heart failure and preserved left ventricular diastolic function [ 19 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Right ventricular (RV) diastolic stiffness is increased in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) patients. (ersjournals.com)
  • RV diastolic stiffness is related to clinical progression in both baseline and treated PAH patients. (ersjournals.com)
  • This property increases myocardial oxygen delivery in patients with coronary artery spasm and is responsible for the effectiveness of verapamil hydrochloride in vasospastic (Prinzmetal's or variant) as well as unstable angina at rest. (nih.gov)
  • As the stenosis progresses, patients are unable to increase stroke volume, and as a result, they are unable to increase cardiac output so as to compensate for increases in myocardial oxygen demand. (medscape.com)
  • The evaluation of biplane myocardial mechanics offers new insights into the evaluation of diastolic function and its relationship to clinical status. (thoracickey.com)
  • Effects of catecholamine stress on diastolic function and myocardial energetics in obesity. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Myocardial energetics may play a key role in the impairment of diastolic function in obesity. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Before PTCA, both groups exhibited abnormal diastolic function demonstrated by prolonged isovolumic relaxation time and mitral deceleration time, decreased E A ratio and increased atrial filling fraction. (psu.edu)
  • Neutral impact on systolic and diastolic cardiac function of 2 years of intensified multi-intervention in type 2 diabetes: The randomized controlled Asker and Bærum Cardiovascular Diabetes (ABCD) study. (uib.no)
  • We also review the cardiac complications of diphtheria and discuss how noninvasive bedside imaging technologies to monitor myocardial function and hemodynamic parameters can help improve the management of this neglected infectious disease. (cdc.gov)
  • When alterations in diastolic function lead to increased left ventricular filling pressure and mean left atrial pressure, congestive heart failure may result. (vin.com)
  • CMR imaging is used to determine HF due to its capacity to assess myocardial tissue characteristics, cardiac morphology, and function. (news-medical.net)
  • Study I showed altered diastolic function both in HCM and HCM-risk individuals vs. controls and young athletes. (dissertations.se)
  • Heart failure develops when the heart, via an abnormality of cardiac function (detectable or not), fails to pump blood at a rate commensurate with the requirements of the metabolizing tissues or is able to do so only with an elevated diastolic filling pressure. (medscape.com)
  • Heart failure (see the images below) may be caused by myocardial failure but may also occur in the presence of near-normal cardiac function under conditions of high demand. (medscape.com)
  • In the United States, approximately 78 million people - or 1 in 3 adults - have hypertension, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher (1). (cdc.gov)
  • Hypertension was defined as a diastolic blood pressure of ≥100 mm Hg on ≥2 occasions. (lu.se)
  • PCBs that exceeded 3.5 for both systolic and diastolic hypertension. (cdc.gov)
  • Hypertension is the most important, tion has been paid to environmental exposures as risk easily recognized risk factor for stroke, myocardial infarc- factors for hypertension. (cdc.gov)
  • Relatonship between left ventricular diastolic pressure and myocardial segment length and observations on the contribution of atrial systole. (elsevierpure.com)
  • 2 Thus, diastolic evaluation is an important component of the evaluation of the patient with systolic left ventricular (LV) impairment. (bmj.com)
  • GLS refers to changes in the left ventricle (LV) myocardial length between diastole and systole divided by the original end-diastolic length. (news-medical.net)
  • This emphasizes the importance of myocardial relaxation and LV filling in symptom generation in this disorder. (thoracickey.com)
  • Prolonged IVRT indicates poor myocardial relaxation. (wikipedia.org)
  • We investigated whether RV diastolic stiffness is associated with clinical progression and assessed the contribution of RV wall thickness to RV systolic and diastolic stiffness. (ersjournals.com)
  • This suggests that intrinsic myocardial changes play a distinctive role in explaining RV diastolic stiffness at different stages of PAH. (ersjournals.com)
  • Determining and manipulating age-dependent changes in myocardial stiffness, in vivo. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
  • We also sought to determine the relationship between myocardial mechanics, the presence of LV outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction, and clinical status. (thoracickey.com)
  • In the context of CMR, technicians often use late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) to visualize myocardial fibrosis. (news-medical.net)
  • T1 mapping pre- and postgadolinium contrast is used to measure myocardial extracellular volume fraction (ECV), which is a biomarker of myocardial diffuse interstitial fibrosis. (news-medical.net)
  • Many individuals with diabetes exhibit impaired GLS and higher myocardial fibrosis, the latter of which is determined based on ECV and histology. (news-medical.net)
  • No patient had coronary artery disease or biopsy evidence of infiltrative or inflammatory myocardial disease. (amsterdamumc.org)
  • Myocardial displacement and velocity (longitudinal, circumferential, and rotation), strain, and strain rate are readily measured using 2D tissue tracking. (thoracickey.com)
  • Furthermore, the hypertrophic LV requires a higher CPP to maintain myocardial oxygen supply in the setting of increased end-diastolic pressure. (medscape.com)
  • The possible underlying mechanism of the cardioprotective effect of T. terrestris could be due to restoration of endogenous myocardial antioxidant status or free radical scavenging activity along with correction of the altered hemodynamic parameters and preservation of histoarchitectural and ultrastructural alterations. (scialert.net)
  • This unloading of the heart reduces myocardial energy consumption and oxygen requirements and probably accounts for the effectiveness of verapamil hydrochloride in chronic stable effort angina. (nih.gov)
  • diastolic blood pressure--(101.10 ± 0.67) mm Hg. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • Changes in systolic and diastolic blood pressure, smoking rates, blood cholesterol concentrations, total mortality, and mortality from coronary heart disease. (bmj.com)
  • Net decreases in systolic and diastolic blood pressure, smoking prevalence, and blood cholesterol were 4.2 mm Hg (SE 0.19 mm Hg), 2.7 mm Hg (0.09 mm Hg), 4.2% (0.3%), and 0.14 mmol/l (0.01 mmol/l) respectively. (bmj.com)
  • They had their systolic and diastolic blood pressures measured at four different times: preoperative (M1), post-anesthesia (M2), post-extraction (M3) and at the end, after the suture (M4), with the aid of a digital tensiometer. (bvsalud.org)
  • Concerning the diastolic blood pressure measurement, there were statistical differences among all times except between M1xM4 and M2xM3. (bvsalud.org)
  • Alabama who live near a plant that manufactured concentrations and systolic and diastolic blood pressure polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). (cdc.gov)
  • VIF, positive relation between serum PCB level and both systolic variance inflation factor and diastolic blood pressure. (cdc.gov)
  • The Global longitudinal strain (GLS) is a simple parameter associated with myocardial deformation analysis. (news-medical.net)
  • On the other hand, phenylephrine and noradrenaline can significantly raise both systolic (SP) and diastolic (DP) pressure. (bvsalud.org)