Data from [9]. Heart failure (HF) is growing into a major health problem. HF guidelines place a special emphasis on the detection of subclinical left ventricular (LV) systolic and diastolic ...

Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are increasingly common across the heart failure population. Right ventricular failure (RVF ... RA, right atrial; TAPSE, tricuspid annular plane systolic ...

3 Cardiovascular Center, The Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan Objective To elucidate the factors associated with high left ventricular mass index ... absence of ...

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 ...

Participants 4989 adults (mean age 36 years, 52% women) free of clinical heart failure at baseline. Outcome measures Incident heart failure, echocardiographic measures of left ventricular systolic ...

Features of (mal)adaptation of the RV may be categorized into three groups: factors affecting ventriculo-arterial interactions (systolic ... of cardiac dysfunction in repaired tetralogy of Fallot, ...

Elevated right ventricular systolic pressure and right ventricular dysfunction were studied as independent predictors of mortality ... right ventricular systolic pressure (RVSP), and left ventricular ...

In an attempt to objectively evaluate the status of the left ventricle in 32 patients with mitral stenosis, a modified form of supine leg exercise was done during simultaneous left and right heart ...

The following is a summary of “Impact of Exercise on Atrial Functional Mitral Regurgitation and Its Determinants: An Exercise ...

Acute: You have active symptoms of heart failure, with either a new diagnosis or with long-term (chronic) heart failure. Chronic: You have a history of heart failure, but your condition is relatively ...

Background Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is predominantly caused by desmosomal genetic variants, and clinical hallmarks include arrhythmias and systolic dysfunction. We aimed ...