Results: 22

Importancia de las co-morbilidades en la insuficiencia cardiaca
Importance of the co morbidities in the heart failure

Rev. medica electron; 39 (4), 2017
La insuficiencia cardíaca afecta aproximadamente a 5.1 millones de adultos en los Estados Unidos de América, con expectativas de alcanzar a casi 8 millones de adultos para 2030. Los pacientes portadores de insuficiencia cardiaca están en mayor riesgo de sufrir una mayor morbilidad y mortalidad que la ...

Case 1/2017 - 26-Year-old Male with Rapidly Progressive Heart Failure

Arq. bras. cardiol; 108 (2), 2017

Case 6 / 2016 - Heart Failure in a 23-Year-Old Male with a History of Illicit Drug Use

Arq. bras. cardiol; 107 (6), 2016

Fractal Dimension in Quantifying Experimental-Pulmonary-Hypertension-Induced Cardiac Dysfunction in Rats

Arq. bras. cardiol; 107 (1), 2016
Abstract Background: Right-sided heart failure has high morbidity and mortality, and may be caused by pulmonary arterial hypertension. Fractal dimension is a differentiated and innovative method used in histological evaluations that allows the characterization of irregular and complex structures and the...

Borage oil attenuates progression of cardiac remodeling in rats after myocardial infarction

Acta cir. bras; 31 (3), 2016
ABSTRACT PURPOSE: To investigate the effects of Borage oil on cardiac remodeling after myocardial infarction (MI). METHODS: Male Wistar rats underwent ligation of the left coronary artery and divided into three groups: MI (control), BO-18 (18 mg/kg of borage oil) and BO-180 (180 mg/kg of borage oil). ...

Overexpression of myeloid differentiation protein 88 in mice induces mild cardiac dysfunction, but no deficit in heart morphology

Braz. j. med. biol. res; 49 (1), 2016
Cardiac remodeling involves changes in heart shape, size, structure, and function after injury to the myocardium. The proinflammatory adaptor protein myeloid differentiation protein 88 (MyD88) contributes to cardiac remodeling. To investigate whether excessive MyD88 levels initiate spontaneous cardiac re...

Avaliação da qualidade de vida de portadores de insuficiência cardíaca congestiva e sua correlação com a Classificação Internacional de Funcionalidade, Incapacidade e Saúde

Acta fisiátrica; 22 (3), 2015
Objetivo: Avaliar a qualidade de vida de pacientes com insuficiência cardíaca e correlacionar com a Classificação Internacional de Funcionalidade, Incapacidade e Saúde (CIF). Método: Trata-se de um estudo transversal, com amostra de 19 pacientes, com idade média de 66,28 ± 10,93 anos cuja qualida...

Correlação anátomo - clínica: Paciente de 34 anos de idade do sexo feminino procurou o hospital com queixa de intensificação de dispnéia, tosse, febre e expectoração amarelada há 3 semanas.
Anatomo-clinical correlation. Case 3/90 (Instituto do coraçäo do Hospital das Clínicas FMUSP)

Arq. bras. cardiol; 54 (5), 1990