This study compared the results of AAIR and DDR pacing modes, using echocardiography and cardiopulmonary exercise testing. Fourteen patients underwent an echocardiographic evaluation of cardiac output (CO) during AAI and DDD pacing at rates of 60 and 100 bpm. Subsequently, the oxygen consumption at he an...
A 24 year-old man was admitted with hypertensive crises and diagnosis hypothesis of neurofibromathosis and pheochromocytoma with blood pressure of 150 x 110mmHg and in use of anti-hypertensive drugs. The electrocardiogram (EKG) showed left ventricle hypertrophy. An echocardiogram showed interventricular ...
PURPOSE--To assess in a consecutive series of patients, the diagnostic accuracy of dipyridamole echocardiography and to compare its prognostic power with that from other tests. METHODS--Seventy eight patients prospectively were underwent to dipyridamole echocardiography (DET) and coronary arteriography f...
A case of a 62 year-old woman with mitral stenosis and thrombosis of the left atrium diagnosed by two-dimensional echocardiography (2D-Echo) is reported. During the procedure, postural changes were performed and characterized the thrombus as floating one. The postural changes during 2D-echo examination a...
Hay cierta incertidumbre referente a las diferencias en resultados de acuerdo al grado de daño preexistente de la válvula mitral en pacientes sometidos a valvulotomía percutánea con el balón de Inoue. Analizamos nuestra serie consecutiva de 126 pacientes (88 por ciento mujeres) tratadas con este pro...
Os autores analisam os resultados clínicos e evoluçao ecocardiográfica em uma série de pacientes em que foi possível recuperar a valva aórtica calcificada. Entre janeiro de 1993 e outubro de 1994, 31 pacientes foram considerados para recuperaçao valvar, sendo obtido sucesso imediato em 2l. A etiol...
PURPOSE--It is well established the association between heart failure and arrhythmias in different cardiopathies. There are no studies in Chagas' myocardiopathy that analyze the relation between arrhythmias and left ventricular function. METHODS--We studied 629 patients with Chagas' disease, divided in 3...
Analisis prospectivo de 139 pacientes con HTA leve-moderadas grado I-II; realizando una correlacion anatomofuncional mediante ecocardiografia modo M; 2d, y Doppler; los pacientes fueron estudiados con un ecocardiografo bidimensional (5MHZ), con las proyecciones habituales, obteniendose los parametros de ...