A case of non-immunitary hydrops fetalis, following supraventricular tachycardia, in a fetus of 29 weeks of a 28-year-old woman at the first pregnancy, who evolved with systemic hypertension and amniorrhexis, being submitted to cesarean deliver. The child needed bilateral thoracic drainage and oro-trache...
PURPOSE--To evaluate the role of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), left ventricular systolic function an other clinical parameters on prevalence and complexity of ventricular arrhythmias in hypertension. METHODS--Ventricular arrhythmias were studied in 39 hypertensives by 24 hours ambulatory electrocar...
PURPOSE--To evaluate the role of casual and exercise blood pressure as well as the importance of clinical factors on the presence and degree of left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertension. METHODS--Fifteen normotensives (control group) and 30 hypertensives, 14 of them with and 16 without left ventricula...
PURPOSE--To study, by a non-invasive method, patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), to evaluate possible cardiac involvement. METHODS--A hundred-eight lupic patients, 60 of them during activity, were studied, independently of cardiovascular signs and symptoms, by M-mode and two-D echocardiogra...
PURPOSE--To evaluate the effects of long-term antihypertensive treatment in the frequency as well as in the complexity of ventricular arrhythmias in arterial hypertension. METHODS--Twenty three patients, 14 males and 11 whites, with mean age of 46 years, were submitted to 24 hours ambulatory electrocardi...
Jorge, Sérgio do Carmo;
Kormann, Décio D;
Medeiros, Paulo;
Mateos, José Carlos Pachón;
Zamorano, Mabel M. B;
Silva, Lilian M;
Zambonini, Mery N;
Arnoni, Antoninho S;
Assef, Jorge Eduardo;
Magalhäes, Hélio M;
Piegas, Leopoldo S;
Sousa, José Eduardo M. R.
Five patients who had permanent pacemaker and infective endocarditis were analyzed. Diagnose was confirmed by a positive blood cultures in all patients and 2 of them had identifiable vegetation in the echocardiogram too. The etiologic agent was Staphylococcus aureus in 3, Staphylococcus epidermidis in 1 ...
En un período de 36 semanas se presentaron en nuestro hospital 20 pacientes con sospecha clínica de disección aórtica. A 17 se les practicó ecocardiograma transtorácico (ETT) y a todos ecocardiograma transesofágico (ETE); a seis tomografía axial computarizada (TAC) y a siete aortografía. Doce pa...
Fueron estudiados 119 pacientes desde Enero de 1988 y Febrero de 1994. La severidad de la insuficiencia Aórtica fué evaluada siguiendo las normas actuales y siguiendo un algoritmo compuesto por tres métodos de Doppler color, continuo y pulsado, para obtener una adecuada clasificación con métodos val...
Día a día, se requiere mayor precisión en la valoración de los pacientes en los hospitales y clínicas. Esta valoración debe ser mas rápida, precisa y menos costosa. La cardiología no escapa a lo anteriormente dicho, y dentro de los datos que con mayor frecuencia se nos facilita es la fracción de...
De enero de 1990 a agosto de 1993, se estudiaron 18 pacientes con sospecha de masa intratorácica. En todos se efectuó ECG, radiografía de tórax y ecocardiograma transtorácico y transesofágico. Se dividieron en dos grupos. Grupo I: ocho pacientes con mixoma intracardiaco. Grupo II: diez pacientes co...
