Left ventricular aneurysm with predominating congestive heart failure

Left Ventricular Pacing In Patients With Congestive Heart Failure

Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) using biventricular (BIV) pacing has proved its effectiveness to correct myocardial asynchrony and improve clinical status of patients with severe congestive heart failure (CHF) and widened QRS. Despite a different effect on left ventricular electrical dispersion, left univentricular (LV) pacing is able to achieve the same mechanical synchronisation as BI...

Preserved Left Ventricular, Systolic Function in Clinical Congestive Heart Failure

Radionuclide and Hemodynamic Assessment of Left Ventricular Functional Reserve in Patients with Left Ventricular Aneurysm and Congestive Cardiac Failure

The hemodynamic response to exercise stress was assessed in 17 patients with left ventricular (LV) aneurysm, demonstrated by contrast left ventriculography, and congestive cardiac failure (CCF) before and after sublingual isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN). Radionuclide ventriculography was performed at rest and during exercise in 14 patients. ISDN increased mean exercise LV stroke work index (LVSWI) ...

Comparison of Neuroendocrine Activation in Patients With Left Ventricular Dysfunction With and Without Congestive Heart Failure

Neuroendocrine activation is known to occur in patients with congestive heart failure, but there is uncertainty as to whether this occurs before or after the presence of overt symptoms. In the Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction (SOLVD), a multicenter study of patients with ejection fractions of 35% or less, we compared baseline plasma norepinephrine, plasma renin activity, plasma atrial na...

prevalence of left bundle branch block & congestive heart failure

background: many factors influence the prognosis of patients with (chf), among these; more attention has been focused on the role of left bundle branch block (lbbb).  the present study was performed to find out the prevalence of chf in lbbb patients. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 246 were diagnosed consecutive patients with lbbb pattern in ecg during july 2004 until october 2006 at im...