BACKGROUND Early recognition of left-sided congestive heart failure (CHF) in dogs with degenerative mitral valve disease (DMVD) is important because it influences medical therapy, timing of follow-up, and outcome. HYPOTHESIS Pulmonary vein diameter-to-pulmonary artery diameter ratio (PV/PA) measured by echocardiography can predict CHF. ANIMALS Ninety-eight client-owned dogs, 37 controls, an...

randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of the effects of tolvaptan on the acute and chronic outcomes of patients hospitalized with worsening congestive heart failure Mihai Gheorghiade, MD, Wendy A. Gattis, PharmD, Alejandro Barbagelata, MD, Kirkwood F. Adams, Jr, MD, Uri Elkayam, MD, Cesare Orlandi, MD, and Christopher M. O’Connor, MD, for the Acute and Chronic Therapeutic Impact of...

Introduction : Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a terminal disease that causes various kinds of clinical manifestations are very disturbing to the sufferer, such as dyspnea, and dyspnea in CHF patients can cause sleep disorder known Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). The aim this study was determine effect providing prayer guidance on quality with dyspnea. Methods Pre-post test research approac...

Congestive heart failure (CHF) caused by myocardial infarction in rats is the most commonly used experimental model to study the congestive heart failure syndrome. Following myocardial necrosis, the manifestations observed in rats very satisfactorily reproduce the findings in humans with cardiac decompensation and substantiate the study of CHF pathogenesis, pathophysiology, and treatment. Two f...

Not all patients with heart failure, defined as a reduced ejection fraction, will have an activation of the RAAS, salt and water retention, or the congestive heart failure (CHF) syndrome. Beyond this cardiorenal perspective, CHF is accompanied by a systemic illness that includes oxidative stress, a proinflammatory phenotype, and a wasting of soft tissues and bone. A dyshomeostasis of calcium, m...

Penyakit yang dapat mengganggu aktivitas keseharian penderitanya hal tersebut disebabkan karena pada pasien CHF sering seringkali muncul gangguan pertukaran gas berupa hipoksia (SpO2 <95%). Pemberian posisi semi fowler merupakan tindakan mandiri keperawatan diterapkan oleh perawat kepada CHF. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh pemberian terhadap peningkatan saturasi oksigen d...

INTRODUCTION Pergolide is an ergot derived dopamine agonist that is widely used for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Studies have found an association between pergolide and valvular heart abnormalities although there is still much to be learned about the clinical significance of the valvular changes, who is at risk, and whether there is duration of exposure effect. OBJECTIVE To assess th...

vein of galen aneurysmal malformation (vgam) is a rare congenital malformation, accounting for less than 1% of cerebrovascular abnormalities. the majority of reported cases have been associated with congestive heart failure (chf) in the neonatal period. herein, we present a case of vgam, diagnosed at 37 weeks of gestation during the intrauterine life case report: a full-term female newborn pres...