CONCLUSION The present study demonstrates that various response patterns of subjective visual vertical (SVV) can be identified during unilateral centrifugation (UC). It is proposed that these response types correspond to different degrees of compensation after disease. This is advantageous for monitoring the effect of rehabilitative measures and is useful in medico-legal issues. It also emerges...

arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy (arvd/c) is a congenital cardiac disease with myocardial involvement, most probably right ventricular (rv) dysfunction, accounting for 20% of sudden cardiac deaths. characterized by the fibro-fatty infiltration of the rv free wall, arvd/c presents in adolescents with ventricular arrhythmias and heart failure symptoms and as biventricular...

Abstract Background p.Arg4810Lys variant of the ring finger protein 213 (RNF213) vasculopathy is a nonsyndromatic involving multisystemic organs including pulmonary arteries. Peripheral arterial stenosis (PPAS) with diffuse and beaded appearance unique feature this disease no treatment option has been tried before. Methods We performed BPA for PPAS in RNF213 patients (n=7). Severity hypertensio...

Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is a good treatment option for the patients ineligible for cardiac transplantation. Several studies have demonstrated that a ventricular assist device improves the quality of life and prognosis of the patients with end-stage heart failure. A 75-yr-old man debilitated with New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class III-IV due to severe left ventricul...

Background: The severity of coronary lesions in patients with artery disease (CAD) has important prognostic and therapeutic consequences. Clinical symptoms not always reflect the this study aimed to evaluate Algerian population where these data are scarce. Methods: It was a prospective cross-sectional conducted consecutive an age ≥20 years who underwent clinically-indicated angiography our cent...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES In some patients, cardiac contractions cause the coronary artery segment adjacent to a stent to move in such a way that accurate stent positioning is difficult. A number of techniques have been described for immobilizing the stent at the target site by inducing periods of either asystole or tachycardia. This study shows how pulsatile motion can be controlled by means...

introduction: heart failure is a major hazard for public health. despite recent advance in medical therapy, there is not enough information on the outcome of off-pump coronary artery bypass (opcab) and medical therapy on the patients with severe ventricular dysfunction and triple-vessel (cad). this study aimed to compare treatment outcomes and mortality rate in patients undergoing off-pump coro...

For nearly a decade, it has been appreciated that 1) thrombotic occlusion of an epicardial coronary artery is usually the proximate cause of acute myocardial infarction; 2) after sudden and sustained total occlusion of such a vessel, the course of myocardial necrosis is generally rapid and relentless (in most cases, the process is completed within 3 or 4 hours of the coronary occlusion, in 6 ho...

BACKGROUND Coronary revascularization with bypass has been shown to improve survival in patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction. In these patients, use of nonsurgical revascularization with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) is increasing, although their long-term outcome has not been well delineated. The purpose of this investigation was to cha...

background: successful rehabilitation of cardiac surgery patients should include consideration of their sexual activity, but there is paucity of data regarding this matter. objective: this study determined the incidence and type of sexual dysfunction in our patients. materials and methods: two hundred-seventy nine men with age under 70 years old who had coronary artery bypass graft (cabg), valv...