With advances in spine surgery, congenital spine deformity can now be treated with corrective fusion and osteotomy, even in young children. In these patients, the spine has various complications of vertebral anomalies and congenital fusion. A successful and safe outcome of corrective surgery requires evaluation by imaging preoperatively. Congenital spinal anomaly has conventionally been evaluat...

We investigated the time course of the expression of cardiac and renal endothelin systems in tachycardia-induced heart failure in dogs. Eleven beagles underwent rapid pacing at a progressively increased rate over a period of 5 wk, with a weekly clinical examination, echocardiography, measurement of circulating and urinary endothelin-1 (ET-1), and myocardial and renal tissue biopsies. Real-time ...

• There have been relatively few biochemical studies on experimentally induced congestive heart failure of left ventricular origin. Most of the conclusions concerning metabolism in heart failure have been based on studies on human beings, using techniques of coroTiary sinus catheterization on experimentally induced chronic right heart failure in the dog or on isolated failing preparations from ...

Patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction account for about half of the 6 million patients with heart failure and the $35 billion spent annually on related medical costs. Over the past 25 years, heart failure management has evolved through randomized trials of specific therapy and the extensive clinical experience accumulated at referral centers, many of which arose initially to...

[1] Conraads et al. Combined endurance/resistance training reduces plasma TNFreceptor levels in patients with chronic heart failure and coronary artery disease. Eur Heart J, 2002; 23: 1854–1860. [2] Ferrara R, Mastrorilli F, Pasanisi G et al. Neurohormonal modulation in chronic heart failure. Eur Heart J Supplements 2002; 4 (Suppl D): D3–D11. [3] Cohn JN, Tognoni G for the Valsartan Heart Failu...

1. Satake H, Sugimura K, Fukumoto Y, Fukuda K, Nakano M, Kondo M, et al. Effect of respiratory therapy on the prognosis of chronic heart failure patients complicated with sleep-disordered breathing: A pilot efficacy trial. Circ J 2016; 80: 130 – 138. 2. Momomura S, Seino Y, Kihara Y, Adachi H, Yasumura Y, Yokoyama H, et al; for the SAVIOR-C investigators. Adaptive servo-ventilation therapy for ...

A12262. 45. Kass DA. An epidemic of dyssynchrony: but what does it mean? J Am Coll Cardiol 2008;51:12–7. 46. Kasner M, Westermann D, Steendijk P, Gaub R, Wilkenshoff U, Weitmann K et al. Utility of Doppler echocardiography and tissue Doppler imaging in the estimation of diastolic function in heart failure with normal ejection fraction: a comparative Doppler-conductance catheterization study. Ci...

Patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction account for about half of the 6 million patients with heart failure and the $35 billion spent annually on related medical costs. Over the past 25 years, heart failure management has evolved through randomized trials of specific therapy and the extensive clinical experience accumulated at referral centers, many of which arose initially to...

In 1989 Tei et al. developed Waon therapy for heart failure that uses a dry sauna (Tei et al., 1994; Tei et al., 1995; Tei 2007). Waon therapy means a thermal therapy using special‐ ly designed sauna bath for heart failure. In the therapy, patients were placed in a sittingposition in a 60 ◦C far infrared-ray dry sauna system for 15 min, and then after leaving the sauna, they underwent bed rest ...

BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation (AF) promotes atrial remodeling and can develop secondary to heart failure or mitral valve disease. Cardiac endothelin-1 (ET-1) expression responds to wall stress and can promote myocyte hypertrophy and interstitial fibrosis. We tested the hypothesis that atrial ET-1 is elevated in AF and is associated with AF persistence. METHODS AND RESULTS Left atrial appenda...