The present study aimed to investigate the 5-year survival and medication status of patients with chronic heart failure (HF) and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) in China. This study is a single-center, retrospective study and patients with HF and a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of ≤45%, were consecutively enrolled. The study population of 685 patients was divided into two groups, ...

A panel of monoclonal antibodies was produced against purified microvillus membranes of human small intestinal enterocytes. By means of these probes three disaccharidases (sucrase-isomaltase, lactase-phlorizin hydrolase, and maltase-glucoamylase) and four peptidases (aminopeptidase N, dipeptidylpeptidase IV, angiotension I-converting enzyme, and p-aminobenzoic acid peptide hydrolase) were succe...

BACKGROUND Numerical study of angulation effects of renal arteries on blood flow has been of great interest for many researchers. Objective : This paper aims at numerically determining the angulation effects of stenosed renal arteries on blood flow velocity and renal mass flow. METHOD An anatomically realistic model of abdominal aorta and renal arteries is reconstructed from CT-scan images an...

Background: Hypertension is a globally prevalent disease and is a major modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular and renal diseases. Of late there has been a rapid increase in the number of drugs in the management of hypertension. Aim of the study: To analyse the prescribing pattern of anti-hypertensive drugs in hypertension alone or with co-morbid conditions. Methods: A descriptive drug utili...

The pathogenesis of paradoxical hypertension after resection of coarctation of the aorta was investigated by comparing the course of seven children undergoing repair of coarctation with five acyanotic children undergoing elective cardiovascular surgery. During the first 24 hours after surgery, all coarctation patients demonstrated a rise in systolic blood pressure (35 +/- 15.5 mm Hg; P less tha...

In the present study, we compared cardioprotective effects of salvianolic acid B (Sal B) and the angiotension-converting enzyme inhibitor, benazepril, in rats with large myocardial infarction (MI). The large MI was produced by coronary artery ligation for 4 weeks in rats. The rats were divided into the following groups: sham operation; MI; MI + Sal B (100 mg/kg by a gavage, once a day for 4 wee...

background: numerical study of angulation effects of renal arteries on blood flow has been of great interest for many researchers. objective: this paper aims at numerically determining the angulation effects of stenosed renal arteries on blood flow velocity and renal mass flow. method: an anatomically realistic model of abdominal aorta and renal arteries is reconstructed from ct-scan images and...