INTRODUCTION Tricuspid Annular Plane Systolic Excursion (TAPSE) has independent prognostic value in heart failure patients but may be influenced by left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction. The present study assessed the association of TAPSE and clinical factors, global and regional LV function in 634 patients admitted for symptomatic heart failure. METHODS & RESULTS TAPSE were correlated with...

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a major public health problem in developed countries.1–3 It is a significant burden to patients, healthcare providers, and society.2–4 Several hospital-based reports have documented that a high proportion of patients with CHF have normal left ventricular (LV) systolic function,5 and 4 different epidemiological investigations further confirmed that nearly half o...

Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition. The current definition of peripartum cardiomyopathy only includes patients with systolic dysfunction. We describe a 25-year-old nulligravid patient with heart failure, i.e. left ventricular diastolic dysfunction with preserved systolic dysfunction during the third trimester of pregnancy. She complained of dyspnea an...

The increased survival after acute myocardial infarction induced an increase in heart failure with left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Early detection and treatment of asymptomatic left ventricular systolic dysfunction give the chance to improve outcomes and to reduce costs due to the management of patients with overt heart failure.

AIMS To estimate the cost-effectiveness of 10 mg rosuvastatin daily for older patients with systolic heart failure in the Controlled Rosuvastatin Multinational Study in Heart Failure (CORONA) trial. METHODS AND RESULTS This within trial analysis of CORONA used major cardiovascular (CV) events as the outcome measure. Resource use was valued and the costs of hospitalizations, procedures, and st...

participants and procedure This prospective study among 75 patients with stable systolic HF consisted of 2 parts: a quantitative approach, conducted during the hospitalization (based on 4 psychological questionnaires: the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale; the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations; the Acceptance of Illness Scale; and the Patient’s Request Form) and a qualitati...

he practice of medicine today is founded primarily on the henotypic characteristics of diseases. The recognition of ommon forms of cardiomyopathies as hypertrophic, diated, restrictive, and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cariomyopathies typifies the phenotype-based approach to iseases. The approach clearly has had numerous positive mpacts on the diagnosis, prognostication, prevention, and rea...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the effect of parity on blood pressure (BP) readings and BMI among rural West African Dogon women. DESIGN Correlational research design. SETTING Sangha, West Africa PARTICIPANTS 133 West African Dogon Women METHODS Demographic survey including age, number of children, history of hypertension, and village affiliation. BP readings were taken in accordance wit...

T he SYMPLICITY HTN-3 (Renal Denervation in Patients With Uncontrolled Hypertension) study was a randomized, sham-controlled clinical study of the blood pressure (BP)-lowering effects of renal sympathetic denervation (RDN), which included ambulatory BPmeasurements (ABPM) as part of the inclusion criteria and as a secondary endpoint. The primary results of the study failed to show a larger reduc...