Background—Current guidelines recommend mitral valve surgery for asymptomatic patients with severe degenerative mitral regurgitation and preserved left ventricular systolic function when exercise pulmonary hypertension (PHT) is present. However, the determinants of exercise PHT have not been evaluated. The aim of this study was to identify the echocardiographic predictors of exercise PHT and th...

Effects of phenytoin (PHT) administration on dental caries in rats infected with Streptococcus sobrinus 6715 were investigated. Twenty-day-old specific pathogen-free Fischer male rats were infected with S. sobrinus 6715 and fed diet 2000 containing 56% sucrose with or without PHT for 52 days. Antibody responses against anti-S. sobrinus in serum and saliva failed to show a statistical difference...

The optimal treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in cirrhotic patients with portal hypertension (PHT) is still controversial. The objective of this study is to compare HCC patients with PHT treated with hepatic resection to those treated with transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) or thermal ablation. A series of 167 cirrhotic patients with HCC undergoing hepatic resection or TACE/ablat...

Background—Current guidelines recommend mitral valve surgery for asymptomatic patients with severe degenerative mitral regurgitation and preserved left ventricular systolic function when exercise pulmonary hypertension (PHT) is present. However, the determinants of exercise PHT have not been evaluated. The aim of this study was to identify the echocardiographic predictors of exercise PHT and th...

BACKGROUNDS/AIMS The roles of portal hypertension (PHT) on the postoperative course after hepatectomy are still debated. The aim of this study was to evaluate surgical outcomes of hepatectomy in patients with PHT. METHODS Data from 152 cirrhotic patients who underwent hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were collected retrospectively. Patients were divided into two groups according...

Different patterns of left-ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction were reported in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PHT). There are no data regarding the relationship between the severity of PHT and LV diastolic dysfunction. In order to determine the severity of PHT at which LV diastolic dysfunction occurs and to identify its pattern, we studied by Doppler echocardiography 120 patients wit...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary hypertension (PHT) is common in sickle cell disease (SCD). The purpose of this study was to determine whether markers of coagulation activation and inflammation are associated with PHT in SCD. DESIGN AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was performed using a cohort of patients followed at an adult Sickle Cell Clinic. Pulmonary artery systolic pressure was determined by ...

The monomer 3-hexylthiophen-2,5-dicarboxaldehyde was synthetized from precursor 3-hexylthiophene by VilsmeierHaack reaction. Three p-type semiconductor polymers (PHT-P, PHT-B and PHT-H) were aldol condensation this with three different ketones (propanone, butanone hexanone). composites created adding PbS/ZnS nanoparticles to these polymers. Light absorption increased the red composites. Electri...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary hypertension (PHT) is a recently recognized complication of chronic kidney disease. In this study, we investigated the association between PHT, peripheral vascular calcifications (VCs), and major cardiovascular events. METHODS In this retrospective study, we included 172 end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients undergoing dialysis [hemodialysis (HD)=84, peritoneal dialysis...

OBJECTIVE To facilitate patient handoffs between physicians, the computerized patient handoff tool (PHT) extracts information from the electronic health record to populate a form that is printed and given to the cross-cover physician. OBJECTIVES were to: (1) evaluate the rate at which data elements of interest were extracted from the electronic health record into the PHT, (2) assess the frequen...