We evaluated electrocardiographic and echocardiographic changes of 40 patients with pulmonary thrombo-embolism proved by perfusion scintigrams. ECG-changes included sinus tachycardia or absolute tachyarrhythmia de novo, changes type Q1S3T3 and changes in right precordial leads. Analyses of echocardiography included hyperkinesis and then dilatation and apical hypokinesis of right ventricule and ...

That diverse factors are concerned in causing arterial pathological changes largely confined to lungs is clear from a review published by McKeown (1952). Only one of these factors, incorporation of fibrin into arterial intima, is here considered as a cause of pulmonary arteriosclerosis and cor pulmonale. Goedel (1930), Belt (1939), and according to Duguid (1946) Rokitansky were all aware that i...

A patient with Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome and pulmonary arterial hypertension not associated with chronic thrombo-embolic pulmonary hypertension is described. It is hypothesised that pulmonary arterial hypertension is another complication associated with the Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome, possibly due to haemodynamic changes of small vessel abnormalities.

Chronic thrombo-embolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) remains a severe disabling disease causing a significant amount of mortality and morbidity worldwide. The incidence and severity of this condition is quite obscure. The initial inciting event, the reason of progression, the natural history of the disease and the predictors of adverse outcomes are not yet adequately clarified. From the India...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: ICU: Intensive Care Unit; CPCR: Cardiac Pulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation; SAPS: Simplified Acute Physiology Score; APACHE: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; TISS: Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System; HELLP: Hemolysis, Elevated Liver enzymes and Low Platelet Count; ARI: Acute Renal Insufficiency; PE: Pulmonary Embolis...

Corresponding author: Aleksander Araszkiewicz MD, Department of Cardiology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 1/2 Długa St, 61-848 Poznan, Poland, phone: +48 608 574 375, fax: +48 618 549 094, e-mail: [email protected] Received: 23.12.2016, accepted: 12.02.2017. Optical coherence tomography improves the results of balloon pulmonary angioplasty in inoperable chronic thrombo-embolic p...