1. Resident surgeon – MEC; Cardiovascular surgeon 2. PhD in surgery; cardiovascular surgeon, Coordinator of medical residence in cardiovascular surgery of Hospital das Clínicas da UFMG. 3. Full member of BSCVS, ex-professor of UFMG, Head of the Cardiovascular Surgery Services of Hospital Felício Rocho and Hospital das Clínicas of UFMG. 4. PhD in medicine, Professor of UFMG, Head of the Cardiolo...

Congenital cardiovascular malformations occur in about 5 to 8 of every 1,000 live births, and the percentage in stillborn infants is probably even higher. Between the 5 and 8 weeks of embryonic life, the primitive heart tube undergoes a process of folding, remodeling with the formation of valves, and septation that transforms its single lumen into the four chambers of the definitive heart. Alth...

The aim of this paper is to determine the differences in the outpatient consumption of cardiovascular drugs between Croatian regions: the City of Zagreb and Lika-Senj County. The data on the number of packages and the purchase price for each drug have been obtained from all pharmacies in Lika-Senj County and all pharmacies in the City of Zagreb. Defined daily doses/1000 inhabitants/day (DDD/100...

OBJECTIVES Our study examined age and sex patterns of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality among autopsy cases at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) in Accra, Ghana from 2006 to 2010. DESIGN All cardiovascular deaths diagnosed at autopsy in the 5-year period beginning January 2006 and ending December 2010 located in the autopsy logbooks of the Department of Pathology, KBTH, were analyzed for...

Obesity-related cardiovascular disease in children is becoming more prevalent in conjunction with the rise in childhood obesity. Children with obesity are predisposed to an increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in adulthood. Importantly, research in children with obesity over the last decade has demonstrated that children may exhibit early signs of cardiovascular dysfunction ...

BACKGROUND Aboriginal Australians suffer from poorer overall health compared to the general Australian population, particularly in terms of cardiovascular disease and prognosis following a cardiac event. Despite such disparities, Aboriginal Australians utilise health care services at much lower rates than the general population. Improving health care utilisation (HCU) among Aboriginal cardiac p...

Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada Stephenson Cardiovascular MR Centre at the Libin Cardiovascular Institute, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Imaging Research Laboratory Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada Lawson Health Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, ...

Recent advances in cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) now allow the accurate and reproducible measurement of many aspects of cardiac and vascular structure and function, with prognostic data emerging for several key imaging biomarkers. These biomarkers are increasingly used in the evaluation of new drugs, devices and lifestyle modifications for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascula...

Participation in sports activity and regular physical training is associated with physiological structural and electrical changes in the heart (athlete's heart) that enable sustained increases in cardiac output for prolonged periods. Cardiovascular remodelling in the conditioned athlete is often associated with ECG changes. In rare cases, abnormalities of an athlete's ECG may reflect an underly...

1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Imam Ali Cardiovascular Centre, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Islamic Republic of Iran. 2Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Islamic Republic of Iran. 3Yazd Cardiovascular Research Centre, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Islamic Republic of Iran ...