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The current management approach for critically ill patients emphasizes maintaining adequate cardiac output and mean arterial pressure. Recently, researchers have increasingly emphasized the clinical significance of venous reflux. Bedside Doppler ultrasonography offers continuous, dynamic, quantifiable assessment reflux status. In this review, we explore pertinent literature on assessing status ...

Heart contains a variety of neurons known to influence cardiac functions. Little is known about the neurochemistry of these neurons. In this study, neurochemistry of intra cardiac neurons of the intrinsic cardiac ganglia was investigated. The technique used allows studying the morphology of the ganglionated nerve plexus found within the atria and great cardiac vessels as well as of individual n...

BACKGROUND This study aims to present a novel method for using cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) to non-invasively quantify the variation in pulmonary blood volume throughout the cardiac cycle in humans. METHODS 10 healthy volunteers (7 males, 3 female, age range 21-32 years) were studied. The blood flow in the pulmonary artery and all pulmonary veins was quantified during free breathin...

Varicose veins of the legs are known to have local secondary effects such as edema of the leg, eczema of the skin, ulceration and even hemorrhage. Sequelae such as thrombosis and phlebitis of the enlarged veins may in turn cause pulmonary emboli with their distressing pulmonocardiac symptoms. However, we can find no clear evidence in the medical literature that the pooling of blood in varicose ...

PURPOSE We aimed to investigate the coronary venous system and its variations by using dual source computed tomography (CT). MATERIALS AND METHODS Retrospective assessment was carried out on 339 patients who underwent coronary CT angiography using 128-slice dual source CT for suspected coronary artery disease. The examinations were performed according to routine imaging protocols used to eval...

Heart contains a variety of neurons known to influence cardiac functions. Little is known about the neurochemistry of these neurons. In this study, neurochemistry of intra cardiac neurons of the intrinsic cardiac ganglia was investigated. The technique used allows studying the morphology of the ganglionated nerve plexus found within the atria and great cardiac vessels as well as of individual n...