The etiology of chronic congestive heart failure (CHF) after repair of tetralogy of Fallot was determined in 102 patients consecutively catheterized 1 to 12 years postoperatively. Chronic CHF was observed in 36/102 patients. The most prevalent abnormality leading to congestive failure (31/36) was a large residual ventricular septal defect alone or in combination with other lesions. All postoper...

OBJECTIVES The present investigation was designed to determine if atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) gene expression increases in extracardiac as well as within the heart in congestive heart failure. METHODS Congestive heart failure (CHF) was induced by producing cardiac hypertrophy secondary to an aortocaval fistula in Sprague-Dawley rats. To characterize this model, control and CHF rats had c...

Dec 4, 2016. Torsemide, a novel and more potent diuretic than furosemide, may improve management of advanced congestive heart failure in dogs and cats . Torasemide is a new loop diuretic that combines the effects of furosemide and spironolactone. There are no reports on the effects of torasemide in cats and dogs. This study. Substances. Diuretics; Sulfonamides; torsemide; Furosemide. Serum crea...

Heart failure is among the leading causes of death in the developed countries. An estimated 6.6 million Americans have congestive heart failure (CHF) and, each year, there are an estimated 400,000 new cases diagnosed. (1-2) Increasing prevalence, hospitalizations, and deaths have made CHF a major chronic condition in the United States. Almost 50% of patients diagnosed with CHF will be dead with...

One of the most common heart disease is congestive heart failure. In this study, the detail coefficients of RR interval data obtained from the discrete wavelet transform are applied for congestive heart failure (CHF) classification. The wavelet-based feature examined is a difference between the logarithms of variances of detail coefficients of RR interval data corresponding to two consecutive l...

Studies from the USA have reported that sleep apnoea is common in congestive heart failure (CHF), with Cheyne-Stokes respiration (CSR) being the most frequent type of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in these patients. Within the present study, the authors sought to assess the prevalence and type of SDB among CHF patients in Germany. A total of 203 CHF patients participated in this prospective ...

during a period of four years between june, is, 1988 to june, is, 1992 one hundred and fourteen patients with congestive heart failure (chf) were admitted to the pediatric department of taleghani general hospital. during the above period, 192 patients with heart disease were hospitalized at this department and chf was the cause of admission in 59.4% of them. congenital heart disease (cho) was t...

Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction occurs due to a variable combination of abnormal myocardial relaxation and reduced ventricular compliance. The diagnosis of diastolic congestive heart failure is controversial. Some studies suggest that up to one-third of older people with symptomatic congestive heart failure (CHF) have echocardiograph evidence of diastolic dysfunction. Other authors have ...

although sport-physiologists have repeatedly analyzed respiratory gases through exercise, it is relatively new in the cardiovascular field and is obviously more acceptable than standard exercise test, which gives only information about the existence or absence of cardiovascular diseases (cvds). through the new method of exercise test, parameters including aerobic and anaerobic are checked and m...

background the aim of this study was to examine the impacts of multiple indicators of socio-economic status (ses) on congestive heart failure (chf) related readmission.   methods a prospective study consisting of 315 patients without the history of admission due to chf was carried out in tehran during 2010 and 2011. they were classified into quartiles based on their ses applying principal compo...