There are many reviews that discuss the role of biomarkers in cardiovascular disease (CVD) and heart failure (Braunwald, 2008; Chen et al., 2010; Hochholzer et al., 2010), but little information exists regarding the presence and usefulness of biomarkers for heart failure in myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) patients. Heart failure (HF) is the end consequence of many CVDs including at...

To the Editor: The study by Grissom et al1 demonstrated a high correlation of the Modified Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (MSOFA) with the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) to predict mortality in patients with critical illnesses. The accompanying editorial by Rubinson et al2 cautioned readers not to rely solely on the SOFA or MSOFA score to prioritize patients during a mass criti...

son of Quality of Life between stable heart failure patients and heart transplant recipients. J Heart Lung Transplant 1994; 13: 1109–18. [4] Kuhn WF, Myers B, Brennan F et al. Psychopathology in heart transplant candidates. J Heart Transplant 1988; 7: 223–6. [5] Freedland KE, Carney RM, Rich MW et al. Depression in Elderly Patients with Congestive Heart Failure. J Geriatric Psychiatry 1991; 24 ...

In the medical group, acute glomerulonephritis (17), septicaemia (11), poisoning (6), and haemolysis (6) were the main causes. The poisons were paraquat (4), organophosphate (1) and hair perming lotion (1). All patients with haemolysis had G-6PD deficiency. Acute renal failure in 6 cases were unexplained. The pattern of acute renal failure varies, even in countries in the tropics (Ku et al, 197...

[1] Charra B, Calemard E, Ruffet M, et al. Survival as an index of adequacy of dialysis. Kidney Int 1992;41:1286–91. [2] Wizemann V, Wabel P, Chamney P, et al. The mortality risk of overhydration in haemodialysis patients. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2009;24:1574–9. [3] Solomon SD, Dobson J, Pocock S, et al. For the Candesartan in Heart failure— Assessment of Reduction in Mortality and morbidity (C...

After radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer approximately 25-30% of patients will eventually experience a biochemical failure, defined as a total serum PSA of >0.2ng/ml (Hull et al., 2002; Porter et al., 2006). Two thirds of these biochemical failures will occur in the first two years and implies a biologically more aggressive disease and poorer prognosis (Dilloglugil et al, 1997). This may...

heart failure is common in patients with chronic renal disease, either as a complication of renal failure or from shared risk factors, or is the major cause of death in patients on dialysis. at present, end stage renal disease (esrd) patients who have systolic heart failure are considered high-risk for surgery; and nephrologists and cardiologists are reluctant to refer these patients for kidney...

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