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Patients with heart failure (HF) experience frequent rehospitalizations and poor functional capacity. Early hospital mobility may prevent functional decline, but mobility patterns among hospitalized HF patients are not yet known. Accelerometers may provide a method to monitor and measure patient mobility objectively. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to describe mobility and function using accelerometers among hospitalized HF patients. Read the Full Text | ||||
A Type A Aortic Dissection Mimicking an Acute Myocardial Infarction | ||||
Long Term Outcomes in Stress Echocardiography: Ten Year Follow up of a Cohort in a Single Centre | ||||
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Carotid Artery Stenting 2013: Thumbs up
It has been customary for interventional cardiologists involved in carotid artery stenting, to underline non-inferiority of the percutaneous technique versus surgical carotid endarterectomy. To that end, all cause morbidity and mortality figures of both methods are compared. Surgery has, in most large randomized studies, had an edge over stenting in terms of cerebrovascular adverse events. This may have partly been due to occasional indiscriminate indication for stenting in lesions and/or vessels with unfavourable characteristics (severe target vessel tortuosity and calcification, Type III aortic arch, and so on). Full Text
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Atrial Septal Defect in a Very Old Woman
Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) is one of the most frequently congenital heart diseases in adults and it is often asymptomatic until adulthood. We report a case of a 90-year-old woman admitted to hospital with dyspnea and orthopnea insidiously progressing over the preceding 5 years and becoming severe with dyspnea on minimal activities, orthopnea and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, in the last 2 weeks. The transthoracic echocardiogram revealed an atrial septal defect ostium secundum type, with left-to-right shunt, moderate to severe tricuspid insufficiency, severe pulmonary hypertension (72 mmHg) and preserved biventricular function. Full Text
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Vol. 4, No. 2, Apr 2013
Table of Contents
Review
| A Review of Currently Available Fenofibrate and Fenofibric Acid Formulations | Abstract HTML PDF |
| Hua Ling, John T. Luoma, Daniel Hilleman | 47-55 |
Original Article
| Effects of Uric Acid on Lipid Levels in CKD Patients in a Randomized Controlled Trial | Abstract HTML PDF |
| Rodney G. Bowden, Brian D. Shelmadine, Jennifer J. Moreillon, Erika Deike, Jackson O. Griggs, Ronald L. Wilson | 56-63 |
| Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Device Implantation: Clinical and Long-Term Data | Abstract HTML PDF |
| Dubravko Petrac, Vjekoslav Radeljic, Nikola Pavlovic, Sime Manola, Diana Delic-Brkljacic | 64-67 |
| Outcome of Successful Versus Unsuccessful Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Chronic Total Occlusions in One Year Follow-Up | Abstract HTML PDF |
| Bahram Sohrabi, Samad Ghaffari, Afshin Habibzadeh, Parastoo Chaichi, Amir Kamalifar | 68-73 |
Case Report
| Angiographic Coronary Spasm in a Case of Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Mimicking Acute Myocardial Infarction | Abstract HTML PDF |
| Hung Yi Chen | 74-77 |
| A Case of Fulminant Myocarditis With Preceding Repeated Episodes of Congestive Heart Failure | Abstract HTML PDF |
| Yuko Tada, Kenta Uto, Hiroshi Wada, Ken-ichi Sakakura, Jun-ichi Suzuki, Toshio Nishikawa, Junya Ako, Shin-ichi Momomura | 78-81 |
| High Take Off Left Main and Abnormal Origin of Right Coronary Artery: A Case Report | Abstract HTML PDF |
| Negar Salehi, Seyfollah Abdi, Hamid Reza Pouraliakba, Anoushiravan Vakili-Zarch | 82-84 |
| Physiotherapy as a Rare Cause of Twiddler’s Syndrome in a Patient With an Implanted Cardioverter Defibrillator | Abstract HTML PDF |
| Christiana Schernthaner, Franz Danmayr, Richard Krausler, Bernhard Strohmer | 85-88 |