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British Heart Journal Nov 1968
Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Angiocardiography; Blood Pressure; Cardiomyopathies; Diagnosis, Differential; Diseases in Twins; Female; Heart; Heart Septal Defects, Atrial; Heart Ventricles; Humans; Male; Phonocardiography
PubMed: 5718990
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.30.6.826 -
Thorax Mar 1966
Topics: Adult; Angiocardiography; Atrial Fibrillation; Child; Electrocardiography; Female; Heart Atria; Heart Defects, Congenital; Humans; Male
PubMed: 5935845
DOI: 10.1136/thx.21.2.175 -
British Heart Journal 1971Semantic difficulties arise when hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy is seen without obstruction and with congestive failure, and also when congestive cardiomyopathy...
Semantic difficulties arise when hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy is seen without obstruction and with congestive failure, and also when congestive cardiomyopathy is seen with gross hypertrophy but without heart failure. Retention of a small left ventricular cavity and a normal ejection fraction characterizes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at all stages of the disorder. Congestive cardiomyopathy is recognized by the presence of a dilated left ventricular cavity and reduced ejection fraction regardless of the amount of hypertrophy and the presence or not of heart failure. Longevity in congestive cardiomyopathy seems to be promoted when hypertrophy is great relative to the amount of pump failure as measured by increase in cavity size. Conversely, death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is most likely when hypertrophy is greatest at a time when outflow tract obstruction has been replaced by inflow restriction caused by diminishing ventricular distensibility. Hypertrophy is thus beneficial and compensatory in congestive cardiomyopathy, whereas it may be the primary disorder and eventual cause of death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Reasons are given for believing that hypertension may have been the original cause of left ventricular dilatation in some case of congestive cardiomyopathy in which loss of stroke output thenceforward is followed by normotension. Development of severe hypertension in these patients after recovery from a prolonged period of left ventricular failure with normotension lends weight to this hypothesis. No fault has been found in the large or small coronary arteries in either hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or congestive cardiomyopathy when they have been examined in life by selective coronary angiography, or by histological methods in biopsy or post-mortem material. Coronary blood supply may be a limiting factor in the compensatory hypertrophy of congestive cardiomyopathy, and the ability to hypertrophy may explain the better prognosis of some patients. In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy excessive metabolic demand may not be met, and inadequacy of blood flow may contribute both to sudden death and to progressive replacement fibrosis in this disease. Histochemical and ultrastructural methods have failed to show any fundamental differences between hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and congestive cardiomyopathy, whereas conventional histology permits recognition of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and distinction both from congestive cardiomyopathy and from ;normal' secondary hypertrophy in organic aortic stenosis.
Topics: Angiocardiography; Cardiomegaly; Cardiomyopathies; Coronary Angiography; Coronary Disease; Diagnosis, Differential; Echocardiography; Electrocardiography; Heart Ventricles; Humans; Hypertension; Prognosis
PubMed: 4252244
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.33.suppl.179 -
Revista Espanola de Cardiologia Mar 1999
Topics: Adolescent; Angiocardiography; Cor Triatriatum; Echocardiography, Transesophageal; Female; Heart Atria; Humans
PubMed: 10193173
DOI: 10.1016/s0300-8932(99)74894-3 -
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Oct 1983Coronary embolism is an uncommon but distinct clinical entity. It can be diagnosed clinically, and should be suspected when acute myocardial infarction occurs in... (Review)
Review
Coronary embolism is an uncommon but distinct clinical entity. It can be diagnosed clinically, and should be suspected when acute myocardial infarction occurs in association with an underlying condition which predisposes to embolism. The most common are valvular heart disease, a prosthetic heart valve, infective endocarditis, cardiomyopathy with mural thrombus and arrhythmia. The diagnosis may be obscured by atypical symptoms and transient ECG changes. The diagnosis is supported by the demonstration of normal coronary arteries by selective coronary arteriography. Treatment with long-term anticoagulants may prevent further emboli. Additional antiplatelet drugs are also necessary in patients with prosthetic heart valves.
Topics: Adult; Angiocardiography; Coronary Disease; Electrocardiography; Embolism; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged
PubMed: 6355470
DOI: 10.1177/014107688307601012 -
Annals of Surgery Mar 1964
Topics: Angiocardiography; Bile Ducts; Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic; Child; Cholangiography; Congenital Abnormalities; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Jaundice; Jaundice, Neonatal; Liver Cirrhosis; Surgical Procedures, Operative
PubMed: 14129377
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-196403000-00002 -
British Heart Journal Nov 1968
Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Angiocardiography; Aortic Aneurysm; Blood Pressure; Electrocardiography; Female; Humans; Male; Mediastinal Neoplasms; Middle Aged; Pulmonary Artery; Pulmonary Valve Stenosis; Pulmonary Veins
PubMed: 5718987
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.30.6.776 -
Journal of Nuclear Medicine : Official... Nov 1972
Topics: Angiocardiography; Cardiac Output; Cardiac Volume; Computers; Heart; Heart Diseases; Heart Rate; Hemodynamics; Humans; Methods; Mitral Valve Insufficiency; Mitral Valve Stenosis; Radioisotope Dilution Technique; Scintillation Counting; Serum Albumin, Radio-Iodinated; Technetium
PubMed: 4562618
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Canadian Medical Association Journal Nov 1971
Topics: Angiocardiography; Cardiac Catheterization; Cardiomegaly; Child; Child, Preschool; Diverticulum; Heart Diseases; Heart Ventricles; Humans; Male
PubMed: 4260788
DOI: No ID Found -
British Heart Journal Jan 1967
Topics: Angiocardiography; Aortic Valve Stenosis; Child; Child, Preschool; Ductus Arteriosus, Patent; Electrocardiography; Endocardial Fibroelastosis; Female; Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular; Humans; Infant; Male; Mitral Valve Stenosis; Phonocardiography; Vena Cava, Inferior
PubMed: 6018323
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.29.1.83