DIFFERENT WAYS OF SMOKING BUT THE SAME HAZARD TO CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM: SHISHA SMOKING COMPARED WITH CIGARETTE SMOKING REGARDING THEIR EFFECT ON BLOOD PRESSURE AND ITS REGULATION

Introduction: Shisha smoking is an old method of tobacco smoking in which, the smoke passes through water before being inhaled...

THE UTILITY OF PULSED-WAVE TISSUE DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY FOR DIAGNOSTICS OF LATE MYOCARDIAL DAMAGE AFTER ONCOLOGICAL TREATMENT IN CHILDHOOD

Background: Pulsed-wave tissue doppler echocardiography (PW-TDI) of mitral annular motion has been currently used in the assessment of left ventricular...

PERIPHERAL FAT MASS HAS EFFECT ON CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORSA RISK FAKTORS

Aim: To investigate the effects of peripheral fat mass on atherogenic risc profile. Method: Data from nationwide cross-sectional survey enrolling a...

PREDICTORS OF ELECTRICAL DYSSYNCHRONY WITH RIGHT VENTRICULAR APICAL PACING

Background. Left ventricular (LV) electrical dyssynchrony reflected by prolonged paced QRS duration is a predictor of development of heart failure...

IMPACT OF HEMATOPOIETIC CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR HEMATOLOGICAL DISEASE ON BLOOD PRESSURE AND HEART RATE

Aim: Monitoring of blood pressure and heart rate during hematopoietic cell (HC) graft infusion and assessment of influence of cryopreservation...

SHORT TERM CONTROL OF BLOOD PRESSURE: COHERENCE BETWEEN BLOOD PRESSURE AND SYSTEMIC PERIPHERAL RESISTANCE FLUCTUATIONS AROUND 0.1 HZ

Background: Task Force Monitor enables the beat-to-beat blood pressure (BP) and total  peripheral resistance (TPR) monitoring. Those data can be...

AORTIC SURGERY IN NA HOMOLCE HOSPITAL – BIG PROGRAM FOR SMALL DEPARTMENT

Introduction: We present group of patients operated due to aortic pathology at our department from June 2002 to December 2006....

HYPERURICEMIA IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION : THE IMPACT ON IN-HOSPITAL MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY

Aims: To investigate the incidence of elevated values of serum uric acid (UA)  concentration in patients with acute myocardial infarction...

EVALUATION OF CAROTID - FEMORAL ARTERIAL PULSE VELOCITY AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO NATRIURETIC PEPTIDES LEVELS IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS WITH METABOLIC SYNDROME OR TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS

Background: There is higher incidence of asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction in hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus  (HT +...

LONG TERM HEALTH OUTCOMES OF PATIENTS AFTER THE END OF DUAL ANTICLOTTING THERAPY USED IN PATIENTS WITH IMPLANTED DRUG-ELUTING STENT. (HOMEDES REGISTRY, HEALTH OUTCOMES AND MORTALITY EVALUATIONS AFTER INVASIVE CORONARY TREATMENT USING DRUG ELUTING STENTS)

Aim: The aim of the observation was to find out the occurence of late (more than 6 months) clinical events...

STRUCTURE, EFFICACY AND ECONOMY OF THE THERAPY OF HYPERTENSION IN SLOVAK OUT-WARD PATIENTS WITH METABOLIC SYNDROME – PROJECT NEMESYSRNRN

Introduction. Increased blood pressure is one of discriminant criteria for presence of metabolic syndrome (MS). Despite of  numerous analyses of...

INITIATION, SUSTAINING AND TERMINATION OF VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION DEPEND ON INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM CONCENTRATIONRN

The aim of the study was 1) to monitor myocardial [Ca2+]i levels during the development and persistence of ventricular fibrillation...

FISH OIL AND ATORVASTATIN DECREASE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF HYPETRIGLYCEROLEMIC RAT HEARTS TO VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATIONRN

N-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) and lipid-lowering drugs were shown in human to possess an antiarhythmic potential, therefore, aim of...

THE OUTCOME OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION FOLLOWING ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION TREATED BY PCI: A PILOT STUDY

Study background: Cardiac arrest following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has  the most complicated treatment and most uncertain prognosis from all...

COMPLEX MONITORING OF CARDIOTOXICITY IN HEMATOONCOLOGY

Aim: Monitoring of cardiotoxicity of anthracyclines (ANT) with 3 diagnostic methods: biochemical markers – N-terminal pro brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP),...

INTERFERENCE OF IMPLANTED PACEMAKER AND CARDIOVERTER-DEFIBRILLATOR, LEADING TO REPETITIVE ICD SHOCKS AND NON-EFFECTIVE PACING THROUGH PM WITH ASYSTOLY AFTER SHOCKS

Theory: In patients with pacemaker (PM) and cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implanted later, an interference of both devices can occur. Case study:...

ACUTE DYSFUNCTION OF CHRONIC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY EVALUATED BY B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE

Background: Although B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) has been adopted in clinical practice, many of BNP pathophysiological properties are still unknown....

METABOLIC LIVER FUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE AND ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION

Backround:Abnormalities in liver function tests have impact on prognosis of patients with chronic heart failure ( CHF ). The aim...

DIABETES MELLITUS AND ADMISSION BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVEL AS A RISK FACTOR IN PATIENTS AFTER ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

Background: High admission blood glucose levels  (BGL) after acute myocardial (AMI) are common and associated with an increased risk of...

CORD - COMPARISON OF RECOMMENDED DOSES

The CORD study is a multicentric, single blinded study testing the antihypertensive and metabolic efficacy of recommended doses of ramipril...

AHEAD - ACUTE HEART FAILURE DATABASE

The AHEAD (Acute HEArt Failure Database) is a registry of patients with AHF hospitalized at cardiologic departments with 24 hour cath lab...

PREVALENCE AND PREDICTIVE FACTORS OF HEART FAILURE AFTER NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

Introduction. Coronary artery disease is the most frequent etiology of heart failure (HF) and the prevalence of HF after ST...

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL EFFECT AFTER TWO-WEEK CARDIAC REHABILITATION (PHASE II) IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

Objective. Lifestyle modification should be acquired during phase II and maintained thereafter. We have designed a new 2-week hospitalized phase...

MODERN IMAGING OF CARDIAC MASSES

Before the era of imaging techniques, the diagnosis of cardiac masses wasextremely difficult and often not made antemortem.With the advence...

VIEWS ON THE ROLE OF ARTERIAL PULSE WAVE REFLECTION

It seems that recently the interest in the role of pulse wave reflection in the arterial system has been amplified....

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