Thrombospondin-1 in Patients wi ...
Thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1), a potent antiangiogenic and proatherogenic protein, has been implicated in the development of several vascular diabetic co ...
Sleep Disorders in Hemodialysis ...
A high prevalence of sleep disorders has been reported in patients with renal failure and is linked to cardiovascular complications in those patient ...
Diagnostic Difficulties in Diff ...
Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis is a rare, severe, and chronic infection of the kidney characterized by the replacement of renal parenchyma by th ...
Fibroblast Growth Factor, A Rev ...
Historically, phosphate homeostasis has been considered the result of an interaction between the kidneys, the parathyroid glands and the bone as the ...
Incidence of Hepatitis C Virus ...
Hepatitis viral infections are important causes of morbidity and mortality in haemodialysis patients. The aim of the present work is to study the pr ...
Depression and Chronic Kidney D ...
Depression is the most common mental health disorder in patients with renal failure including those with pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD). ...
Investigating the Protective Ef ...
The immunosuppressive drug, cyclosporine A (CsA), has been used in patients who were treated for immune diseases and in transplant patients. However ...
Relation Between Thyroid Hormon ...
Insulin resistance (IR) is a common problem in patients with ESRD on regular HD, and it is related to many complications, including cardiovascular c ...
Intact Parathyroid Hormone in E ...
Osteodystrophy is one of the long-term haemodialysis complications. In diabetic end stage renal failure patients, it mainly occurs as an aplastic or ...
Serum Lipid Profile and Plasma ...
Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) are reported to be associated with atherosclerotic and inflammatory diseases because they are the major component ...
Cadherin 5 and Annexin V as Cir ...
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in Chronic kidney disease patients. This study tries to identify circulating endothelial microp ...
The Role of Arterio-Venous Shun ...
Pulmonary hypertension (PHT) is an overlooked cardiovascular morbidity in patients with end stage renal disease. The pathogenesis of PHT in this gr ...
Role of Nitric Oxide on Gastroe ...
Introduction Upper gastrointestinal discomfort is common in renal failure patients, whether on dialysis or not, leading to malnutrition. Nitric oxid ...
Emerging therapies for heart fa ...
Improved understanding of the pathophysiology of salt and water homeostasis has provided a foundation for explaining the renal mechanisms of emergin ...
Electrical modalities beyond pa ...
In this review, we report on electrical modalities, which do not fit the definition of pacemaker, but increase cardiac performance either by direct ...
Chronic ventricular pacing in c ...
In children with congenital or acquired complete atrioventricular (AV) block, ventricular pacing is indicated to increase heart rate. Ventricular pa ...
Vagus nerve stimulation: from p ...
Vagus nerve stimulation was performed experimentally for the first time more than 150 years ago. In the 1980s and 1990s, vagus nerve stimulation was ...
Lead positioning strategies to ...
Left ventricular lead position is one of the main determinants of CRT response. There are several approaches in LV lead positioning that include fav ...
Pharmacologic modulation of par ...
In the congestive heart failure state, autonomic dysregulation involves an increase in sympathetic tone and decrease in parasympathetic tone and is ...
New insights into the role of t ...
Chronic ischemia or pressure overload decreases thyroid hormone (TH) signaling and activates the fetal gene program in the heart. While these featur ...
When is an optimization not an ...
Impact of variability in the measured parameter is rarely considered in designing clinical protocols for optimization of atrioventricular (AV) or in ...
Vagus nerve stimulation in expe ...
Chronic heart failure (HF) is associated with autonomic dysregulation characterized by a sustained increase in sympathetic drive and by withdrawal o ...
Innate immunity and remodelling
A wide variety of cardiac disease states can induce remodelling and lead to the functional consequence of heart failure. These complex disease state ...
The role of nuclear imaging in ...
Heart failure represents a common disease affecting approximately 5 million patients in the United States. Several conditions play an important role ...
Atrioventricular and interventr ...
In this review, the physiological rationale for atrioventricular and interventricular delay optimization of cardiac resynchronization therapy is dis ...