2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure: The Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Developed with the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC.

ACC/AHA
: American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association
ACCF/AHA
: American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association
ACE
: angiotensin-converting enzyme
ACEI
: angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor
ACS
: acute coronary syndrome
AF
: atrial fibrillation

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2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

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ESC guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2012 : The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure 2012 of the European Society of Cardiology. Developed in collaboration with the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC

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ESC guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2012: The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure 2012 of the European Society of Cardiology. Developed in collaboration with the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC.

2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension.

Reported is a case with a rare association of divided left atrium, supramitral stenosing ring of the left atrium, connection of the left superior caval vein to the roof of the left atrium, unroofed coronary sinus with an interatrial communication at the mouth of the unroofed sinus and ventricular septal defect. The need for a complete echocardiographic examination in the presence of pulmonary venous obstruction is emphasized. Surgery was successful in spite of significant preoperative pulmonary hypertension.

Divided left atrium associated with supravalvar mitral ring.

In the modern hospital, the efficient storage of electronically recorded biomedical signals as well as its transmission over communication networks is becoming more and more important. Although digital storage media is currently almost inexpensive and computational power has exponentially increased in last years, effective electrocardiogram (ECG) compression techniques are still very attractive. In fact, several millions of electrocardiograms are recorded annually and the transfer of electrocardiogram records over communication networks for remote analysis is now done more than ever. Besides the increased storage capacity for archival purposes, ECG compression allows real-time transmission over communication networks, economic off-line transmission to remote interpretation sites and enables efficient HCG rhythm analysis algorithms. In this paper, an adaptive approach to ECG compression is proposed, which provides comparable results with various types of ECG signal, namely normal sinus rhythm, ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation. Most proposals in the literature approach the problem of ECG compression without considering the possibility of such pathologies and, consequently, their performance deteriorate in cases where such signals are present. Experimental results of the proposed algorithm are promising, although compression ratios are still not yet as good as they can get.

A predictive adaptive approach to generic ECG data compression

Premature Ventricular Contractions (PVC) are a cardiac arrhythmia that can be associated with an increased risk of adverse cardiac events such as ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death. Therefore, the characterization of this arrhythmia becomes crucial in the early diagnosis and prevention of possible life threatening cardiac diseases. In this paper a new approach for automatic detection of PVCs is presented, based on morphological derivatives and information theory techniques. Using these approaches a set of patient invariant features is introduced. Sensibility and specificity results (respectively, 96.35% and 99.15%) show the potential of the algorithm when applied to the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia database.

On the detection of Premature Ventricular Contractions

Resumo Fundamento A resistencia vascular pulmonar elevada ainda e um grande problema na selecao de candidatos ao transplante cardiaco. Objetivo Nosso objetivo foi avaliar o efeito da administracao de sildenafila pre-transplante cardiaco em pacientes com hipertensao pulmonar fixa. Metodos O estudo retrospectivo, de centro unico, incluiu 300 candidatos a transplante cardiaco consecutivos tratados entre 2003 e 2013. Destes, 95 pacientes tinham hipertensao pulmonar fixa e, dentre eles, 30 pacientes foram tratados com sildenafila e acabaram passando pelo transplante, formando o [...]

Manuel J. Antunes

Papers

Divided left atrium associated with supravalvar mitral ring.

A predictive adaptive approach to generic ECG data compression

On the detection of Premature Ventricular Contractions

Long-Term Clinical and Hemodynamic Outcomes after Heart Transplantation in Patients Pre-Treated with Sildenafil.

Contractile effects of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine on the human internal mammary artery