Showing papers in "Journal of Cardiology in 1989"

TL;DR: A rare case of pulmonary hypertension due to glycogen storage disease type II (Pompe's disease) was reported, which resulted from respiratory muscular atrophy and alveolar hypoventilation caused by Pompe's disease.

TL;DR: A 49-year-old man, who had been diagnosed by indirect fluorescent antibody test as the first case of Lassa fever in Japan, was referred to the Hiroo Hospital because of syncope, progressive hepatomegaly, ascites and pericardial effusion in spite of pericardiocentesis and corticosteroid therapy.

TL;DR: It was suggested that MVO disturbs intraventricular flow dynamics during both systole and diastole, and color Doppler echocardiography is particularly useful in determining the site of obstruction and allows further evaluation by pulsed and continuous wave Dopplers techniques to precisely measure pressure gradients.

TL;DR: Segmental analysis of the aorta provides an objective comparative basis for definition and classification of aortic dilatation and aneurysm.

TL;DR: Doppler color flow imaging was performed in 38 children following surgical repair for tetralogy of Fallot for quantitative assessments of PR using noninvasive methods, and the PR area index was a reliable index of significant PR.

TL;DR: Hemodynamically, heart rates and pulmonary artery pressures did not differ among six survivors more than 2 years after the hemodynamic evaluations and five patients who were deceased within this period, however, cardiac output was low and arterio-venous differences in oxygen content were high.

TL;DR: It was concluded that 2-D echo is helpful for primary screening and prevention of cardiovascular disorders and may indicate a sexual difference in the influence of age on the cardiovascular system.

TL;DR: This experience suggests that bromocriptine, a derivative of ergot alkaloids, can cause coronary arterial spasm, and subsequent myocardial infarction.

TL;DR: Normal systolic function and impaired diastolic properties in patients with chronic renal failure, who had left ventricular hypertrophy unaccompanied by dilatation are demonstrated.

TL;DR: The present study was designed to determine whether the long axis of the left ventricle is elongated in patients with aortic regurgitation and found no difference in the mean duration of the clinical course between AR and MR.

TL;DR: To ascertain the usefulness of continuous wave Doppler echocardiography in evaluating the severity of mitral regurgitation (MR), 29 patients with MR and 10 normal subjects were examined.

TL;DR: It is suggested that there is considerable viableMyocardium in patients with large Tl/Tc overlap on dual-SPECT, and more myocardium can be saved from necrosis in group A than in group C.

TL;DR: Mild and transient valvular regurgitation, which cannot be detected by auscultation, may occur in some patients in the acute stage of Kawasaki disease, which may be caused by acute inflammation of the valve related to coronary artery lesions.

TL;DR: Systolic function of the septal side of the left ventricle is disturbed due to the distortion of the ventricular septum, but systolic functions of the free-wall side is maintained within a normal range, when the left Ventricular myocardium is kept normal.

TL;DR: In this article, serial changes in trans-cardiac lactate extraction after intracoronary thrombolysis were examined in 35 patients with acute anteroseptal myocardial infarction.

TL;DR: Using electrocardiographically-gated magnetic resonance imaging, regional cardiac function was evaluated in 12 normal volunteers and in 10 cases of old myocardial infarction, and the MR technique at the optimal axis may be useful for quantitative evaluations of regional heart function.

TL;DR: The usefulness of Tc-99 m isonitriles, N-13 ammonia and Rb-82 as substitute radiopharmaceuticals is now being widely investigated.

TL;DR: Routine coronary angiography is necessary for detecting and preventing CAD in all patients with ASO andCoronary artery revascularization, especially PTCA, can be indicated prior to lower extremityRevascularization.

TL;DR: The correlation between the plasma atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) levels and echocardiographically measured atrial and ventricular dimensions was studied in various cardiovascular diseases and there was no significant correlation between ANP level and heart rate, systemic blood pressure, left ventricular end-diastolic and end-systolic diameters, ejection fraction, posterior wall thickness or right ventricularend-diastsolic diameter.

TL;DR: Exercise-induced left ventricular dysfunction in DCM seems to be a poor prognostic sign in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, although patients with DCM are believed to have diffuse hypokinesis of the left ventricle.

TL;DR: The right ventricular hypoplasia lessened with increasing age, neither pulmonary nor tricuspid valvular malformation was present, and normal blood flow patterns were revealed.

TL;DR: Serial Doppler echocardiography was performed in 12 normal neonates to evaluate flow patterns through the ductus arteriosus, and in the aorta and brachiocephalic artery, and there was a pan-diastolic flow reversal in neonates with bidirectional ductal flow.

TL;DR: To estimate regional left ventricular (LV) diastolic filling patterns in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a computer-assisted method by applying "sector analysis" to ECG forward and reverse gated radionuclide ventriculography was developed, indicating the important role of atrial systolic LV filling for slowed early filling.

TL;DR: A small diverticulum without a midline thoracoabdominal defect is not rare, and two-dimensional echocardiography is the diagnostic method of choice in many cases based on the echo features described above.

TL;DR: The acute cardiac death was the most frequent cause among acute endogenous deaths, and it approximately doubled among males during an interval of 10 years, and was related to a marked increase in ischemic heart disease.

TL;DR: The present study demonstrated that the hemodynamic characteristics in malignant hypertension are an inappropriate left ventricular hypertrophy due to a marked increase in systolic stress; dilatation of the left ventricle in syStole; and a moderate decrease in ventricular systolics function.

TL;DR: The accuracy of Doppler estimates of pressure gradients in various types of stenoses was clinically and experimentally evaluated and correlated very well to dP (C), with the results indicating that patients with ventricular septal defect or valvular stenosis had gradually widened according to angiographic findings.

TL;DR: Dobutamine stress testing was well tolerated by all patients, and no complications occurred, and this new combined method is useful for evaluating the relationship between ischemia and wall motion dynamics.

TL;DR: A two-month-old boy with anomalous origin of the left anterior descending coronary artery (AOLAD), aortic stenosis (AS), coarctation of the aorta (CoA) and patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is reported, which is the first such reported case.

TL;DR: It is concluded that coronary angiography may be mandatory in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, especially those who have many coronary risk factors and anginal symptoms, and in these patients, ST-T changes and abnormal Q-waves on electrocardiography sometimes may be misleading when diagnosing the occurrence of acute myocardial infarction by electrocardsiography alone.