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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"cardiac catheterisation"”.
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Non-Q wave myocardial infarction : Groote Schuur Hospital Coronary Care Unit 1990-1993
… period after the index event; 51% (93) underwent cardiac catheterisation during that hospital admission and revascularization was performed in 29% (52). There were 2 deaths during the initial hospital admission, both after surgical revascularisation. At one year the cardiac mortality was 7%. There …
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Diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic considerations in primary pulmonary hypertension
… value of clinical features, lung function tests, cardiac catheterisation, isotope lung scans and, in the PPH group, response to therapy; 2. Review our experience of the effects of treatment with vasodilators and oral anticoagulants, and the results of heart and lung transplantation in the PPH …
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Genetic polymorphism of the human apolipoproteins A and E
… was also utilised to screen patients undergoing cardiac catheterisation, no variants of apo A-I and A-II were detected in this patient population. The presence of a minor apo A-IV variant in these patients requires confirmation by other techniques.
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The Economic Impact of Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) on the Health System of South Africa. A Cost of Illness Study.
… annual costs, which included outpatient care, cardiac medical and intensive care unit (ICU) care, cardiac catheterisation lab procedures, and heart valve surgery, was estimated at $4, 311 (ZAR 52, 000) per-patient annually. The cost of medications and consumables related to cardiac …
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Primary caregivers’ experiences of caring for their child post cardiac intervention: An exploratory study
… whilst taking care of their child after a cardiac intervention in South Africa. This exploratory, descriptive study used a qualitative research approach to describe some of the key experiences of eight primary caregivers as they took care of their child in their home environment following a …
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Central blood pressure
… velocity were acquired at the aortic root during cardiac catheterisation. Peripheral blood pressure was measured by oscillometry and peripheral blood pressure waveforms were obtained from blood pressure cuffs, radial tonometry and a servo-controlled finger cuff. To address objective 4 additional …
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A sequential evaluation of left ventricular function in asymptomatic and symptomatic patients with chronic severe aortic regurgitation
… with isolated chronic, severe (4+) AR at cardiac catheterisation. The aims of the study were to (I) Identify differences in the clinical, echocardiographic, resting and exercise haemodynamic and I radionuclide measures of left ventricular function in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients …
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Studies of the laser thermal probe in cardiovascular disease
… (argon) laser generator was installed in the cardiac catheterisation laboratory at Guy's Hospital and these were followed by clinical studies in three groups of patients: nine with peripheral artery occlusions, three with coronary artery stenoses and four with supraventricular arrhythmias …
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Studies of vascular function in patients with heart failure and either preserved or reduced left ventricular systolic function
… function (HF-PSF). Invasive studies utilising cardiac catheterisation have demonstrated that patients with HF-PSF have abnormalities of left ventricular (LV) relaxation and filling, or LV diastolic dysfunction. As a result, it has been proposed that LV diastolic dysfunction is the primary …
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Early mobilisation after coronary angiography to reduce back pain
… admissions in New Zealand per year (Hay, 2004). Cardiac catheterization, via the femoral artery, is a common procedure undertaken to assess for and treat coronary heart disease (Chair, Li and Wong, 2004; Chandrasekar et al., 2001; Wang, Redeker, Moreyra & Diamond, 2001). After the procedure, the …