Aims: The aim of this study was to detect the abnormalities of left atrial (LA)-left ventricular (LV) coupling using two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography in patient with preserved LV ejection fraction. Methods: A total of 177 asymptomatic patients with preserved LV e...
Aims: This study was to evaluate cardioprotective effects of extracts of stem barks from Trichilia emetica against cardiotoxicity induced by doxorubicin. Methodology: This experiment was performed as follows: Group I receives some distilled water; group II receives doxorubicin on...
A 49-year-old woman has had several episodes of syncope with pallor and diaphoresis since she was 13 years old. She had been diagnosed with rheumatic heart disease and was submitted to mitral and aortic valve replacement for mechanical prosthesis. She was submitted to a tilt tabl...
Background: The blood can be considered as a real fluid flowing in fixed vibrating myocardial canal. Its ejection during the left ventricular contraction is the phenomenon hereby studied. The left ventricle has been taken as a checking volume encompassing one part of aorta. The l...
We report a case of a 72-year-old female with no known comorbidities who presented with dizziness and dyspnea while exercising on a treadmill. Upon presentation in the hospital, she became hemodynamically unstable with multiple episodes of retching and vomiting, eventually intuba...
Aims: This study tends to investigate the effect of thiazide diuretic as an antihypertensive agent on some physiological micro nutrients and vitamins. Study Design: One factor quasi-experimental design. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Biochemistry, Ekiti State Universi...
The aim of the study was to investigate the antioxidant property of watermelon and aloe vera against cadmium damaging effect on the heart and the packed cell volume of the blood. Thirty five Wistar rats were obtained and acclimatized for two weeks. They were randomly divided into...
Cadmium nitrate occurs as a colorless solid. It is soluble in dilute acids and ethanol, acetone, water, diethyl ether, and ethyl acetate. This study examined the effects of Oral Administration of cadmium nitrate on histomorphology of the heart of adult wistar rats. Twenty (n=20)...
Hisataka Nakamura, Keita Odashiro, Masahiko Fujihara, Mitsuhiro Fukata, Takeshi Arita, Taku Yokoyama, Shioto Yasuda, Toru Maruyama & Koichi Akashi·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2016
Aims: Serum eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) to arachidonic acid (AA) ratio (EPA/AA) in Japanese is rapidly changing according to the senescence and food westernization, and sonographic carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) is increasingly used as a surrogate of systemic atheros...
Cadmium (Cd) is a major concern of World Health Organization for public health and is a highly toxic element which is naturally present in all parts of the environment. Watermelon contributes nutritional agents as antioxidants and some specific amino acid. Aloe vera plants contai...
Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic element that can produce reactive oxygen species. Fruits and vegetables are natural sources of various bioactive compounds. Watermelon contains nutritional agents like lycopene, citrulline and arginine and Aloe vera is used for therapeutic purposes. This s...
Coronary artery angiography became the golden tool for coronary artery disease management. Transient cortical blindness following coronary angiography (TCBCA) is a rare complication of coronary artery angiography, in comparison with the other common complications. The neurotoxic...
Aims: Paraoxonase-1 (PON-1) gene polymorphisms and carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) in adults have been associated to increased incidence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Possible relation of cIMT to PON-1 polymorphisms and to markers of inflammation and oxidation, in child...
Aim: To evaluate the cardioprotective effects of resveratrol during hyperglycemic conditions in in vitro and in vivo models. Study Design: H9c2 cardiomyocyte cells were used as in vitro models and adult male Wistar strain albino rats were used as in vivo models. Activities of LDH...
Aims: This study investigated the effect of Magnesium Sulphate (MgSO4) on cardiac biomarkers in the management of pre-eclampsia in selected tertiary hospitals in Osun State, Nigeria. This was with a view to provide scientific report for the use of MgSO4 in the management of pre-e...