Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia
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Arq. Bras. Cardiol. · Nov 1995
[Nutritional status of children with congenital heart disease and left-to-right shunt. The importance of the presence of pulmonary hypertension].
To assess the nutritional status of children with congenital heart disease with left-to-right shunt and the nutritional disturbances related to the presence of pulmonary hypertension (PH). ⋯ The prevalence of malnutrition was high. The presence of PH was associated with higher nutritional disturbance. The nutritional assessment may be a good way to identify diagnostic groups at particular risk of failure to thrive. This can be useful in planning a management which ensures these patients to achieve adequate nutritional supplementation in early life.
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Arq. Bras. Cardiol. · Jul 1995
Clinical Trial[Acute effects of isosorbide mononitrate on blood circulation and myocardial ischemia in patients with coronary atherosclerosis].
To evaluate the acute effects of isosorbide mononitrate on circulation, cardiac function and left ventricular segmental motility in patients with isquemic heart disease due to coronary artery disease. ⋯ Isosorbide mononitrate, when used as intravenous infusion, have a rapid and direct effect on systemic and pulmonary circulation, and improving segmental motility and left ventricular performance in patients with impaired left ventricular motility caused by ischemic heart disease.
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Arq. Bras. Cardiol. · Jun 1995
Comparative Study[Assessment of the Bezold-Jarisch reflex in experimental myocardial infarction].
To evaluate the cardiogenic depressor Bezold-Jarisch reflex in rats with chronic myocardial infarction. ⋯ The experimental chronic myocardial infarction in rats is followed by significant attenuation of the Bezold-Jarisch reflex, probably as result of a heart failure and, consequently, of functional alterations in the chemosensitive receptors of cardiac unmyelinated vagal afferents.