Introduction: Arterial embolism into splanchnic bloodstream may be a potential complication of acute coronarography and primary coronary intervention (PCI).Mortality of...
Aim: Stratification of risk factors of 2-year mortality of patients with (CHF)Methods: Retrospective analysis of medical records of patients dissmised...
Diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2) presents an extreme risk for macro- and microangiopathy. The aim was to estimate the relationship between macro- and...
Due to the development of systemic thrombolysis the surgical pulmonary embolectomy became a rare procedure reserved for a small group...
Background: Late thrombosis in drug eluting stents (DES) seems to be a more serious problem than expected. There is a...
Aim: To determine the atrioventricular intervals (AVI) providing maximal cardiac output (max CO) during sequential pacing 80 and 100 ppm...
Introduction: Majority of patients with ICD and all with biventricular (biv) devices suffer from structural heart disease. Incidence of atrial...
Aim: 1) To determine by means of impedance cardiography (ICG) the “optimal” atrioventricular interval (AVI) in accordance with maximal (max)...
Hypertension belongs among the most important risk factors contributing to cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality. This study presents parameters computed...
Advanced heart failure is a typical example of non-oncologic palliative care. The main problem for management of progressive disease is...
Aim: Atherosclerosis is a chronic disease of blood-vessel wall proceeding for long time asymptomaticly. There are atherosclerosis lesions type I-II...
Aim: The aim of the study was to evalute the state of the patients (pts.) with congestive heart failure (CHF)...
Tasks:To determine one-year mortality of patiens (pts.) with chronic heart failure (CHF) and identify risk factors,which can participate in the...
Introduction: The HMG-CoA inhibitors are part of the standard medication after orthotopic heart transplantation (OHTx), but they could interact with...
Introduction: Shisha smoking is an old method of tobacco smoking in which, the smoke passes through water before being inhaled...
Background: Pulsed-wave tissue doppler echocardiography (PW-TDI) of mitral annular motion has been currently used in the assessment of left ventricular...
Aim: To investigate the effects of peripheral fat mass on atherogenic risc profile. Method: Data from nationwide cross-sectional survey enrolling a...
Background. Left ventricular (LV) electrical dyssynchrony reflected by prolonged paced QRS duration is a predictor of development of heart failure...
Aim: Monitoring of blood pressure and heart rate during hematopoietic cell (HC) graft infusion and assessment of influence of cryopreservation...
Background: Task Force Monitor enables the beat-to-beat blood pressure (BP) and total peripheral resistance (TPR) monitoring. Those data can be...
Introduction: We present group of patients operated due to aortic pathology at our department from June 2002 to December 2006....
Aims: To investigate the incidence of elevated values of serum uric acid (UA) concentration in patients with acute myocardial infarction...
Background: There is higher incidence of asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction in hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (HT +...
Aim: The aim of the observation was to find out the occurence of late (more than 6 months) clinical events...
Introduction. Increased blood pressure is one of discriminant criteria for presence of metabolic syndrome (MS). Despite of numerous analyses of...
The aim of the study was 1) to monitor myocardial [Ca2+]i levels during the development and persistence of ventricular fibrillation...
N-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) and lipid-lowering drugs were shown in human to possess an antiarhythmic potential, therefore, aim of...
Study background: Cardiac arrest following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has the most complicated treatment and most uncertain prognosis from all...
Aim: Monitoring of cardiotoxicity of anthracyclines (ANT) with 3 diagnostic methods: biochemical markers – N-terminal pro brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP),...
Theory: In patients with pacemaker (PM) and cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implanted later, an interference of both devices can occur. Case study:...