Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - Diagnosis
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Monday, November 23, 2009

The role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in heart failure.

4 Oct 2009 Noninvasive imaging plays a central role in the diagnosis of heart failure, assessment of prognosis, and monitoring of therapy. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) offers a comprehensive assessment of heart failure patients and is now the gold ... Read more...

Safety of symptom-limited cardiopulmonary exercise testing in patients with chronic heart failure due to severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: To assess the safety of symptom-limited exercise testing in patients with New York Heart Association class II-IV heart failure symptoms due to left ventricular systolic dysfunction, we investigated the frequency of all-cause fatal and ... Read more...

Outcomes, health policy, and managed care: relationships between patient-reported outcome measures and clinical measures in outpatients with heart failure.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Patient-reported outcomes are increasingly used to assess the efficacy of new treatments. Understanding relationships between these and clinical measures can facilitate their interpretation. We examined associations between ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in heart failure. 4 Oct 2009
• Acute left ventricular dilation and septic shock-induced myocardial dysfunction. 29 Sep 2009
• Safety of symptom-limited cardiopulmonary exercise testing in patients with chronic heart failure due to severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction. 29 Sep 2009
• Outcomes, health policy, and managed care: relationships between patient-reported outcome measures and clinical measures in outpatients with heart failure. 29 Sep 2009
• Relationship of age and exercise performance in patients with heart failure: the HF-ACTION study. 29 Sep 2009
• Myocardial perfusion, function, and dyssynchrony in patients with heart failure: baseline results from the single-photon emission computed tomography imaging ancillary study of the Heart Failure and A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise TraiNing (HF-ACTION) Trial. 29 Sep 2009
• N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide and exercise capacity in chronic heart failure: data from the Heart Failure and a Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise Training (HF-ACTION) study. 29 Sep 2009
• The relationship between body mass index and cardiopulmonary exercise testing in chronic systolic heart failure. 29 Sep 2009
• Association of the parameters derived from the relation between RR intervals and left ventricle performance with a history of heart failure in patients with atrial fibrillation. 29 Sep 2009
• Relation of plasma brain natriuretic peptide levels on admission for ST-elevation myocardial infarction to left ventricular end-diastolic volume six months later measured by both echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance. 29 Sep 2009
• [Diagnosis of coronary artery disease--part 1: general approach] 21 Sep 2009
• Clinical problem-solving. A change of heart. Sep 2009
• Numerical and in vivo validation of fast cine displacement-encoded with stimulated echoes (DENSE) MRI for quantification of regional cardiac function. 30 Aug 2009
• Biventricular noncompaction in a patient with dextrocardia/dextroversion diagnosed with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. 30 Aug 2009
• Video-assisted mediastinoscopic drainage of a bronchogenic cyst presenting with cardiac dysfunction. 30 Aug 2009
• Isolated left ventricular noncompaction syndrome. 26 Aug 2009
• Directions and magnitudes of misregistration of CT attenuation-corrected myocardial perfusion studies: incidence, impact on image quality, and guidance for reregistration. 16 Aug 2009
• Disappearance of myocardial perfusion defects on prone SPECT imaging: comparison with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in patients without established coronary artery disease. 8 Aug 2009
• Adverse effect of increased left ventricular wall thickness on five year outcomes of patients with negative dobutamine stress. Aug 2009
• Use of magnetic resonance imaging to assess myocardial perfusion after transmyocardial laser revascularization. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Ventricular Dysfunction, Left'

Definition: A condition in which the LEFT VENTRICLE of the heart was functionally impaired. This condition usually leads to HEART FAILURE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; and other cardiovascular complications. Diagnosis is made by measuring the diminished ejection fraction and a depressed level of motility of the left ventricular wall.

Descriptor UI: D018487

Alternative terms: Ventricular Dysfunction, Left; Left Ventricular Dysfunction; Dysfunction, Left Ventricular; Dysfunctions, Left Ventricular; Left Ventricular Dysfunctions; Ventricular Dysfunctions, Left;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C14.280.945.900;

History Note: 95