Despite the availability of evidence-based guidelines for disease management in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF), the uptake of these guidelines in clinical practice is sub-optimal and adh ...

Condition: Heart Failure?Congestive

this study aimed to compare oblique versus transverse orientation approach in jugular venous cannulation in term of cannulation success in pediatric heart surgery patients ...

Condition: Heart; Surgery, Heart, Functional Disturbance as Result
Pediatric ALL

Since September 1st, 2009, Taiwan has begun to pay attention to the care of patients with organ failure, dementia and the elderly, and brought eight of non-cancer terminal patients into health insuran ...

Condition: Alzheimer Disease, Late Onset
Stroke
Heart Failure
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstruc

Background— Thoracic spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a promising therapy in treating refractory angina. This study was designed to investigate SCS with regard to the risk of arrhythmias during myocar

Background— According to our hypothesis, 2 domains within the ryanodine receptor (RyR) of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) (N-terminal [0 to 600] and central [2000 to 2500] domains), where many mutations h

Background— Endothelin (ET)-1 and norepinephrine (NE) are involved in myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury. We investigated the role of ET-1 in ischemia/reperfusion–induced NE overflow and cardiac d