Diagnostic Tools for Anxiety and Depression
Scale Number of items Mode of administration Duration (min) Application Timeframe (days) Response options Score range BDI 21 Self or interviewer 5 Screening tool 21 Likert 0–3 0–63 HADS (depression)…
Depression and Anxiety in Adult Patients with Asthma
Increased physical disability Poor quality of life Poor adherence to treatment Prenatal smoking exposure Low perceived control of asthma Caucasian (white race) Active smokers Prednisone dependent Severity of wheezing Severity…
Three-dimensional echocardiography in congenital heart disease
Summary Three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography has improved dramatically due to technical advances in probe design and computer processing. Congenital heart disease demands a detailed understanding of the spatial relationships of cardiac…
Segmental analysis of a complex congenital heart disease using cardiac MDCT. Analyse of congenital heart disease: use of MDCT
We report a 67-year-old woman who was diagnosed at adulthood a rare and complex congenital heart disease: a corrected transposition of the great vessels and situs inversus. Patient presented with…
Drug-eluting stent fracture and intramyocardial coronary course
Stent fracture has been suggested as one of the leading risk factors for thrombosis and in-stent restenosis in patients with an intracoronary drug-eluting stent. Contributing factors are stent in the…
Asymptomatic intracardiac migration of a sharp foreign body
A 41-year-old woman was referred to our echocardiography department after intramediastinal migration of a known to be well-tolerated, sharp foreign body, seen on a chest X-ray ( Panels A and…
Cardiac computed tomography in right-sided carcinoid heart disease
Ileal carcinoid neoplasm with liver metastasis (Panel A, arrows) was diagnosed recently in this 38-year-old man. Surgical treatment had been scheduled, combining ileo-colectomy and liver transplantation. As the patient complained…
Is early surgery beneficial in infective endocarditis? A systematic review
Summary We do not know whether surgery during the active phase of infective endocarditis improves prognosis, as no randomized trial data exist. Several observational studies published recently have examined the…
Therapeutic effects of continuous infusion of brain natriuretic peptides on postmyocardial infarction ventricular remodelling in rats
Summary Background Previous studies have shown protective effects of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) against the postmyocardial infarction (MI) remodelling process. The transcription factor NF-κB is known to play an important…
Routine use of coronary computed tomography as initial diagnostic test for angina pectoris
Summary Background Coronary computed tomography (CCT) detects coronary obstruction with high sensitivity and might be useful for diagnosis of angina pectoris. Aim In this pilot study, we sought to prospectively…
