Fig. 31.1 Trends in immunosuppression after heart transplantation. Modified from the American Journal of Transplantation, 1998–2012, Volume 14, Issue S1, pages 113–38, 28 DEC 2013 Allograft Rejection Despite advances in…
Fig. 21.1 (a) Posterior-anterior and (b) lateral chest radiographs of an implantable defibrillator system with cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT-D). The right ventricular lead has two defibrillation coils, one in the…
Fig. 7.1 The use of the Stevenson Hemodynamic Profile as a guide for acute heart failure management. Congestion is determined by the presence of orthopnea, jugular venous distension, rales, hepatojugular…
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017Daniel J. Garry, Robert F. Wilson and Zeev Vlodaver (eds.)Congestive Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation10.1007/978-3-319-44577-9_33 33. Heart and Heart–Lung Transplantation in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease Cindy M. Martin1 and James H. Moller1 (1) Department…
Fig. 13.1 Left ventricular pressure-volume loops in systolic and diastolic dysfunction (Adapted with permission from: Aurigemma GP, Gaasch WH. Clinical practice. Diastolic heart failure. N Engl J Med. 2004;351(11):1097–105) However,…
Fig. 10.1 Schematic representation of troponin function during diastole and systole . cTnI (orange), cTnC (blue), and cTnT (cyan) form the troponin complex. In diastole the cTnI inhibitory region (IR),…
Responders (n = 10) Non-responders (n = 7) Gender (F/M) 8/2 6/1 Age (yr) 44.4 ± 20.1 50.0 ± 13.3 Wash-out period (h) 53.2 ± 31.2 60.7 ± 36.7 MADRS pre-treatment 28.6 ± 6.4 29.6 ± 8.5 MADRS post-treatment 6.4 ± 5.4 22.4 ± 6.9 BDI pre-treatment 37.6 ± 11.7 34.1 ± 11.7…
Influenza virus strain Epidemic season 2014–2015 A/H1N1/ A/H3N2/ B A/California/7/2009(H1N1) pdm09-like virus A/Texas/50/2012(H3N2) – like virus B/Massachusetts/2/2012 – like virus 3 Results and Discussion The following indices were used…
Fig. 1 Percentage of influenza virus and influenza-like virus infections in children aged 0–14 years age in the epidemic season 2015/2016 The dominant subtype of influenza A virus was A/H1N1/pdm09 (57 %),…
Patients with chronic disorders Gender Age Male n (%) Female n (%) < 65 years n (%) ≥ 65 years n (%) Cardiovascular (n = 200)a 94 (47) 106 (53) 134 (67) 66 (33)…
