Background Pulmonary arterial stiffness (PAS) is a new echocardiographic parameter, which can be used to estimate the elastic properties of pulmonary arterial vasculature noninvasively. We aimed to assess the elastic…
Objective Behçet’ s disease is a multiorgan disorder of unknown origin and can cause complications in cardiovascular system, central nervous system and respiratory system resulting from vasculitis of both arteries…
Health can be considered as biopsychosocial wellbeing. Various personality types had been linked to certain health outcomes. High level of expressed anger is a significant independant risk factor for coronary…
Objective Heart failure causes 500.000 hospital admissions and 5 million hospitalization days annually. In many clinical trials, hospitalization due to heart failure is an outcome of the trial. However comorbidities along…
Objective Sirtuin1 (SIRT1) is a member of the Sirtuin family of class III histone deacetylases (HDACs) and a longevity factor in mammals initiating the cell survival mechanisms, as well as…
Background Digoxin remains widely used today despite its narrow therapeutic index and toxicity. The objective of this study was to investigate the percentage of inappropriate use of digoxin and long-term outcomes…
Aim Galectin is a novel serum biomarker of congestive heart failure and closely associated with myocardial fibrosis. Left atrial diameter and volumes could easily be imaged by echocardiography and may…
Aim Heart failure is the end stage of many cardiac disorders. Worsening heart failure causes high mortality in these patients. In the present study, we aimed to elucidate the biochemical…
Levosimendan enhances cardiac contractility by increasing myocyte sensitivity to calcium, and induces vasodilatation. Although studies have evaluated the efficacy of levosimendan in heart failure, it is not clear whether it…
Objective Asymptomatic atrial fibrillation episodes detected by pacemaker is known to increase the risk of systemic embolism and stroke by 2-3 times in patients with dual-chamber pacemaker. Atrial high-rate episodes…
