Chronotropic assessment in heart failure management centres on evaluating the heart’s ability to modulate its rate in response to physiological demands. Chronotropic incompetence, defined by a blunted ...

It has been reported that star fruit can lead to a fatal outcome in uremic patients. The intoxication syndrome consists of hiccups, mental confusion, dizziness, and vomiting. On the other hand, folk ...

Introduction: We aimed to investigate whether vasoactive-inotropic score (VIS) is a predictor for early postoperative morbidity and mortality. Methods: This study was planned as a prospective cohort ...

Abstract: Chronotropic Incompetence (CI) has recently been discovered as a sign of near-future heart failure. Having the ability to correct CI could avoid or delay chronic heart failure. Pacemakers ...

This study was retrospective, observational study. Patients who were admitted to the cardiac intensive care unit from January 2012 to December 2015 were screened, and 493 CS patients were finally ...

1. Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA 2. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA 3. Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland ...

Introduction Cardiac inotrope medications administered to cardiac surgical patients carry steep risk–benefit trade-offs, yet wide inter-institutional variation exists in inotrope practices. Despite ...

Oxytocin, 1 of 2 major posterior pituitary hormones (oxytocin and vasopressin), is a neuropeptide synthesized primarily in magnocellular neurons in the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei of the ...

aDepartment of Pharmacology and Laboratory of Aging and Nervous Diseases, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Diseases, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, ...

Abstract: Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) has been shown to be useful in heart failure patients, including antiarrhythmic effects, improvement of cardiac function and reduction of the mortality. However ...