Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma are underdiagnosed
in primary care. Aim To determine how often COPD or asthma are present in middle-aged …

Cardiac herniation is a rare complication of intrapericardial pneumonectomy and has a high
mortality. The condition has been reported only within 24 hours after surgery. In this report, a …

Governments, insurance organizations, hospital boards, physicians and patient organizations
support the relevance of rigorous engineering methods for the development and …

N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is an important predictor of outcome in
adults with heart failure. In children with heart failure secondary to dilated cardiomyopathy (…

ABSTRACT: Myocardial oxygen demand may be increased in chronically hypoxemic lambs
because of their increased heart rate. Therefore, we determined whether left ventricular (LV) …

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing is an important tool to predict prognosis in children and
adults with heart failure. A much less sophisticated exercise test is the 6 min walk test, which …

ABSTRACT: Chronic hypoxemia is associated with a decreased growth rate and a decreased
rate of cell division. In lambs with experimental cyanotic heart disease, the gain in body …

In many patients with congenital heart disease, the right ventricle (RV) is subjected to
abnormal loading conditions. To better understand the state of compensated RV hypertrophy, …

Aims We aimed to determine whether in children with dilated cardiomyopathy repeated
measurement of known risk factors for death or heart transplantation (HTx) during disease …

We measured myocardial blood flow (QLVFW) and O2 consumption of the left ventricular free
wall (VO2, LVFW) in 13 chronically instrumented, 7-wk-old lambs with an aortopulmonary …