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AUTHOR
Louis M. Messina
Non-Invasive Assessment of LV Systolic Function and Diastolic Filling at Rest and During Exercise in Coronary Heart Disease
In the assessment of the main determinants of cardiac function the study of the systolic phase and diastolic filling appear to be of paramount importance[1–3].
Cardiac changes in subclinical and overt hyperthyroid women: retrospective study
This retrospective and descriptive 4-year study was undertaken to describe cardiac changes in subclinical and overt hyperthyroidism.We revised the charts of 386 consecutive cardiopathic women whose blood samples were referred to the Radioimmunoassay Laboratory to evaluate thyroid function from 1 January 1997 through 31 December 2000.After excluding women because euthyroid or hypothyroid, or taking amiodarone and women with hypertension, rheumatic disease, myocardial infarction, a total of 31 hyperthyroid women were thus selected for the study: 19 with subclinical hyperthyroidism and 12 with overt hyperthyroidism. The prevalence of atrial fibrillation did not differ between subclinical (48%)…