ACUTE VOLUME EXPANSION AND TIPS FAILS TO INDUCE CHANGES OF IMPENDING HEART FAILURE IN PATIENTS WITH REFRACTORY ASCITES

To evaluate in patients with cirrhosis requiring an elective TIPS for refractory ascites, if acute volume expansion may elicit signs of impending heart failure, and if this can predict hemodynamic changes occurring after TIPS.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR.

VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION AND NUMBER OF NON COMPACTED SEGMENTS IN NON COMPACTION: NON-INDEPENDENT PREDICTORS

VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION AND NUMBER OF NON COMPACTED SEGMENTS IN NON COMPACTION: NON-INDEPENDENT PREDICTORS BACKGROUND: Isolated ventricular noncompaction (IVNC) is characterized by multiple prominent trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses. Some reports prove that the chronic heart failure may occur in approximately half of the patients. In this report we investigate the correlation between the number of non compacted segments and entity of systolic dysfunction from the registry and subregistries of the SIEC. METHOD: To identify the correlation between ventricular dysfunction and number of segments involved in non compaction we evaluated a consecutive series of 238 patients affecte…