Publications by authors named "Anna Meltzer"
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- This study explores the Double-vein Embolization technique used to enhance liver remnant size before major liver surgeries, with a focus on initial experiences at Semmelweis University, Hungary.
- Over a period of 16 procedures, results showed a 100% technical success rate with minimal complications, and significant increases in future liver remnant volume and function, indicating the technique's effectiveness.
- While outcomes align with existing literature, the authors emphasize the need for more research to determine how to best incorporate Double-vein Embolization into standard clinical practice.
Background: Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD), a relatively frequent arterial deformity with an estimated prevalence of 2% to 6% has been sporadically reported during deceased donor kidney donations. Only 8 case reports are available in the previous literature.
Case Presentation: In our work, implantation of 2 kidneys from the same deceased donor with macroscopically evident and later histologically confirmed FMD are presented, one of which ended up as acute arterial complication.
Purpose: Long-term exercise training is associated with characteristic cardiac adaptation, termed athlete's heart. Our research group previously characterized in vivo left ventricular (LV) function of exercise-induced cardiac hypertrophy in detail in a rat model; however, the effect of detraining on LV function is still unclear. We aimed at evaluating the reversibility of functional alterations of athlete's heart after detraining.
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- Left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy in rats was studied to compare heart responses to physiological hypertrophy (PhyH) from swim training and pathological hypertrophy (PaH) from abdominal aortic banding.
- Both models showed similar heart size and hypertrophy, but only the PaH model exhibited subendocardial fibrosis and reactivation of a fetal gene program.
- Findings revealed that while LV contractility increased in both models, PhyH demonstrated better diastolic function and mechanical efficiency, suggesting mitochondrial differences as a key factor in their distinct responses.
Contractile function is considered to be precisely measurable only by invasive hemodynamics. We aimed to correlate strain values measured by speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) with sensitive contractility parameters of pressure-volume (P-V) analysis in a rat model of exercise-induced left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy. LV hypertrophy was induced in rats by swim training and was compared with untrained controls.
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