Publications by authors named "Arslan Ocal"
Background: Home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) is commonly used to diagnose hypertension (HT), with a diagnostic threshold of ≥135/85 mm Hg, the same as daytime ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM). This study hypothesizes that training and adherence to HBPM guidelines will yield more accurate BP readings compared to ABPM.
Methods: The study involved 129 patients with elevated office BP but no prior HT diagnosis.
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- Postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) can lead to serious complications like stroke and death, and a rhythm-control strategy is generally better than rate control for stable patients.
- This study aimed to assess if a higher loading dose of intravenous amiodarone could more effectively restore normal heart rhythm in patients experiencing POAF following noncardiac surgery.
- Results showed that patients receiving the higher amiodarone dosage restored sinus rhythm faster (about 2.4 hours) compared to those on the standard dosage (around 8.7 hours), though both groups achieved similar results by the 24-hour mark.
Background: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a common genetic heart disease and up to 40%-60% of patients have mutations in cardiac sarcomere protein genes. This genetic diagnosis study aimed to detect pathogenic or likely pathogenic sarcomeric and non-sarcomeric gene mutations and to confirm a final molecular diagnosis in patients diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Methods: A total of 392 patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy were included in this nationwide multicenter study conducted at 23 centers across Türkiye.
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- - The study investigates how pulmonary hypertension (PH) affects long-term survival in individuals with bronchiectasis, finding that those with PH experience worse outcomes compared to those without it.
- - It reveals that bronchiectasis patients with PH have more severe hypoxemia and lung involvement visible on high-resolution CT scans.
- - After three and five years, survival rates for patients without PH are significantly higher (95.7%) than for those with PH (56.3% at three years, 62.5% at five years), with the Medical Research Council dyspnea score being a key predictor of survival.
Aim: The aim of our study is to determine the effect of hypertension and hypertension-related left ventricle hypertrophy on right ventricle (RV) morphology and function by using RV standard Doppler echocardiographic indices, myocardial Doppler imaging, and strain/strain rate imaging indices.
Methods: We studied 35 patients with arterial hypertension and 30 age- and sex-adjusted control subjects who had no other pathological conditions. Standard transthoracic Doppler echocardiographical measurements, pulsed-wave tissue Doppler from tricuspid anulus (Peak systolic-st, peak early diastolic-et, peak late diastolic velocity-at), reconstructed spectral pulsed-wave tissue Doppler velocities (peak systolic-S, peak early-E, peak late diastolic velocity-A), and strain/strain rate imaging of RV free wall mid region (peak systolic strain-in, peak systolic strain rate-SR) were obtained.
Aim: The aim of the present study was to investigate right ventricular (RV) myocardial textural properties in asymptomatic and symptomatic mitral stenosis (MS) patients with normal RV systolic function using integrated backscatter (IBS).
Methods: The study included 40 patients with MS of moderate or severe degree. Patients were classified into 2 groups according to NYHA class (asymptomatic group, NYHA class I, symptomatic group, NYHA class II-III).
Aim: The right ventricular (RV) systolic function is an important determinant of clinical symptoms and exercise capacity in patients with mitral stenosis. No sufficient data are available concerning the effect of RV diastolic function on symptoms of patients with mitral stenosis. In the presence of normal RV systolic function, RV diastolic functions of asymptomatic patients with mitral stenosis of moderate or severe degree were compared to symptomatic ones by pulsed-wave tissue Doppler echocardiography in this study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Electrocardiographic indices like maximum P-wave duration (P(max)) and P-wave dispersion (PD) can be used to detect patients with atrial conduction disorders, myocardial ischemia and those at risk for atrial fibrillation. Considering the diurnal variation of ischemia in patients with significant coronary lesions, this study was designed to investigate the diurnal variation of eventual atrial conduction abnormalities.
Methods: Forty-eight patients (31 male) with typical angina were grouped according to coronary angiography results as group 1 - 70% or more luminal reduction in at least one of the coronary arteries (n=28), and group 2 - normal coronary arteries (n=20).
Background: Mitral stenosis has a generally slow but often variable clinical course. However, the factors that influence the rate of stenosis progression have not been completely identified. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether right bundle branch block (RBBB) may be related to the rapid progression of pure mitral stenosis besides echocardiographic parameters.
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