Publications by authors named "D Carstea"
Background: During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic period, in the treatment approved by the WHO, along with antivirals, antibiotics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and anticoagulants, dexamethasone was always used. This study started from the professional concern related to the vasopressor effect of cortisone on blood pressure (BP).
Methods: The study group was achieved by selecting, from a total of 356 patients hospitalized in the clinic, the patients with known hypertensive status at admission for SARS-CoV-2.
Background: During the pandemic, our hospital became a COVID support hospital and consequently the cardiology clinic had restricted activity; thus, it received only suspect and/or patients confirmed positive with the various COVID-19 strains that were associated with a chronic/flaring cardiovascular pathology.
Methods: Two batches of patients admitted during a one-year period were compared in the cardiology clinic over two different periods of time: BATCH I (1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020), in a non-COVID context (BATCH I N-COV) and BATCH II (1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021) comprising patients that presented with respiratory infection of SARS-CoV-2 (BATCH II COV-2), associated with chronic and/or acute cardiovascular condition. To determine the profile of the patients admitted in our clinic, we observed the following parameters: age, type of cardiac condition, and admission mode (for the N-COV group).
Background: This study was designed to assess right ventricular systolic function in cancer patients.
Methods And Results: 68 consecutive patients receiving potentially cardiotoxic agents were followed for 6 months in a single-center, observational, cohort-study. Left ventricle and free-wall right ventricular longitudinal strain were analyzed prior and after 6 months of treatment, using a vendor-independent software, together with left ventricle ejection fraction, tricuspid annulus plane systolic excursion and right ventricular fractional area change.
Heart failure (HF) is one of the most common causes of hospitalization in patients over the age of 65. Purpose The objective of our study was to assess the prevalence of anemia and characterize the morphology of red blood cells in patients admitted for HF decompensation. Material and Methods We have included patients with decompensated HF with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Cardiac arrhythmias, commonly diagnosed in young people, involve multiple etiopathogenic factors, including oxidative stress.
Purpose: Evaluation of superoxide dismutase (SOD) variations as an antioxidant enzyme (with a physiological role in the dismutation of highly reactive oxygen free radicals into oxygen and water) in young patients with cardiac arrhythmias.
Material And Method: The study was conducted on a group of 40 young patients with a mean age of 34 years old, of both sexes, with non-lesional cardiac dysrhythmias, compared to a control group of 40 healthy subjects, determining for both groups the SOD serum level.