Publications by authors named "E A El-Sharkawy"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to assess how effective myocardial deformation parameters, specifically peak systolic strain (PSS) and peak systolic strain rate (SR), are in predicting problematic coronary arteries in patients with previous heart issues and acute coronary syndrome (ACS).
- Out of 33 patients studied, significant differences in PSS and SR were observed, particularly in areas supplied by the left anterior descending artery (LAD) compared to non-culprit lesions, indicating that these parameters can help identify affected areas in the heart.
- The results demonstrated that changes in PSS and SR were reliable indicators of specific coronary artery lesions, with PSS and SR outperforming the traditional wall motion score index (WMSI) in accuracy for predicting such lesions.
Background: Right ventricle infarction (RVI) is predominantly a complication of inferior wall myocardial infarction; it occurs in approximately one third of these patients. Right ventricular dysfunction in patients with inferior STEMI and RV infarction was under assessed. Nevertheless, studies which targeted RV assessment by echocardiography, did not routinely evaluate RV diastolic dysfunction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: The aim of this research was to evaluate the prognostic value of myocardial scar using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging in patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) and non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy (NICM).
Methods: One hundred and fifty-four patients with either ICM or NICM underwent CMR with late gadolinium enhancement sequences for assessment of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), and detection and quantification of any myocardial scar using three methods: manual, number of segments involved, and percentage of scarred myocardium. Patients were followed up for at least six months for clinical cardiac events.
Background And Aim: causes human and animal diseases through either inhalation of fungal spores or ingestion of mycotoxins as aflatoxins produced in human and animal feed as secondary metabolites. This study was aimed to detect the incidence of and its aflatoxins in human sputum and milk powder samples and explore the efficacy of pure propolis (PP) and propolis nanoemulsion (PNE) as natural decontaminants against fungal growth and its released aflatoxins.
Materials And Methods: was isolated by mycological culture and identified macroscopically and microscopically.
Introduction: Bariatric surgery (BS) is the most effective therapy for morbid obesity. Cortisol and DHEA are steroid hormones with opposing effects, thus using Cortisol/DHEA ratio (C/D) rather than the use of either hormone alone has been found to predict health outcomes more reliably. It was interesting to study C/D as an indicator of favorable metabolic and cardiovascular outcomes after BS.
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