Heart failure has been divided into heart failure with preserved left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) and heart failure with reduced EF, because the pathophysiologies of the two conditions are different. Cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) is a new indicator of arterial stiffness, and the most conspicuous feature of CAVI is its independence of blood pressure at the time of measurement. Arterial stiffness has been considered to increase LV afterload, which requires special care to avoid the onset of heart failure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCD5+ diffuse large B-cell lymphoma(CD5+DLBCL) is known to have different characteristics than CD5-DLBCL and mantle cell lymphoma(MCL). 9 patients with CD5+DLBCL were reviewed, and the results were compared with those of 8 CD5-DLBCL and 3 cyclin D1+MCL patients. CD5+DLBCL was more closely related to many aggressive clinical features or parameters than CD5-DLBCL: 67% of the patients were older than 60 years, 67% with performance status > or = 2, 89% with serum lactate dehydrogenase level higher than normal, 78% with stage III/IV disease at diagnosis, and 78% with more than one extranodal lesion.
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