Right ventricular function in treatment-naïve human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients.

Background: Right ventricular dysfunction carries a poorer prognosis in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients. The objectives of this study were to ascertain the prevalence of right ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction, as well as its predictors, in antiretroviral therapy-naïve HIV-positive patients.

Methods: Participants in this cross-sectional, descriptive study comprised 60 HIV-positive patients and 60 HIV-negative controls.

Association of microalbuminuria with left ventricular dysfunction in Nigerian normotensive type 2 diabetes patients.

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a risk factor for left ventricular (LV) dysfunction, and microalbuminuria is frequently associated with DM. This study aimed to compare LV function among normotensive type 2 diabetes (T2DM) patients with normoalbuminuria, those with microalbuminuria, and healthy controls.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted at the diabetes and cardiology clinics of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State, Nigeria, from January 2013 to March 2014.

Coronary artery disease and the profile of cardiovascular risk factors in South South Nigeria: a clinical and autopsy study.

Introduction. Death from coronary artery disease (CAD) has been until recently considered rare in Nigeria. We present a report of a study of CAD with its predisposing cardiovascular (CVD) risk factors in South South Nigeria.

Prevalence and correlates of hypertension among the Ibibio/Annangs, Efiks and Obolos: a cross sectional community survey in rural South-South Nigeria.

Objective: The objective of the study was to assess the public health burden of hypertension in the rural communities in southeastern Nigeria (Niger Delta region of Nigeria).

Design/setting: The study was a cross-sectional study in three rural communities in the Cross River and Akwa Ibom States of Nigeria. Demographic, anthropometric information, prior history of hypertension or stroke in each participant or their parents was obtained with a questionnaire.

Systemic thromboembolism in endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF): clinical observations, aetio-pathogenesis and treatment.

Mural thrombi and thromboemboli are very common in idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES), whose cardiac pathology is indistinguishable from endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF). Although mural thrombi are common in EMF cases, and post mortem embolic infarcts are frequently seen; clinical recognition of thromboembolism in EMF is unusual. We report here 4 cases of clinically recognized thromboembolism among 106 consecutive cases of EMF (including a case with a sudden onset of vascular occlusion and a below knee infarction and auto-amputation of the right leg).