Angiographic evaluation of plaque volume and cardiovascular events after coronary stent implantation.

Background: Plaque volume (PV) is related to major cardiovascular events (MACE) after coronary stent implantation.

Objective: To evaluate the association between PV before the procedure evaluated by angiography and clinical outcomes.

Methods: This is a prospective cohort study of patients undergoing coronary stent implantation in a referral center.

Correction of the hypertensive response in the treadmill testing by the work performance improves the prediction of hypertension by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and incidence of cardiac abnormalities by echocardiography: results of an eight year follow-up study.

Background: Studies of the association between hypertensive response (HR) in the exercise treadmill testing (ETT) and end organ damage are mostly cross-sectional and have not used ABPM. We investigated the association of different definitions of HR with incidence of hypertension by ABPM and development of cardiac structural abnormalities.

Methods: Normotensive individuals were submitted to ETT and had clinical, office BP, ABPM, and echocardiogram done in the baseline evaluation and after 8.

Is hypertensive response in treadmill testing better identified with correction for working capacity? A study with clinical, echocardiographic and ambulatory blood pressure correlates.

Hypertensive response in treadmill testing is associated with the development of hypertension, but it is still unclear if it is better identified by systolic or diastolic response, and measured directly or corrected by working capacity. We investigated 75 patients with normal office blood pressure through a treadmill testing, ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) monitoring, and two-dimensional Doppler echocardiogram. Characteristics associated with systolic blood pressure (SBP) response corrected by the estimated metabolic equivalent (MET) were identified in multiple linear regression models.

Pericarditis. Series of 84 consecutive cases.

Objective: To identify differential clinical, laboratory, and echocardiographic characteristics in persons with diagnosed idiopathic and secondary pericarditis.

Methods: From January 1999 to December 2001, 84 patients with clinically and echocardiographically diagnosed pericarditis were identified in a heart clinic. These patients were analyzed according to age, sex, anthropometric measurements, body habitus, casual blood pressure (BP), signs and symptoms, morbid history, medicines and complications.