Cardiorenal multimorbidity in hospitalized cardiology patients: The Hellenic Cardiorenal Morbidity Snapshot (HECMOS) study.

Purpose: Cardiovascular disease is commonly accompanied by renal dysfunction. Multimorbidity in hospitalized patients impacts unfavorably on prognosis and hospital stay. We aimed to illustrate the contemporary burden of cardiorenal morbidity across inpatient cardiology care in Greece.

Slow continuous ultrafiltration in a patient with anomaly of a persistent left superior vena cava.

This paper describes an uncommon case of a patient with anomaly of a persistent left superior vena cava (PLSVC). A 54-year-old man with a history of chronic kidney disease, heart failure, diabetes mellitus and hypertension was admitted to the hospital for worsening dyspnoea. During his hospital stay, heart failure was further deteriorated and he became anuric.

Left ventricular end-systolic stress/diameter relation as a contractility index and as a predictor of survival. Independence of preload after normalization for end-diastolic diameter.

The independence of the slope of the left ventricular (LV) end-systolic stress/end systolic diameter (ESS/ESD) relation of preload (PL) after normalization for end-diastolic diameter (EDD), and the reliability of both the original and the normalized slope as contractility and prognostic indices, were assessed. We studied echocardiographically, hemodynamically, and with carotid pulse tracing, 25 normal subjects, 18 patients with coronary artery disease having a normal ejection fraction (EF), and 30 patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). The arterial pressure was changed with intravenous infusion of phenylephrine.

Seasonal distribution of acute myocardial infarction and its relation to acute infections in a mild climate.

Background: There is evidence that acute myocardial infraction (aMI) occurs more frequently in certain seasons and months of the year. Recently various infectious agents have been implicated in atherogenesis. In the present study we recorded the seasonal distribution of aMI and evaluated its relation to acute systemic infections (AIs).