Should we screen for asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction in glaucoma patients?

Background: The aim of the study was to assess the frequency of asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction in primary open-angle glaucoma patients.

Patients And Methods: Two-dimensional and pulsed Doppler echocardiography of transmitral flow was performed on 31 glaucoma patients and 27 controls.

Results: No significant difference was found in early (E) and late (A) transmitral filling velocity, velocity time integral E wave (VTIE) and A wave (VTIA), left ventricular end-diastolic pressure, pulmonary capillary wedge pressure, left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) and fractional shortening (FS).

Doppler-echocardiographic characteristics of left ventricular function in patients with pseudoexfoliation glaucoma: a preliminary report.

Glaucoma is associated with an increased incidence of cardiovascular disease and risk factors. The aim of the study was to assess the left ventricular (LV) function in patients with pseudoexfoliation (PEX) glaucoma using doppler-echocardiographic examinations. Two-dimensional and pulsed Doppler echocardiography of transmitral flow was performed in 21 patients with (PEX) glaucoma and 24 controls.

Right atrial pacemaker lead thrombosis incidentally detected by transesophageal echocardiography.

In a 62-year-old man with permanent atrial fibrillation and recurrent stroke, a large right atrial thrombus attached to a permanent pacemaker lead was incidentally identified by transesophageal echocardiography. Surgical treatment, recommended because of the large dimensions of the mass, was refused by the patient, and thrombus was successfully dissolved by anticoagulant treatment. Pathogenesis of pacemaker lead thrombosis, clinical implications, diagnostic and therapeutic options are discussed.

Pseudoexfoliation syndrome and asymptomatic myocardial dysfunction.

Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency of asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction in patients with pseudoexfoliation syndrome.

Methods: Two-dimensional and pulsed Doppler echocardiography of transmitral flow was performed on 27 patients with pseudoexfoliation syndrome, aged 66.9+/-5.

[Characteristics of diurnal rhythm in the development of myocardial infarct: risk in the morning hours].

The onset of precordial pain was assessed in all the patients admitted to the Clinical Hospital "Firule" and the Military Hospital, Split, during a six-year period (1981-1986) with acute myocardial infarction (n = 1304). According to the time of onset, all the subjects were stratified in three-hour intervals. The large majority of initial symptoms was registered between 7 and 10 a.