In patients with diabetic foot, improved left ventricular functions are detected by strain echocardiography after the diabetic foot treatment: A cross-sectional study.

Diabetic foot is a macrovascular complication of diabetes mellitus (DM). In the literature, the relationship between diabetic foot and another macrovascular complication of DM is not clear. The aim of this study was to determine the current left ventricular (LV) systolic function in patients with diabetic foot and to investigate the effect of diabetic foot treatment on LV systolic functions.

Morning blood pressure surge increases in patients with hypertensive primary hyperparathyroidism and is independently associated with serum calcium level.

: There is not enough data on the effects of primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) on morning blood pressure surge (MBPS) in the literature. We aimed to determine whether there was any change in MBPS value in patients with hypertensive pHPT and to determine the parameters related to MBPS.: 80 patients with newly diagnosed pHPT with hypertension (HT) and 80 controls with newly diagnosed hypertension were included.

Increased aortic intima-media thickness may be used to detect macrovascular complications in adult type II diabetes mellitus patients.

Background: Carotid intima media thickness (C-IMT) and aortic IMT (A-IMT) increase in adult and pediatric patients with diabetes mellitus (DM), respectively. In both age groups IMT is used for early detection of macrovascular complications. In adult DM patients, A-IMT is still not a routine examination and is not used frequently.

Subclinical atrial fibrillation frequency and associated parameters in patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy.

Aim: The presence of subclinical atrial fibrillation (SCAF) is relevant to issues such as the risk of stroke and the necessity of anticoagulant use in patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). Our study aimed to investigate SCAF frequency and associated parameters in patients with CRT.

Methods: One hundred ninety-one patients with CRT (77 females, 114 males, mean age 65.

A new use for maximum deflection index: Detection of intraventricular dyssynchrony.

Aim: CRT has been shown to be very beneficial for patients with reduced LVEF, symptomatic HF and increased QRS width. But many patients do not benefit from CRT. Maximum deflection index (MDI) is a quantitive measure of the rapidity of depolarization of the myocardium.

Increased hs-CRP and decreased 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D are associated with increased left ventricle lead threshold.

Purpose: There are not enough data about threshold changes in patients with CRT. In this study, we aimed to investigate frequency of significant threshold increase of left ventricle lead and to determine clinical, demographic, medical and laboratory parameters that associated with threshold increase in CRT implanted patients.

Methods: We included CRT implanted 200 patients (124 males, 76 females; mean age 65.