13 research outputs found
Absence of the aortic valve cusps with mitral atresia, normal left ventricle, and intact ventricular septum.
No full textFunctional and anatomical correlates in atrial septal defect. An echocardiographic analysis.
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Localisation of ventricular septal defects by simultaneous display of superimposed colour Doppler and cross sectional echocardiographic images.
No full textDetection of atrial septal defect with left-to-right shunt by inferior vena cava contrast echocardiography.
No full textNitric oxide metabolities in acute rheumatic fever
No full textAcute rheumatic fever (ARF), is a systemic inflammatory disease etiologically related to infection with group A beta hemolytic streptococcus, characterized by a broad spectrum of disorders in cellular immunity. To estimate the activity of the immunopathological process in patients with ARF, plasma nitric oxide metabolities (NOx) concentrations, IL-1alpha and IL-2 levels were investigated in 22 patients with ARF at the time on admission, and after 3 months, in children with chronic rheumatic heart disease (CRHD). Plasma NOx concentrations, IL-1alpha and IL/2 levels in patients with ARF on admission were significantly higher than in the same patients 3 months later, and higher than in CRHD, or controls. Increased plasma NO may be a useful index for the quantitative assessment of the activity during immunological challange. This information may be useful for the prognosis and monitoring of ARK. (C) 2003 Tohoku University Medical Press
Detection of ostium secundum atrial septal defects by transoesophageal cross-sectional echocardiography.
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Fate of infants with transposition of the great arteries in relation to balloon atrial septostomy.
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