Methods From a database of 6293 CCTA scans, we used pre-existing curved multiplanar reformations (CMR) images of the LAD, RCA and LCX arteries to create end-to-end deep-learning models for the ...

However, a higher systolic blood pressure threshold of 160 mm Hg is provided for individuals aged 80 years and older and for younger individuals with both grade 1 hypertension and a low risk of ...

Treatment of hypertensive retinopathy begins with controlling hypertension. Some of the complications can be treated by an ophthalmologist with injectable medications into the eye as well as laser ...

[5] These risks increase in the presence of diffuse atherosclerosis, severe hypertension ... like DU and MRA, CTA currently may not successfully image accessory renal arteries and the distal ...

Although reports on a small number of patients with pulmonary ... the pulmonary arterial or right ventricular systolic pressure that occurred in every patient with pulmonary hypertension after ...

Patients continued taking their medications for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) when symptoms appeared to improve, according to a new survey. Professional guidelines say that when pulmonary ...

21 Additionally, pulmonary function testing is important ... lung diffusion capacity for carbon dioxide, and analysis of arterial blood gas. 7 Advances are needed to support the early ...

Background: Imbalance between cell proliferation and apoptosis underlies the development of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Current vasodilator treatment of PAH does not target the uncontrolled ...

We carried out a retrospective study on 97 patients (76% female, median age at ASD closure 58 years) with four types of PH determined predominantly by right heart catheterization: hyperkinetic, ...

In patients for whom mechanical support is considered as a bridge to recovery rather than transplant (postcardiotomy, post–heart transplant, post–LV assist device implantation, and less often in ...

Catheters that can “biopsy” the pulmonary arteries endovascularly are being developed, 94 and although this is too early, it is not hard to envision another cancer model in which molecular imaging ...