Despite wide prevalence of beta-blockers and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors for chronic heart failure, their therapeutic efficacy remains limited because effects of these drugs depend largel...
Sudden death in patients with heart failure (HF) is a topic of great complexity. Neurohumoral activation including adrenergic and renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system has been a suspected trigger for ...
Sympathetic neural function has been conventionally evaluated by muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA), plasma norepinephrine levels, and heart rate variability. Of these, MSNA is the only direct m...
A 23-year-old woman, gravida 1, para, 0, was transferred at 29 weeks and 2 days gestation for management of infective endocarditis (IE). Based on vegetations attached to the mitral valve by echocardio...
PURPOSE: Although urinary complications of Crohn's disease are relatively rare, they often present diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas. However, there is no established strategy for treating urinary c...