Hemodynamic changes associated with diastolic hypertension were investigated using 50° head-up for 52 untreated hypertensive patients not in cardiac failure, and for 17 normotensive subjects. Normals ...

We assessed the nutritional status of patients with acute stroke and evaluated it in relation to the patients' dependence on assistance with feeding. Fifty patients aged 70 years or older, admitted ...

A long-term follow-up study on 46 patients with pulmonary stenosis and intact ventricular septum who survived transventricular pulmonary valvulotomy performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital between ...

Casts were made of the vascular lumen of 20 successive extremities amputated for gangrene. Half of the patients were diabetic. All nondiabetics had arteriosclerotic vascular disease plus acute ...

Investigation of the members of the White Mountain Apache Tribe has confirmed our clinical experience that coronary artery disease is extremely rare in these people. The Apaches eat a diet low in ...

To determine mechanisms of myocardial toxicity of radiopaque media and to correlate specifically induced changes in the composition of coronary artery blood with changes in the surface ...

Left ventricular end-diastolic pressure and left ventricular stroke work were measured during a 10-min period of atrial pacing in 10 normal subjects and 30 patients with coronary artery disease. The ...