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Aortic Valve Disease and Vascular Mechanics: Two-Dimensional Speckle Tracking E...
Leite, L; Teixeira, R; Oliveira-Santos, M; Barbosa, A; Martins, R; Castro, G; Gonçalves, L; Pego, MPURPOSE: Degenerative aortic valve disease (AVD) is a complex disorder that goes beyond valve itself, also undermining aortic wall. We aimed to assess the ascending aortic mechanics with two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (2DSTE) in patients with aortic regurgitation (AR) and hypothesized a relationship with degree of AR. Aortic mechanics were then compared with those of similarly studied healthy...
High blood pressure in the pediatric age group
Andrade, H; António, N; Rodrigues, D; Marinho da Silva, A; Pego, M; Providência, LAThe definition of hypertension (HT) in the pediatric age group is based on the normal distribution of blood pressure (BP) in healthy children. Normal BP is defined as being below the 90th percentile for gender, age and height, and hypertension as equal to or higher than the 95th percentile on at least three separate occasions. If the values are above the 90th percentile but below the 95th percentile, the child ...
24-hour arterial pressure study and diabetic neuropathy and angiopathy of the l...
Ribeiro, C; Geraldes, E; Rodrigues, D; Barros, L; Ruas, L; Gomes, L; Maldonado, J; Pego, M; Ruas, M CTo study the circadian variation of BP in diabetics with chronic late complications (autonomic neuropathy, peripheral neuropathy and macroangiopathy of the lower limbs).We studied 35 NIDDM patients, 22 male and 13 female, with a mean age of 62.17 +/- 8.66 years, all with hypertension (HBP) or with BP levels close to normal, many of them under anti-hypertensive therapy (mean BP in clinical measurements: 164 +/- ...