Objective: To determine the prevalence and risk factors of symptoms of anxiety, depression,
and posttraumatic stress disorder-related symptoms in patients with chronic obstructive …

Backgrounds: The exercise treadmill test can be used in ventricular dysfunction patients for
functional capacity or predicting prognosis. The cardiac image with 123I MIBG shows cardiac …

Background: Autonomic alterations in heart failure are associated with an increase in
morbimortality. Several noninvasive methods have been employed to evaluate the sympathetic …

Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) has gained great prominence because of its therapeutic
potential, which is ascribed to its ability to regulate innate immunity, inhibit antigen-specific …

Implants containing tacrolimus and poly(ɛ-caprolactone) (tacrolimus PCL implants) were
designed to release the drug directly into the inflammatory and angiogenesis site without …

1525 Objectives: Heart Failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (EF over 50%) is considered
to be the most prevalent HF presentation. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) plays a …

The sponge implant has been applied as an important in vivo model for the study of inflammatory
processes as it induces the migration, proliferation, and accumulation of inflammatory …

Background: More than 50% of the patients with heart failure have normal ejection fraction (HFNEF).
Iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine (123I-MIBG) scintigraphy and …

Background: Half of the patients with reduced ejection fraction have diastolic dysfunction
associated and the data related to the impact of carvedilol therapy in these patients are still …

Fundamentos Metade dos pacientes com fração de ejeção reduzida tem disfunção
diastólica associada e os dados relacionados ao impacto da terapia com carvedilol nesses …