Arrithmias

Exercise electrocardiograms were done on one thousand patients referred to the laboratory of exercise tests for: suggestive symptoms of acute heart failure, old miocardial infarction abnormal resting ECG, or evaluation of coronary reserve. The average value of cardiac rate reached for the group, was close to 80%. The maximum exercise loads managed by the men were superior to those of the women, and in general those managed in the negative test were superior in relation to the positive tests. Of the one thousand cases, 20...

In heart disease (HD) pulmonary emboli (PE) is seen with same frequency at necropsy as in the general hospital population. There is more mortality in patients with HD than in those without it. The patient with HD rarely is asymptomatic during the pulmonary embolization. Symptoms, signs and laboratory abnormalities occurs with the same frequency in both groups of patients with PE, but some symptoms and clinical signs, and also laboratory abnormalities could pre exist in the patients with HD, situation that dificulties the clinical diagnosis of PE...