Cardiology Journal 2008, tom 15, nr 1

Unequivocal data presenting the impact of different pacing modes on B-type natriuretic peptide levels has never been published. The aim of the study was to assess changes of plasma B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) during permanent cardiac pacing in patients with sick sinus syndrome (SSS)...

Atrial conduction disturbances are a known substrate of re-entrant atrial arrhythmia, and their detection is important for the selection of proper therapy. Time-domain analysis of P-wave in signal-averaged ECG (SA-ECG) recorded from chest leads is an accepted method evaluating inhomogeneity of atrial excitation, predictive for atrial arrhythmias. Biatrial (BiA) pacing created a new therapeutic option for patients with atrial arrhythmias...

Serum uric acid concentrations are higher in patients with established coronary artery disease than in healthy controls. This study aimed to determine the role of uric acid in predetermining coronary artery disease in young patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI)...

At present there is consent that patients with acute pulmonary embolism (APE) and hemodynamic instability have poor prognosis and benefit from thrombolytic therapy or embolectomy, whereas hemodynamically stable patients without echocardiographic signs of right ventricular overload/dysfunction (RVO) have good prognosis and should be treated with anticoagulation alone....

Early repolarization variant (ERV or ERPV) is a enigmatic electrocardiographic phenomenon, characterized by prominent J wave and ST-segment elevation in multiple leads. Recently, there has been renewed interest in ERV because of similarities to the arrhythmogenic Brugada syndrome (BrS)...

On the stage of world cardiology, only a few actors have played a leading role both as a scientific pioneer and as an architect of its structure and organization. Dr. Eliot Corday was one of those few actors. Eliot was born in Canada in 1913. As he told his family, his decision to become a doctor was made at a very early age in his childhood after being saved from near death (a similar decision at a similar age in a similar situation was made also by the writer of these lines). The year 1940 was when not only his lifelong career as a physician, but also his life-long bond with Marian, started. During World War II he served in the Canadian Air Force, and after the war the young Corday-family moved to New York...