Sentence examples for cardiac size from inspiring English sources

The fact that these short acquisition times tended to occur in small patients raised the question of a possible relationship between cardiac size and myocardial count rate.

The wide spectrum of intracardiac anatomy and reparative surgery available for adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) makes uniform measurement of cardiac size and disease severity challenging.

In this study, we examined the effect of the following factors, which covered the patient's characteristics, cardiac size and aortic size, and cardiac function, on the catheter placement time: the patient's age, height, weight, BSA, cardiothoracic ratio (CTR), the diameter of aortic root and proximal ascending aorta, the degree of tricuspid valve regurgitation (TR), and ejection fraction (EF).

As a result, the role of myostatin in the regulation of cardiac size remains unclear.

Indeed, lack of myostatin during the embryonic period may have a permanent effect on cardiac size and/or regulation of cardiac size since it was recently demonstrated that myostatin is dynamically regulated during embryonic development [28].

Additionally the parameter corrects for differences in age, body mass, cardiac size and gender related differences in calibre between individuals for the coronary artery under assessment.

However, the difficultly in determining acute cardiac sizing when only a single anteroposterior film is used and how the increased sensitivity of echocardiography immediately clinched the diagnosis must again be acknowledged.

The apical and subcostal windows give a global view of right-left cardiac chambers size and myocardial contractility [23].

Cine MRI is nowadays considered the reference technique for accurately measuring cardiac chamber size, ventricular function and myocardial mass (Figs. 1 and 3) [15, 16, 17, 18] 18].

The beneficial effects of dual-acting agent 12c were demonstrated on the ischemia-reperfusion induced cardiac infarct size and oxidative change in an in vivo rat model.

Although other characteristics are being investigated among which stomach position, pulmonary circulatory parameters, and cardiac ventricular size as additional prognostic indicators, the lung-to-head-ratio (LHR) remains the best studied parameter for prediction.