Sentence examples for compromised heart from inspiring English sources
The combination of defibrillation and CPR, when delivered by a trained layperson, is a lifesaver in many cases, the association spokeswoman pointed out, and without it, the person with a stopped heart or a severely compromised heart rhythm has very little chance of survival.
Although the exact cause of death is not known for Asxl2−/− animals, heart enlargement in these animals may have compromised heart function and contributed to the animals' deteriorating health.
Any imbalance between energy demand and availability can ultimately lead to an energetically compromised heart with reduced working capacity.
The main advantage of this delivery strategy is that it does not increase the risk of ischaemic events in an already functionally compromised heart.
This intrinsic antioxidant property of AZL may provide a promising advantage over other calcium channel blockers in the management of compromised heart function especially under diabetes.
Acute ethanol treatment led to compromised heart functions with decreased fractional shortening, peak shortening, and an intracellular Ca2+ rise in mouse cardiomyocytes.
This occurs in part because of the marked increase in survival of myocardial infarction patients who have severely compromised hearts.
Such additive effect may be of particular interest to patients with compromised hearts, who are known to be more susceptible to myocardial damage and less responsive to preconditioning and postconditioning stimuli [ 6, 14, 36, 38, 50].
During human aging, a decrease in fatty acid usage in the myocardium has been observed (Kates et al., 2003), suggesting a decrease in FA-derived ATP production, perhaps leading to energetically compromised hearts.
These changes are likely to compromise heart function and could therefore also affect the graft response after heart transplantation.
Other possible causes of this fish death, such as Na+ K+ ATPase inhibition [ 24] and tissue hypoxia, which compromises heart function, need to be examined.
