A sensitivity analysis using visually estimated parameters (RV enlargement and RV dysfunction) only to define RV dysfunction did not demonstrate significant differences in in-hospital mortality.
Before considering isolated surgery for the tricuspid valve, in particular redo surgery for severe TR after left-side surgery (see below), information is needed to rule out any significant residual or recurrent left-side valvular lesions (or prosthetic dysfunction), and to define the systolic pulmonary pressure and the volume and function of both ventricles.
Almost four years after the Bush presidency, the Republican Party is obviously still rife with dysfunction, and struggling to define itself for a new era and a changing country.
Because RT can cause anorectal dysfunction, meticulous planning to define the inferior border of the RT field is recommended to spare the EAS.
The information thus collected will allow the apoptotic machinery and its dysfunction to be defined with extraordinary breadth and precision.
It was hypothesized that the participants with dyspnea suffer from a more advanced stage of diastolic dysfunction, i.e. the parameters used to define diastolic dysfunction should be more abnormal as compared to cases without dyspnea.
"We need to end the instability, the chaos, the dysfunction that has come to define Victorian politics over the last four years..
That the US will have come to such a pass – for no reason other than the extremism of the Republican party – is an important reminder of who is blame for the governing dysfunction that has come to define the US democracy today.
To this end, the concept of a common expression pattern that correlates with any BRCA dysfunction, ' BRCAness', was developed to define the role of BRCA function and response to cytotoxic chemotherapy (Turner et al, 2004; Tan et al, 2008).
The term "endothelial dysfunction" has been used to define diverse syndromes characterized by changes in distinct endothelial functions, related to a cellular phenotypic switch from a quiescent to an activated state.
