Sofi et al also found cardiac anomalies on exercise testing of athletes with normal findings on rest ECG.
This issue should remind us of the criticism that was voiced at the use of the stethoscope after its invention almost 200 years ago, claiming that the instrument was too time-consuming and troublesome and that the newly found cardiac sounds would only distract a doctor.
On postoperative day 1, chest X-ray findings revealed protrusion of the heart into the right thorax (Fig. 3a) and a re-thoracotomy was performed, during which we found cardiac herniation from the repaired pericardial defects (Fig. 3b).
In contrast, RBC showed no correlation with the infrequently found cardiac iron load.
We found cardiac troponine ≥ 1.5 ng/ml in five patients with myocardial injury.
After doing so they found cardiac symptoms, rhabdomyolysis, hypotension, metabolic acidosis, renal failure, and age to affect survival in populations with at least one sign of PRIS.
Caporali et al. found cardiac diseases (myocardial infarction and/or angina pectoris) to influence pain, quality of life, and joint function in OA patients [ 4].
Pavlotsky et al. found cardiac disease, malignancy and lymphedema to be associated with RE in the upper limbs in univariable analyses, but effect sizes are not given [ 18].
In this study of 211 long-term childhood cancer survivors, we have found cardiac damage of various types in more than half of studied subjects.
West [ 2], using similar techniques to those used in this study, found cardiac output in Bufo marinus to be 57.2 ml min-1 kg-1, with aortic blood flow being 26.8 ml min-1 kg-1[ 2].
