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The aortic aneurysm is part of the acute aortic syndromes (AAS). Aortic aneurysms have a weakened tunica media. Acute aneurysm expansion may herald rupture with high morbility and mortality. Five percent of AAS are diagnosed as pentetrating atherosclerotic ulcer which is an ulceration of an atherosclerotic lesion of the aorta that penetrates the internal elastic lamina and allows hematoma formation within the tunica media of the aortic wall. Endovascular treatment is an alternative to surgery and has provided an adequate rate of successful repair. There is another type of treatment which combines surgery and endovascular repair (the hybrid open-endovascular repair) which provides adequate results. The afford mention case is about a patient with a penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer. The hematoma that results from this ulcer extends and self-contains the aneurysm, with a high risk of rupture. We will also describe the aneurysm treatment options.
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Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Aorta, Thoracic , Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic , Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic , Aortic Diseases , Aortic Diseases , Atherosclerosis , Atherosclerosis , Ulcer , Ulcer , Vascular Surgical Procedures/methodsABSTRACT
Increasing evidence indicates that hypertension in pregnancy is an under recognized risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Compared with women who have had normotensive pregnancies, those who are hypertensive during pregnancy are at greater risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events and have a less favorable overall risk profile for CVD years after the affected pregnancies. One factor that might underlie this relationship is that hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (pre-eclampsia, in particular) and CVD share several common risk factors (e.g. obesity, diabetes mellitus and renal disease). Alternatively, hypertension in pregnancy could induce long-term metabolic and vascular abnormalities that might increase the overall risk of CVD later in life. In both cases, evidence regarding risk-reduction interventions specific to women who have had hypertensive pregnancies is lacking. While awaiting results of large-scale studies, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy should be screened for during assessment of a woman's overall risk profile for CVD. Women at high risk must be monitored closely for conventional risk factors that are common to both CVD and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and treated according to current evidence-based national guidelines.
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Female , Humans , Pregnancy , Hypertension , Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular , Hypertension , Hypertension , Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular , Pregnancy Complications, CardiovascularABSTRACT
The cardiovascular disease is a crucial cause of morbidity and mortality in the woman mainly when they arrive at menopause. The pathophysiology and neurohormonal mechanisms widely vary with respect to the man. This finding has given the support to think that the estrogens may be playing a protector role in cardiovascular disease. However, the associated risk factors like obesity, diabetes, dislipidemia, smoking and sedentary life are increasing in an exponential form. In Mexico the population age distribution establishes that 60% of the women with hypertension are aged < 54 years old. This is reason why as factor of independent cardiovascular risk is commonest. Nevertheless, after the menopause cardiovascular mortality is greater in the woman than in the man. In this review, the importance of the new pathophysiological mechanisms and the clinical-therapeutic approach are analyzed, making emphasis in the importance of the change in the life style and also in the nutritional aspects. In Mexico the woman still have a unique role in the nutritional culture.
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Female , Humans , Middle Aged , Hypertension , Estrogen Replacement Therapy , Estrogens/physiology , Hypertension , Hypertension , HypertensionABSTRACT
The incidence of hypertension in the geriatric population is very high and is a significant determinant of cardiovascular risk in this group. The tendency for blood pressure to increase with age in westernized societies such as the United States may depend on environmental factors such as diet, stress, and inactivity. Our population tends to become more obese; to consume relatively greater amounts of sodium and lesser amounts of potassium, calcium, and magnesium; and to decrease exercising with increasing age. Senescent changes in the cardiovascular system leading to decreased vascular compliance and decreased baroreceptor sensitivity contribute not only to rising blood pressure but also to an impairment of postural reflexes and orthostatic hypotension. The hallmark of hypertension in the elderly is increased vascular resistance. Greater vascular reactivity in the elderly hypertensive patients may reflect decreased membrane sodium pump activity and decreased beta-adrenergic receptor activity as well as age-related structural changes. Treatment of diastolic hypertension in the elderly is associated with decreased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Although treatment of systolic hypertension may not decrease immediate cardiovascular mortality, it appears to decrease the incidence of stroke. The initial therapeutic approach to the elderly hypertensive patient should generally consist of a reduction in salt and caloric intake and an increase in aerobic exercise, i.e., walking. Drug therapy should be initiated with lower doses of medication with a special concern about orthostatic hypotension.
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Aged , Humans , Hypertension , Practice Guidelines as TopicABSTRACT
The epidemic of childhood obesity, the risk of developing left ventricular hypertrophy, and evidence of the early development of atherosclerosis in children would make the detection of and intervention in childhood hypertension important to reduce long-term health risks; however, supporting data are lacking. Secondary hypertension is more common in preadolescent children, with most cases caused by renal disease. Primary or essential hypertension is more common in adolescents and has multiple risk factors, including obesity and a family history of hypertension. Evaluation involves a through history and physical examination, laboratory tests, and specialized studies. Management is multifaceted. Nonpharmacologic treatments include weight reduction, exercise, and dietary modifications. Although the evidence of first line therapy for hypertension is still controversial, the recommendations for pharmacologic treatment are based on symptomatic hypertension, evidence of end-organ damage, stage 2 of hypertension, or stage 1 of hypertension unresponsive to lifestyle modifications, and hypertension with diabetes mellitus.
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Adolescent , Child , Humans , Hypertension , Hypertension , Hypertension , HypertensionABSTRACT
From beginnings of last century the hypertensive emergency was defined as the association of acutely elevation from the arterial pressure and the appearance of damage to end organ. At present is recognized the effects of the hypertensive emergency, the aspects of its patophysiology in which are included phenomenon of vasomotricity and the participation of different substances with vasoactives properties. The clinical presentation includes not only the manifestations of the increase of the arterial pressure, the end organ damage too; for this reason the hypertensive emergency needs the immediate reduction of the arterial tension to prevent the damage to specific organs. The treatment in every case will have to be individualized, with a wide knowledge of the characteristics of every medicament to obtain the best results. The diagnosis and treatment of the hypertensive emergencies needs often of the attention of its complications if they have appeared and later, of a treatment of support for the arterial hypertension.
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Humans , Antihypertensive Agents , Emergency Treatment , HypertensionABSTRACT
The association between arterial systemic hypertension arterial coronary disease has been demonstrated by cumulated evidence of several epidemiological studies. Hypertension is an important independent risk factor for the development of coronary artery disease, vascular cerebral disease and nephropathy. Important advances exist in the knowledge of neurohumoral and hemodynamic factors that come together in the pathophysiology of the hypertension and in the development of coronary disease that allow to establish better strategies not only of treatment, but also of prevention, with the purpose of diminishing the cardiovascular mortality. The spectrum of the coronary artery disease secondary to atherosclerosis is wide and the strategies of treatment of hypertension must be adapted to each particular case. The treatment of both conditions needs of specific limits of agreement to the conditions of the patient and the form of presentation of each one of these disease.
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Humans , Coronary Disease , Coronary Disease , Hypertension , Hypertension , Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists , Antihypertensive Agents , HypertensionABSTRACT
The multidisciplinary Institutional Committee of experts in Systemic Arterial Hypertension from the National Institute of Cardiology [quot ]Ignacio Chávez[quot ] presents its update (2008) of [quot ]Guidelines and Recommendations[quot ] for the early detection, control, treatment and prevention of Hypertension. The boarding tries to be simple and realistic for all that physicians whom have to face the hypertensive population in their clinical practice. The information is based in the most recent scientific evidence. These guides are principally directed to hypertensive population of emergent countries like Mexico. It is emphasized preventive health measures, the importance of the no pharmacological actions, such as good nutrition, exercise and changes in life style, (which ideally it must begin from very early ages). [quot ]We suggest that the changes in the style of life must be vigorous, continuous and systematized, with a real reinforcing by part of all the organisms related to the health education for all population (federal and private social organisms). It is the most important way to confront and prevent this pandemic of chronic diseases[quot ]. In this new edition the authors amplifies the information and importance on the matter. The preventive cardiology must contribute in multidisciplinary entailment. Based mainly on national data and the international scientific publications, we developed our own system of classification and risk stratification for the carrying people with hypertension, Called HTM (Arterial Hypertension in Mexico) index. Its principal of purpose this index is to keep in mind that the current approach of hypertension must be always multidisciplinary. The institutional committee of experts reviewed with rigorous methodology under the principles of the evidence-based medicine, both, national and international medical literature, with the purpose of adapting the concepts and guidelines for a better control and treatment of hypertension in Mexico. This work group recognizes that hypertension is not an isolated disease; therefore its approach must be in the context of the prevalence and interaction with other cardiovascular risk factors such as obesity, diabetes, dislipidemia and smoking among others. The urgent necessity is emphasized to approach in a concatenated form the diverse cardiovascular risk factors, since independently of which they share common pathophysiological mechanisms, its suitable identification and cont
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Adult , Aged , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Young Adult , Hypertension , Hypertension , Algorithms , Blood Pressure Determination , Hypertension , Hypertension , Hypertension , Hypertension , MexicoABSTRACT
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) was first described more than a century ago; the characteristic finding is an inappropriate myocardial hypertrophy, occurring in the absence of an obvious cause. Determination of the exact site of the hypertrophy and of the obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract, in asymmetric septal hypertrophy, establishes which is the best treatment strategy. Forty-one-year-old man with a history of recurrent palpitations without any other symptomatology. The initial electrocardiogram (EKG) showed sinus rhythm with evidence of ventricular left hypertrophy and unspecific changes in ventricular repolarization. The transthoracic echocardiogram showed HCM and mitral regurgitation. The electrophysiological study, under treatment with amiodarone, did not induce ventricular arrhythmias. The 10-years evolution of the EKG showed changes of variable degrees associated with the hypertrophy and systolic overload of the left ventricle. The echocardiographic three-dimensional reconstruction in the long axis revealed the dynamic obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract. In the hemodynamic study, the existence of a subaortic gradient confirmed the diagnosis and showed an increase of the gradient at the post-extrasystolic beat (Brockenbrough-Braunwald phenomenon). The echocardiographic three-dimensional reconstruction defines more accurately the exact site of the septal hypertrophy and its hemodynamic consequences.
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Adult , Humans , Male , Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic , Cardiomyopathy, HypertrophicABSTRACT
A great percentage of patients who have suffered a myocardial infarction have ventricular left dysfunction. In agreement with the different prospective studies, many of these patients will have an event of ventricular arrhythmias that does them candidates for receiving a strategy of primary or secondary prevention with an ICD. The same studies have showed a significant reduction in mortality with the therapy of the ICD compared with the conventional therapy what demonstrates the balance cost - benefit in favor of the use of these devices in long periods of follow-up. The benefits of mortality with the use of the therapy with ICD at the primary prevention are at least so good as those of the secondary prevention of agreement to the results of different prospective studies.
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Humans , Defibrillators, Implantable , Death, Sudden, Cardiac , Evidence-Based Medicine , Arrhythmias, Cardiac/mortality , Arrhythmias, Cardiac , Arrhythmias, Cardiac , Clinical Trials as Topic , Cost-Benefit Analysis , Defibrillators, Implantable , Electrophysiology , Kaplan-Meier Estimate , Myocardial Infarction , Primary Prevention , Prospective Studies , Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic , Risk Factors , Tachycardia, Ventricular/mortality , Tachycardia, Ventricular , Tachycardia, VentricularABSTRACT
The arterial hypertension in Mexico has a prevalence of 30%, with some differences in the geographical distribution. Of this population two relevant aspects are outlined: the high prevalence of arterial hypertension in young people and the common association with other factors of cardiovascular risk. Associated with these facts, it is of be making notice that an important percentage of this people doesn't know the diagnosis, and that those who have this diagnosis established often does not receive treatment or, has an evil control of the value of the arterial tension them in spite of receiving pharmacological treatment. The guidelines for the treatment of the arterial hypertension in our country are based on anatomic characteristics proper of our population, and they are based in a process of risk stratification elaborated with the same characteristics. These guidelines are the recommendations for the initial treatment of the arterial hypertension but must be remembered the fundamental concept of the medicine that establishes that any treatment must be completely individualized.
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Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Hypertension , HypertensionABSTRACT
The mortality of the myocardial acute infarction has diminished with the introduction of the new strategies of reperfusion; this way, the number of patients with ventricular left dysfunction has increased. This one is a special population with risk greater than rest of people of suffering an event of cardiac sudden death (SD). This fact needs of a suitable process of stratification of the risk for SD that this population has and it is necessary measures of primary and secondary prevention to diminish the mortality of these patients. In this paper the clinical characteristics of this population by precedent of heart attack of the myocardium and/or ventricular left dysfunction are checked. These characters can suggest the indication for the implant of an automatic defibrillator.
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Humans , Coronary Disease , Coronary Disease , Defibrillators, Implantable , Heart Failure , Heart Failure , Death, Sudden, Cardiac , Practice Guidelines as Topic , Risk FactorsSubject(s)
Aged , Female , Humans , Aneurysm , Calcinosis , Heart Diseases , Heart Ventricles , Aneurysm/pathology , Aneurysm , Calcinosis/pathology , Calcinosis , Echocardiography, Doppler, Color , Electrocardiography , Heart Diseases/pathology , Heart Diseases , Heart Ventricles/pathology , Heart Ventricles , Radiography, ThoracicABSTRACT
Los diferentes modos de tratamiento de los que se dispone en la actualidad para la insuficiencia cardíaca no han logrado mejorar la calidad de vida y el pronóstico de personas que tienen algún padecimiento cardíaco en fase terminal. Algunos recursos terapéuticos como el trasplante cardíaco son accesibles sólo para pacientes muy selectos. En la última década ha crecido el interés por la participación que tienen las alteraciones electromecánicas en la falla cardíaca y ello ha motivado un interés especial por el uso de marcapasos como parte de la terapia de la insuficiencia cardíaca. En el transcurso de un período relativamente corto se han podido ver importantes avances de esta estrategia terapéutica y en la actualidad diversos estudios multicéntricos han demostrado el beneficio hemodinámico que reciben los pacientes tratados por este medio. Aún falta por definir mejor los criterios de selección de pacientes para estos dispositivos, sin embargo, en la actualidad se puede saber qué pacientes tendrán un mayor beneficio con el implante de un marcapasos tricameral.
The different means for treating congestive heart failure have not yet achieved the improvement in quality of life and the prognosis of people with terminal stage cardiac disease. Some treatment resources, such as cardiac transplant, are only accessible for a selected group of patients. In the last decade, the interest on the role of electromechanic disturbances has grown and has motivated special interest for the use of the pace-maker as a tool for the treatment of congestive heart failure. During this period we have seen an important progress of this kind of treatment and, nowadays, multicenter studies have shown the hemodynamic improvement of the patients treated with this method. Selection of patients for this kind of treatment should be careful; although today it can be known which patients can benefit from this device in the treatment of congestive heart failure.