cardiography, impedance

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Review Article

Impedance Cardiography in the Evaluation of Patients with Arterial Hypertension

Rodrigo Nazário Leão et al. Pedro Marques Da Silva

Abstract

Arterial hypertension is responsible for high morbidity and mortality. Despite increasing awareness of the consequences of uncontrolled hypertension and the publication of several recommendations and guidelines, blood pressure control rates are suboptimal, and approximately half of the patients do not reach the targets. Defined as an increase in blood pressure, hypertension is characterized by hemodynamic abnormalities in cardiac output, systemic vascular resistance, or arterial compliance. Therefore, the approach to arterial hypertension can be improved by the knowledge of the hemodynamics underlying the blood pressure increase. Impedance Cardiography has emerged as a new strategy to customize therapy and monitor patients aiming to improve blood pressure control according to the hemodynamic profile, rather than a blind intensive care approach. This is a review of impedance cardiography evidence, its benefits, actual and future applications in the approach and management of arterial hypertension.

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Review Article

Accuracy of Impedance Cardiography in Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Literature Review

Lucelia dos Santos Silva et al. Fernanda Faria Reis Monyque Evelyn Santos Silva Dalmo Valerio Machado de Lima

Introduction

Hemodynamic monitoring of individuals with acute myocardial infarction, for evaluation of progression and prognosis of the patient’s clinical picture, has been studied for years.

The Swan-Ganz catheter is an invasive hemodynamic monitoring measurement, indicated for clinical situations, such as acute heart failure (e.g. acute myocardial infarction, complicated by progressive hypotension or cardiogenic shock); mechanical complications of acute myocardial infarction; right ventricular infarction; refractory congestive heart failure; pulmonary hypertension.

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Hemodynamic assessment in heart failure: role of physical examination and noninvasive methods

Gustavo Luiz Almeida Junior et al. Sérgio Salles Xavier Marcelo Iorio Garcia Nadine Clausell

Among the cardiovascular diseases, heart failure (HF) has a high rate of hospitalization, morbidity and mortality, consuming vast resources of the public health system in Brazil and other countries. The correct determination of the filling pressures of the left ventricle by noninvasive or invasive assessment is critical to the proper treatment of patients with decompensated chronic HF, considering that congestion is the main determinant of symptoms and hospitalization. Physical examination has shown to be inadequate to predict the hemodynamic pattern. Several studies have suggested that agreement on physical findings by different physicians is small and that, ultimately, adaptive physiological alterations in chronic HF mask important aspects of the physical examination. As the clinical assessment fails to predict hemodynamic aspects and because the use of Swan-Ganz catheter is not routinely recommended for this purpose in patients with HF, noninvasive hemodynamic assessment methods, such as BNP, echocardiography and cardiographic bioimpedance, are being increasingly used. The present study intends to carry out, for the clinician, a review of the role of each of these tools when defining the hemodynamic status of patients with decompensated heart failure, aiming at a more rational and individualized treatment.

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Impedance Cardiography in the Evaluation of Patients with Arterial Hypertension

Abstract

Accuracy of Impedance Cardiography in Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Literature Review

Introduction

Hemodynamic assessment in heart failure: role of physical examination and noninvasive methods

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