A large embolus, an embolus containing high amounts of cholesterol embolus, or repeated microembolization could cause tissue ischemia and infarction. By definition, microemboli represent ...

Endothelin (ET) is a recently discovered 21-amino acid peptide that has potent physiologic and pathophysiologic effects that appear to be involved in the development of heart failure. These ...

Objectives Anaemia is a risk of worsening heart failure. However, anaemia sometimes remains undetected because the superficial cardiac function does not precisely reflect the adverse impact of anaemia ...