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Short-term carvedilol administration reduces heart rate and mean pulmonary artery and pulmonary wedge pressures, whereas it improves both long-term rest and exercise left ventricular systolic function, reduces heart failure symptoms and improves submaximal exercise tolerance in patients with idiopathic cardiomyopathy.

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The GHD population may be considered at high cardiovascular risk, and GH substitution may be expected to bring an added value to patients with hypopituitarism in terms of cardiovascular protection. However, there is too limited evidence (rarely coming from randomized and controlled studies) to recommend GH treatment based on the cardiovascular status of the patients.

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The present study demonstrates that during long-term therapy, carvedilol improves cardiac performance to a greater extent than metoprolol when administered to patients with heart failure in the doses shown to be effective in clinical trials. These differences were likely related to a greater antiadrenergic activity of carvedilol.

Pulmonary MALT lymphoma is F-FDG avid in most cases andF-FDG avidity is correlated with tumour size. Consolidation is the most frequent morphological pattern of disease presentation. Advances in knowledge: This study demonstrated that lung MALT lymphoma are F-FDG avid in most cases depending on tumour size. Single or multiple areas of consolidation are the most common pattern of presentation of lung MALT lymphoma at CT.