Noninvasive assessment of coronary artery disease in women: What's next?

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review aims to clarify the cardiovascular risk of white coat hypertension (WCH). RECENT FINDINGS:Cardiovascular risk of WCH has been evaluated in multiple meta-analyses and population-based studies. International Database on Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Relation to Cardiovascular Outc...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Abolbashari M

更新日期：2018-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and is the focus of extensive biomedical research. Large genetic consortia combining data from many traditional prospective cohort and ascertained case-control study designs have facilitated the discovery of genetic associa...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Small AM,O'Donnell CJ,Damrauer SM

更新日期：2018-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the critical importance of plasma lipoproteins in the development of atherosclerosis, varying degrees of evidence surround the causal associations of lipoproteins with coronary artery disease (CAD). These causal contributions can be assessed by employing genetic variants as unbiased proxies for lipid levels. A...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Keenan TE,Rader DJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Variant angina, which is characterized by recurrent chest pain and transient ECG changes along with angiographic evidence of coronary artery spasm, generally has a favorable prognosis. However, episodes of ischemia caused by vasospasm may lead to potentially life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias an...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Kundu A,Vaze A,Sardar P,Nagy A,Aronow WS,Botkin NF

更新日期：2018-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The two most common types of cardiac amyloidosis are caused by fibril deposits of immunoglobulin light chains (AL) and transthyretin (TTR), each with distinct prognosis and clinical management. Cardiac amyloidosis is under-recognized among heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Chen W,Ton VK,Dilsizian V

更新日期：2018-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To discuss the mechanisms of iron regulation in the brain and the pathophysiological role of deregulation of iron homeostasis following a stroke, and to review existing evidence supporting the potential role of iron chelators in the treatment of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. RECENT FINDINGS:In rec...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Hanafy KA,Gomes JA,Selim M

更新日期：2019-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular mortality continues to be high and events continue to occur in patients taking antiplatelet medications. Aspirin and clopidogrel have become integral parts of management in patients with coronary artery disease and after percutaneous angioplasty. However, the platelet responses to aspirin and clopidogre...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Guthikonda S,Lev EI,Kleiman NS

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aortic valve replacement can produce dramatic benefit in the setting of aortic stenosis. The potential for morbidity and mortality associated with thoracotomy, cardiopulmonary bypass, and aortotomy has fostered a search for alternatives. Early experience with transcatheter endovascular aortic valve implantation demons...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Webb JG

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review summarises and discusses the epidemiological evidence suggesting a causal relationship between sleep duration and cardio-metabolic risk and outcomes in population. RECENT FINDINGS:Sleep duration is affected by a variety of cultural, social, psychological, behavioural, pathophysiological a...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Cappuccio FP,Miller MA

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) infections are complex medical problems that are increasingly encountered. They are associated with significant morbidity and mortality with tremendous economic cost. The current review will emphasize the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of this clinical entity using th...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Leung S,Danik S

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium is an essential nutrient, mostly ingested as salt (sodium chloride). Average sodium intake ranges from 3 to 6 g per day (7.5-15 g/day of salt) in most countries, with regional variations. Increasing levels of sodium intake have a positive association with higher blood pressure. Randomized controlled trials repo...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： O'Donnell M,Mente A,Yusuf S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:There is a broad spectrum of coronary artery anomalies that cardiologists may encounter either incidentally or during evaluation for cardiac symptoms. These anomalies include anomalous coronary arteries arising from the opposite sinus of Valsalva (ACAOS), coronary fistulae, and coronary artery aneurys...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Kochar A,Kiefer T

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary aldosteronism with a prevalence of 8 % of hypertension and 20 % of pharmacologically resistant hypertension is the most common secondary cause of hypertension. Yet, the diagnosis is missed in the vast majority of patients. Current clinical practice guidelines recommend screening for primary aldosteronism in pa...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Carey RM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of neurohormones and cytokines are activated in heart failure and their activity is related to the progression of heart failure. Inhibiting the deleterious effects of the activated sympathetic and the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone systems with b-blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, and aldoster...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Anand IS

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic stroke threatens public health dramatically, and demographic changes promise to continue this epidemic. Although medical advances in risk factor modification, hypertensive control, and antiplatelet therapy have mitigated morbidity and mortality of cerebrovascular disease somewhat, stroke still costs billions ...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Rajagopal V,Yadav JS

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension in patients with renovascular disease poses a major clinical challenge. Renal arterial disease accelerates hypertension by activation of multiple pressor systems. Although younger individuals with fibromuscular lesions often respond well to angioplasty with minor associated risks, care must be taken in ca...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Textor SC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical management of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) at high risk for stroke is limited by problems of imperfect tools for assessment of thromboembolism and bleeding risks. Improved instruments, such as the CHA₂DS₂VASc and HAS-BLED risk stratification scores, have been incorporated into European practice guide...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Broukhim M,Halperin JL

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are a number of limitations associated with conventional mapping for ablation of ventricular tachycardia (VT) in ischemic heart disease, such as the high recurrence rates after initially successful ablation. The development of a noncontact mapping system capable of producing high-resolution isopotential maps of ...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Chow AW,Schilling RJ,Peters NS,Davies DW

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review discusses the benefits of a completely percutaneous approach to endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR), and provides an outline as to how this is performed by a multidisciplinary team of cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons at a quaternary care community hospital. RECENT FINDINGS...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Huff CM,Silver MJ,Ansel GM

更新日期：2018-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This study aims to describe the current state of telestroke clinical applications and policies, in addition to key technical and operational aspects of the telemedicine practice. RECENT FINDINGS:Delivery of telestroke services for neurovascular care expanded from the intravenous alteplase decision an...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Dumitrascu OM,Demaerschalk BM

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlled clinical trials, performed in more than 13,000 patients, have consistently shown the beneficial effects of long-term beta-blocker therapy in patients with chronic heart failure. However, it is not clear whether this is a class effect or if it is specific only for some agents. Beneficial effects on the progn...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Metra M,Nodari S,Boldi E,Dei Cas L

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echocardiography is the most common noninvasive tool used in assessing cardiac masses. Real-time three-dimensional echocardiography expands the diagnostic capabilities of cardiac ultrasound in assessing the location, composition, size, and relationship to other structures of cardiac masses. The improved characterizati...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Plana JC

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in clinical cardiac SPECT instrumentation are reviewed from a systems perspective. New hardware technologies include pixelated scintillator and semiconductor detector elements; photodetectors such as position-sensitive photomultiplier tubes (PSPMT), avalanche photodiodes (APD) and silicon photomultipli...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Smith MF

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, catheter based treatments of an increasing variety of cardiac diseases have expanded dramatically. These advancements became available through new developments and improvements in available devices, as well as increasing expertise of operators. However, arguably it is the innovation and progress ...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Perk G,Kronzon I

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesized as an antianginal compound 40 years ago, amiodarone has emerged as a uniquely effective antiarrhythmic compound in recent years. It has numerous properties, the most prominent being the ability to lengthen repolarization in the atria and ventricles associated with bradycardia without the significant potent...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Singh BN

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heart and kidney interact in terms of hemodynamics and neurohumoral regulatory mechanisms, and this helps to maintain circulatory homeostasis under normal conditions. However, the normal regulatory mechanisms become inappropriate in the setting of congestive heart failure (CHF), and significant renal dysfunction o...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Sobotka PA,Krum H,Böhm M,Francis DP,Schlaich MP

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension in children and adolescents is becoming a greater problem in the developed world. Although traditionally thought of as usually secondary to renal, vascular, or endocrine causes, primary hypertension is becoming the most common form seen in childhood. This changing epidemiology is related to the recent obe...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Samuels J,Bell C,Samuel J,Swinford R

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The aim of the present manuscript is to review the latest advancements of radionuclide molecular imaging in the diagnosis and prognosis of individuals with cardiac amyloidosis. RECENT FINDINGS:99mTechnetium labeled bone tracer scintigraphy had been known to image cardiac amyloidosis, since the 1980s;...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Bravo PE,Dorbala S

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:True aneurysms of the pulmonary artery are rare, and are most often due to pulmonary hypertension arising from congenital heart defects. We report the case of a 40-year-old man with an uncorrected patent ductus arteriosus who presented with pulmonary infarction and pneumonia, and subsequently died of cardiac arrest. A...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Khush KK,Randhawa R,Israel E

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasminogen activation potential in the blood is controlled by an equilibrium between plasminogen activators, mainly tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA), and inhibitors, mainly plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI)-1. In cardiovascular practice, imbalance of this fibrinolytic potential is encountered primarily in...

journal_title：Current cardiology reports

authors： Juhan-Vague I,Morange P,Christine Alessi M

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00