Optimization of radiation dose reduction in cardiac computed tomographic angiography.

abstract：:The literature on the relationship between work-related psychosocial factors and the development of ischemic heart disease (IHD) was systematically reviewed: 33 articles presented 51 analyses of studies involving male participants, 18 analyses involving female participants, and 8 analyses with both genders. Twenty of ...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Eller NH,Netterstrøm B,Gyntelberg F,Kristensen TS,Nielsen F,Steptoe A,Theorell T

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart valve prostheses carry a risk for thrombosis and require an antithrombotic strategy to prevent stroke, systemic embolism, and prosthetic valve thrombosis. Contemporary randomized trials to guide the clinician on the optimal anticoagulant treatment are scarce, and the validity of the historical data for current r...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Hermans H,Vanassche T,Herijgers P,Meuris B,Herregods MC,Van de Werf F,Verhamme P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eisenmenger syndrome is characterized by elevated pulmonary vascular resistance and right-to-left shunting of blood through a systemic to pulmonary circulation connection. Treatment requires either lung transplantation with intracardiac repair or heart-lung transplantation. There are inadequate data regarding treatmen...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Okyay K,Cemri M,Boyac B,Yalcn R,Cengel A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evacetrapib is a cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibitor that has been recently studied as a cholesterol modifying agent to reduce cardiovascular risk and mortality in high risk cardiovascular disease patients. Evacetrapib acts to decrease lipid exchange through CETP inhibition. CETP acts to transfer chole...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Eyvazian VA,Frishman WH

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients presenting to the Emergency Department with chest pain are common and often present diagnostic difficulties. Because of the limitations of the initial evaluation, the majority of patients are admitted, although many are later found to have noncardiac causes for their symptoms. Recognition of these limitations...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Kontos MC

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a sexual dimorphism in blood pressure: men tend to have higher blood pressures than women with functional ovaries, whereas ovariectomy or menopause tends to abolish the sexual dimorphism and cause women to develop a "male" pattern of blood pressure. Synthetic estrogens and progestins, found in oral contracept...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Calhoun DA,Oparil S

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdominal aortic aneurysm is a multifactorial disease with genetic risk factors and an immunologic component. Immune cells, including macrophages, neutrophils, mast cells, B- and T- lymphocytes, along with vascular smooth muscle cells and adventitial fibroblasts, produce cytokines and enzymes, promoting an inflammator...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Rizas KD,Ippagunta N,Tilson MD 3rd

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are at risk for dyslipidemia as a result of the disease itself and from certain classes of antiretroviral therapy. The protease inhibitors and non-nucleoside reverse transcription inhibitors have been associated with elevated triglycerides, total, and low-den...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Ray GM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loop diuretics are central to the management of fluid overload in acute decompensated heart failure. However, a variance in the response to loop diuretics can alter a patient's clinical course and has an adverse effect on clinical outcomes. Thus, a diminished response to loop diuretics is an important clinical issue. ...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Bowman BN,Nawarskas JJ,Anderson JR

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence-based management of heart failure (HF) with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF; HFpEF) remains a major gap in the care of patients with HF. Clinical trials directed toward the population with HFpEF have been disappointing, although renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system blockade appears to preve...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Jumean MF,Konstam MA

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is an important cause of cardiac disease in endemic areas of Latin America. It is now being diagnosed in nonendemic areas because of immigration. Typical cardiac manifestations of Chagas disease include dilated cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, arrhythm...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Machado FS,Jelicks LA,Kirchhoff LV,Shirani J,Nagajyothi F,Mukherjee S,Nelson R,Coyle CM,Spray DC,de Carvalho AC,Guan F,Prado CM,Lisanti MP,Weiss LM,Montgomery SP,Tanowitz HB

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravascular ultrasound imaging is a relatively new imaging modality that uses miniaturized ultrasound transducers, which are mounted on catheter tips and introduced into the vessel lumen to provide cross-sectional images of the vascular structure in real time. It has gained popularity rapidly among interventional ca...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Ziada KM,Tuzcu EM,Nissen SE

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Given the risk of rapid neurological deterioration, early identification with rapid neuroimaging is vital. Predictors of outcome, such as spot sign and intracerebral hemorrhage score, can help guide management goals. Man...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Kurian C,Kaur K,Kaur G,Sahni R

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saphenous vein graft (SVG) disease after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) occurs in three phases: thrombosis, intimal hyperplasia, and atherosclerosis. Within the first month, thrombosis plays a major role. From month 1 to month 12, intimal hyperplasia occurs. Beyond 12 months, atherosclerosis becomes the primar...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Kim FY,Marhefka G,Ruggiero NJ,Adams S,Whellan DJ

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A decision-tree analysis was used to estimate the average cost per patient using the direct thrombin inhibitor argatroban for early treatment (<48 hours after thrombocytopenia onset) compared with delayed treatment (> or =48 hours after thrombocytopenia onset) of immune-mediated heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) ...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Arnold RJ,Kim R,Tang B

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a class of transmembrane molecules that have important functions in both innate and acquired immunity. As part of the body's normal immune defense against microbial pathogens, stimulation of these receptors will trigger the inflammatory response cascade and the release of cytokines. ...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Erickson B,Sperber K,Frishman WH

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Valvular endocarditis after percutaneous coronary intervention is unusual. We report a new case of mitral valve endocarditis after stent implantation to a saphenous vein graft. ...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Palmer ND,Ramsdale DR

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relaxin, a naturally-occurring hormone in the insulin family, was discovered to have a physiologic role in pregnancy. Named initially for its relaxing effect on the pubic ligament, relaxin receptors have since been found to be widely distributed in many organs in both males and females. Acting through multiple pathway...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Grossman J,Frishman WH

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular magnetic resonance using late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) provides a unique opportunity to assess myocardial tissue in vivo. LGE enables tissue characterization in ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathies and other cardiac diseases. LGE is associated with adverse clinical outcomes across a range of di...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Panovsky R,Pleva M,Feitova V,Kruzliak P,Meluzin J,Kincl V

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a heart disease characterized by hypertrophy of the left ventricular myocardium and is most often caused by mutations in sarcomere genes. The structural and functional abnormalities are not explained by flow-limiting coronary artery disease or loading conditions. The disease affect...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Adamczak DM,Oko-Sarnowska Z

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About 50 years ago, Norman Jefferis Holter invented a device that opened the possibility of recording heart activity over long periods of time. This invention, together with the rapid developments in electronics, has enabled a revolutionary change in the diagnosis and management of cardiac diseases. Ambulatory cardiac...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Romero I

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent articles have inquired about the quality of care for women presenting with cardiovascular disease. The Cooperative Cardiovascular Project and the National Heart Failure Project, 2 Medicare databases, provide national data to address concerns that women receive poorer quality care than men. In these databases, s...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Gold LD,Krumholz HM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computed tomography is an established tool in the assessment of cardiac anatomy and function. As demonstrated by single photon emission computed tomography, positron emission tomography, and magnetic resonance, the noninvasive evaluation of coronary hemodynamics is an important step in guiding clinical management. Nev...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Lempel M,Frishman WH

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in the overall mortality for acute infarction in women vs men have been appreciated for some time. Some of these differences are based on the age at the time of presentation of women compared with men. Excess mortality in women is most clear at the younger end of the age spectrum. More careful examination ...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Feldman T,Silver R

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (AICDs) were implanted in 378 men and 95 women, mean age 69 +/- 12 years. At 3.6-year follow up, survival was 76% in patients who had an AICD because of cardiac arrest as a result of ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia not resulting from a transient or ...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Aronow WS,Sorbera C,Chagarlamudi A,Tabandeh H,Gupta S,Cohen M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary pulmonary hypertension and cor pulmonale represent forms of precapillary pulmonary hypertension due to intrinsic lung disease. In the case of primary pulmonary hypertension, this is due to disease of the pulmonary vasculature while cor pulmonale is related to diseases of the pulmonary vasculature, airways, or ...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Lehrman S,Romano P,Frishman W,Rashid A,Dobkin J,Reichel J

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute pericarditis (AP) is basically a clinical diagnosis. Although specific electrocardiographic (ECG) manifestations may indeed point to its diagnosis, sole reliance on such findings in isolation of the clinical setting, however, is often the common pitfall that could lead to a misguided diagnosis. We briefly review...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Ariyarajah V,Spodick DH

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of durable left ventricular assist devices has advanced dramatically since its introduction into the clinical realm. From the first-generation pulsatile HeartMate XVE device to the second-generation continuous axial flow HeartMate-2 to the current third-generation centrifugal flow devices, the left ventricul...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Levine A,Gass A

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitral regurgitation (MR) is the most common cardiac valvular disease in the United States. Approximately 4 million people have severe MR and roughly 250,000 new diagnoses of MR are made each year. Mitral valve surgery is the only treatment that prevents progression of heart failure and provides sustained symptomatic ...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Doshi JV,Agrawal S,Garg J,Paudel R,Palaniswamy C,Doshi TV,Gotsis W,Frishman WH

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) such as warfarin have traditionally been the major therapeutic option for anticoagulation in clinical practice. VKAs are effective and extensively recommended for the prevention of venous and arterial thromboembolism in cardiovascular disease. Despite its effectiveness, warfarin is limited...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Maan A,Padmanabhan R,Shaikh AY,Mansour M,Ruskin JN,Heist EK

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00