Myocardial infarction due to coronary thrombosis in a patient with Henoch-Schönlein purpura.

abstract：:Identification of familial forms of different diseases has provided a unique opportunity to study how changes in the structure of a gene create a dysfunction in the physiology of the resulting protein. Changes in the genes encoding for ion channels produce modifications in the function of the channel. Changes in the s...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Brugada J,Brugada R,Brugada P

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Modern high-resolution imaging techniques have provided new insights into the pathogenesis of aortic dissection during recent years. Distinct pathologic entities or potential precursors of classic false-lumen aortic dissection such as intramural hematoma or penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer have been identif...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Eggebrecht H,Baumgart D,Herold U,Piotrowski J,Barkhausen J,Wiesemes R,Peters J,Rühm SG,Jakob H,Erbel R

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation represents the most common form of clinical arrhythmia in daily routine. However, current therapeutic options are still limited and a better understanding of the underlying molecular mechanisms is expected to contribute to the development of new therapeutic strategies. The scientific field of micro...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Wakili R,Clauß S,Kääb S

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most frequently encountered sustained arrhythmia with a prevalence of 0.5-10%, depending predominantly on age. The arrhythmia is associated with significant morbidity and mortality, mainly due to thromboembolic events including stroke and systemic embolisms. These complications can be e...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Erath JW,Hohnloser SH

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is still controversial whether the arrhythmias in acute pericarditis are of myocardial or pericardial origin. The aim of the present study was to investigate the occurrence of arrhythmias and conduction disorders in patients with acute pericarditis with no endomyocardial biopsy evidence of myocarditis (group 1: 40 ...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Ristić AD,Maisch B,Hufnagel G,Seferovic PM,Pankuweit S,Ostojic M,Moll R,Olsen E

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has recently published new guidelines on the diagnosis and management of chronic coronary syndromes (CCS). Due to variable symptoms, objective tests are often necessary to confirm the diagnosis, exclude alternative diagnoses, and assess the severity of underlying disease. This ...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Saraste A,Knuuti J

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exertional dyspnea is a nonspecific symptom with a variety of underlying causes. It can be challenging to differentiate a beginning cardiac disease from a pulmonary disease or from deconditioning alone. In the presence of obesity, the overall assessment is even more difficult. Rare diseases, such as pulmonary hyperten...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Wilkens H,Held M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aortic valve consists of three cusps attached to the wall of the aortic root. During the cardiac cycle, the aortic root undergoes complex movements that precede and aid opening and closing of the aortic valve. The aortic valve cusps themselves form thin-walled pocket-like structures, made from specialized tissue w...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Bechtel JF,Erasmi AW,Misfeld M,Sievers HH

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certification is a critical component of quality assurance in medicine. From the certification of individual persons, through units and up to whole hospitals, certification stimulates testing and optimization of treatment processes, thereby improving the quality of care. Minimum case numbers needed to acquire a certif...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Halbach M,Baldus S

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the relationships between spontaneous heart rate (or conversely cycle length) changes and left ventricular diastolic dimensions and indices of systolic function in twenty-three subjects. In most there was clearly an inverse relationship between rate and these indices and nearly always a positive correlatio...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Bett JH,Dryburgh L

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart failure is one of the leading diseases in internal medicine worldwide. Because of the increase in population aging, the incidence and prevalence of heart insufficiency is rising annually and is now the most frequent individual diagnosis among hospitalized patients in Germany. The mortality rate has recently been...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Wintrich J,Kindermann I,Böhm M

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years we identified numerous cardiovascular risk factors and had been able to reduce cardiovascular events by a variety of different interventions. There is no question that we can improve the course of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with a high-risk profile by modifying these factors. Despite thi...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Schaefer JR,Simon B,Soufi M,Sattler A,Noll B,Herzum M,Maisch B

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than two centuries digitalis has been used in the treatment of cardiac disease. Despite this long clinical experience with the drug, controversy still exists as to its clinical effect and impact on survival, especially in patients after myocardial infarction. In the last decade a number of studies have addres...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Mølstad P

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To provide an overview of our experience with percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty in aortic stenosis, the results obtained in 218 patients have been analyzed. During the two years of its use, the technique of the procedure has been subsequently modified with increasing balloon diameters, initially 15 mm, 18 mm and then...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Cribier A,Letac B

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Little is known about cardiac involvement in m.3243A>G variant carriers. Thus, this study aimed to assess type and frequency of cardiac disease in symptomatic and asymptomatic m.3243A>G carriers. METHODS:Systematic literature review. RESULTS:The m.3243A>G variant may manifest phenotypically as mitochondria...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Finsterer J,Zarrouk-Mahjoub S

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with congenital heart disease have an increased chance to suffer from brady- as well as tachyarrhythmias. The impact of these on quality of life, morbidity and mortality is more often imperative as compared to heart-healthy individuals. The substrate for these may be either congenital or acquired. Improvement...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Hebe J,Krings G,Hansen P,Volkmer M,Ouyang F,Kuck KH

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiologic studies in patients with the Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome are performed for diagnostic and therapeutic reasons. Surface electrocardiographic leads plus intracardiac electrograms from different locations are stimultaneously recorded. Programmed electrical stimulation of the heart permits conf...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Farré J,Ross DL,Wiener I,Bär FW,Vanagt E,Wellens HJ

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In contemporary practice with early catheterization in most patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction, the clinical utility of new or presumably new left bundle branch block (LBBB) as a diagnostic criterion equivalent to ST-segment elevation is not well established. This study therefore aimed to de...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Wegmann C,Pfister R,Scholz S,Markhof A,Wanke S,Kuhr K,Rudolph T,Baldus S,Reuter H

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE STUDY:The predisposition to atrial fibrillation (AF) in mitral stenosis (MS) has been demonstrated with several electrocardiographic (increased P-wave dispersion) and echocardiographic parameters (atrial electromechanical delay). Despite the improvement in P-wave dispersion after percutaneous ...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Demirkan B,Guray Y,Guray U,Ege MR,Kisacik HL,Sasmaz H,Korkmaz S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our own previous studies of the composition of the extracellular matrix of human failing hearts showed that collagen VI seems to play a major role in the origin of cardiac fibrosis. Therefore, collagen VI was investigated in more detail in tissue samples taken from clinically normal left ventricle and from myocardium ...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Mollnau H,Münkel B,Schaper J

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 89 children with angiographically-documented pulmonic stenosis and intact ventricular septum (PST), 76 (85.4%) had valvular, 11 (12.4%) infundibular and 2 (2%) had supravalvular lesions. Standard, p. a. view, chest X-rays of children with a mean age of 6 7/12 years were evaluated with respect to 1. cardiac enlargem...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Rautenburg HW,Askevold IB

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous rupture of coronary arteries as well as coronary perforation during percutaneous interventions are rare but potentially life-threatening incidents often resulting in emergency surgery. Frequency of acute perforation due to therapeutic catheterization varies according to the devices employed. With conventio...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Elsner M,Zeiher AM

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a J-shaped correlation between the amount of alcohol consumed per day and overall mortality risk and an inverse correlation between the amount of alcohol consumed per day and cardiovascular mortality. The evidence is stronger for men than for women. The correlations are independent of the type of alcoholic be...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Flesch M,Morbach S,Erdmann E,Bulut D

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation is by far the most common cardiac arrhythmia in humans. The incidence of atrial fibrillation increases with age and will increase even more in the future due to the demographic changes in the population. Therefore, this arrhythmia will have a growing clinical and socioeconomic impact. Although ther...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Heeger CH,Kuck KH,Ouyang F

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endothelium, the monolayer covering the inner surface of blood vessels, plays a pivotal role in the regulation of vascular tone and structure, as well as vascular inflammation and thrombosis, i.e., of key events of the atherosclerotic disease process and its clinical complications, such as myocardial infarction an...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Giannotti G,Landmesser U

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 45-year-old man is reported who was an active competitive sportsman up to his 38th year. In fall of 1998, exercise limitation was noted. The cardiologic work-up revealed dilated cardiomyopathy. In spite of intensive medical therapy clinical course deteriorated within the next 3 years, cardiologic finding...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Brune S,Kroidl RF

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct inhibition of thrombin is a promising new strategy for the treatment of cardiovascular disease and thrombosis. Three intravenous (lepirudin, bivalirudin and argatroban) and one oral direct thrombin inhibitor (ximelagatran) are currently available and approved for some clinical indications in the treatment of ca...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Ahrens I,Bode C

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experimental and early clinical experience with percutaneous valvuloplasty using trefoil and bifoil balloon catheters (Schneider Shiley) and a long introducer sheath with a new back-up wire are reported. The trefoil balloon consists of three and the bifoil balloon of two angioplasty balloons mounted in parallel on...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Meier B,Friedli B,von Segesser L

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus is an increasingly prevalent condition in the modern era. Coronary artery disease is the major cause of mortality in this population. Despite advances in the therapeutic modalities available for management of coronary artery disease, diabetic patients tend to have worse short and long term outcomes. ...

journal_title：Herz

authors： John JM,Bhatt DL

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Braunwald classification and TIMI (Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction) risk score are used to stratify cardiovascular risk in patients with unstable angina (UA). However, these scores have a limited capacity in the practice of cardiology. OBJECTIVES:This study sought to develop a new score, based on ...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Xia Y,Xia Y,Xu K,Ma Y,Pan D,Xu T,Lu L,Li D

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00