Big endothelin-1 as a predictor of atrial fibrillation recurrence after primary ablation only in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.

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：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical and imaging features of patients with cardiac rhabdomyomas associated with tuberous sclerosis complex. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The clinical and imaging characteristics of seven patients with cardiac rhabdomyomas associated with tuberous sclerosis complex between ...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Shen Q,Shen J,Qiao Z,Yao Q,Huang G,Hu X

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is currently one of the major causes of ischemic stroke with an estimated stroke risk of 5% per year. Oral anticoagulation is an effective treatment for the reduction of stroke risk in patients with AF but is also associated with an increased risk of bleeding. In patients with AF it has been s...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Rillig A,Heeger CH,Kuck KH,Tilz RR

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The"no-reflow" phenomenon is associated with a worse prognosis at follow-up for patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Predicting and preventing no-reflow is therefore a crucial step in improving the prognosis of STEMI patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Korkmaz L,Erkan H,Ağaç MT,Pelit E,Bektas H,Acar Z,Gurbak I,Kara F,Çelik Ş

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To account for the current evidence in the field of infective endocarditis and to harmonize deviant national guidelines, in 2009 the European Society of Cardiology published novel recommendations on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infective endocarditis.The most important changes can be found concerning ant...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Plicht B,Erbel R

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the present study, the electropharmacological activity of traditional Chinese medicine, Ginkgo biloba extract (GBE), on human hyperpolarization-activated nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels and the underlying "funny" currents was investigated. METHODS:Standard two-electrode voltage-clamp recordings were empl...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Chen H,Chen Y,Yang J,Wu P,Wang X,Huang C

更新日期：2020-05-20 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：:Non-invasive tomographic imaging modalities have recently contributed to identifying aortic intramural hematoma, a variant form of classic dissection, which is characterized by the absence of an intimal tear and thus the absence of direct flow communication, and which represents an important disease entity in acute ao...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Song JK

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While there is general agreement on the favorable impact of immunosuppression in eosinophilic, granulomatous, giant cell and lymphocytic myocarditis and with inflammatory myocardial disease associated with connective tissue disorders or with rejection of a transplanted heart, its therapeutic role in the treatment of l...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Frustaci A,Chimenti C

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In primary prevention, traditional risk factors are a useful first step in determining who is at cardiovascular risk, however, it has been noted that a considerable number of those at risk cannot be identified on the basis of traditional risk factors alone. Among blood biomarkers, C-reactive protein (CRP), measured by...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Karakas M,Koenig W

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is believed that most myocardial infarctions result from the rupture of "vulnerable plaques", that share certain common characteristics. These plaques typically consist of a lipid-rich core in the central portion of the thickened intima, covered by a thin friable fibrous cap. Today, one of the important c...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Gerckens U,Buellesfeld L,McNamara E,Grube E

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial dilated cardiomyopathy (F-DCM) describes a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of diseases, mostly inherited as autosomal dominant traits, having idiopathic left ventricular dilatation and dysfunction as a common phenotype. The age of onset, rate of progression, disease complications, as well as ov...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Serio A,Narula N,Kodama T,Favalli V,Arbustini E

更新日期：2012-12-01 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

abstract：:Numerous angiographic control regression studies have demonstrated that aggressive reduction of plasma cholesterol significantly reduces the incidence of clinical overt cardiovascular complications, but has almost no effect on the angiographically determined luminal diameter of the coronary arteries. These, as well as...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Müller-Wieland D,Faust M,Kotzka J,Krone W

更新日期：1999-02-01 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：:Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. Adherence to a healthy lifestyle lifelong is capable of significantly reducing the cardiovascular risk by up to 70% and is therefore a key component in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. According to the European and American guidelines lifes...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Heinicke V,Halle M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-eluting stents (DESs) have dramatically reduced the rates of in-stent restenosis compared with those of bare-metal stents. DES placement is frequently followed by high-pressure postdilatation to prevent incomplete stent apposition that may cause a further stent fracture (SF). SF may remain asymptomatic but it is ...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Acar RD,Bulut M,Akcakoyun M

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myocarditis is a major inflammatory heart disease with a variety of clinical courses from the acute to chronic phases represented by unexpected circulatory deterioration during hospitalization and progression to dilated cardiomyopathy. Predicting these disease courses is important for patient management. However...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Izumi T,Nishii M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgical aortic valve replacement still represents the gold standard in patients with severe symptomatic aortic valve stenosis. In addition to conventional aortic valve replacement by mechanical or biological prostheses via a median sternotomy, novel approaches including minimally invasive strategies and new devices, ...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Liakopoulos OJ,Merkle J,Wahlers T,Choi YH

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Unstable angina accounts for more than one million hospital admissions annually. 6-8% of patients with this condition have non-fatal myocardial infarction or die within the first year after diagnosis. Recently, the term "acute coronary syndromes" has been used to describe the spectrum of conditions that incl...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Auer J,Berent R,Maurer E,Mayr H,Weber T,Eber B

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine determination of troponin levels is recommended for all patients with acute ischemic stroke. In 20-55% of these patients the troponin levels are elevated, which may be caused by ischemic as well as non-ischemic myocardial damage and particularly neurocardiogenic myocardial damage. In patients with acute ischem...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Kruska M,Fastner C,Scheitz JF,Kolb A,Rutsch M,Papavassiliu T,Borggrefe M,Alonso A,Akin I,Szabo K,Baumann S

更新日期：2020-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary tumors of the great vessels are very rare. Primary leiomyosarcomas of the pulmonary vein are extremely rare and little is known about their clinical manifestation and treatment. We report the case of a 34-year-old patient with primary leiomyosarcoma of the pulmonary vein extending into the left atrium. A revie...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Hong SP,Choi JY,Son JY,Lee YS,Lee JB,Kim KS

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regardless the general acceptance of cardiac operations by physicians and patients as routine procedures since the early seventies conventional cardiac surgery is still associated with a significant surgical trauma and exceptional invasiveness in part effected by the extracorporeal circulation. In parallel to the comm...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Cremer J,Böning A,Fraund S

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular (CV) risk assessment is based on the utilization of risk scores, enabling clinicians to estimate an individual's risk to develop CV pathologies and events. Such risk scores comprise classic CV risk factors such as smoking, diabetes, hypertension, and blood cholesterol levels. Recently, other CV biomarke...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Schulte C,Zeller T

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The decision to anticoagulate patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) involves weighting the risk of an embolic event without therapy versus the risk of a hemorrhagic event on therapy. Improved methods of monitoring anticoagulation with the International Normalized Ratio (INR), and recent evidence of the efficacy and s...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Atwood JE,Albers GW

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dyspnea is one of the major clinical symptoms which patients report to general practitioners, internists, cardiologists and hospitals. In this review article we discuss the evidence of medical history, laboratory procedures and diagnostic investigations to approach patients with acute or chronic dyspnea and try to str...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Henke MO,Vogelmeier CF

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:In addition to the genetic complexity of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), there must be other disease-modifying factors that contribute to its highly variable clinical and phenotypic expression. The authors aimed to investigate serum thiol/disulphide homeostasis as a proxy for oxidative stress using a nove...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Sari M,Erkorkmaz U,Yazar H,Kocayigit I,Omar B,Alizade E,Aksoy MNM,Uslu A,Cakar GC,Pala S

更新日期：2019-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:With increasing age valvular heart disease is among the most frequent diseases of the heart. Relevant valvular disease impairs not only the long-term prognosis but also physical resilience, activities of daily living and the quality of life. In cases of middle to high-grade symptomatic cardiac defects, valve replaceme...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Nechwatal RM,Bestehorn K,Leuschner F,Hagendorff A,Guha M,Schlitt A

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTS:To show all cardiac evaluations multislice computed tomography (MSCT) can perform. METHODS:MSCTs were performed on an MSCT scanner (Mx8000; Philips Medical Systems) with enhanced contrast acquisition. The reconstructed images were sent to a workstation for multiplanar reconstruction, volume rendering, and 3-D ...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Carrascosa PM,Capuñay CM,Parodi JC,Padilla LT,Johnson P,Carrascosa JM,Chandra S,Smith D,Belardi J

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00