Evaluation of myocardial viability in myocardial infarction patients by magnetic resonance perfusion and delayed enhancement imaging.

abstract：:Modern therapeutic options in ischemic coronary disease such as thrombolysis, coronary angioplasty, new emerging strategies in treating heart failure and secondary prevention have resulted in decreasing cardiac mortality over the last ten years. In the era of interventional cardiology a new focus of clinical interest ...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Nienaber CA,Meinertz T

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand the mechanics of left ventricular (LV) diastolic filling it has become important to understand the role of the pericardium. This is because it has been demonstrated that the LV pressure-volume relationship can be shifted by previously unrecognized changes in pericardial "pressure" and, therefore...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Tyberg JV,Smith ER

更新日期：1990-12-01 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：:The use of drug-eluting stents (DESs) for patients with coronary artery disease is widespread. DESs have been associated with a lower rate of repeat revascularization, death, and myocardial infarction compared with bare metal stents. However, DESs can lead to a prothrombotic environment in the coronary arteries, resul...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Liu C,Liu M,Chen D,Liu H,Jiang Q,Lu J,Zuo L

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a strong, independent predictor of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality. Patients with LVH are at increased risk for stroke, coronary heart disease, congestive heart failure, and sudden cardiac death. Hypertension is a major influence on the development of LVH. The progno...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Krauser DG,Devereux RB

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical syndrome of congestive heart failure can result from inadequate myocardial contraction (systolic myocardial failure), from pseudo-heart failure due to circulatory overload, or from failure of the ventricles to fill at low pressure (diastolic myocardial failure). The presence of systolic or diastolic heart...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Warren SE,Grossman W

更新日期：1991-09-01 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 incidence of coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction fell gradually during the seventies. Reasons for this decline are not well understood. Speculations include changes of life style and health care. However, cardiovascular disease is still the leader of mortality in Western developed countries. Mortality...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Ertl G,Gaudron P,Eilles C,Kochsiek K

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is not known whether older patients with acute heart failure (HF) receiving tolvaptan have decreased mortality rates and a better long-term prognosis than patients who receive furosemide. We conducted a systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to address this issue. METHODS:The Medline, E...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Huang WL,Yang Y,Yang J,Yang J,Wang HB,Xiong XL,Zhang YF

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atrial remodeling in the form of fibrosis is considered the basis in the development of atrial fibrillation (AF). The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of doxycycline on atrial remodeling induced by chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH) and the mechanisms underlying such changes. METHODS:A total...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Zhang K,Ma Z,Wang W,Liu R,Zhang Y,Yuan M,Li G

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The expansion of the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) indication towards patients with intermediate surgical risk (Ref. Society of Thoracic Surgeons, STS, score) was analyzed. The aim was to investigate if the complication rates particularly with respect to TAVR and surgical aortic valve replace...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Barth U

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of constrictive pericarditis should be considered in any patient with unexplained right heart failure. The differentiation between constrictive pericarditis and restrictive cardiomyopathy is based on a combination of clinical presentation, history and imaging, and on occasion, on the basis of invasive he...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Zwas DR,Gotsman I,Admon D,Keren A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The differential diagnosis of pericardial effusion is often challenging because different etiologies can be discussed. Of particular therapeutic and prognostic importance is the definitive differentiation of malignant pericardial effusion from benign effusions. The definitive diagnosis of malignant pericardi...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Karatolios K,Maisch B,Pankuweit S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of restrictive right ventricular filling pattern (RRVFP) in patients with the first acute inferior wall myocardial infarction (IWMI) complicated by right ventricular myocardial infarction (RVMI) undergoing primary percutaneous coronary interventio...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Altıntaş B,Yaylak B,Ede H,Altındağ R,Baysal E,Bilge Ö,Çiftçi H,Adıyaman MŞ,Karahan MZ,Kaya I,Çevik K

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Contrast echocardiography has been used as a clinical method for more than 20 years. Using conventional ultrasound techniques the clinical use of contrast was limited. Now the development of "contrast specific" imaging modalities has increased the indications for contrast echocardiography. CONTRAST AGENTS:F...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Becher H

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our 19th century predecessors considered the aorta as a source of cardiovascular pain associated with inflammatory aortitis, arterial hypertension, aortic aneurysms, aortic dissection, and aortic valve disease. However, during the 20th century epidemic of coronary artery disease clinicians became concerned with the sy...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Wooley CF,Sparks EH,Boudoulas H

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation represents the most common atrial arrhythmia seen in clinical practice. The surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation is recommended in symptomatic patients as well as in asymptomatic patients at low postoperative risk. As a "stand alone" procedure, surgical ablation therapy is indicated after fail...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Hanke T,Sievers HH

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decade, thrombolytic therapy has become standard treatment of acute myocardial infarction. When the importance of thrombosis in the pathogenesis of acute infarction was fully recognised, several plasminogen activators were developed, streptokinase, urokinase, recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Rutsch W,Schmutzler H

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The guidelines on myocardial revascularization published in 2018 are a joint initiative of the European Society of Cardiology and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. To establish indications for myocardial revascularization by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass graftin...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Neumann FJ,Hochholzer W,Siepe M

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:The current study aimed to evaluate the influence of regular annual influenza vaccinations on cardiovascular (CV) death and heart failure-related hospitalizations (HFrH) in stable outpatients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. METHODS:The Turkish research team-HF (TREAT-HF) is a network unde...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Kaya H,Beton O,Acar G,Temizhan A,Cavusoğlu Y,Guray U,Zoghi M,Ural D,Ekmekci A,Gungor H,Sari I,Oguz D,Yucel H,Zorlu A,Yilmaz MB,TREAT-HF Investigators.

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Endothelial dysfunction is involved in various aspects of vascular biology and different stages of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-containing protein (NOD) 2, a pivotal innate immune receptor for muramyl dipeptide (MDP), has been reported to be a central regulator in...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Kong LJ,Wang YN,Wang Z,Lv QZ

更新日期：2020-11-27 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：:We present a case of severe congestive left heart failure due to profound and long-term hypocalcemia caused by surgically induced hypoparathyroidism. Hypocalcemia as a potential contributor to heart failure should be included in the differential diagnosis of all patients with congestive heart failure who do not respon...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Solzbach U,Kitterer HR,Haas H

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In ten patients with angiographically-documented coronary artery disease, stable angina pectoris and reproducible exercise-induced ST-segment depression, the extent and duration of antiischemic and antianginal effects of transdermal nitroglycerin patches delivering 10 mg/24 hours were investigated according to a doubl...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Reiniger G,Menke G,Boertz A,Kraus F,Rudolph W

更新日期：1987-02-01 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 majority of sustained ventricular tachycardias are caused by a reentry mechanism. Conditions prerequisite to a reentry circuit are electrophysiological changes, namely conduction delay and block which are incurred by virtue of changes in the myocardial tissue due to scarring, ischemia or fatty infiltration and res...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Klein H,Trappe HJ,Schröder E

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic information for the development of an organism is stored and inherited by deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). In higher organisms the DNA is located within the cell nucleus. DNA has the structure of a double helix and contains a specific sequence of four types of nucleotides that are specified by the bases adenin...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Marian AJ,Roberts R

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:: Drug-eluting stents (DES) have been shown to reduce the risk of in-stent stenosis, one of the major problems of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with implantation of baremetal stents. DES are approved in Germany since 2002. The following study is based on data of the ALKK PCI registry a...

journal_title：Herz

authors： Klein B,Zahn R,Heer T,Hochadel M,Tebbe U,Darius H,Kerber S,Schumacher B,Grube E,Hauptmann KE,Glunz HG,Senges J,Zeymer U

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00