ACE inhibition attenuates uremia-induced aortic valve thickening in a novel mouse model.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ectonucleotidase plays an important role in the regulation of cardiac function by controlling extracellular levels of adenine nucleotides and adenosine. To determine the influence of ischemia-reperfusion injury on ectonucleotidase activity in coronary vascular bed, we compared the metabolic profile of adenin...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Takahashi-Sato K,Murakawa M,Kimura J,Ito MA,Matsuoka I

更新日期：2013-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thyroid hormones deeply influence the cardiovascular system; however, the association between the fT3/fT4 ratio and the clinical outcome in euthyroid patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is not well defined. Therefore, the present study aimed to ...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Yu T,Tian C,Song J,He D,Wu J,Wen Z,Sun Z,Sun Z

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atrial and ventricular cardiac arrhythmias are one of the most common early complications after cardiac surgery and these serve as a major cause of mortality and morbidity after cardiac revascularization. We want to evaluate the effect of magnesium sulfate administration on the incidence of cardiac arrhythmi...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Salaminia S,Sayehmiri F,Angha P,Sayehmiri K,Motedayen M

更新日期：2018-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anomalous aortic origin of the coronary artery (AAOCA) from the opposite sinus of Valsalva with an interarterial course has received much attention due to its association with sudden death in otherwise healthy individuals. AAOCA is relatively common and may have significant public health implications. While ...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Peñalver JM,Mosca RS,Weitz D,Phoon CK

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to evaluate atrium extracellular matrix remodeling in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients with severe aortic stenosis, through histological fibrosis quantification and extracellular matrix gene expression analysis, as well as serum quantification of selected protein targets. METHODS:A posthoc...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Fragão-Marques M,Miranda I,Martins D,Barroso I,Mendes C,Pereira-Neves A,Falcão-Pires I,Leite-Moreira A

更新日期：2020-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cigarette exposure increases brain oxidative stress. The literature showed that increased brain oxidative stress affects cardiovascular regulation. However, no previous study investigated the involvement of brain oxidative stress in animals exposed to cigarette and its relationship with cardiovascular regula...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Valenti VE,de Abreu LC,Sato MA,Ferreira C,Adami F,Fonseca FL,Xavier V,Godoy M,Monteiro CB,Vanderlei LC,Saldiva PH

更新日期：2012-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the impact of severity of hypertension on the association of genes with high blood pressure, which may cause the inconsistently reported associations of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma coactivator-1alpha (PGC-1alpha) gene with blood pressure. METHODS:A cardiovascular e...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Xie G,Guo D,Li Y,Liang S,Wu Y

更新日期：2007-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 'My Experience of Taking Medicines' (MYMEDS) questionnaire is a self-reporting tool for identifying modifiable adherence barriers among individuals prescribed post-myocardial infarction (MI) secondary prevention medicines (SPM) in clinical practice. It was found to be a useful tool to support the conduct...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Khatib R,Patel N,Hall AS

更新日期：2020-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing rates of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and decreasing rates of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery followed the introduction of drug eluting stents in Western Australia in 2002. We assessed the impact of these changes on one-year outcomes for the total population of patients und...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Sanfilippo FM,Rankin JM,Hobbs MS,Nguyen M,Knuiman MW,Berg P,Whitford EG,Hendriks R,Hockings BE,Muhlmann M,Newman M,Larbalestier R,Gilfillan I,Briffa TG

更新日期：2013-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Burden from ischemic heart disease is rising in Sri Lanka due to the demographic and epidemiological transitions. Documented literature is scarce on quality of life, financial burden and its determinants in relation to myocardial infarction (MI). This study was done to describe the financial burden among the...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Mahesh PKB,Gunathunga MW,Jayasinghe S,Arnold SM,Mallawarachchi DSV,Perera SK,Wijesinghe UAD

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The clinical impact of PlA2 polymorphism has been investigated in several diseases, but the definition of its specific role on thrombotic cardiovascular complications has been challenging. We aimed to explore the effect of PlA2 polymorphism on outcome in patients with atherosclerosis. METHODS:We studied 400...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Galasso G,Santulli G,Piscione F,De Rosa R,Trimarco V,Piccolo R,Cassese S,Iaccarino G,Trimarco B,Chiariello M

更新日期：2010-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to determine whether midlife obesity predicts heart failure (HF) over an extended follow-up into old age. METHODS:We studied 7495 men (from a population sample of 9,998 men) without HF, who were 47-55 years old when investigated in 1970 to 1973. All participants were followed up for 35 year...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Björck L,Novak M,Schaufelberger M,Giang KW,Rosengren A

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Colchicine has been used as anti-inflammatory agent in pericardial effusion (PE). We sought to perform a meta-analysis of randomized trials assessing the efficacy and safety of colchicine in patients with pericarditis or postpericardiotomy syndrome (PPS). METHODS:In the systematic literature search followin...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Lutschinger LL,Rigopoulos AG,Schlattmann P,Matiakis M,Sedding D,Schulze PC,Noutsias M

更新日期：2019-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We evaluated the association between linear standard Heart Rate Variability (HRV) measures and vascular, renal and cardiac target organ damage (TOD). METHODS:A retrospective analysis was performed including 200 patients registered in the Regione Campania network (aged 62.4 ± 12, male 64%). HRV analysis was ...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Melillo P,Izzo R,De Luca N,Pecchia L

更新日期：2012-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Globally, rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains an important cause of heart disease. In Australia it particularly affects younger Indigenous and older non-Indigenous Australians. Despite its impact there is limited understanding of the factors influencing outcome following surgery for RHD. METHODS:The Austr...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Russell EA,Tran L,Baker RA,Bennetts JS,Brown A,Reid CM,Tam R,Walsh WF,Maguire GP

更新日期：2015-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 2014 ACC/AHA guidelines redefined the strategy for LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) treatment. According to data from evidence-based studies, the basis for earlier therapeutic recommendations for LDL-C target levels (2.6 and 1.8 mmol/L) may be disputed, and only the data for the percent LDL-C reduction are object...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Császár A

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have found a connection between left coronary artery dominance and worse prognoses in patient with acute coronary syndrome, which remains a predominant cause of morbidity and mortality globally. The aim of this study was to investigate whether coronary dominance is associated with the incide...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Wang L,Li J,Gao Y,Li R,Zhang J,Su D,Wang T,Yang G,Wang X

更新日期：2019-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The xanthine oxidase inhibitor allopurinol that is commonly used to treat gout, has been suggested to have pleiotropic effects that are likely to reduce the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) in at risk individuals. The aim of this meta-analysis was to assess the efficacy of allopurinol treatment in red...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Singh TP,Skalina T,Nour D,Murali A,Morrison S,Moxon JV,Golledge J

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) with poor parasympathetic function being implicated as an underlying factor. Factors related to parasympathetic function, commonly assessed by heart rate recovery (HRR) following maximal exercise, are currently no...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Osailan A,Metsios GS,Rouse PC,Ntoumanis N,Duda JL,Kitas GD,Veldhuijzen van Zanten JJ

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Provisional 1-stent technique is currently regarded as the default approach for the majority of bifurcation lesions. Nonetheless, 2-stent techniques may be required for complex bifurcations with high compromise risk or fatal consequences of side branch (SB) occlusion. Limitations exist in current approaches,...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Yang H,Qian J,Huang Z,Ge J

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute febrile childhood systemic vasculitis that disturbs coronary arteries. The pathogenesis remains unknown. The study of phosphorylated proteins helps to elucidate the relevant pathophysiological mechanisms of cardiovascular disease. However, few researches explored phosphoryla...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Li SM,Liu WT,Yang F,Yi QJ,Zhang S,Jia HL

更新日期：2019-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The correct understanding of the biochemical and metabolic interactions between coronary risk factors contribute to the exploration of cardiovascular pathophysiology and improves therapeutic care. The aim of this study was to explore the endothelin-1 (ET-1) concentration and the angiotensin converting enzyme...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Chalghoum A,Noichri Y,Dandana A,Baudin B,Miled A,Ferchichi S

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To explore why bicuspid aortic stenosis has certain clinical differences from the tricuspid morphology, we evaluated the metabolomics profile involved in bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) aortic stenosis prior to and after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in comparison with tricuspid aortic valve (TAV...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Xiong TY,Liu C,Liao YB,Zheng W,Li YJ,Li X,Ou Y,Wang ZJ,Wang X,Li CM,Zhao ZG,Feng Y,Liu XJ,Chen M

更新日期：2020-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of clinically apparent stroke in transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) exceeds that of any other procedure performed by interventional cardiologists and, in the index admission, occurs more than twice as frequently with TAVI than with surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR). However, ...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Fanning JP,Wesley AJ,Platts DG,Walters DL,Eeles EM,Seco M,Tronstad O,Strugnell W,Barnett AG,Clarke AJ,Bellapart J,Vallely MP,Tesar PJ,Fraser JF

更新日期：2014-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With development of cholesterol management guidelines by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA), more individuals at risk of cardiovascular disease may be eligible for statin therapy. It is not known how this affects statin eligibility in the Africa and Middle East Region. M...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Hamoui O,Omar MI,Raal FJ,Rashed W,Kane A,Alami M,Abreu P,Mashhoud W,Alsheikh-Ali AA

更新日期：2019-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although various iatrogenic complications could be observed in the process of permanent pacemaker implantation, pacemaker electrode mistakenly implanted into left ventricle via subclavian artery and aortic valve has not been reported. CASE PRESENTATION:Herein, we reported a 71-year-old woman with permanent ...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Tang G,Zhai C,Wang Z,Chen H

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most studies of outcomes after myocardial infarction (MI) focus on the acute phase after the index event. We assessed mortality and morbidity trends after the first year in survivors of acute MI, by conducting a systematic literature review. METHODS:Literature searches were conducted in Embase, MEDLINE, and...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Johansson S,Rosengren A,Young K,Jennings E

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiomyopathy in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an increasing cause of death in patients. The absence of dystrophin leads to loss of membrane integrity, cell death and fibrosis in cardiac muscle. Treatment of cardiomyocyte membrane instability could help prevent cardiomyopathy. METHODS:Three month ol...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Spurney CF,Guerron AD,Yu Q,Sali A,van der Meulen JH,Hoffman EP,Nagaraju K

更新日期：2011-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We assessed the degree to which differences in guideline-based medical therapy for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) contribute to the higher mortality associated with kidney disease. METHODS:In the PREMIER registry, we evaluated patients from 19 US centers surviving AMI. Cox regression evaluated the associ...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Peterson PN,Ambardekar AV,Jones PG,Krumholz HM,Schelbert E,Spertus JA,Rumsfeld JS,Masoudi FA

更新日期：2009-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) of bifurcation lesions is technically challenging and associated with lower success rates and higher frequency of adverse outcomes. In the present study, we aimed to evaluate the immediate and long-term treatment effect and adverse events of a new modified jailed-bal...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Zhang W,Ji F,Yu X,Wang X

更新日期：2019-01-10 00:00:00