A Review of Remdesivir for COVID-19: Data to Date.

abstract：:Stress radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging is a commonly used modality to evaluate patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease. The dual isotope rest thallium-201/stress technetium-99m sestamibi gated single-photon emission computed tomography protocol has gained increasing popularity for these appl...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Hachamovitch R

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of patients with coronary artery disease is a major challenge for physicians, patients, and the healthcare system. Chest pain experienced by patients with coronary disease can be of noncardiac origin, and symptoms frequently related to gastroesophageal etiologies. The distal esophagus and the heart share a ...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Liuzzo JP,Ambrose JA

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension remains a major cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the United States. Disturbing trends have been reported recently and include declining rates of successful blood pressure control and increasing rates of stroke, congestive heart failure, and hypertension-associated end-stage renal disease...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Canzanello VJ,Sheps SG

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：:In this article, we critically evaluate the evidence relating to the effects of the Mediterranean diet (MD) on the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Strong evidence indicating that the MD prevents CVD has come from prospective cohort studies. However, there is only weak supporting evidence from randomized controll...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Temple NJ,Guercio V,Tavani A

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：:Sudden death (SD) is the most dramatic event in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), often representing the first clinical manifestation of the disease, and the first concern of the clinicians who take care of such patients. HCM is now recognized as the primary cause of SD in young persons (<35 years of age), including ...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Efthimiadis GK,Zegkos T,Meditskou S,Hadjimiltiades S

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:Radiation-induced heart disease (RIHD) is becoming an increasing concern for patients and clinicians alike as the use of radiation therapy for the treatment of certain malignancies increases, and patient mortality secondary to neoplasms of the thorax, in particular Hodgkin's lymphoma and breast cancer, decreases. The ...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Filopei J,Frishman W

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart failure continues to be a leading cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the United States. The pathophysiology of heart failure involves the activation of complex neurohormonal pathways, many of which mediate not only hypertrophy and fibrosis within ventricular myocardium and interstitium, but also activat...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Carazo M,Berger JS,Reyentovich A,Katz SD

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：: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：: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

abstract：:Numerous investigators have attempted to target the natriuretic peptide system in the treatment of heart failure since it was first described over 30 years ago. The history of neprilysin inhibition as a treatment for heart failure has been characterized by numerous setbacks. Recently, the PARADIGM-HF trial has shown f...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Bartell N,Frishman WH

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obesity epidemic has reached unprecedented proportions in Western society. Evidence continues to accumulate that obesity is associated with significant morbidity and mortality and in particular that it is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The association of obesity with CVD and its risk ...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Melanson KJ,McInnis KJ,Rippe JM,Blackburn G,Wilson PF

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has become a mainstay therapy to improve clinical outcomes of patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction and a wide QRS complex, in addition to guideline-directed medical therapy. As clinical experience with CRT continues to expand, the device and lead design, along wit...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Ng CY,Heist EK

更新日期：2017-01-01 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 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：:Endothelin is a potent vasoconstrictor substance that also can exert proliferative, inflammatory, and fibrotic changes in blood vessels and other organs. It acts on tissues in a paracrine and autocrine fashion, with local production and regulation occurring in both endothelial and nonendothelial cells. Endothelin stim...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Prasad VS,Palaniswamy C,Frishman WH

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：:The increased life expectancy of women living in industrialized countries is associated with an increase in diseases dependent or facilitated by a state of estrogen deficiency, such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Several studies have shown that estrogen replacement therapy reduces the occurrence of co...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Rosano GM,Fini M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the accuracy of computed tomographic measurements of main pulmonary artery diameter (MPAD) and of MPAD/ascending aorta diameter (AAD) in predicting moderate or severe pulmonary hypertension in 190 patients with acute pulmonary embolism. A pulmonary artery systolic pressure of > or = 50 mm Hg measured b...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Sanal S,Aronow WS,Ravipati G,Maguire GP,Belkin RN,Lehrman SG

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：:Atherosclerosis develops and rapidly progresses in saphenous veins grafts after coronary bypass surgery. In contrast to native coronary artery, percutaneous revascularization does not impede the progression of saphenous vein atherosclerosis and saphenous vein graft failure commonly ensues. The protracted patency of ar...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Motwani A,Ayinapudi K,Singh T,Maini R,Hendel R,Le Jemtel TH

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse redistribution is a well-known pattern found when performing thallium myocardial scintigraphy, and it has been implicated as an indicator of myocardial ischemia. Much more rarely, when using technetium compounds, which do not redistribute, a similar pattern is noted after the second injection of the radiotrace...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Antonopoulos A,Galanopoulou K,Katsafados I,Siantos E

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of new medicines to treat pulmonary vascular disease has renewed interest in the management of children with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension. We now have a practical classification of pulmonary hypertension, improved diagnostic techniques, and internationally recognized diagnostic and manag...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Haworth SG

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differentiation of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm from true aneurysm is sometimes difficult. Given the propensity for pseudoaneurysms to rupture leading to cardiac tamponade, shock, and death, compared with a more benign natural history for true aneurysms, accurate diagnosis of these conditions is clinically impo...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Cho MN,Mehta SK,Matulevicius S,Weinstein D,Wait MA,McGuire DK

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Underlying causes, risk factors, and precipitating causes of heart failure (HF) should be treated. Drugs known to precipitate or aggravate HF such as nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs should be stopped. Patients with HF and a low left ventricular ejection fraction (systolic heart failure) or normal ejection fraction...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Aronow WS

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:Intensive glycemic control significantly increases the risk of hypoglycemia in patients with diabetes mellitus. Recent data have shown that hypoglycemia may also be a marker of cardiovascular disease in these patients. We performed a systemic review and a meta-analysis to evaluate the relationship between severe hypog...

journal_title：Cardiology in review

authors： Malik AH,Yandrapalli S,Aronow WS,Jain D,Frishman WH,Panza JA,Cooper HA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00