Glucose-insulin-potassium (GIK) for acute myocardial infarction: a negative study with a positive value.

abstract：:Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor therapy has been associated with a substantial (> or = 20%) reduction in the risk of major ischemic events in two recent clinical trials with long-term follow-up: Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction (SOLVD) and the Survival and Ventricular Enlargement (SAVE) study. Par...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Young JB

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies in the seventies have put forward that dietary rather than genetic factors are responsible for the lower incidence of ischemic heart disease in Greenland Inuit and have generated a large body of both in vitro and in vivo experimental studies, exploring the putative favorable effects of fish (oi...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Sassen LM,Lamers JM,Verdouw PD

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was performed in order to compare the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of lisinopril, a long-acting angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, with captopril, the shorter acting ACE inhibitor available, in the treatment of elderly patients (mean age 70 +/- 0.5 years) with congestive heart failu...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Morisco C,Condorelli M,Crepaldi G,Rizzon P,Zardini P,Villa G,Argenziano L,Trimarco B

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The modifying effect on exercise performance and neuroendocrine response of the nonselective beta blocker timolol (10 mg b.i.d. for 5 days) and the beta 1-selective beta blocker metoprolol (100 mg b.i.d. for 5 days) was studied. The hormones studied were growth hormone, prolactin, cortisol, renin, epinephrine, dopamin...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Gullestad L,Dolva LO,Kjeldsen SE,Eide I,Kjekshus J

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-one chronically T. cruzi-infected male adult albino rats with normal resting ECG were submitted to the ajmaline test (1 mg/kg body weight injected into the dorsal vein of the penis). Twenty-one similar noninfected animals served as controls. Ajmaline induced the following ECG alterations in control rats: A decre...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Bestetti RB,Soares EG,Sales-Neto VN,Oliveira JS

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium entry blockers exert several characteristic effects on renal function that contribute to their blood-pressure lowering capacity. They are able to dilate renal vasculature and, in certain circumstances, can increase the glomerular filtration rate, both effects being dependent on the preexisting vascular tone. C...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Ruilope LM,Alcazar JM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) by vasodilator drug monotherapy is often limited in its effectiveness. Combination therapy may help to improve treatment and to reduce drug toxicity. This study assessed the combination of the endothelin receptor antagonist macitentan and the phosphodiesterase-...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Hoenicka M,Golovchenko S,Englert L,Spaeth M,Shoshiashvili L,Großer C,Hofmann HS,Ried M

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have questioned the safety of calcium antagonists in general, and short-acting dihydropyridine derivatives in particular. Reasons include excessive catecholamine stimulation after stress. We therefore wanted to assess whether amlodipine, a second generation dihydropyridine with a prolonged plasma half-l...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Stankovic S,Panz V,Klug E,Di Nicola G,Joffe BI

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The direct myocardial protective effects of intracoronary infusions of cromakalim and pinacidil were determined in an anesthetized canine model of coronary occlusion and reperfusion. The left circumflex coronary artery was occluded for 90 minutes and reperfused for 5 hours, at which time the infarct size was determine...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Grover GJ,Dzwonczyk S,Parham CS,Sleph PG

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to test whether the administration of a vascular-selective organic calcium antagonist (nisoldipine) at the onset of early mechanical reperfusion (by coronary angioplasty) in acute myocardial infarction could prevent or attenuate postischemic stunning and enhance the recovery of lef...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Sheiban I,Tonni S,Chizzoni A,Marini A,Trevi G

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Rapid restoration of sinus rhythm using pharmacological cardioversion is commonly indicated in patients with symptomatic recent-onset atrial fibrillation (AF). The objectives of this large, international, multicenter observational study were to determine the safety and effectiveness of intravenous (IV) vernakalant...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Lévy S,Hartikainen J,Ritz B,Juhlin T,Carbajosa-Dalmau J,Domanovits H

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We tested if inhibition of phosphodiesterases (PDEs) with IBMX (1-methyl-3-isobutylxanthine) can modulate the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) opening by inactivating glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK-3β). METHODS:H9c2 cells were exposed to 600 μM H(2)O(2) for 20 min to cause the mPTP opening. ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Chanoit G,Zhou J,Lee S,McIntosh R,Shen X,Zvara DA,Xu Z

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article considers the dominant role of trials involving thousands of patients--the mega-trials--in cardiovascular disease. Problems with large trials mean that alternative strategies must be developed to aid the introduction of new drugs. The limitations of meta-analysis, and of trials with combined and surrogate...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Hampton JR

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ranolazine, an inhibitor of the late current of the cardiac action potential (late I(Na)), is a well established clinical treatment for chronic angina. The late INa in cardiac myocytes also plays an important role in the pathophysiology of acute myocardial ischemia and reperfusion, and thus is a potential therapeutic ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Hale SL,Kloner RA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the fact that beta blockers were introduced into clinical practice 25 years ago, new beta blockers with differing kinetic and dynamic profiles continue to be developed and marketed. This overview assesses some of the more extensively studied agents from the point of view of proof of utility and the validity of...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Fitzgerald JD

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Encainide is a class 1C antiarrhythmic agent that is indicated for the treatment of life-threatening arrhythmias, such as sustained ventricular tachycardia. Furthermore, encainide possesses a moderate degree of antiserotonin activity, which was quantitated in this present study by determining displacement of [3H]spipe...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Fleming JS,Buchanan JO,Yocca FD,Iben LG,Antonaccio MJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart rate varies with respiration, blood pressure, emotion, etc., and heart rate variability (HRV) is presently one of the best indices to predict fatal issues in cardiac failure and after myocardial infarction. HRV depends on various reflexes. In addition, parallel studies of HRV and the myocardial adrenergic and mu...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Swynghedauw B,Jasson S,Chevalier B,Clairambault J,Hardouin S,Heymes C,Mangin L,Mansier P,Médigue C,Moalic JM,Thibault N,Carré F

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pyrimidine base, orotic acid (OA), markedly improves the function of recently infarcted hearts subjected to global ischemia. The mechanism of cardiac action of OA is unclear, but it has been proposed that OA acts by correcting a relative deficiency of nucleotide precursors required for RNA synthesis in the stresse...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Rosenfeldt FL,Richards SM,Lin Z,Pepe S,Conyers RA

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The following discourse addresses the pharmacologic profile of KT-362, its clinical potential as an anti-arrhythmic agent with associated hypotensive effects, as well as its additional related potential in myocardial ischemia and related sequellae, and the specific cellular actions that may be responsible for these po...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Hester RK,Shibata S

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early reperfusion represents the key strategy in ST elevation myocardial infarction. However, reperfusion may induce myocardial damage due to the reperfusion myocardial injury, compromising the full potential of reperfusion therapy and accounting for unfavourable results in high risk patients. Adenosine seems to atten...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Kassimis G,Davlouros P,Patel N,De Maria G,Kallistratos MS,Kharbanda RK,Manolis AJ,Alexopoulos D,Banning AP

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Atrial dilatation is commonly associated with atrial fibrillation (AF), but the electrophysiological mechanisms and the implications for anti-arrhythmic therapy are poorly understood. In a model of acute stretch-related AF in isolated rabbit hearts, we evaluated the electrophysiological effects of three di...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Kalifa J,Bernard M,Gout B,Bril A,Cozma D,Laurent P,Chalvidan T,Deharo JC,Djiane P,Cozzone P,Maixent JM

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis tested was that enhanced entry of calcium into cardiac cells would increase the susceptibility to ventricular fibrillation as measured by the ventricular fibrillation threshold (VFT) of the isolated perfused rat heart. Bay-K-8644 was used as a calcium-channel agonist. There was a biphasic effect with a ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Worthington MG,Opie LH

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite continuous advances in myocardial revascularization procedures and intracoronary devices, patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) still experience worse prognosis and poor quality of life (QoL). Indeed, chronic stable angina (CSA) is a common disease with a large burden on healthcare costs. Traditionally, C...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Guarini G,Huqi A,Morrone D,Marzilli M

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:For patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), guidelines recommend use of beta-blockers with gradual up-titration. However, many patients with HFrEF do not use beta-blockers and up-titration is rare. Our purpose was to identify and rank barriers to beta-blocker use and up-titration fro...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Levitan EB,Van Dyke MK,Loop MS,O'Beirne R,Safford MM

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The prevalence and consequences of prediabetic dysglycemia and undiagnosed diabetes is unknown in patients with heart failure (HF) and preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and has not been compared to heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). METHODS:We examined the prevalence and outcomes associated...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Kristensen SL,Jhund PS,Lee MMY,Køber L,Solomon SD,Granger CB,Yusuf S,Pfeffer MA,Swedberg K,McMurray JJV,CHARM Investigators and Committees.

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The progressive shortening of the atrial effective refractory period (ERP) during atrial fibrillation (AF) might be due to the activation of the KATP channels by rapid atrial rates. We tested the hypothesis that the cardioselective, sarcolemmal KATP channel blocker HMR 1098 would prevent atrial ERP shortening d...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Vereckei A,Gögelein H,Wirth KJ,Zipes DP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The benefits of statin treatment initiated in advanced age are largely unknown; however, good adherence to treatment is essential for beneficial effects to be achieved also when treating older people. This study characterizes older statin initiators, including their cardiovascular risk profiles and morbidity, a...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Upmeier E,Korhonen MJ,Rikala M,Helin-Salmivaara A,Huupponen R

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To study the relationship between Daxx expression and the antiapoptotic effects of probucol in THP-1 macrophage. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Apoptosis of THP-1 derived macrophages was induced by exposure to oxidized low density lipoprotein (oxLDL). The development of apoptosis was determined by flow cytometry analysis a...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Su B,Yang YB,Tuo QH,Zhu BY,Lei XY,Yin W,Liao DF

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early reperfusion after an organ ischemia is essential to salvage tissue from eventual death. However, abundant evidence suggests that reperfusion also elicits pathophysiological changes responsible for additional tissue injury after restoration of blood flow. Postconditioning (Postcon) defined as rapid sequential int...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Zhao ZQ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In both epidemiologic and genetic studies, increased levels of Lp(a) have been associated with increased risk for cardiovascular diseases as well as aortic stenosis. However, until recently, it has been difficult to lower levels of Lp(a). Diet and lifestyle have little effect on plasma levels of Lp(a) which are mainly...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Stein EA,Raal F

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00