Is there a need for routine testing of ICD defibrillation capacity? Results from more than 1000 studies.

abstract：:We report a subaortic aneurysm of the left ventricle causing compression of a coronary artery in a 52-year-old white man presenting with angina on effort. Endocarditis seemed to be implicated as the cause of this rare condition. To what extent coronary obstruction influenced the development of myocardial ischaemia was...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Bartorelli A,Sala A

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both epidemiological studies and intervention trials support an important role of diet in reducing the risk of a variety of chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, and overall mortality. We discuss available evidence indicating that the generation of a pro-inflammatory milieu might be one mechanism through...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Esposito K,Giugliano D

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis and management of patients with renovascular disease and hypertension continue to elude healthcare providers. The advent of novel imaging and interventional techniques, and increased understanding of the pathways leading to irreversible renal injury and renovascular hypertension, have ushered in commenda...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Baumgartner I,Lerman LO

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atrial abnormalities in patients with progressive systemic sclerosis have not been evaluated in terms of intra-atrial conduction. We hypothesized that a delay in atrial conduction in these patients might produce diastolic abnormalities as well as atrial arrhythmias. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the atrial function...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Mizuno R,Fujimoto S,Nakano H,Nakajima T,Kimura A,Nakagawa Y,Dohi K

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Cardiomyopathies are a heterogeneous group of disorders associated with premature death due to ventricular arrhythmia or heart failure. The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of patients enrolled in the pilot phase of the EURObservational Research Programme (EORP) cardiomyopathy registry. ME...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Elliott P,Charron P,Blanes JR,Tavazzi L,Tendera M,Konté M,Laroche C,Maggioni AP,EORP Cardiomyopathy Registry Pilot Investigators.

更新日期：2016-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：Aims:Fractional flow reserve (FFR) has proven to its prognostic and therapeutic value. However, the additive prognostic value of coronary flow reserve (CFR) remains unclear. This study sought to investigate the clinical utility of combined FFR and CFR measurements to predict outcomes. Methods and results:Using the pro...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Ahn JM,Zimmermann FM,Johnson NP,Shin ES,Koo BK,Lee PH,Park DW,Kang SJ,Lee SW,Kim YH,Lee CW,Park SW,Pijls NHJ,Park SJ

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced coronary artery disease (CAD), impaired left ventricular function and prolongation of the QT-interval are considered risk factors for sudden cardiac death in CAD-patients. So far, however, there are no studies investigating in detail whether there is a correlation between the QT-interval and changes in corona...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Krämer B,Brill M,Brühn A,Kübler W

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that transdermal nitroglycerin may induce an increase in the activity of the adrenergic and the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone systems (SRAA) in patients with chronic stable angina pectoris (SA); when the activation of these systems is more pronounced, the antianginal effect of this drug seems ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Muiesan ML,Boni E,Castellano M,Beschi M,Cefis G,Cerri B,Verdecchia P,Porcellati C,Pollavini G,Agabiti-Rosei E

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congestive heart failure is the most common cause of death in young adults with thalassaemia major. In the present study we compared atrial natriuretic peptide levels (ANP) in 30 asymptomatic patients with thalassaemia major (aged 16.6 +/- 6.4 years), normal left ventricular diastolic cavity dimension and systolic fun...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Derchi G,Bellone P,Forni GL,Lupi G,Jappelli S,Randazzo M,Zino V,Vecchio C

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antithrombotic therapy and invasive risk stratification in selected high-risk patients have improved outcomes from non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE-ACS), but carry a risk of bleeding and blood transfusion. Although the true incidence of bleeding depends on the population studied (i.e. clinical t...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Rao SV,Eikelboom JA,Granger CB,Harrington RA,Califf RM,Bassand JP

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronically ischaemic myocardium from patients with coronary heart disease was investigated by light and electron microscopy using tissue biopsies taken during cardiac surgery. Light microscopy showed a significantly increased amount of fibrotic material, cell size was variable. By electron microscopy, the most obviou...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Schaper J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We studied the synergism between high-dose furosemide and hydrochlorothiazide in patients with severe congestive heart failure and impaired renal function showing diuretic resistance to a daily dose of furosemide of at least 250 mg. DESIGN AND SETTING:An open study. A general hospital in The Netherlands. ME...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Dormans TP,Gerlag PG

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Older people increasingly constitute a large proportion of the acute coronary syndrome (ACS) population. We examined the relationship of age with receipt of more intensive management and secondary prevention medicine. Then, the comparative association of intensive management (reperfusion/angiography) over a conser...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Zaman MJ,Stirling S,Shepstone L,Ryding A,Flather M,Bachmann M,Myint PK

更新日期：2014-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Early treatment with ACE inhibitors of even moderate heart failure is clinically beneficial, even though haemodynamic measurements cannot adequately quantitate such improvement. Neurohumoral assessment is, however, supposed to be more accurate. In 55 patients with moderate heart failure (ejection fraction < or = 35%),...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Nussberger J,Fleck E,Bahrmann H,Delius W,Schultheiss HP,Brunner HR

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the adult cardiac myocyte the functional and structural integrity of the sarcolemma depends on the presence of calcium ions in the extracellular fluid. Ultrastructural damage to the myocardial cell after Ca is repleted following brief periods of Ca depletion includes (1) sarcolemmal disruption, (2) mitochondrial da...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Frank JS

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1978 to 1980, 260 healthy subjects, 40-79 years of age, underwent 24 h ambulatory electrocardiography in order to determine the prevalence and complexity of ventricular premature beats (VPBs) in adults without apparent heart disease. The number of types of VPBs seem in 5% or less were considered 'abnormal' and th...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Bjerregaard P,Sorensen KE,Molgaard H

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polymorphisms within renin angiotensin system genes have been investigated as risk factors for coronary artery disease in different populations with contradicting results. The aim of this study was to investigate the genotype distribution and the allele frequencies of ACE, AT1R and AGT gene polymorphisms as ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Fatini C,Abbate R,Pepe G,Battaglini B,Gensini F,Ruggiano G,Gensini GF,Guazzelli R

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on a study of 20 patients operated on between the ages of 21 and 38 for congenital valvular aortic stenosis, the distinguishing features of congenital aortic valvular stenosis in adults are reviewed: valvular calcification (75%), valvular dome rarely present (10%), usually moderate cardiac disability (70%), dimi...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Guerin F,Richaud M,Duboc D,Toussaint M,Leurent B,Corone P,Vernant P,Spaulding C

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:619 patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction (MI) were randomized to receive either a high-dose short-term intravenous infusion of streptokinase (1.5 MU over one hour) or placebo. Using a '2 X 2 X 2 factorial' design, patients were also randomized to receive either oral aspirin (325 mg on alternate days for...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors：

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:In patients with Marfan syndrome and other type-1 fibrillinopathies, genetic testing is becoming more easily available, leading to the identification of mutations early in the course of the disease. This study evaluates the cardiovascular (CV) risk associated with the discovery of a fibrillin-1 (FBN1) mutation. M...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Détaint D,Faivre L,Collod-Beroud G,Child AH,Loeys BL,Binquet C,Gautier E,Arbustini E,Mayer K,Arslan-Kirchner M,Stheneur C,Halliday D,Beroud C,Bonithon-Kopp C,Claustres M,Plauchu H,Robinson PN,Kiotsekoglou A,De Backer

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in the right ventricular function may or may not contribute to progressive cardiac dysfunction after left ventricular infarction. Ligation of the left coronary artery (LCAL) was lethal within 24 h for 25% of 100 rats, whereas none of 21 sham-operated rats died. No rats died during the following 4 weeks, af...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Christiansen EH,Tian R,Böttcher M,Andreasen F

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major consequence of chronic cardiac dysfunction is chronic overload of contractile myocardium. Various aetiologies, in reaction to this, may induce compensatory mechanisms consisting of excentric (dilatation) and concentric hypertrophy. Chronic left ventricular dysfunction is caused most frequently by myocardial in...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Ertl G,Gaudron P,Neubauer S,Bauer B,Horn M,Hu K,Tian R

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mechanism of persistent neurohormonal and cardiorespiratory reflex abnormalities in chronic heart failure remain unclear. Also, why chronic heart failure patients who develop cachexia demonstrate a particularly abnormal neurohormonal profile and have a high risk of death is not known. Impaired reflex con...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Ponikowski P,Piepoli M,Chua TP,Banasiak W,Francis D,Anker SD,Coats AJ

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight young healthy male subjects, members of a Himalayan expedition, underwent 24 h Holter monitoring before departure, after 1 and 4 weeks at high altitude (5000 m) and after return to sea level. At high altitude, the circadian reciprocal changes in low and high frequency (LF, HF) were absent, with no significant re...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Ponchia A,Noventa D,Bertaglia M,Carretta R,Zaccaria M,Miraglia G,Pascotto P,Buja G

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A twenty-first century model for the training and assessment of cardiac interventionists’ skills, outlined by Prof. John Morgan FRCP FESC. ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Morgan JM,Burri H,Binner L,Mansour H,Retzlaff H,Roca M,Gallagher A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:We investigated the influence of type one cannabinoid receptor (CB1) deficiency on acute heart failure (AHF) and the underlying mechanism. Acute heart failure syndrome is an important clinical problem because of its high morbidity and mortality rates. Activation of CB1 induces vascular dilation and reinforces the ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Liao Y,Bin J,Asakura M,Xuan W,Chen B,Huang Q,Xu D,Ledent C,Takashima S,Kitakaze M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Increased left ventricular wall thickness (LVWT) is a common finding in cardiology. It is not known how often hereditary transthyretin-related familial amyloid cardiomyopathy (mTTR-FAC) is responsible for LVWT. Several therapeutic modalities for mTTR-FAC are currently in clinical trials; thus, it is important to e...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Damy T,Costes B,Hagège AA,Donal E,Eicher JC,Slama M,Guellich A,Rappeneau S,Gueffet JP,Logeart D,Planté-Bordeneuve V,Bouvaist H,Huttin O,Mulak G,Dubois-Randé JL,Goossens M,Canoui-Poitrine F,Buxbaum JN

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-nine men with chronic stable angina pectoris were investigated using stress electrocardiography (ECG) and stress transthoracic echocardiography by means of transoesophageal stimulation of the left atrium. At rest and after each stimulated frequency, ECG and 2-dimensional echocardiography combined with Doppler w...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Meluzín J,Novák M,Julínek J,Rihácek I,Urbánek D,Koukalová H,Toman J

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Aims:The ESC-EHRA Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Long-Term registry is a prospective, multinational study that aims at providing an accurate picture of contemporary real-world ablation for atrial fibrillation (AFib) and its outcome. Methods and results:A total of 104 centres in 27 European countries participated and wer...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Arbelo E,Brugada J,Blomström-Lundqvist C,Laroche C,Kautzner J,Pokushalov E,Raatikainen P,Efremidis M,Hindricks G,Barrera A,Maggioni A,Tavazzi L,Dagres N,on the behalf of the ESC-EHRA Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Long-term Regis

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of nifedipine and prazosin in the treatment of Raynaud's phenomenon was assessed in a prospective double-blind randomized cross-over trial in 15 patients. Each patient received one week of nifedipine 20 mg TID, one week of prazosin 1 mg TID, and 2 weeks of placebo. Nifedipine was shown to be effective in ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Kahan A,Foult JM,Weber S,Amor B,Menkes CJ,Degeorges M

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00