Electron-beam computed tomography in the assessment of coronary artery disease after heart transplantation.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Use of endoscopic saphenous vein harvesting has developed into a routine surgical approach at many cardiothoracic surgical centers. The association between this technique and long-term morbidity and mortality has recently been called into question. The present report describes the use of open versus endoscop...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Dacey LJ,Braxton JH Jr,Kramer RS,Schmoker JD,Charlesworth DC,Helm RE,Frumiento C,Sardella GL,Clough RA,Jones SR,Malenka DJ,Olmstead EM,Ross CS,O'Connor GT,Likosky DS,Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group.

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Uncertainty exists regarding the frequency of early occlusion when the left internal mammary artery (LIMA) is anastomosed to the left anterior descending artery (LAD) through a sternotomy with conventional coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). The issue has gained importance for comparison with less invasi...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Berger PB,Alderman EL,Nadel A,Schaff HV

更新日期：1999-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The pulmonary function of ten adult patients with congenital pulmonary valvular stenosis was investigated. The patients clearly showed smaller lungs than healthy control subjects of equivalent age and height; lung elastic recoil pressure was normal at any given percentage of measured total lung capacity, indicating th...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： De Troyer A,Yernault JC,Englert M

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypothermic hyperkalemic cardioplegia results in significant myocyte swelling and impaired contractility. These detrimental effects may be eliminated by the addition of an adenosine triphosphate-sensitive potassium (KATP) channel opener. This study evaluated the hypothesis that a KATP channel opener (diazoxi...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Mizutani S,Prasad SM,Sellitto AD,Schuessler RB,Damiano RJ Jr,Lawton JS

更新日期：2005-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonoperative therapy includes conservative noninterventional modalities and the endovascular interventional modalities of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and a variety of laser systems and atherectomy devices. The role and impact of all nonoperative treatments are considered in the perspectives of the natural hi...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Veith FJ,Gupta SK,Wengerter KR,Rivers SP,Bakal CW

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two hundred eighteen patients were evaluated in a two-phase approach (time to first appropriate discharge, survival after discharge) to identify factors that may be related to maximal benefit derived from use of an automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD). METHODS AND RESULTS:One hundred nine...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Levine JH,Mellits ED,Baumgardner RA,Veltri EP,Mower M,Grunwald L,Guarnieri T,Aarons D,Griffith LS

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until the 1990s, venous thromboembolism (VTE) was viewed primarily as a complication of hospitalization for major surgery (or associated with the late stage of terminal illness). However, recent trials in patients hospitalized with a wide variety of acute medical illnesses have demonstrated a risk of VTE in medical pa...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Anderson FA Jr,Spencer FA

更新日期：2003-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many epidemiological studies have evaluated whether different alcoholic beverages protect against cardiovascular disease. We performed a meta-analysis of 26 studies on the relationship between wine or beer consumption and vascular risk. Methods and Results- General variance-based method and fitting models we...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Di Castelnuovo A,Rotondo S,Iacoviello L,Donati MB,De Gaetano G

更新日期：2002-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to prospectively test whether the risk of bleeding complications in 212 consecutive outpatients treated with oral anticoagulants could be predicted by levels of endothelium-derived hemostatic variables. METHODS AND RESULTS:All bleeding complications were recorded during 5 years of ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Jansson JH,Boman K,Brännström M,Nilsson TK

更新日期：1997-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of diabetes on survival after coronary bypass surgery is uncertain. Also, although the overall clinical benefits of internal mammary artery (IMA) grafting are well established, the survival benefit attributable to IMA grafting in diabetics is not well characterized. To determine the influence of diabetes an...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Morris JJ,Smith LR,Jones RH,Glower DD,Morris PB,Muhlbaier LH,Reves JG,Rankin JS

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Progression of heart failure after initial myocardial injury is mediated in part by various redundant inflammatory mediators, including the widely expressed cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2). Because COX-2 inhibitors are useful in treating many inflammation-mediated diseases, we asked whether COX-2 inhibition can att...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Delgado RM 3rd,Nawar MA,Zewail AM,Kar B,Vaughn WK,Wu KK,Aleksic N,Sivasubramanian N,McKay K,Mann DL,Willerson JT

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Platelet aggregation plays a critical role in myocardial infarction and stroke; however, the role of platelet secretion in atherosclerotic vascular disease is poorly understood. Therefore, we examined the hypothesis that platelet dense-granule secretion modulates thrombosis, inflammation, and atherosclerotic...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： King SM,McNamee RA,Houng AK,Patel R,Brands M,Reed GL

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Albumin microbubbles that are used for contrast echocardiography persist within the myocardial microcirculation after ischemia/reperfusion (I-R). The mechanism responsible for this phenomenon is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS:Intravital microscopy of the microcirculation of exteriorized cremaster muscle was p...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lindner JR,Coggins MP,Kaul S,Klibanov AL,Brandenburger GH,Ley K

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined quantitative regional myocardial perfusion (RMP) measured by the washout of 133Xe at rest and after an isoproterenol challenge in 50 patients (group I) studied 8 to 14 days after they underwent saphenous vein bypass grafting to the left coronary artery, and compared this with RMP measured in the na...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Schmidt DH,Blau FM,Hendrix LJ,Kamath ML,Ray G

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scanning and transmission electron microscopic studies were made of: 1) 15 glutaraldehyde-treated porcine valvular heterografts that had been implanted in patients for periods of time ranging from 2 days to 76 months; 2) unimplanted, commercially processed porcine aortic valves; and 3) unprocessed porcine aortic valve...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Ferrans VJ,Spray TL,Billingham ME,Roberts WC

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:R-wave synchronous equilbrium radionuclide angiography (RNA) is a noninvasive method that provides time-activity curve count information proportional to ventricular volumes and is used for relative volume comparisons within the left or right ventricle to derive the ejection fraction. Comparison of the ventricular coun...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sorensen SG,O'Rourke RA,Chaudhuri TK

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Relieving the inhibition of sarcoplasmic reticular function by phospholamban is a major target of beta-adrenergic stimulation. Chronic beta-adrenergic receptor activity has been suggested to be detrimental, on the basis of transgenic overexpression of the receptor or its signaling effectors. However, it is n...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Dash R,Kadambi V,Schmidt AG,Tepe NM,Biniakiewicz D,Gerst MJ,Canning AM,Abraham WT,Hoit BD,Liggett SB,Lorenz JN,Dorn GW 2nd,Kranias EG

更新日期：2001-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pathogenesis of impaired endothelium-dependent coronary vasodilation in angina pectoris and normal coronary arteriograms (microvascular angina pectoris) is not known. We examined whether supplementation with L-arginine, a precursor of endothelium-derived nitric oxide, improves endothelium-dependent coron...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Egashira K,Hirooka Y,Kuga T,Mohri M,Takeshita A

更新日期：1996-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Esophageal injury is a potential complication after intraoperative or percutaneous transcatheter ablation of the posterior aspect of the left atrium. Understanding the spatial relations between the esophagus and the left atrium is essential to reduce risks. METHODS AND RESULTS:We examined by gross dissectio...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sánchez-Quintana D,Cabrera JA,Climent V,Farré J,Mendonça MC,Ho SY

更新日期：2005-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The balance between apoptosis and proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) is believed to contribute to the vascular remodeling process. Cyclic AMP response element-binding protein (CREB) is a critical transcription factor for the survival of neuronal cells and T lymphocytes. However, the role o...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tokunou T,Shibata R,Kai H,Ichiki T,Morisaki T,Fukuyama K,Ono H,Iino N,Masuda S,Shimokawa H,Egashira K,Imaizumi T,Takeshita A

更新日期：2003-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the mechanisms of unexpected cardiac arrest in advanced heart failure, we reviewed the causes of cardiac arrest as established from electrocardiographic monitoring and from clinical and autopsy data in patients hospitalized for cardiac transplantation evaluation and management of advanced heart failure (mean...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Luu M,Stevenson WG,Stevenson LW,Baron K,Walden J

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In three newborn infants with infradiaphragmatic total anomalous pulmonary venous connection, the common pulmonary vein was visualized with two-dimensional echocardiography and validated with saline contrast injections. The transducer was placed in the subcostal region in a sagittal body plane so as to image the desce...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Snider AR,Silverman NH,Turley K,Ebert PA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A decreased cardiac compliance is a major feature of the cardiomyopathy of diabetes mellitus. Either an increase in the resistance afterload to the LV or an increase in collagen cross-linking induced by the formation of advanced glycosylation end products (AGEs) of collagen may be responsible for the stiff m...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Norton GR,Candy G,Woodiwiss AJ

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human cardiac troponin I is known to be phosphorylated at multiple amino acid residues by several kinases. Advances in mass spectrometry allow sensitive detection of known and novel phosphorylation sites and measurement of the level of phosphorylation simultaneously at each site in myocardial samples. METHO...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Zhang P,Kirk JA,Ji W,dos Remedios CG,Kass DA,Van Eyk JE,Murphy AM

更新日期：2012-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study evaluated the hypothesis that transendocardial injections of autologous mononuclear bone marrow cells in patients with end-stage ischemic heart disease could safely promote neovascularization and improve perfusion and myocardial contractility. METHODS AND RESULTS:Twenty-one patients were enrolled...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Perin EC,Dohmann HF,Borojevic R,Silva SA,Sousa AL,Mesquita CT,Rossi MI,Carvalho AC,Dutra HS,Dohmann HJ,Silva GV,Belém L,Vivacqua R,Rangel FO,Esporcatte R,Geng YJ,Vaughn WK,Assad JA,Mesquita ET,Willerson JT

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A prospective regional study was conducted to identify factors associated with in-hospital mortality among patients undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). A prediction rule was developed and validated based on the data collected. METHODS AND RESULTS:Data from 3,055 patients were co...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： O'Connor GT,Plume SK,Olmstead EM,Coffin LH,Morton JR,Maloney CT,Nowicki ER,Levy DG,Tryzelaar JF,Hernandez F

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coronary flow reserve (CFR), an integrated measure of focal, diffuse, and small-vessel coronary artery disease (CAD), identifies patients at risk for cardiac death. We sought to determine the association between CFR, angiographic CAD, and cardiovascular outcomes. METHODS AND RESULTS:Consecutive patients (n=...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Taqueti VR,Hachamovitch R,Murthy VL,Naya M,Foster CR,Hainer J,Dorbala S,Blankstein R,Di Carli MF

更新日期：2015-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Instantaneous aortic arch blood velocity was recorded transcutaneously from the suprasternal notch, using a 2.2 MHz Doppler ultrasound unit, in 18 normals and 16 patients undergoing cardiac catheterization who had murmurs of mitral regurgitation. In normals aortic blood velocity rose rapidly in early systole to a mids...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Nichol PM,Boughner DR,Persaud JA

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the effects of ethanol and autonomic blockade on left ventricular function in nine normal subjects, age 20--35 years, using M-mode echocardiography and systolic time intervals. On day 1, measurements were made of heart rate, mean velocity of circumferential fiber shortening, and left ventricular pre-ejecti...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Child JS,Kovick RB,Levisman JA,Pearce ML

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recognition of rates and causes of hard, patient-centered outcomes of death and cerebrovascular events (CVEs) after heart rhythm disorder management (HRDM) procedures is an essential step for the development of quality improvement programs in electrophysiology laboratories. Our primary aim was to assess and ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lee JZ,Ling J,Diehl NN,Hodge DO,Padmanabhan D,Killu AM,Madhavan M,Noseworthy PA,Kapa S,McLeod CJ,Cha YM,Deshmukh AJ,Srivathsan K,Kusumoto FM,Shen WK,Friedman PA,Munger TM,Asirvatham SJ,Packer DL,Mulpuru SK

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00