Relation of transesophageal echocardiographic findings to subtypes of cerebral infarction in patients with atrial fibrillation.

abstract：:Evidence is now accumulating which strongly suggests that prognosis of patients with painless myocardial ischemia determined either by ambulatory ECG monitoring or exercise testing may be no different than the prognosis of patients who have overt clinical manifestations of myocardial ischemia associated with transient...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Conti CR

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scorpion envenomation is quite common in India, southeast Asia, the U.S. southwest, and Israel (in the Negev and around Jerusalem). Yellow scorpion is considered the most dangerous scorpion that causes cardiac toxicity. Two patients are described, who lived in a nonendemic area of yellow scorpions and were envenomated...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Blum A,Lubezki A,Sclarovsky S

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VA Cooperative Studies Program #571 (DIVA) was designed to evaluate the efficacy of drug-eluting stents (DES) for reducing aortocoronary saphenous vein bypass graft (SVG) failure when compared with bare-metal stents (BMS) in participants undergoing stenting of de novo SVG lesions. Participants undergoing clinically in...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Brilakis ES,Banerjee S,Edson R,Shunk K,Goldman S,Holmes DR Jr,Bhatt DL,Rao SV,Smith MW,Sather M,Colling C,Kar B,Nielsen L,Conner T,Wagner T,Rangan BV,Ventura B,Lu Y,Holodniy M,Shih MC

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and nonobstructive coronary artery disease (nonobCAD) may be perceived to be at lower risk for cardiac events, relative to those with obstructive CAD (obCAD), and thus less likely to receive optimal preventive medications in the year following AMI. HYPOTHESIS:...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Pitts R,Daugherty SL,Tang F,Jones P,Ho PM,Tsai TT,Spertus J,Maddox TM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pacemaker syndrome refers to symptoms and signs in the pacemaker patient caused by inadequate timing of atrial and ventricular contractions. The lack of normal atrioventricular synchrony may result in decreased cardiac output and venous "cannon A waves." A sudden increase in atrial pressure at the onset of asynchr...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Schüller H,Brandt J

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The electrocardiogram (ECG) is valuable for the identification of prior myocardial infarction (MI) in individuals participating in epidemiologic studies or undergoing screening examinations. Although the Minnesota Code, a set of criteria for the interpretation of ECGs in such situations, is commonly used to ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Sandler LL,Pinnow EE,Lindsay J

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with vasospastic angina who developed myocardial ischemia following ethanol ingestion but not after exercise was described. Myocardial ischemia was evidenced by electrocardiograms (ECGs) and thallium-201 scintigrams. The blood acetaldehyde level after ethanol ingestion was abnormally high. The time course an...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Ando H,Abe H,Hisanou R

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein (a) [Lp(a)] concentrations were determined in 365 patients undergoing coronary angiography for stable angina (n = 159), unstable angina (n = 99), recent myocardial infarction (n = 45), and nonischemic heart disease (cardiomyopathy or valvular disease, n = 62, non-IHD). Mean +/- SD and median Lp(a) concentr...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Brunelli C,Spallarossa P,Bertolini S,Balbi M,Barbara C,Masturzo P,Lantieri PB,Pastorini C,Caponnetto S

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 140 consecutive patients with acute Q-wave myocardial infarction was evaluated to assess the relationship between different electrocardiographic patterns of evolution and the incidence of recurrent ischemia within 10 days of infarction. Patients were allocated to three groups according to the electrocardiog...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Benjaminov FS,Sclarovsky S,Birnbaum Y

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several investigators have documented the successful use of oral sustained-release theophylline in treating symptomatic bradycardia and sick sinus syndrome. This paper reports a case of chronotropic incompetence in which specific exercise indices, including the chronotropic response index, were used to measure the the...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Dixon WC 4th,Bauch TD

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ventricular arrhythmias are the most common consequences of structural and functional heart diseases, but cases with no evident pathology are also observed. A parameter indicating asymptomatic circulatory failure could support decisions related to possible treatment of ventricular arrhythmias. HYPOTHESIS:Th...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Mazurek B,Szydłowski L,Giec-Fuglewicz G,Markiewicz-Łoskot G

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:QT interval shortens with exercise. Some of this shortening is due to an increase in heart rate, and some is due to other effects of exercise, probably mostly neuroendocrine effects. Data from subjects with cardiac transplants have suggested that non-heart rate-related changes in QT interval on exercise are ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Davey P,Bateman J

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HFH) is a very rare autosomal dominant disease characterized by accelerated severe atherosclerosis. We examined 18 patients from 9 families with HFH. The age range was 6-30 years (mean = 16 years). Male to female ratio was equal. All patients had huge, multiple tuberous xantho...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Brook GJ,Keidar S,Boulos M,Grenadier E,Wiener A,Shehada N,Markiewicz W,Benderli A,Aviram M

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This manuscript was written in an effort to emphasize the points made by Porter et al. (Clin Cardiol 1997; 20:971-973). Right ventricular infarction may be erroneously interpreted as an anteroseptal infarction because of elevation of the S-T segments in leads V1-V4. The two can be separated when, using the Grant metho...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Hurst JW

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) on the electrocardiogram (ECG) may be masked in the presence of complete right bundle-branch block (RBBB). Left bundle-branch block on the ECG is associated with LVH at autopsy in 93% of hearts studied. However, RBBB does not predict LVH and the usual ECG criteria applied f...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Mehta A,Jain AC,Morise AP,Mehta MC,Billie M

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the case of a patient who developed postinfarction left ventricular free wall rupture and cardiac tamponade. He was managed conservatively, made a successful recovery, and is alive and asymptomatic 10 months after the index episode. Only 17 cases in which the patients survived subacute rupture of...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Mathew TP,Johnston PW,Khan MM,Adgey AA

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myocardial infarction can be stratified into electrocardiographic subsets based on the presence or absence of new Q waves. This stratification has important clinical and prognostic utility. Coronary angiography during acute non-Q-wave compared with Q-wave infarction shows much higher infarct-related artery paten...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： O'Brien TX,Ross J Jr

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antithrombotic and thrombolytic therapies confer clear net benefits in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Antithrombotic therapy with aspirin yields conclusive reductions in vascular mortality as well as reinfarction and stroke and should be administered to all patients with suspected AMI. There is pr...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Hennekens C

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previously, perfusion defect in the left ventricle was detected by thallium-201 (201T1) single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in aortic regurgitation (AR). The significance of 201T1 SPECT, however, has not been clarified. Limited information is available regarding the relationship between functi...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Yasuda H,Taniguchi K,Takahashi T,Sawa Y,Matuda H

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite dual antiplatelet therapy, the rate of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remains high. Ex vivo tests of clopidogrel resistance can predict MACE after PCI. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the clinical impact of adjusting phosphorylation ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Wang XD,Zhang DF,Zhuang SW,Lai Y

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a family affected by arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) the familial occurrence was investigated. All 14 members of two generations were investigated carefully, and only 2 (father and one son) members were affected. Both subjects had a massive form of the disease with relevant ventricular arrhyt...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Canciani B,Nava A,Toso V,Martini B,Thiene G

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report reviews the available evidence for and against the combined use of clonidine and prazosin in treating hypertension. Clinical studies have resulted in modest or no enhancement of the antihypertensive effects when prazosin has been added to clonidine. This report discusses the possible mechanisms of an inter...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Jounela AJ,Kanniainen E,Lilja M

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marijuana is the most abused recreational drug in the United States. Cannabinoids, the active ingredients of marijuana, affect multiple organ systems in the human body. The pharmacologic effects of marijuana, based on stimulation of cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2, which are widely distributed in the cardiovascular ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Singla S,Sachdeva R,Mehta JL

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Isolated left ventricular abnormal trabeculation (ILVAT) is defined as > 3 coarse trabeculations of the left ventricular wall, apically to the papillary muscles, in hearts without congenital malformations. HYPOTHESIS:The aims of the study were to assess by echocardiography the prevalence of ILVAT, to confir...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Stöllberger C,Finsterer J,Valentin A,Blazek G,Tscholakoff D

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aortic valve disease is an important and frequent clinical problem with a mortality rate as high as 50-80% in a 5-year natural history of patients with severe aortic valve disease. Biological or mechanical prosthesis implantation is the only way to improve prognosis. HYPOTHESIS:The aim of our study was to a...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Waszyrowski T,Kasprzak JD,Krzemińska-Pakuła M,Dziatkowiak A,Zasłonka J

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to sensorial autonomic neuropathy, the type and severity of angina pectoris in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) may be rather different from the type and severity of angina pectoris in patients without DM. HYPOTHESIS:The aim of the study was to understand if angina pectoris is related to extensive c...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Celik A,Karayakali M,Erkorkmaz U,Altunkas F,Karaman K,Koc F,Ceyhan K,Kadi H,Avsar A

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the development of a quality assurance-oriented integrated software system designed for an anesthesiology-based intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography service. Entry data include patient and operation demographics, two-dimensional echocardiographic, saline-contrast, and color flow/pulsed...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Rafferty T,Edwards B,Judd J,Swamy V,Workman R,Lippmann H,Harris S,Cohen I,Prokop E,Ezekowitz M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial echocardiographic findings in a patient with an Omniscience mitral prosthesis presenting progressive perivalvular pannus ingrowth are described. The first echocardiographic study was carried out one year after prosthesis implantation and showed decreased prosthetic opening velocity. As prosthetic thrombosis was...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Evangelista Masip A,Bruguera Cortada J,Serrat Serradell R,Robles Castro A

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The efficacy of prophylactic coronary revascularization with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) scheduled for open repair surgery remains controversial. HYPOTHESIS:Concomitant coronary artery disease (CAD) ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Hosokawa Y,Takano H,Aoki A,Inami T,Ogano M,Kobayashi N,Tanabe J,Yokoyama H,Kato T,Takagi H,Umemoto T,Takayama M,Mizuno K

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two recent observations based on echocardiographic studies in large population-based studies may have far-reaching implications: The concentric form of left ventricular hypertrophy emerges prominently in white Framingham (MA) men aged 40-49 years, and ten years later in white Framingham women. This parallels the patte...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Savage DD,Watkins LO,McGee DL

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00