Reduction of stroke events with pravastatin: the Prospective Pravastatin Pooling (PPP) Project.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that a single meandering functional reentrant wave front can result in rapid and irregular electrogram activity in human atrial tissues. METHODS AND RESULTS:The study used the explanted hearts of five human cardiac transplant recipients. Three right and t...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Ikeda T,Czer L,Trento A,Hwang C,Ong JJ,Hough D,Fishbein MC,Mandel WJ,Karagueuzian HS,Chen PS

更新日期：1997-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our purpose was to use multislice MRI for detection of reversible myocardial ischemia and assessment of the effect of revascularization on tissue perfusion in patients with coronary artery disease. METHODS AND RESULTS:Eleven patients with single-vessel proximal left anterior descending coronary artery disea...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lauerma K,Virtanen KS,Sipilä LM,Hekali P,Aronen HJ

更新日期：1997-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with transfusional iron overload may develop a life-limiting cardiomyopathy. The sensitivity of lipid-metabolizing enzymes to peroxidative injury, as well as the reported effects of arachidonic acid (AA) and metabolites on cardiac rhythm, led us to hypothesize that iron-overloaded cardiomyocytes dis...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Mattera R,Stone GP,Bahhur N,Kuryshev YA

更新日期：2001-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Signaling through protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) is a major contributor to the transmission of mitogenic stimuli to the interior of the cell and nucleus. The present study was designed to determine the effect of the tyrphostin AG1295, a selective blocker of PDGF-receptor PTK, on the growth of porcine and hu...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Banai S,Wolf Y,Golomb G,Pearle A,Waltenberger J,Fishbein I,Schneider A,Gazit A,Perez L,Huber R,Lazarovichi G,Rabinovich L,Levitzki A,Gertz SD

更新日期：1998-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was performed to determine whether antibodies against the amino-terminus of the beta-chain of fibrin (anti-beta) could noninvasively distinguish actively enlarging thrombi from thrombi stabilized with anticoagulants. METHODS AND RESULTS:Dogs with unilateral femoral vein thrombi were allocated int...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Morris TA,Marsh JJ,Konopka R,Pedersen CA,Chiles PG,Fagnani R,Hagan M,Moser KM

更新日期：1997-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Impaired fibrinolytic activity has been linked to the presence and severity of allograft vasculopathy (Tx CAD). This impairment may be associated with the presence of certain fibrinolytic protein gene polymorphisms. METHODS AND RESULTS:To investigate the relation between donor-specific fibrinolytic protein ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Benza RL,Grenett HE,Bourge RC,Kirklin JK,Naftel DC,Castro PF,McGiffin DC,George JF,Booyse FM

更新日期：1998-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Autoantibodies against the beta 1-adrenoceptor have been detected in the sera of patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). The mechanisms by which these autoantibodies can alter normal receptor function are investigated, and the results are interpreted in the light of the beneficial effects of b...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Magnusson Y,Wallukat G,Waagstein F,Hjalmarson A,Hoebeke J

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transfer of the coronary arteries is a crucial step during the arterial switch operation (ASO) for transposition of the great arteries. This retrospective study aims to assess the incidence and risk factors of coronary events after ASO and sensitivity of noninvasive tests in the diagnosis of the coronary obs...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Legendre A,Losay J,Touchot-Koné A,Serraf A,Belli E,Piot JD,Lambert V,Capderou A,Planche C

更新日期：2003-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cellular rejection of an allograft is mediated in part by peripheral blood T cells. We tested the hypothesis that quantitative changes in T-cell subsets can be detected in the peripheral blood and that these changes correlate with rejection. METHODS AND RESULTS:T-cell subset analysis was performed by flow c...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Carlquist JF,Hammond ME,Yowell RL,Holland C,Swanson S,Anderson JL

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The metabolic syndrome is associated with increased angiotensin II activity, induction of a proinflammatory and oxidative state, and endothelial dysfunction. We evaluated the ability of irbesartan, an angiotensin receptor blocker, and lipoic acid, an antioxidant, to affect endothelial function and inflammati...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sola S,Mir MQ,Cheema FA,Khan-Merchant N,Menon RG,Parthasarathy S,Khan BV

更新日期：2005-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypercholesterolemia and sickle cell disease (SCD) impair endothelium-dependent vasodilation by dissimilar mechanisms. Hypercholesterolemia impairs vasodilation by a low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-dependent mechanism. SCD has been characterized as a chronic state of inflammation in which xanthine oxidase (XO)...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Ou J,Ou Z,Jones DW,Holzhauer S,Hatoum OA,Ackerman AW,Weihrauch DW,Gutterman DD,Guice K,Oldham KT,Hillery CA,Pritchard KA Jr

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recognition of the complex pathophysiology of heart failure and its high mortality has emphasized the need for prognostic markers that can be used in clinical assessment as well as in the design of mortality trials. Data from the Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Vasodilator-Heart Failure Trials (V-...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Cohn JN,Johnson GR,Shabetai R,Loeb H,Tristani F,Rector T,Smith R,Fletcher R

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Unlike the Western world, valvular disease ranks among the major cardiovascular afflictions in Africa. Acute rheumatic fever and chronic rheumatic valvular disease in their most virulent form are still commonly encountered and impose a huge burden on limited healthcare resources. METHODS AND RESULTS:We perf...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Essop MR,Nkomo VT

更新日期：2005-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetic-epidemiologic study was undertaken of a white Colorado population of 207 patients who had a myocardial infarction before age 55 years. Nineteen independent variables were compared between the 207 cases and 621 controls, matched 3:1. The highest risk ratios were associated with a positive family history for i...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Nora JJ,Lortscher RH,Spangler RD,Nora AH,Kimberling WJ

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A recent study has shown that the implantable atrial defibrillator can restore sinus rhythm in patients with recurrent atrial fibrillation when therapy was delivered under physician observation. The objective of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of ambulatory use of the implantable atrial de...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Daoud EG,Timmermans C,Fellows C,Hoyt R,Lemery R,Dawson K,Ayers GM

更新日期：2000-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:This essay reviews the founding and early history of the Council on Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association (AHA), the largest of the AHA's 14 councils. Based on archival research, it stresses the factors that led to the council's formation and shaped its agenda. The council was established in the contex...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Fye WB

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have reported an association between chronic Helicobacter pylori infection and ischemic heart disease. However, it is not clear whether this association is really due to the virulence of the bacterium or is merely the result of confounding factors (in particular, age and social class). METH...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pasceri V,Cammarota G,Patti G,Cuoco L,Gasbarrini A,Grillo RL,Fedeli G,Gasbarrini G,Maseri A

更新日期：1998-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prospective data relating previous exposure to cytomegalovirus (CMV) to the risk of cardiac mortality are controversial. We investigated the effect of previous exposure to CMV infection on the risk of future cardiac disease-related death in relation to an underlying inflammatory response. METHODS AND RESULT...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Blankenberg S,Rupprecht HJ,Bickel C,Espinola-Klein C,Rippin G,Hafner G,Ossendorf M,Steinhagen K,Meyer J

更新日期：2001-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been used to measure T2* changes in skeletal muscle tissue of healthy volunteers. The BOLD effect is assumed to primarily reflect changes in blood oxygenation at the tissue level. We compared the calf muscle BOLD response of patien...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Ledermann HP,Schulte AC,Heidecker HG,Aschwanden M,Jäger KA,Scheffler K,Steinbrich W,Bilecen D

更新日期：2006-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Three trials demonstrated recently that a long detection window reduces implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy in primary prevention patients. Avoid Delivering Therapies for Nonsustained Arrhythmias in ICD Patients III (ADVANCE III) was the only trial that enrolled both primary and secondary pr...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kloppe A,Proclemer A,Arenal A,Lunati M,Martìnez Ferrer JB,Hersi A,Gulaj M,Wijffels MC,Santi E,Manotta L,Mangoni L,Gasparini M

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A variable degree of smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation after balloon injury has been reported in previous rat studies. It is unknown whether balloon injury induces c-fos expression and whether it is related to the degree of vascular injury in vivo. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that proportional i...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Indolfi C,Esposito G,Di Lorenzo E,Rapacciuolo A,Feliciello A,Porcellini A,Avvedimento VE,Condorelli M,Chiariello M

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispatcher-delivered telephone instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been proposed to increase rates of bystander CPR in cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. We tested the efficacy of a previously developed CPR message using a recording mannikin in a high stress, simulated cardiac arrest scenario....

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kellermann AL,Hackman BB,Somes G

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasodilatory or vasoconstrictive renal pharmacoangiography was applied in investigating the significance of 50 renal artery stenoses. The technique involves comparison of selective magnification renal arteriograms before and after intra-arterial injection of epinephrine or acetylcholine, seeking changes in direction o...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Bookstein JJ,Walter JF,Stanley JC,Fry WJ

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In experimental animals, the calcium channel-blocking agents lessen the arrhythmogenic, ionic, metabolic, and electrical changes that occur during acute myocardial ischemia. To date, these effects have been studied separately, and the effects of these agents on local activation have not been correlated with ionic or m...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Fleet WF,Johnson TA,Graebner CA,Engle CL,Gettes LS

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypercholesterolemic mice lacking factors required for activation of CD4+ T cells are characterized by reduced development of atherosclerosis. Consequently, it has been assumed that atherosclerosis involves loss of tolerance against modified self-antigens generated in response to hypercholesterolemia and tha...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Wigren M,Rattik S,Yao Mattisson I,Tomas L,Grönberg C,Söderberg I,Alm R,Sundius L,Ljungcrantz I,Björkbacka H,Fredrikson GN,Nilsson J

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected health and economy worldwide on an unprecedented scale. Patients have diverse clinical outcomes, but those with preexisting cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and related conditions incur disproportionately worse outcome. The high infectivity of severe a...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Liu PP,Blet A,Smyth D,Li H

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrophysiologic mechanisms for the initiation and termination of re-entrant ventricular arrhythmias (RVA) were critically analyzed in dogs 3-7 days following ligation of the anterior descending coronary artery, utilizing direct recordings of the re-entrant pathway (RP) from the epicardial surface of the infarct...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： El-Sherif N,Hope RR,Scherlag BJ,Lazzara R

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most myocardial infarctions are caused by the rupture of small rather than large plaques in the arteries of the heart that are beyond the detection limit of current technologies. METHODS AND RESULTS:Recently, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has demonstrated considerable potential as a method for high-res...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Brezinski M,Saunders K,Jesser C,Li X,Fujimoto J

更新日期：2001-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The heart can synthesize epinephrine. Homogenates of rat heart, which contain the enzymes phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase (PNMT) and nonspecific N-methyltransferase (NMT), methylate norepinephrine to form epinephrine. The cardiac atrium contains primarily PNMT and the cardiac ventricle contains both P...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kennedy B,Ziegler MG

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The lysyl oxidases are extracellular copper enzymes that initiate the crosslinking of collagens and elastin, 5 human isoenzymes having been characterized so far. The crosslinks formed provide the tensile strength and elastic properties for various extracellular matrices, including vascular walls. We studied ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Mäki JM,Räsänen J,Tikkanen H,Sormunen R,Mäkikallio K,Kivirikko KI,Soininen R

更新日期：2002-11-05 00:00:00