Coexpression of endothelin-converting enzyme-1 and endothelin-1 in different stages of human atherosclerosis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nitric oxide (NO) modulates autonomic effects on myocardial contractility and sinus and atrioventricular nodal function of the heart. Whether NO influences autonomic actions on ventricular electrophysiological properties and arrhythmogenesis is not known. METHODS AND RESULTS:Four groups consisting of 43 aut...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Fei L,Baron AD,Henry DP,Zipes DP

更新日期：1997-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme histochemical study of the sinoatrial node, the coronary sinus, and the atrial muscle extending into the anterior mitral valve was performed on human hearts. Investigation of the activity and localization of the structurally bound enzymes was performed by conventional histochemical techniques. Determination ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Théry C,Krivosic I,Asseman P,Meijer AE

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent data suggest that the Berlin Heart EXCOR Pediatric ventricular assist device is superior to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for bridge to heart transplantation. Published data are limited to 1 in 4 children who received the device as part of the US clinical trial. We analyzed outcomes for all US c...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Almond CS,Morales DL,Blackstone EH,Turrentine MW,Imamura M,Massicotte MP,Jordan LC,Devaney EJ,Ravishankar C,Kanter KR,Holman W,Kroslowitz R,Tjossem C,Thuita L,Cohen GA,Buchholz H,St Louis JD,Nguyen K,Niebler RA,Walt

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with aortic stenosis develop widely variable patterns of left ventricular hypertrophy and dysfunction. We postulated that coronary atherosclerosis (CAD) may be associated with impaired left ventricular function and chamber dilatation in patients with aortic stenosis. Left ventricular mass and volumes were qua...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Vekshtein VI,Alexander RW,Yeung AC,Plappert T,Sutton MG,Ganz P,Selwyn AP,Bittl JA

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature, prevalence, functional significance, and indeed existence of myocardial disease in progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS) has been debated. In this study the clinical and pathological features of 52 autopsied patients were analyzed in an attempt to resolve these questions. A distinctive focal myocardial lesi...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Bulkley BH,Ridolfi RL,Salyer WR,Hutchins GM

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Considerable controversy exists on the association between coffee consumption and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. A meta-analysis was performed to assess the dose-response relationship of long-term coffee consumption with CVD risk. METHODS AND RESULTS:PubMed and EMBASE were searched for prospective cohor...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Ding M,Bhupathiraju SN,Satija A,van Dam RM,Hu FB

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instructions can increase bystander CPR and thereby increase the rate of survival from cardiac arrest. The risk of bystander CPR for patients not in arrest is uncertain and has implications for how assertive dispatch is in instructing CPR. We determined...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： White L,Rogers J,Bloomingdale M,Fahrenbruch C,Culley L,Subido C,Eisenberg M,Rea T

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although aspirin is an effective, inexpensive, and safe treatment of acute myocardial infarction, the frequency of use of aspirin in actual medical practice is not known. Elderly patients, a group with low rates of utilization of effective therapies such as thrombolytic therapy, also may be at risk of not re...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Krumholz HM,Radford MJ,Ellerbeck EF,Hennen J,Meehan TP,Petrillo M,Wang Y,Kresowik TF,Jencks SF

更新日期：1995-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS), pressure rather than volume overload is increasingly considered as a key factor in the pathogenesis of the cardiomyopathy of the recipient twin. If this is the case, cardiac dysfunction should be among the first signs observed with TTTS. The objective of this ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Raboisson MJ,Fouron JC,Lamoureux J,Leduc L,Grignon A,Proulx F,Gamache S

更新日期：2004-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ruling out acute myocardial infarction (AMI) on the basis of rapid assays for cardiac markers will allow early triage of patients and cost-effective use of available coronary care facilities. METHODS AND RESULTS:We studied the value of myoglobin, creatine kinase (CK)-MBmass, and troponin T in ruling out an ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： de Winter RJ,Koster RW,Sturk A,Sanders GT

更新日期：1995-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endothelial nitric oxide (NO)-mediated responses are impaired in arterioles of male spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), but they are still present in female SHR. We hypothesized that in vitro incubation of arterioles of male SHR with estrogen will restore NO-mediated responses by upregulation of endotheli...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Huang A,Sun D,Koller A,Kaley G

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Platelet deposition and aggregation are central to the pathogenesis of ischemic complications of acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Pharmacodynamic effects of the platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa antagonist eptifibatide have been delineated in healthy subjects but not in patients with ACS. We assessed effects of ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tardiff BE,Jennings LK,Harrington RA,Gretler D,Potthoff RF,Vorchheimer DA,Eisenberg PR,Lincoff AM,Labinaz M,Joseph DM,McDougal MF,Kleiman NS,PERIGEE Investigators.

更新日期：2001-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether real-time two-dimensional echocardiography (2-D echo) can estimate the extent of myocardial involvement in patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI), regional wall motion on serial short-axis 2-D echo recordings was analyzed and the summed scores were compared with estimates of infarct involv...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Nixon JV,Narahara KA,Smitherman TC

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characteristics of blood-flow velocities were investigated at different sites in two types of coronary artery bypass grafts, sequential saphenous vein grafts (SSVG) and internal mammary artery grafts (IMAG). The latter appear to have the longest life span. The patency rate of the side-to-side anastomosis of the SSVG i...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Fujiwara T,Kajiya F,Kanazawa S,Matsuoka S,Wada Y,Hiramatsu O,Kagiyama M,Ogasawara Y,Tsujioka K,Katsumura T

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the fact that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are contraindicated among patients with established cardiovascular disease, many receive NSAID treatment for a short period of time. However, little is known about the association between NSAID treatment duration and risk of cardiovascular d...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Schjerning Olsen AM,Fosbøl EL,Lindhardsen J,Folke F,Charlot M,Selmer C,Lamberts M,Bjerring Olesen J,Køber L,Hansen PR,Torp-Pedersen C,Gislason GH

更新日期：2011-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental studies of animals have previously demonstrated the validity of [1-11C]acetate as a tracer of oxidative metabolism for use with positron emission tomography. The present study was undertaken to define in normal human volunteers the relation between myocardial clearance kinetics of [1-11C]acetate, and the ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Armbrecht JJ,Buxton DB,Brunken RC,Phelps ME,Schelbert HR

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Isomerism is associated with a complex spectrum of anomalies. There is paucity of data on prenatally detected cases. METHODS AND RESULTS:Between January 1990 and February 2004, 83 of 166 cases (50%) had a prenatal diagnosis of left isomerism (LAI; 52 of 97) or right isomerism (RAI; 31 of 69) at our institut...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lim JS,McCrindle BW,Smallhorn JF,Golding F,Caldarone CA,Taketazu M,Jaeggi ET

更新日期：2005-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:C-reactive protein (CRP) plasma levels have been associated with short- and long-term occurrence of coronary events. We investigated whether circulating inflammatory cell responsiveness to low-grade stimuli could contribute to the reported association between CRP and coronary events. METHODS AND RESULTS:We ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Liuzzo G,Angiolillo DJ,Buffon A,Rizzello V,Colizzi C,Ginnetti F,Biasucci LM,Maseri A

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrophysiologic effects of intravenously administered disopyramide (2 mg/kg) on three parameters of sinus node function were examined in 16 symptomatic patients with sinus node dysfunction. Based on their ECG data before study, patients were subdivided into group A (n = 8), those with sinus pauses and/or sinoat...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： LaBarre A,Strauss HC,Scheinman MM,Evans GT,Bashore T,Tiedeman JS,Wallace AG

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic heart failure (CHF) is associated with endothelial dysfunction including impaired endothelium-mediated, flow-dependent dilation (FDD). There is evidence for increased radical formation in CHF, raising the possibility that nitric oxide is inactivated by radicals, thereby impairing endothelial function...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Hornig B,Arakawa N,Kohler C,Drexler H

更新日期：1998-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) and urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) are thought to play critical roles in vascular remodeling after injury, with tPA mediating intravascular clot lysis and uPA modulating cell migration within the vessel wall. In human vascular disease, however, thrombus org...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Schäfer K,Konstantinides S,Riedel C,Thinnes T,Müller K,Dellas C,Hasenfuss G,Loskutoff DJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the noninvasive methods of evaluating left ventricular performance is the measurement of left ventricular systolic time intervals (LVSTI). However, noninvasive measurement of right ventricular systole by this technique has been unreliable because of the inability to accurately time the onset of right ventricula...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Hirschfeld S,Meyer R,Schwartz DC,Korfhagen J,Kaplan S

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are no reported studies on the safety and efficacy of low-dose aspirin with low-intensity oral anticoagulation in patients with heart valve replacement. In this study, we compared the use of 100 mg/d aspirin with 650 mg/d aspirin in the prevention of systemic embolism and vascular death in patients wit...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Altman R,Rouvier J,Gurfinkel E,Scazziota A,Turpie AG

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Induction of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) contributes to adverse remodeling after myocardial infarction (MI). Whether a region- and type-specific distribution of MMPs occurs within the post-MI myocardium remained unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS:Ten sheep were instrumented with a sonomicrometry array to mea...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Wilson EM,Moainie SL,Baskin JM,Lowry AS,Deschamps AM,Mukherjee R,Guy TS,St John-Sutton MG,Gorman JH 3rd,Edmunds LH Jr,Gorman RC,Spinale FG

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In humans, angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition attenuates the vasoconstriction induced by sympathetic stimulation in a number of peripheral districts. Whether this is also the case in the coronary circulation is unknown, however. METHODS AND RESULTS:In nine normotensive patients with angiographic...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Perondi R,Saino A,Tio RA,Pomidossi G,Gregorini L,Alessio P,Morganti A,Zanchetti A,Mancia G

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coxsackieviruses B (CBVs) are dominant causative agents in myocarditis and are associated with pathogenesis is some cases of dilated cardiomyopathy, a clinical entity with a poor survival without heart transplantation. METHODS AND RESULTS:In vitro, the antiviral agent WIN 54 954 was shown to inhibit replica...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Fohlman J,Pauksen K,Hyypiä T,Eggertsen G,Ehrnst A,Ilbäck NG,Friman G

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capability of a pulsed Doppler flowmeter combined with a phased-array imaging system to measure volume flow was tested in vitro and in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. The Doppler-phased-array system (DPA) was used to determine vessel diameter and a superimposed cursor was used to locate the range and ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Magnin PA,Stewart JA,Myers S,von Ramm O,Kisslo JA

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Demonstration and quantification of site-specific intracoronary administration of compounds has been confined thus far to the experimental animal laboratory. The aim of this study was to describe a scintigraphic method to demonstrate site-specific intracoronary drug delivery in humans. The methods allow on-l...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Camenzind E,Bakker WH,Reijs A,van Geijlswijk IM,Boersma E,Kutryk MJ,Krenning EP,Roelandt JR,Serruys PW

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are well known for their ability to "protect" the structure and function of native macromolecules, particularly as they traffic across membranes. Considering the role of key mitochondrial proteins in apoptosis and the known antiapoptotic effects of HSP27 and HSP72, we postulated th...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kirchhoff SR,Gupta S,Knowlton AA

更新日期：2002-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An aneurysm of the membranous septum was found frequently in patients with ventricular septal defect; although appearance at catheterization during infancy was not common, aneurysms were detected in about half of the patients older than 2 years of age. A significant decrease in the left-to-right shunt occurred with th...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Nugent EW,Freedom RM,Rowe RD,Wagner HR,Rees JK

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00