Depression, heart rate variability, and acute myocardial infarction.

abstract：:Iron catalysis is involved in oxygen-derived free radical generation and subsequent lipid peroxidation, which have been reported to occur during cardiopulmonary bypass in humans. We assessed the effects of the iron chelator deferoxamine on the susceptibility of circulating low density lipoproteins (LDLs) to induced pe...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Menasché P,Antebi H,Alcindor LG,Teiger E,Perez G,Giudicelli Y,Nordmann R,Piwnica A

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lung transplantation and heart-lung transplantation represent surgical options for treatment of medically refractory idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension. The effect of the lung allocation score on wait-list and transplantation outcomes in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension is poo...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Schaffer JM,Singh SK,Joyce DL,Reitz BA,Robbins RC,Zamanian RT,Mallidi HR

更新日期：2013-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although phase 2 reentry is said to be responsible for initiation of ventricular tachycardia (VT) in Brugada syndrome, information about the activation sequence during VT is limited. METHODS AND RESULTS:We developed an experimental Brugada syndrome model using a canine isolated right ventricular preparation...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kimura M,Kobayashi T,Owada S,Ashikaga K,Higuma T,Sasaki S,Iwasa A,Motomura S,Okumura K

更新日期：2004-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Department of Veterans Affairs Randomized On/Off Bypass (ROOBY) trial compared clinical and angiographic outcomes in off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery to ascertain the relative efficacy of the 2 techniques. METHODS AND RESULTS:From February 2002 to May 2007, the ROOBY t...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Hattler B,Messenger JC,Shroyer AL,Collins JF,Haugen SJ,Garcia JA,Baltz JH,Cleveland JC Jr,Novitzky D,Grover FL,Veterans Affairs Randomized On\/Off Bypass (ROOBY) Study Group.

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Integrins are involved in structural remodeling and tissue repair. This study aimed to elucidate the role of the beta-integrins in cardiac remodeling after myocardial infarction (MI). METHODS AND RESULTS:The MI model was created by ligation of the left anterior descending coronary artery in rats. We detecte...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sun M,Opavsky MA,Stewart DJ,Rabinovitch M,Dawood F,Wen WH,Liu PP

更新日期：2003-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are bone marrow stromal cells that are in phase 1 clinical studies of cellular cardiomyoplasty. However, the electrophysiological effects of MSC transplantation have not been studied. Although improvement of ventricular function would represent a positive outcome of MSC transpla...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Chang MG,Tung L,Sekar RB,Chang CY,Cysyk J,Dong P,Marbán E,Abraham MR

更新日期：2006-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative analysis of adventitial inflammation of the coronary artery with intimal lesions is described in 12 patients who suffered coronary death and had had unstable angina (crescendo angina) at rest (group 1). After autopsy in these patients we examined epon-embedded cross sections by light and electron micros...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kohchi K,Takebayashi S,Hiroki T,Nobuyoshi M

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Doppler wire-derived (relative) coronary flow velocity reserve (CVR) that is used to evaluate functional significance of a coronary stenosis is a method performed only by interventional cardiologists. An angiographic method would be useful in the diagnostic catheterization laboratory. For this purpose, w...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Stoel MG,Zijlstra F,Visser CA

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lymphatic network and chemokine-mediated signals are essential for leukocyte traffic during the proximal steps of alloimmune response. We aimed to determine the role of lymphatic vessels and their principal growth signaling pathway, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-C/D/VEGFR-3, during acute and chro...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Nykänen AI,Sandelin H,Krebs R,Keränen MA,Tuuminen R,Kärpänen T,Wu Y,Pytowski B,Koskinen PK,Ylä-Herttuala S,Alitalo K,Lemström KB

更新日期：2010-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ibutilide is an action potential-prolonging antiarrhythmic currently in clinical trials. The drug shares structural similarities with E-4031 and dofetilide, specific blockers of the rapidly activating delayed rectifier K+ current (IKr). However, previous in vitro studies in guinea pig myocytes have indicated...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Yang T,Snyders DJ,Roden DM

更新日期：1995-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glycosphingolipids, integral components of the cell membrane, have been shown to serve as messengers, transducing growth factor-initiated phenotypes. Here, we have examined whether inhibition of glycosphingolipid synthesis could ameliorate atherosclerosis and arterial stiffness in transgenic mice and rabbits...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Chatterjee S,Bedja D,Mishra S,Amuzie C,Avolio A,Kass DA,Berkowitz D,Renehan M

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantitative approaches to the assessment of regional left ventricular (LV) function described in the preceding paper were applied in a well-defined population of patients with coronary artery disease. Two groups were chosen by electrocardiographic and angiographic criteria: group 1 had infarction and regional wal...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Parisi AF,Moynihan PF,Folland ED,Feldman CL

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biological pacemakers (BPM) implanted in canine left bundle branch function competitively with electronic pacemakers (EPM). We hypothesized that BPM engineered with the use of mE324A mutant murine HCN2 (mHCN2) genes would improve function over mHCN2 and that BPM/EPM tandems confer advantage over either appro...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Bucchi A,Plotnikov AN,Shlapakova I,Danilo P Jr,Kryukova Y,Qu J,Lu Z,Liu H,Pan Z,Potapova I,KenKnight B,Girouard S,Cohen IS,Brink PR,Robinson RB,Rosen MR

更新日期：2006-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dual antiplatelet therapy in older versus younger patients with acute coronary syndromes is understudied. Low-dose prasugrel (5 mg/d) is recommended for younger, lower-body-weight patients and elderly patients with acute coronary syndromes to mitigate the bleeding risk of standard-dose prasugrel (10 mg/d). ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Roe MT,Goodman SG,Ohman EM,Stevens SR,Hochman JS,Gottlieb S,Martinez F,Dalby AJ,Boden WE,White HD,Prabhakaran D,Winters KJ,Aylward PE,Bassand JP,McGuire DK,Ardissino D,Fox KA,Armstrong PW

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adenosine has several potentially cardioprotective effects. We hypothesized that the effects of endogenous adenosine vary with degree of ischemia and that elevating endogenous levels is protective. METHODS AND RESULTS:Isolated blood-perfused piglet hearts underwent 120 minutes of low-flow ischemia (10% flow...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sommerschild HT,Grund F,Offstad J,Jynge P,Ilebekk A,Kirkebøen KA

更新日期：1997-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac hypertrophy is a common response to circulatory or neurohumoral stressors as a mechanism to augment contractility. When the heart is under sustained stress, the hypertrophic response can evolve into decompensated heart failure, although the mechanism(s) underlying this transition remain largely unkno...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Warren SA,Briggs LE,Zeng H,Chuang J,Chang EI,Terada R,Li M,Swanson MS,Lecker SH,Willis MS,Spinale FG,Maupin-Furlowe J,McMullen JR,Moss RL,Kasahara H

更新日期：2012-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Apoptotic microparticles are responsible for almost all tissue factor activity of the plaque lipid core. We hypothesized that elevated levels of procoagulant microparticles could also circulate in the peripheral blood of patients with recent clinical signs of plaque disruption and thrombosis. METHODS AND RE...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Mallat Z,Benamer H,Hugel B,Benessiano J,Steg PG,Freyssinet JM,Tedgui A

更新日期：2000-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The overall performance of available mechanical intravascular ultrasound catheters for fetal transesophageal echocardiography during fetoscopic fetal cardiac interventions in sheep has been limited by radioelectronic interference, low system frame rates, and low acoustic outputs. Therefore, a more reliable d...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kohl T,Westphal M,Strümper D,Achenbach S,Halimeh S,Petry P,Aryee S,Buller T,Aleksiene R,Asfour B,Witteler R,Vogt J,Van Aken H,Scheld HH

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cytoskeleton plays an important role in maintaining cell structure and integrity. Defects in cytoskeletal proteins can cripple cell strength and may cause cardiomyopathy. We analyzed heart tissues from subjects with dilated cardiomyopathy for abnormalities in the cardiac cytoskeleton. Metavinculin, a car...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Maeda M,Holder E,Lowes B,Valent S,Bies RD

更新日期：1997-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The roles of Purkinje fibers (PFs) and focal wave fronts, if any, in the maintenance of ventricular fibrillation (VF) are unknown. If PFs are involved in VF maintenance, it should be possible to map wave fronts propagating from PFs into the working ventricular myocardium during VF. If wave fronts ever arise ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tabereaux PB,Walcott GP,Rogers JM,Kim J,Dosdall DJ,Robertson PG,Killingsworth CR,Smith WM,Ideker RE

更新日期：2007-09-04 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：BACKGROUND:Sensitivity to apoptotic signals, the clearance rate of apoptosis, and the apoptotic ultrastructure have not been studied in cells of the in vivo adult heart. METHODS AND RESULTS:To minimize the systemic influence, soluble Fas ligand was injected directly into in vivo rat hearts and livers (as the control) ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Hayakawa K,Takemura G,Koda M,Kawase Y,Maruyama R,Li Y,Minatoguchi S,Fujiwara T,Fujiwara H

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical detection of transplant rejection by repeated endomyocardial biopsy requires catheterization and entails risks. Recently developed molecular and cellular imaging techniques that visualize macrophage host responses could provide a noninvasive alternative. Yet, which macrophage functions may provide u...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Christen T,Nahrendorf M,Wildgruber M,Swirski FK,Aikawa E,Waterman P,Shimizu K,Weissleder R,Libby P

更新日期：2009-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relative anti-aggregatory effects of currently prescribed platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor antagonists during and after percutaneous coronary intervention for acute coronary syndromes have not been established. METHODS AND RESULTS:We randomized 70 acute coronary syndrome patients undergoing percu...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Batchelor WB,Tolleson TR,Huang Y,Larsen RL,Mantell RM,Dillard P,Davidian M,Zhang D,Cantor WJ,Sketch MH Jr,Ohman EM,Zidar JP,Gretler D,DiBattiste PM,Tcheng JE,Califf RM,Harrington RA

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We studied the effect of an antioxidant, the intracoronary infusion of vitamin C, on basal and dobutamine-stimulated left ventricular (LV) contractility. METHODS AND RESULTS:Nineteen patients with normal ventricular function participated in this study. A micromanometer-tipped catheter was inserted into the ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Mak S,Newton GE

更新日期：2001-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The usefulness of adriamycin (ADR), a potent antitumor antibiotic, is limited by the development of life-threatening cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure. Subcellular changes leading to heart failure are suggested to be mediated by a drug-induced increase in free radicals and lipid peroxidation. In an...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Siveski-Iliskovic N,Hill M,Chow DA,Singal PK

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background-Endocardial (EE) and myocardial capillary vascular endothelial (myocap VE) cells have been shown to modulate the contractile characteristics of myocardium in a calcium-dependent manner. We evaluated the endothelial-myocardial interaction in the rat postinfarction myocardial infarction (MI) model and the eff...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Qi XL,Stewart DJ,Gosselin H,Azad A,Picard P,Andries L,Sys SU,Brutsaert DL,Rouleau JL

更新日期：1999-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional wall motion analysis of contrast ventriculograms assesses only that part of the wall that is tangential to the x-ray beam. To assess regional left ventricular function in three dimensions, a new computerized method based on densitometric analysis of digital subtraction left ventriculograms was developed a...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Chappuis F,Widmann T,Guth B,Nicod P,Peterson KL

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human salusins, related bioactive polypeptides with mitogenic effects on vascular smooth muscle cells and fibroblasts and roles in hemodynamic homeostasis, may be involved in the origin of coronary atherosclerosis. Macrophage foam cell formation, characterized by cholesterol ester accumulation, is modulated ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Watanabe T,Nishio K,Kanome T,Matsuyama TA,Koba S,Sakai T,Sato K,Hongo S,Nose K,Ota H,Kobayashi Y,Katagiri T,Shichiri M,Miyazaki A

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Volume loading is used to treat hemodynamically compromised patients with acute pulmonary embolism despite data to suggest that volume loading after embolism might cause a leftward shift of the ventricular septum with a subsequent decrease in left ventricular (LV) end-diastolic volume and stroke work. We studied 10 cl...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Belenkie I,Dani R,Smith ER,Tyberg JV

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00