Adenovirus-mediated heme oxygenase-1 gene expression stimulates apoptosis in vascular smooth muscle cells.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our aim was to compare the electron-beam CT (EBCT) features of coronary arteries in heart transplant recipients with those of biplane coronary angiography and intracoronary ultrasound (ICUS). METHODS AND RESULTS:We examined 112 heart transplant recipients (25 female; age, 17 to 69 years; median, 52 years) 1...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Knollmann FD,Bocksch W,Spiegelsberger S,Hetzer R,Felix R,Hummel M

更新日期：2000-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children stable at home with dilated cardiomyopathy remain at risk of death; there is evidence of survival benefit for transplantation out to 4 years postoperatively. The limited supply of donor organs makes risk stratification imperative, but although cardiopulmonary exercise test is well established as a p...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Giardini A,Fenton M,Andrews RE,Derrick G,Burch M

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Organ donor scarcity has resulted in an increasing number of long-distance cardiac allograft procurements. The effect on short-term (90-day) survival and cardiac function was assessed in a consecutive series of 167 heart transplants performed between April 1981 and July 1988. During that time, total allograft ischemic...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pflugfelder PW,Thomson D,Singh NR,Menkis AH,McKenzie FN,Kostuk WJ

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sirolimus-eluting stents have been reported to be effective in the treatment of coronary bifurcations. Still, it has not been fully clarified which strategy would provide the best results with true bifurcation lesions. METHODS AND RESULTS:The CACTUS trial (Coronary bifurcations: Application of the Crushing ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Colombo A,Bramucci E,Saccà S,Violini R,Lettieri C,Zanini R,Sheiban I,Paloscia L,Grube E,Schofer J,Bolognese L,Orlandi M,Niccoli G,Latib A,Airoldi F

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) can cause an oxidative modification of nucleotides, such as 8-oxo-7,8-dihydrodeoxyguanosine triphosphate (8-oxo-dGTP), which can lead to defects in DNA replication. The misincorporation of 8-oxo-dGTP into DNA is prevented by 8-oxo-dGTPase, which hydrolyzes 8-oxo-dGTP into 8-oxo-...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tsutsui H,Ide T,Shiomi T,Kang D,Hayashidani S,Suematsu N,Wen J,Utsumi H,Hamasaki N,Takeshita A

更新日期：2001-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous experimental studies have shown that nitric oxide (NO) modulates cardiac function by an abbreviation of systolic contraction and an enhancement of diastolic relaxation. However, the response to NO donors of patients with severe pressure-overload hypertrophy and diastolic dysfunction is unknown. MET...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Matter CM,Mandinov L,Kaufmann PA,Vassalli G,Jiang Z,Hess OM

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The impact of misinterpretation of the ECG in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the emergency department (ED) setting is not well known. Our goal was to assess the prevalence of the failure to identify high-risk ECG findings in ED patients with AMI and to determine whether this failure is as...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Masoudi FA,Magid DJ,Vinson DR,Tricomi AJ,Lyons EE,Crounse L,Ho PM,Peterson PN,Rumsfeld JS,Emergency Department Quality in Myocardial Infarction Study Investigators.

更新日期：2006-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) has recently been shown to be a major regulator of cardiac contractility. In a cellular system, we have previously shown that nNOS is regulated by the isoform 4b of plasma membrane calcium/calmodulin-dependent ATPase (PMCA4b) through direct interaction mediated by a PDZ ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Oceandy D,Cartwright EJ,Emerson M,Prehar S,Baudoin FM,Zi M,Alatwi N,Venetucci L,Schuh K,Williams JC,Armesilla AL,Neyses L

更新日期：2007-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Graft survival after skeletal myoblast transplantation is affected by various pathological processes caused by environmental stress. Heat shock is known to afford protection of several aspects of cell metabolism and function. We hypothesized that prior heat shock treatment of graft cells would improve their ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Suzuki K,Smolenski RT,Jayakumar J,Murtuza B,Brand NJ,Yacoub MH

更新日期：2000-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Global ventricular function was evaluated by both multiple gated cardiac blood pool scans (MUGA) and contrast ventriculograms in a group of 17 patients with suspected coronary artery disease. The contrast ventriculograms were analyzed frame by frame to generate a volume versus time curve for each patient, while the tr...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Burow RD,Strauss HW,Singleton R,Pond M,Rehn T,Bailey IK,Griffith LC,Nickoloff E,Pitt B

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Short-term (<30 day) mortality after Q-wave myocardial infarction (MI) has declined over the decades, but it is unclear if rates of long-term sequelae after Q-wave MI have improved. METHODS AND RESULTS:In 546 Framingham Heart Study subjects (388 men with a mean age of 60 years; 158 women with a mean age of ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Guidry UC,Evans JC,Larson MG,Wilson PW,Murabito JM,Levy D

更新日期：1999-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of abrupt withdrawal or continuation of beta-blockade therapy during acute myocardial infarction were evaluated in 326 patients participating in the Multicenter Investigation of the Limitation of Infarct Size (MILIS). Thirty-nine patients previously receiving a beta-blocker and randomly selected for withdr...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Croft CH,Rude RE,Gustafson N,Stone PH,Poole WK,Roberts R,Strauss HW,Raabe DS Jr,Thomas LJ,Jaffe AS

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) is widely used in food and beverage packaging. Higher urinary BPA concentrations were cross-sectionally associated with heart disease in National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003-2004 and NHANES 2005-2006, independent of traditional ris...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Melzer D,Osborne NJ,Henley WE,Cipelli R,Young A,Money C,McCormack P,Luben R,Khaw KT,Wareham NJ,Galloway TS

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The countercurrent arrangement of capillary blood flow in the medulla of mammalian kidneys generates a gradient of oxygen tension between the renal cortex and the papillary tip that results in a state of relative hypoxia within the renal medulla. Exploration of the pathophysiological implications of medullar...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Prasad PV,Edelman RR,Epstein FH

更新日期：1996-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrinopeptide A, platelet factor 4, beta-thromboglobulin, thromboxane B2, and 6-keto-prostaglandin F1 alpha were estimated by radioimmunoassay on venous plasma samples taken within 48 hr of admission from 16 consecutive patients with unstable angina and 15 patients with stable angina matched for clinical variables. T...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Théroux P,Latour JG,Léger-Gauthier C,De Lara J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Imaging of the flow convergence region (FCR) proximal to a regurgitant orifice has been shown to provide a method for quantifying the regurgitant flow rate. According to the continuity principle, the FCR is constituted by concentric hemispheric isovelocity surfaces centered at the orifice. The flow rate is c...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Bargiggia GS,Tronconi L,Sahn DJ,Recusani F,Raisaro A,De Servi S,Valdes-Cruz LM,Montemartini C

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although evidence suggests that primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the preferred reperfusion strategy in the majority of patients with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), only a minority of patients with STEMI are treated with primary PCI, and of those, only a minority receive the trea...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Jacobs AK,Antman EM,Ellrodt G,Faxon DP,Gregory T,Mensah GA,Moyer P,Ornato J,Peterson ED,Sadwin L,Smith SC,American Heart Association's Acute Myocardial Infarction Advisory Working Group.

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:As the appreciation of structural heart disease in children and adults has increased and as catheter-based closure procedures are now being performed in clinical practice, cardiovascular physicians have multiple compelling new reasons to better understand cardiac anatomic and spatial relationships. Current 2-dimension...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kim MS,Hansgen AR,Wink O,Quaife RA,Carroll JD

更新日期：2008-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) or idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (IHSS) has been defined as an autosomal dominant myocardial disease characterized by specific physical findings, echocardiographic features, asymmetric septal hypertrophy and disordered myocardial architecture. Echocardiographic and scinti...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Come PC,Bulkley BH,Goodman ZD,Hutchins GM,Pitt B,Fortuin NJ

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States and is responsible for 17% of national health expenditures. As the population ages, these costs are expected to increase substantially. METHODS AND RESULTS:To prepare for future cardiovascular care needs, the American Heart Asso...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Heidenreich PA,Trogdon JG,Khavjou OA,Butler J,Dracup K,Ezekowitz MD,Finkelstein EA,Hong Y,Johnston SC,Khera A,Lloyd-Jones DM,Nelson SA,Nichol G,Orenstein D,Wilson PW,Woo YJ,American Heart Association Advocacy Coordinating

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A positive association was previously reported between angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene polymorphism and several cardiovascular diseases, such as myocardial infarction, left ventricular hypertrophy, and restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Plasma ACE activity and carotid-w...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Ishigami T,Umemura S,Iwamoto T,Tamura K,Hibi K,Yamaguchi S,Nyuui N,Kimura K,Miyazaki N,Ishii M

更新日期：1995-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this investigation was to establish normal values of RR variability for middle-aged persons and compare them with values found in patients early and late after myocardial infarction. We hypothesized that presence or absence of coronary heart disease, age, and sex (in this order of importance) ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Bigger JT Jr,Fleiss JL,Steinman RC,Rolnitzky LM,Schneider WJ,Stein PK

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability of apolipoprotein (apo)A-I to induce regression of preexisting atherosclerotic lesions has not been determined, and a mouse model of atherosclerosis regression has not yet been reported. METHODS AND RESULTS:LDL receptor-deficient mice were fed a western-type diet for 5 weeks to induce atheroscle...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tangirala RK,Tsukamoto K,Chun SH,Usher D,Puré E,Rader DJ

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Incomplete ST-segment resolution (STR) after successful primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is associated with a poor prognosis. We used intracoronary Doppler velocimetry to investigate whether incomplete STR after primary angioplasty is a marker of severe microcirculatory dysfunction. ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Feldman LJ,Coste P,Furber A,Dupouy P,Slama MS,Monassier JP,Tron C,Lafont A,Faraggi M,Le Guludec D,Dubois-Randé JL,Steg PG,FRench Optimal STenting-2 Invest.

更新日期：2003-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:For estimating left ventricular mass (LVM), ECG criteria for left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) were selected from conventional 12-lead ECGs, orthogonal three-lead ECGs, and multiple-dipole ECGs (MDECG). The three cardiograms were recorded in 139 patients for whom the degree of LVH was independently determined from bi...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Dunn RA,Pipberger HV,Holt JH Jr,Barnard AC,Pipberger HA

更新日期：1979-12-01 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：:Ventilation with positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) is associated with reduced cardiac output, but the mechanisms involved are controversial. Possible explanations include increased intrathoracic pressure, reflex changes in myocardial inotropism, pulmonary vascular obstruction and abnormal ventricular interaction...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Rankin JS,Olsen CO,Arentzen CE,Tyson GS,Maier G,Smith PK,Hammon JW Jr,Davis JW,McHale PA,Anderson RW,Sabiston DC Jr

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Isoprostanes (iPs) are free radical-catalyzed products of arachidonic acid that reflect lipid peroxidation in vivo. Several iPs exert biological effects in vitro and may contribute to the functional consequences of oxidant stress. For example, iPF(2alpha)-III (8-iso PGF(2alpha)) and iPE(2)-III modulate plate...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Audoly LP,Rocca B,Fabre JE,Koller BH,Thomas D,Loeb AL,Coffman TM,FitzGerald GA

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although previous studies have shown functional improvements in patients who undergo coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, data are conflicting on whether the gains achieved by women are similar to or less than those achieved by men. METHODS AND RESULTS:We compared physical and psychological function...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Vaccarino V,Lin ZQ,Kasl SV,Mattera JA,Roumanis SA,Abramson JL,Krumholz HM

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The indication for prophylactic temporary and permanent pacing during acute myocardial infarction (MI) complicated by bundle branch block is high risk of progression via a Type II pattern to second or third degree (high degree) AV block during hospitalization or follow-up. In this study, determinants of high degree AV...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Hindman MC,Wagner GS,JaRo M,Atkins JM,Scheinman MM,DeSanctis RW,Hutter AH Jr,Yeatman L,Rubenfire M,Pujura C,Rubin M,Morris JJ

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00