Hepatocyte growth factor as a potential predictor of the presence of atherosclerotic aorto-iliac artery disease.

abstract：:The prognostic significance of functional status has not been previously studied in the setting of acute myocardial infarction. We assessed the Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) score, a simple functional status scale that is commonly used to categorize physical ability, in 849 patients with acute myocardial infarcti...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Brezinski D,Stone PH,Muller JE,Tofler GH,Davis V,Parker C,Hartley LH,Braunwald E

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute heart failure (AHF) remains a major public health burden with a high prevalence and poor prognosis. Relaxin is a naturally occurring peptide hormone that increases cardiac output, arterial compliance, and renal blood flow during pregnancy. The RELAX-AHF-1 study will evaluate the effect of RLX030 (recom...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Ponikowski P,Metra M,Teerlink JR,Unemori E,Felker GM,Voors AA,Filippatos G,Greenberg B,Teichman SL,Severin T,Mueller-Velten G,Cotter G,Davison BA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiologic features and clinical manifestations of HCM have been elucidated by the introduction of several new diagnostic options. Knowledge of the molecular defects of HCM has advanced rapidly, and genetic screening studies have reemphasized the value of the standard electrocardiogram as an initial screenin...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Posma JL,van der Wall EE,Blanksma PK,van der Wall E,Lie KI

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myxomas, the most common cardiac tumor in adults, occur in the atria and are prone to embolization. Obstructive valvular tumors in infants occur in pulmonic and aortic valves and generally have a more benign course. METHODS:We conducted a review of our experience in infants with tumors obstructing the right...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Guntheroth WG,Fujioka MC,Reichenbach DD

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors have been shown to attenuate adverse remodeling after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and the same has been suggested for angiotensin II type 1 receptor antagonists in animal models. Therefore the aim of the study was to compare the effects of losartan and captopri...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Møller JE,Dahlström U,Gøtzsche O,Lahiri A,Skagen K,Andersen GS,Egstrup K,OPTIMAAL Study Group.

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of oral angiotensin-converting inhibition (ACE) with captopril in chronic normotensive congestive heart failure (CHF), acute and cardiocirculatory actions were determined by cardiac catheterization and forearm plethysmography, and ambulatory effects were assessed by echocardiograph...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Awan NA,Evenson MK,Needham KE,Win A,Mason DT

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute and chronic cellular electrophysiologic actions of ketanserin, a selective blocker of 5-hydroxytriptamine (5-HT2) receptor, were examined in the isolated rabbit ventricular muscle. This work was prompted by the recent observations that small numbers of patients treated with hypertension develop QTc prolongat...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kamiya K,Venkatesh N,Singh BN

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasma levels of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) are increased in patients with left heart failure. In patients with severe pulmonary embolism (PE), primary right ventricular (RV) dysfunction is frequent. Little is known about BNP secretion in acute RV failure. METHODS:We prospectively studied 50 consecutiv...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Krüger S,Graf J,Merx MW,Koch KC,Kunz D,Hanrath P,Janssens U

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the Doppler mitral flow velocity pattern changes in accordance with the degree of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction, it is "normalized" in the presence of heart failure. In this study the pulmonary venous flow velocity pattern was characterized in 43 hypertensive patients with and without heart failure t...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Masuyama T,Lee JM,Yamamoto K,Tanouchi J,Hori M,Kamada T

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute electrophysiologic effects of a bolus injection of 100 mg. of lidocaine were investigated in 39 patients with impulse formation and conduction defects by means of His-bundle recording and were correlated with plasma lidocaine levels. The effects of therapeutic plasma levels on conduction intervals and refrac...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Roos JC,Dunning AJ

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When AV conduction is normal, the absence of VA conduction is not abnormal. Analogous information about retrograde sinoatrial conduction is not available. Although the premature atrial stimulas (PAS) technique can demonstrate the presence of sinoatrial entrance block (SAEB), both its prevalence and its relationship to...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Reiffel JA,Gang E,Livelli F Jr,Gliklich J,Bigger JT Jr

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TACT is an National Institutes of Health-sponsored, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, 2 × 2 factorial clinical trial testing the benefits and risks of 40 infusions of a multicomponent disodium EDTA chelation solution compared with placebo and of an oral, high-dose multivitamin and mineral supplement. TACT ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Lamas GA,Goertz C,Boineau R,Mark DB,Rozema T,Nahin RL,Drisko JA,Lee KL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate feasibility, safety, and efficacy of implantation of unsheathed Palmaz-Schatz coronary stents via the radial artery. Anticoagulation after coronary stenting has the hazard of vascular complications if large-bore guiding catheters are introduced via the femoral artery. Such com...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kiemeneij F,Laarman GJ

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A large proportion of patients with heart failure (HF) have a large and poorly contracting left ventricle. The noninvasive recognition of the ischemic etiology of such patients is difficult, and for this purpose, usually patients undergo coronary angiography. It has been shown that cardiovascular magnetic re...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Casolo G,Minneci S,Manta R,Sulla A,Del Meglio J,Rega L,Gensini G

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To date, considerable controversy exists on the prognostic significance of morphometric endomyocardial biopsy findings in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC). METHODS:Quantitative analyses of interstitial structured tissue, myofibril volume fraction, and myocytic fiber diameters of left ve...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Grimm W,Rudolph S,Christ M,Pankuweit S,Maisch B

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiologic studies were prospectively performed in 91 consecutive patients referred for evaluation of sustained ventricular tachycardia or sudden cardiac death. Fifty-two patients had a history of sustained ventricular tachycardia and 39 patients had a history of sudden cardiac death. The identical stimulation...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Oseran DS,Gang ES,Hamer AW,Zaher CA,Rosenthal ME,Mandel WJ,Peter T

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Strenuous exercise can be a major trigger for coronary thrombosis and it enhances platelet aggregation. METHODS:We evaluated the effect of antiplatelet therapy on shear stress-induced platelet aggregation (SIPA), in addition to agonist-induced aggregation, before and immediately after ergometer exercise in ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kitai T,Nishikawa M,Tanigawa T,Okinaka T,Wada H,Shiku H,Ikeda Y,Ito M,Isaka N,Nakano T

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the mechanisms of restenosis and detect useful interventions to prevent it, reliable quantitative measurements must be evaluated. Coronary arteries of domestic and minipigs (n = 18) were mechanically injured by balloon overstretching and killed at different intervals (2 to 25 weeks) after quantitative a...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Bonan R,Paiement P,Scortichini D,Cloutier MJ,Leung TK

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 30 years of follow-up in the Framingham study, routine biennial ECG examinations revealed 315 subjects with ECG-LVH and 164 with unrecognized ECG-MI without previous cardiac explanation. Among subjects initially free of clinically evident coronary heart disease and both ECG abnormalities, the incidence of ECG-LVH w...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kannel WB,Abbott RD

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty adult men with mild to moderate hypertension were recruited to participate in a double-blind crossover study. Each subject received 14 days of drug treatment and 14 days of placebo treatment (random order). Half the subjects were assigned to a metoprolol (150 mg/day) vs placebo treatment regimen and half to an a...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Streufert S,DePadova A,McGlynn T,Pogash R,Piasecki M

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fingolimod, a sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor (S1PR) modulator, was the first oral disease-modifying therapy approved for relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis; it reduces autoreactive lymphocytes' egress from lymphoid tissues by down-regulating S1PRs. Sphingosine-1-phosphate signaling is implicated in a range of phy...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Camm J,Hla T,Bakshi R,Brinkmann V

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), the rate of microvascular embolization and no-reflow promoted by coronary stenting with the use of conventional techniques (CS) appears to be greater than the one that occurs with balloon angioplasty. The minor invasiveness of direct stenting (DS) of the in...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Antoniucci D,Valenti R,Migliorini A,Moschi G,Bolognese L,Cerisano G,Buonamici P,Santoro GM

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Postinterventional cognitive dysfunction (PICD) is a known complication of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). However, it is largely unknown whether PICD occurs after coronary catheterization. METHODS:Neuropsychologic data were obtained from 37 patients who received coronary catheterization and 47 pati...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Schwarz N,Schoenburg M,Möllmann H,Kastaun S,Kaps M,Bachmann G,Sammer G,Hamm C,Walther T,Gerriets T

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 15 patients with left bundle branch block (LBBB), atrial (A), His bundle (H), and ventricular (V) electrograms were recorded. Successively more premature atrial depolarizations were introduced via a catheter in the right antrium. In eight patients, the ventricular specialized conducting system (VSCS) was the most r...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Cannom DS,Goldreyer BN,Damato AN

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary function was measured serially in two separate randomized trials of pindolol in the treatment of essential hypertension. Patients with overt obstructive airways disease were excluded. In study 1, 131 hypertensive patients were randomized to placebo (31) and 15 mg (33), 30 mg (33), and 60 mg (34) of pindolol....

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Hamilton BP,Hamilton J,Kirkendall WM

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a major cause of sudden death in young athletes and one of the most common inherited cardiovascular diseases, affecting 1 in 500 individuals. Often viewed as a disease of the cardiac sarcomere, mutations in genes encoding myofilament proteins are associated with disease p...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Landstrom AP,Adekola BA,Bos JM,Ommen SR,Ackerman MJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent data indicate that cardiac antibodies play an active role in the pathogenesis of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and may contribute to cardiac dysfunction in patients with DCM. The present study investigated the influence of immunoadsorption with subsequent immunoglobulin G substitution (IA/IgG) on cardi...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Herda LR,Trimpert C,Nauke U,Landsberger M,Hummel A,Beug D,Kieback A,Dörr M,Empen K,Knebel F,Ewert R,Angelow A,Hoffmann W,Felix SB,Staudt A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endothelial injury plays a critical role in coronary artery disease (CAD), but the assessment of this injury has been problematical. Recently, it has been shown in vitro that endothelial cells (ECs) release endothelial microparticles (EMPs) on activation or apoptosis and that an assay of EMPs can provide use...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Bernal-Mizrachi L,Jy W,Jimenez JJ,Pastor J,Mauro LM,Horstman LL,de Marchena E,Ahn YS

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that brief episodes of myocardial ischemia can render the heart more resistant to a prolonged subsequent ischemic episode. This phenomenon, called "preconditioning," has been described in human beings during coronary angioplasty with the use of clinical, electrocardiographic (ECG), or metabolic param...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Eltchaninoff H,Cribier A,Tron C,Derumeaux G,Koning R,Hecketsweiller B,Letac B

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine thallium stress testing has a demonstrated utility in the detection of coronary artery disease. The optimal dose for diagnostic efficacy with minimal side effects has not been critically evaluated. A randomized 3- and 6-minute infusion of adenosine (140 micrograms/kg/min) was performed in 11 subjects. Subjec...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Villegas BJ,Hendel RC,Dahlberg ST,McSherry BA,Leppo JA

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00