Ventricular tachycardia induced by a pacemaker lead.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The role of adenosine as a cardioprotective agent is well known and recent experimental studies suggest that impairment of adenosine-related signal transduction contributes to the pathophysiology of chronic heart failure. The recent observation of an association between ADA, genetic polymorphism and coronary...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Saccucci P,Binczak-Kuleta A,Banci M,Krzysztalowska M,Dofcaci A,Safranow K,Magrini A,Loniewska B,Kornacewicz-Jach Z,Chlubek D,Bottini E,Ciechanowicz A,Gloria-Bottini F

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing number of amateur sportsmen enhances the need for a correct evaluation of subjects suspected of overt and mild cardiac disease. Out of 4000 athletes, 72 subjects were clinically preselected by the sport doctor during an annual routine examination. They were studied with mono and 2D echo, pulsed color (P...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Assanelli D,Marconi M,Corsini C,Flacco L,Facchinetti AI,Bonvini L

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aortic distensibility index, as a measure of vascular function, can serve as a marker of coronary artery disease severity. This study explores the feasibility of using the non-invasively measured index as an indicator of severity of coronary stenosis. METHODS:One hundred patients with normal left ventric...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Shehata M,Elsayegh A,Gomaa Y,Gamal M

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:We retrospectively followed 250 patients who started dialysis between 2005 and 2009 to clarify the prevalence, the prognosis and the prescribed heart failure treatment of systolic heart failure patients on dialysis. METHODS AND RESULTS:This cohort was divided according to left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF)...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Derthoo D,Belmans A,Claes K,Bammens B,Ciarka A,Droogné W,Vanhaecke J,Van Cleemput J,Janssens S

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: The objective was to explore the value of serum carbohydrate antigen 125 (CA125) combined with N-terminal pro B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in predicting the clinical prognosis of patients with acute heart failure (AHF).Methods: We prospectively observed 213 patients with AHF. CA125 (U/ml) and NT-...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Chen X,Wu M,Xu K,Huang M,Zhuo X

更新日期：2020-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a report on a prospective case-control study, in which a group of patients with an electrocardiographic diagnosis of QTc-prolongation (cases) was compared with a group of patients with a normal QTc (controls) for the presence of potential causative factors. Twelve cases and twelve carefully-matched controls we...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Vervaet P,Amery W

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cardiac rehabilitation programmes result in reduced morbidity and mortality and improvement of functional class. Behaviour of natriuretic peptides coupled to these programmes is not well established. Our study's objective is to evaluate the behaviour of natriuretic peptides in a sample of patients undergoing ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Montiel-Trujillo A,Isasti-Aizpurua G,Carrasco-Chinchilla F,Jiménez-Navarro MF,Gómez-González A,Bravo Navas JC,Jimeno C,De Teresa-Galván E

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The intima-media thickness (IMT) of the carotid artery is dependent on the risk factor load during life and correlates well with the degree of atherosclerosis, also in other vascular beds. METHODS:We reviewed our database of IMT measurements, from January 2002 to February 2007. We compared the mean IMT value...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Heuten H,Goovaerts I,Ennekens G,Vrints C

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this paper is to study the degree of subclinical arterial wall damage in subjects at low and moderate risk of cardiovascular death by the SCORE scale using instrumental research methods. METHODS:We enrolled 600 patients (mean age 49.0 +/- 7.1 years, 74% women) with a calculated SCORE 5%, who passed a ca...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Boytcov SA,Urazalina SJ,Kukharchuk VV,Balakhonova TV,Sergienko IV

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective Heart fatty acid binding protein (HFABP) is a low-molecular-weight free protein that is abundant in the intracytoplasmic space of myocytes. Due to its unique features, serum HFABP levels may increase in myocardial ischaemia. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of myocardial ischaemia induced by ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Akinci S,Balcioğlu AS,Taçoy G,Tavil Y,Gülbahar Ö,Özdemir M

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:We aimed to compare the incidence of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) between atorvastatin versus rosuvastatin in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary coronary angioplasty. METHODS:One hundred ninety-two consecutive patients, who underwent primary percutaneous inter...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Kaya A,Kurt M,Tanboğa IH,Işik T,Ekinci M,Aksakal E,Kaya Y,Topçu S,Sevimli S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 15-year-old boy who was admitted to the neurology department had multiple cerebral infarcts on cranial magnetic resonance imaging. A transthoracic echocardiogram revealed myocardial thickening and apical thrombus in the left ventricle suggesting Loeffler endocarditis. There was remarkable hypereosinophilia on the ha...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Aydoğdu S,Uçar O,Cetin M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological information on the prevalence, incidence and natural history of intermittent claudication and peripheral vascular disease is limited, partially by the limitation of techniques of their study. The available data from the literature are review and supplemented by results from an on-going survey the ankle...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： De Backer G,Kornitzer M,Sobolski J,Denolin H

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Presence of coronary artery disease (CAD) also in subjects without traditional risk factors leads to a search for new risk factors. Tenascin-C (TNC), an extracellular matrix glycoprotein is normally found in very low concentrations in tissues and serum of adults, whereas its expression is enhanced in case of ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Ozmen Yildiz P,Yildiz I,Ozmen C,Karabacak M,Doven O

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Open surgery for aortic dissection with crevasse in the vicinity of critical branching (CVCB-AD) is frequently associated with several complications and a high mortality rate. We report the management of 53 patients with CVCB-AD who underwent a novel hybrid procedure including both open surgery and endovascular stenti...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Wu X,Hui O,Ding S,Yue Q,Zhang J

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is associated with a risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD). Several models have been developed to estimate SCD risk and guide preventive therapy. The comparison of the previous 2003 with novel 2014 SCD risk models have never been studied. Methods Over a year we included 103 con...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Rubis P,Biernacka-Fijalkowska B,Khachatryan L,Karabinowska A,Faltyn P,Dzwiecka E,Wisniowska-Smialek S,Tomkiewcz-Pająk L,Podolec P

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitral annular calcification is a degenerative process. It is mostly asymptomatic. As the calcification becomes more extensive it might be mistaken for an intracardiac tumour. Mitral annular calcification predicts cardiovascular events, cardiovascular death and overall death. It is predictive of a doubling of the stro...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Trenson S,de Ceuninck M

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Heart failure (HF) is a lethal disorder most common in blacks. Available treatment options have little impact on prognosis, making primary prevention a priority. We aimed to describe the spectrum of established HF risk factors and clinical features in Nigerian adults. METHODS:We recruited consecutive adults...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Laabes EP,Thacher TD,Okeahialam BN

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enalapril is a new angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor which, when absorbed by the digestive tract, is converted to enalaprilat. This metabolite is, in fact, the active form of enalapril. Its duration of action is sufficiently long so that enalapril can be administered in a single daily dose. Enalapril has been pr...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Brunner HR,Nussberger J,Waeber B

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas effective strategies are available to treat acute cellular cardiac rejection, humoral rejection, also called vascular or antibody-mediated rejection, is more difficult to manage. Antibody-mediated (non-cellular) rejections (AMR) are rare and few successfully treated cases have been described in the literature....

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Verheyen J,Vermeulen T,Janssen Van Doorn K,Vrints C,Conraads V

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) has diagnostic and prognostic value in a wide variety of cardiac disorders including heart failure and acute coronary syndromes. We aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of baseline and post-procedural BNP levels in predicting major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in stable cor...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Yildirir A,Acikel S,Ertan C,Aydinalp A,Ozin B,Muderrisoglu H

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Though cardiac involvement is a frequent finding in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) at the wheel-chair-bound stage, left ventricular hypertrabeculation (LVHT) has not been reported. The patient is a 28-year-old male with the typical clinical features of end stage DMD. Since the age of 16 years he requi...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Finsterer J,Gelpi E,Stöllberger C

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical, fono-mechano-echocardiographic, hemodynamic and angiographic findings before and after surgery of a patient who developed bilateral extensive endomyocardial fibrosis probably secondary to filariasis, are described. The patient was surgically treated by endocardial decortication and insertion of a mitral ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Dejaegher P,Stalpaert J,De Geest H

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The coronary slow flow phenomenon is an angiographic finding characterized by delayed distal vessel opacification in the absence of significant epicardial coronary disease, and is an important clinical entity because it may be the cause of angina at rest or during exercise, acute myocardial infarction, and h...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Yilmaz H,Demir I,Uyar Z

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study evaluated autonomic nervous system function in 5 young (6-10 years old) and 5 older (10-15 years) children with recurrent episodes of neurally mediated syncope and a positive tilt-test result, 10 with syncope but a negative test result and 30 age-matched healthy volunteers. METHODS:Time- (SDNN, SD...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Massin MM,Henrard V,Gerard P

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent evidence suggests that there are ethnic variations in atrial fibrillation (AF) susceptibility and incidence following acute myocardial infarction (AMI). OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence and predictors of AF in the setting of AMI in Middle Eastern Arab and South Asian pat...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Salam AM,Al BH,Singh R,Gehani A,Asaad N,Al-Qahtani A,Suwaidi JA

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and aim The purpose of this study was to assess incidence, predictors and outcome of radial artery occlusion (RAO) after transradial catheterization (TRC) based on clinical and Doppler ultrasound study. Methods A total of 1,945 consecutive patients undergoing transradial catheterization for diagnostic evalu...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Sinha SK,Jha MJ,Mishra V,Thakur R,Goel A,Kumar A,Singh AK,Sachan M,Varma CM,Krishna V

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetic parameters for a two compartment open model were defined for six patients receiving a wide range of Digoxin doses. It was demonstrated that the two compartment model is a valid one to use for Digoxin pharmacokinetics. This model is an useful concept because it can explain the necessity to vary Digo...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Rabkin SW,Grupp G

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac rehabilitation for ischaemic heart disease effectively reduces cardiovascular readmission rate and mortality. Current uptake rates however, remain low. This study assesses the social and economic impact of increasing centre-based cardiac rehabilitation uptake and the additional value of cardiac teler...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Frederix I,Vandijck D,Hens N,De Sutter J,Dendale P

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A follow-up study was carried out in 98 patients with congestive cardiomyopathy using clinical data and M-mode echocardiography. 59 patients survived (mean follow-up period 18 months), 39 patients died (mean survival period 12.6 months). Median survival time was 3 years. Prognosis was unfavorably affected by ECG signs...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Lengyel M,Kökény M

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00