Prediction of outcome by neurohumoral activation, the six-minute walk test and the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire in an outpatient cohort with congestive heart failure.

abstract：AIMS:Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a disease with marked regional differences in wall thickness. However, the relation between myocardial function and wall thickness has not been well studied. Ultrasonic strain rate (SR) imaging makes it possible to study the regional myocardial deformation. We investigated whet...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Ganame J,Mertens L,Eidem BW,Claus P,D'hooge J,Havemann LM,McMahon CJ,Elayda MA,Vaughn WK,Towbin JA,Ayres NA,Pignatelli RH

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Hyponatraemia has been shown to be an independent predictor of mortality in selected patients with heart failure enrolled in clinical trials. The predictive value of hyponatraemia has not been evaluated in unselected patients hospitalized with heart failure. METHODS AND RESULTS:OPTIMIZE-HF is a registry and perfo...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Gheorghiade M,Abraham WT,Albert NM,Gattis Stough W,Greenberg BH,O'Connor CM,She L,Yancy CW,Young J,Fonarow GC,OPTIMIZE-HF Investigators and Coordinators.

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Current data concerning the influence of X-ray contrast media on the incidence of thrombotic complications in interventional cardiology are controversial. The effect of ionic contrast media on acute (< or =72 h) and subacute (< or =30 days) stent thrombosis has not been investigated. METHODS:Three thousand, nine ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Scheller B,Hennen B,Pohl A,Schieffer H,Markwirth T

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate fatalities from myocardial infarction at 28 days and one-year among patients aged 35-64 years in the Nordic and Lithuanian centres participating in the World Health Organization MONICA (Monitoring of Trends and Determinants of Cardiovascular Disease) Project. METHODS AND RESULTS:Altogether 9100 myoc...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Salomaa VV,Lundberg V,Agnarsson U,Radisauskas R,Kirchhoff M,Wilhelmsen L

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:We aimed to assess the contemporary outcome of Eisenmenger syndrome (ES), delineate the use of disease targeting therapies (DTT) in these patients and to investigate the effect of treatment on outcome in the community. METHODS AND RESULTS:Patients with ES were systematically identified from the German National Re...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Diller GP,Körten MA,Bauer UM,Miera O,Tutarel O,Kaemmerer H,Berger F,Baumgartner H,German Competence Network for Congenital Heart Defects Investigators.

更新日期：2016-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycaemic control is an inadequate surrogate marker of cardiovascular event reduction in patients with type 2 diabetes. Clinical trials to date have been unsuccessful in identifying a therapeutic approach that addresses the underlying problem in diabetes (glycaemic control) and reduces cardiovascular risk. The potenti...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Zannad F,Stough WG,Pocock SJ,Sleight P,Cushman WC,Cleland JG,McMurray JJ,Lonn E,Geller NL,Wedel H,Abadie E,Alonso-Garcia A,Pitt B

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This study compared plasma levels of established risk markers for atherosclerosis and indices of inflammation in 50 patients with severe periodontitis to those in 46 healthy cases. METHODS AND RESULTS:Full blood counts were performed and levels of high density lipoproteins (HDL), total cholesterol, haptoglobin, e...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Buhlin K,Gustafsson A,Pockley AG,Frostegård J,Klinge B

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In patients with postinfarction sustained ventricular tachycardia showing one or more antiarrhythmic drug failures, the question is how long to proceed with new drug trials before deciding to perform map-guided arrhythmia surgery. Although the techniques of this surgery developed rapidly in the early 1980s, ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： van Hemel NM,Kingma JH,Defauw JJ,Hoogteijling-van Dusseldorp E,Kelder JC,Beukema WP,Vermeulen FE

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients who have experienced a myocardial infarction (MI) are at increased risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD). With the advent of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), accurate risk stratification has become very relevant. Numerous investigations have proven that a reduced left ventricular ejection fraction...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Dagres N,Hindricks G

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with known or suspected coronary disease are often investigated to facilitate risk assessment. We sought to examine the cost-effectiveness of strategies based on exercise echocardiography and exercise electrocardiography. METHODS AND RESULTS:We studied 7656 patients undergoing exercise testing; of ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Marwick TH,Shaw L,Case C,Vasey C,Thomas JD

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maximal hyperaemia is paramount in the diagnosis of patients with coronary artery disease. However in these patients, enhanced alpha-adrenergic microvascular vasoconstriction may preclude adenosine to induce maximal hyperaemia. AIM:To assess the presence and the clinical relevance of residual microvascular ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Barbato E,Bartunek J,Aarnoudse W,Vanderheyden M,Staelens F,Wijns W,Heyndrickx GR,Pijls NH,De Bruyne B

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective trial in 124 patients with acute myocardial infarction, Holter and surface ECG recordings were obtained simultaneously and compared for their ability to assess thrombolysis-induced ST segment changes. Accuracy in predicting patency of the infarct-related artery was evaluated in both methods. Success o...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Zabel M,Hohnloser SH,Parussel A,Just H

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 3-year period 2500 asymptomatic male aviators were screened routinely for coronary artery disease by maximal bicycle exercise testing. In 55 cases (2.1%) the exercise ECG was abnormal (40 subjects exhibited ST depression, 14 ventricular ectopic activity and in one subject both abnormalities were observed). Fu...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Pedersen F,Sandøe E,Laerkeborg A

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of coronary heart disease (CHD) was determined in a general population sample of 9141 Icelandic men aged 34-79 years, and the prevalence of four different forms of CHD was estimated separately: symptomatic infarction fulfilling WHO-MONICA criteria for definite myocardial infarction; myocardial infarctio...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Sigurdsson E,Thorgeirsson G,Sigvaldason H,Sigfusson N

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simultaneous two-channel Holter monitoring, with a direct recording system, and maximal exercise testing with a 12-lead precordial electrocardiographic mapping system were performed in 50 patients with chest pain (41 with documented coronary artery disease, 9 without). The exploring Holter leads were placed to corresp...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Egstrup K

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased QT dispersion, which has been proposed as a marker of ventricular repolarization inhomogeneity, may predispose to ventricular arrhythmias. Data on QT dispersion in patients with congestive heart failure are scarce. In this study, conventional 12-lead ECGs were recorded in 135 consecutive patients with conges...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Fei L,Goldman JH,Prasad K,Keeling PJ,Reardon K,Camm AJ,McKenna WJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strong experimental evidence links ventricular fibrillation to an increased temporal dispersion of the recovery of excitability. The effect of an overall prolongation of repolarization and an increased basic dispersion of repolarization on premature dispersion was studied on ventricular surface in 10 dogs. Our observa...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Amlie JP,Kuo CS,Munakata K,Reddy PS,Surawicz B

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate whether an ambulance crew's length of experience affected the outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. METHODS AND RESULTS:This was a population-based, retrospective observational study of attempted resuscitations in 1547 consecutive arrests of cardiac aetiology by Nottinghamshire Emergency Ambul...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Soo LH,Gray D,Young T,Skene A,Hampton JR

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:A new generation of multidetector-row CT (MDCT) scanners allows complete coronary coverage using retrospective ECG gating and 1mm slices. The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential of high resolution MDCT angiography with retrospective gating for detection of coronary artery stenoses. METHODS AND ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Kopp AF,Schroeder S,Kuettner A,Baumbach A,Georg C,Kuzo R,Heuschmid M,Ohnesorge B,Karsch KR,Claussen CD

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Delayed lipoprotein clearance is associated with atherosclerosis. This study examined whether chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH), a hallmark of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), can lead to hyperlipidaemia by inhibiting clearance of triglyceride rich lipoproteins (TRLP). METHODS AND RESULTS:Male C57BL/6J mice on hi...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Drager LF,Li J,Shin MK,Reinke C,Aggarwal NR,Jun JC,Bevans-Fonti S,Sztalryd C,O'Byrne SM,Kroupa O,Olivecrona G,Blaner WS,Polotsky VY

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary factors may have a part to play in the development of bicuspid aortic valve. This report concerns a pair of identical twins, probably monozygotic, who required aortic valve replacement as a result of aortic stenosis occurring in bicuspid aortic valves. This supports the contention that there may be a geneti...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Godden DJ,Sandhu PS,Kerr F

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now recognised after many years of speculation regarding the role of mammalian atria in the direct regulation of intravascular volume, that atrial myocites produce a peptide hormone that results in natriuresis and diuresis, under the condition of atrial distention. This atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) is secrete...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Cody RJ,Atlas SA,Laragh JH

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of angiotensin (Ang) I and II in a variety of isolated human cardiac tissues contracting under physiological conditions (37 degrees C, 60 beats.min-1). Ang I and II consistently increased the peak developed force of human atrial muscles by 30-40%, an effect that was completely blocked by 10(-6) ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Holubarsch C,Schmidt-Schweda S,Knorr A,Duis J,Pieske B,Ruf T,Fasol R,Hasenfuss G,Just H

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Migration, urbanization, and change in socio-economic factors have potentially profound effects on heart disease in low-to-middle income countries. METHODS AND RESULTS:Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa, provides health care to >1 million Africans. We systematically captured data from all de ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Stewart S,Carrington M,Pretorius S,Methusi P,Sliwa K

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The population with stable coronary artery disease (SCAD) is growing but validated models to guide their clinical management are lacking. We developed and validated prognostic models for all-cause mortality and non-fatal myocardial infarction (MI) or coronary death in SCAD. METHODS AND RESULTS:Models were develop...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Rapsomaniki E,Shah A,Perel P,Denaxas S,George J,Nicholas O,Udumyan R,Feder GS,Hingorani AD,Timmis A,Smeeth L,Hemingway H

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimal length of clopidogrel therapy in patients with acute coronary syndromes or in those who have undergone percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remains controversial. We therefore sought to determine the risk of both perioperative and premature discontinuation of clopidogrel. PubMed and EMBASE databases we...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Gaglia MA Jr,Waksman R

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The totally subcutaneous implantable-defibrillator (S-ICD) is a new alternative to the conventional transvenous ICD system to minimize intravascular lead complications. There are limited data describing the long-term performance of the S-ICD. This paper presents the first large international patient population col...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Lambiase PD,Barr C,Theuns DA,Knops R,Neuzil P,Johansen JB,Hood M,Pedersen S,Kääb S,Murgatroyd F,Reeve HL,Carter N,Boersma L,EFFORTLESS Investigators.

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Coronary plaque characteristics are associated with ischaemia. Differences in plaque volumes and composition may explain the discordance between coronary stenosis severity and ischaemia. We evaluated the association between coronary stenosis severity, plaque characteristics, coronary computed tomography angiograph...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Gaur S,Øvrehus KA,Dey D,Leipsic J,Bøtker HE,Jensen JM,Narula J,Ahmadi A,Achenbach S,Ko BS,Christiansen EH,Kaltoft AK,Berman DS,Bezerra H,Lassen JF,Nørgaard BL

更新日期：2016-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：Aims:To appraise the clinical and genetic evidence that low-density lipoproteins (LDLs) cause atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Methods and results:We assessed whether the association between LDL and ASCVD fulfils the criteria for causality by evaluating the totality of evidence from genetic studies, pro...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Ference BA,Ginsberg HN,Graham I,Ray KK,Packard CJ,Bruckert E,Hegele RA,Krauss RM,Raal FJ,Schunkert H,Watts GF,Borén J,Fazio S,Horton JD,Masana L,Nicholls SJ,Nordestgaard BG,van de Sluis B,Taskinen MR,Tokgözoglu L,

更新日期：2017-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The very long-term outcome of patients who survive the first few years after receiving cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has not been well described thus far. We aimed to provide long-term outcomes, especially with regard to the occurrence of sudden cardiac death (SCD), in CRT patients without (CRT-P) and wi...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Barra S,Duehmke R,Providência R,Narayanan K,Reitan C,Roubicek T,Polasek R,Chow A,Defaye P,Fauchier L,Piot O,Deharo JC,Sadoul N,Klug D,Garcia R,Dockrill S,Virdee M,Pettit S,Agarwal S,Borgquist R,Marijon E,Boveda

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00