Cytotoxin-associated gene-A--positive Helicobacter pylori strains are associated with atherosclerotic stroke.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The reason for the delay in onset of the electrophysiological effects and antiarrhythmic efficacy of amiodarone is not clear. The relation between the development of the electrophysiological effects of amiodarone and its myocardial concentration is unknown. We therefore examined the time course of developmen...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Nanas JN,Mason JW

更新日期：1995-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The detection and differentiation of intracardiac masses is still challenging and may include neoplasms and thrombi. The aim of this study was the investigation of a targeted, fibrin-specific contrast agent (EP-2104R) for molecular targeted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of left atrial clots. METHODS AND ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Spuentrup E,Fausten B,Kinzel S,Wiethoff AJ,Botnar RM,Graham PB,Haller S,Katoh M,Parsons EC Jr,Manning WJ,Busch T,Günther RW,Buecker A

更新日期：2005-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors (CKIs) have different patterns of expression in vascular diseases. The Kip/Cip CKIs, p27(Kip1) and p21(Cip1), are upregulated during arterial repair and negatively regulate the growth of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). In contrast, the Ink CKI, p16(Ink4), is not e...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tanner FC,Boehm M,Akyürek LM,San H,Yang ZY,Tashiro J,Nabel GJ,Nabel EG

更新日期：2000-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increased diastolic chamber stiffness (increased DCS) during angina (demand ischemia) has been postulated to be generated by increased diastolic myocyte calcium concentration. METHODS AND RESULTS:We reproduced demand ischemia in isolated isovolumically contracting red-cell-perfused rabbit hearts by imposing...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Varma N,Eberli FR,Apstein CS

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The suggestion that increased QT dispersion (QTD) is due to increased differences in local action potential durations within the myocardium is wanting. An alternative explanation was sought by relating QTD to vectorcardiographic T-loop morphology. METHODS AND RESULTS:The T loop is characterized by its ampli...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kors JA,van Herpen G,van Bemmel JH

更新日期：1999-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) has evolved rapidly from a relatively esoteric research tool into clinical applications providing unique, quantitative information on myocardial perfusion, metabolism, and cell membrane function and having a potentially significant impact on cardiovascular medicine. Although ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Gould KL

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In subjects of all ages, those who weigh the most often have the highest blood pressure. Thus, in epidemiological studies, weight is the most important correlate of blood pressure. Using the data from the Medical College of Virginia Twin Study, we asked these questions: 1) Do the same genetic paths that regu...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Schieken RM,Mosteller M,Goble MM,Moskowitz WB,Hewitt JK,Eaves LJ,Nance WE

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since quinidine is one of the few agents available to treat and prevent ventricular arrhythmias in ambulatory patients, its hemodynamic effects have been reevaluated. When given in therapeutic doses to anesthetized mongrel dogs, quinidine significantly reduced heart rate, aortic pressure and flow, but it did not signi...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Markiewicz W,Winkle R,Binetti G,Kernoff R,Harrison DC

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In patients with acute coronary syndromes and planned percutaneous coronary intervention, the Trial to Assess Improvement in Therapeutic Outcomes by Optimizing Platelet Inhibition With Prasugrel-Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction 38 (TRITON-TIMI 38) demonstrated that treatment with prasugrel versus clopid...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Mahoney EM,Wang K,Arnold SV,Proskorovsky I,Wiviott S,Antman E,Braunwald E,Cohen DJ

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pulmonary autograft procedure (Ross) is now considered the gold standard for aortic valve replacement. One of its advantages is the freedom from macroemboli without anticoagulation. Whether this holds true for circulating microemboli, detectable as high-intensity transient Doppler signals (HITS), has not...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Nötzold A,Droste DW,Hagedorn G,Berndt S,Kaps M,Graf B,Sievers HH

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-one published reports (366 patients) and 48 consecutive patients treated for postinfarction ventricular septal defect at four institutions in northern California were reviewed. Overall hospital mortality was 43% in the reviewed group and was not affected by age, concomitant myocardial revascularization, date of...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Hill JD,Stiles QR

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Postmortem interrogations of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs), recommended at autopsy in suspected cases of sudden cardiac death, are rarely performed, and data on systematic postmortem CIED analysis in the forensic pathology are missing. The aim of the study was to determine whether nonselecti...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lacour P,Buschmann C,Storm C,Nee J,Parwani AS,Huemer M,Attanasio P,Boldt LH,Rauch G,Kucher A,Pieske B,Haverkamp W,Blaschke F

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Factor Xa plays a central role in the generation of thrombin, making it a novel target for treatment of arterial thrombosis. Fondaparinux is a synthetic factor Xa inhibitor that has been shown to be superior to standard therapies for the prevention of venous thrombosis. We performed a randomized trial to det...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Mehta SR,Steg PG,Granger CB,Bassand JP,Faxon DP,Weitz JI,Afzal R,Rush B,Peters RJ,Natarajan MK,Velianou JL,Goodhart DM,Labinaz M,Tanguay JF,Fox KA,Yusuf S,ASPIRE Investigators.

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drugs that simultaneously decrease platelet function and inflammation may improve the treatment of cardiovascular disorders. Here, we determined whether dipyridamole and aspirin, a combination therapy used to prevent recurrent stroke, regulates gene expression in platelet-monocyte inflammatory model systems....

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Weyrich AS,Denis MM,Kuhlmann-Eyre JR,Spencer ED,Dixon DA,Marathe GK,McIntyre TM,Zimmerman GA,Prescott SM

更新日期：2005-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous investigators have shown that systemic markers of inflammation may be increased in patients with acute ischemic syndromes or after percutaneous coronary revascularization and that persistent elevation in these markers is predictive of excess risk of subsequent adverse cardiac events. By virtue of it...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lincoff AM,Kereiakes DJ,Mascelli MA,Deckelbaum LI,Barnathan ES,Patel KK,Frederick B,Nakada MT,Topol EJ

更新日期：2001-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Current imaging modalities can provide only a qualitative or semiquantitative measure of the severity of aortic regurgitation. Ultrafast computed tomography (CT) has the capability of rapid imaging (17 frames/sec) coupled with high spatial resolution (1.5 mm2). Eight millimeter thick images can be acquired to interrog...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Reiter SJ,Rumberger JA,Stanford W,Marcus ML

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hemodynamic stability after Norwood palliation often requires manipulation of pulmonary vascular resistance to alter the pulmonary-to-systemic blood flow ratio (Qp:Qs). Qp:Qs is often estimated from arterial saturation (SaO2), a practice based on 2 untested assumptions: constant systemic arteriovenous O2 dif...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Taeed R,Schwartz SM,Pearl JM,Raake JL,Beekman RH 3rd,Manning PB,Nelson DP

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant hyperthermia is a disease resulting from defective cellular membranes, usually presenting as drug-induced pyrexic crises. We describe four patients with life threatening ventricular arrhythmias or chest pain in the absence of pyrexic crises. Three presented with life threatening arrhythmias and the fourth wi...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Huckell VF,Staniloff HM,Britt BA,Waxman MB,Morch JE

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since myocardial blood flow changes dynamically after reperfusion and since both hyperemia and impairment in microvascular function exist within the acutely reperfused bed, we sought to investigate the role of myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) in (1) defining the temporal variability in perfusion pa...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Villanueva FS,Glasheen WP,Sklenar J,Kaul S

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heart valve surgery has an associated in-hospital mortality rate of 4% to 8%. This study aims to develop a simple risk model to predict the risk of in-hospital mortality for patients undergoing heart valve surgery to provide information to patients and clinicians and to facilitate institutional comparisons. ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Ambler G,Omar RZ,Royston P,Kinsman R,Keogh BE,Taylor KM

更新日期：2005-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The outcome of patients with corrected transposition of the great arteries (CTGA) is variably affected by associated intracardiac defects, tricuspid valve competence, and systemic right ventricular (RV) function. The relative importance of these factors in long-term outcome has not been evaluated. METHODS A...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Prieto LR,Hordof AJ,Secic M,Rosenbaum MS,Gersony WM

更新日期：1998-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the contribution of disopyramide's suggested opposing direct depressant and indirect acceleratory actions on sinus node function, we studied the effects of disopyramide, 1 x 10(-7) to 1 x 10(-4) M, on isolated rabbit sinus node preparations using standard microelectrode techniques. Transmembrane potential...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Katoh T,Karagueuzian HS,Jordan J,Mandel WJ

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biventricular direct cardiac compression (DCC) has the potential to support the failing heart without the complications associated with a blood/device interface encountered with the use of current ventricular assist devices. A clinically designed DCC device that provides compression pressure around the base ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Artrip JH,Yi GH,Levin HR,Burkhoff D,Wang J

更新日期：1999-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with chronic ischemic cardiomyopathy is increasing in frequency, as is reoperative bypass. However, there exist very little data on early outcomes of patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction undergoing reoperation. Hence, we tested the following hypotheses...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kron IL,Cope JT,Baker LD Jr,Spotnitz HM

更新日期：1997-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vascular inflammatory lesions from patients with giant-cell arteritis show a remarkable amount of neovascularization, but its clinical implications have never been investigated. METHODS AND RESULTS:To assess the clinical relevance of neovascularization in giant-cell arteritis, angiogenesis was measured in t...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Cid MC,Hernández-Rodríguez J,Esteban MJ,Cebrián M,Gho YS,Font C,Urbano-Márquez A,Grau JM,Kleinman HK

更新日期：2002-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Continuous whole-body perfusion for > 3 hours with a cold asanguineous blood substitute, hypothermosol (HTS) solution, has been reported to preserve organ function. We used this solution in a survival animal model to evaluate its possible application in extending the safe duration of deep hypothermic circula...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Miura T,Laussen P,Lidov HG,DuPlessis A,Shin'oka T,Jonas RA

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the effects of coronary angioplasty on coronary flow reserve (CFR), we studied 32 patients before and immediately after single-vessel coronary angioplasty and 31 patients evaluated late after angioplasty (7.5 +/- 1.2 months, mean +/- SEM). The geometry (percent area stenosis and minimal cross-sectional ar...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Wilson RF,Johnson MR,Marcus ML,Aylward PE,Skorton DJ,Collins S,White CW

更新日期：1988-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Oxidative stress has been implicated in vascular injury and atherogenesis, and antioxidant treatment has shown favorable results in preclinical studies. Despite this, antioxidant therapy has failed to show benefit in clinical trials. Failure of antioxidants in clinical trials may be partly because such thera...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Chyu KY,Babbidge SM,Zhao X,Dandillaya R,Rietveld AG,Yano J,Dimayuga P,Cercek B,Shah PK

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to compare differential effects of a segment of slow conduction during ventricular tachycardia (VT) due to depression of the action potential and electrical uncoupling. METHODS AND RESULTS:In 33 Langendorff-perfused rabbit hearts, a ring of anisotropic left ventricular subepica...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Haberl K,Allessie M

更新日期：1999-02-23 00:00:00