Initial experience with a multiplane transoesophageal echo-transducer: assessment of diagnostic potential.

abstract：:Increased levels of low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and triglyceride, and low levels of high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, are associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). Only a minor part of the variation in lipids can be explained by defects in single genes of large effect; the...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Cullen P,Funke H,Schulte H,Assmann G

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Although embolic protection devices reduce complications during saphenous vein graft (SVG) stenting, adverse events still occur in approximately 10% of patients. IIb/IIIa antagonists have not been proven effective during SVG intervention. We hypothesized that adjunctive use of these agents might enhance the effica...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Jonas M,Stone GW,Mehran R,Hermiller J,Feldman R,Herrmann HC,Cox DA,Kuntz RE,Popma JJ,Rogers C,FilterWire EX Randomized Evalulation (FIRE) Investigators.

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that transdermal nitroglycerin may induce an increase in the activity of the adrenergic and the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone systems (SRAA) in patients with chronic stable angina pectoris (SA); when the activation of these systems is more pronounced, the antianginal effect of this drug seems ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Muiesan ML,Boni E,Castellano M,Beschi M,Cefis G,Cerri B,Verdecchia P,Porcellati C,Pollavini G,Agabiti-Rosei E

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the occasion of a routine medical check-up 256 out of 1100 individuals with an accumulation of coronary risk factors were screened for silent myocardial ischaemia by exercise testing and Holter monitoring. Of these individuals 5.5% had a pathological exercise test, 7.4% had ischaemia-like events on the Holter ECG, ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Osterspey A,Treis-Müller I,Günther H,Eggeling T,Siglow C,Gedicke V,Höpp H,Diewitz M,Osterhues H,Hilger HH

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether left ventricular hypertrophy in elite cyclists is associated with functional changes or abnormal energy metabolism. Left ventricular hypertrophy is a powerful risk factor for sudden cardiac death with different prognostic significance among the various geometric forms. Cyclists may have a combi...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Pluim BM,Chin JC,De Roos A,Doornbos J,Siebelink HM,Van der Laarse A,Vliegen HW,Lamerichs RM,Bruschke AV,Van der Wall EE

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal began as a journal for cardiothoracic surgery, but joining forces with cardiology has increased the impact factor and number of subscribers. ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Taylor J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical expert consensus statement on takotsubo syndrome (TTS) part II focuses on the diagnostic workup, outcome, and management. The recommendations are based on interpretation of the limited clinical trial data currently available and experience of international TTS experts. It summarizes the diagnostic approac...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Ghadri JR,Wittstein IS,Prasad A,Sharkey S,Dote K,Akashi YJ,Cammann VL,Crea F,Galiuto L,Desmet W,Yoshida T,Manfredini R,Eitel I,Kosuge M,Nef HM,Deshmukh A,Lerman A,Bossone E,Citro R,Ueyama T,Corrado D,Kurisu S,

更新日期：2018-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Priorities for unanswered questions concerning major areas of cardiovascular disease are being sought by the British Cardiovascular Society, using the methods of the James Lind Alliance, which involves clinicians and patients in an equal partnership, reports Barry Shurlock PhD. ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors：

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Aims:Primary prevention implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are established therapy for reducing mortality in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction and ischaemic heart disease (IHD). However, their efficacy in patients without IHD has been controversial. We undertook a meta-analysis of the tota...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Shun-Shin MJ,Zheng SL,Cole GD,Howard JP,Whinnett ZI,Francis DP

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Women, particularly younger women, hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction have been found to have poorer prognosis than men. A large proportion of deaths due to myocardial infarction, however, occur in the pre-hospital phase. We set out to analyse age-specific sex differences in survival after myocardial in...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Rosengren A,Spetz CL,Köster M,Hammar N,Alfredsson L,Rosén M

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, stress echocardiography has gained broad acceptance as a non-invasive method for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. Facing different protocols, dosages and instrumentation, official guidelines for the performance, standardization and quality control of stress echocardiograms are needed; however...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Ketteler T,Krahwinkel W,Gödke J,Wolfertz J,Scheuble L,Hoffmeister T,Gülker H

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The syndrome with an electrocardiographic pattern of right bundle branch block, ST segment elevation in leads V(1)to V(3)and sudden death is genetically determined and caused by mutations in the cardiac sodium channel. The inheritance of the disease is autosomal dominant. Sudden death may, however, occur fro...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Brugada P,Brugada R,Brugada J

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Myocardial Infarction Project (E.M.I.P.) participants have evaluated out-of-hospital coronary care services in different cities within the E.E.C. and concluded that these facilities would support a study within these European centres on pre-hospital intervention in myocardial infarction. Based on a pilot ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors：

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) assesses arterial remodelling by comparing the lesion external elastic membrane (EEM) with the reference segments; however, reference segments are rarely disease-free. The aim was to assess lesion and reference segment remodelling and plaque burden in patients with type-2 diabetes m...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Jensen LO,Thayssen P,Mintz GS,Maeng M,Junker A,Galloe A,Christiansen EH,Hoffmann SK,Pedersen KE,Hansen HS,Hansen KN

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The objectives of this study were to determine the association of waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) with the risk of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) events and to determine whether the strength of association of WC and WHR with CVD risk is different. METHODS AND RESULTS:This meta-regress...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： de Koning L,Merchant AT,Pogue J,Anand SS

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transesophageal echocardiographic evaluation of right and left pulmonary arteries, up to the origin of their lobar branches, was prospectively performed with a single plane probe in 32 consecutive patients (18 M, 14 F, aged 55.5 +/- 14.6, from 32 to 80 years) with clinical or echocardiographic suspicion of pulmonary e...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Pruszczyk P,Torbicki A,Kuch-Wocial A,Chlebus M,Miśkiewicz ZC,Jedrusik P

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Here, the aim is to assess long-term clinical variation (CV) of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in stable chronic heart failure (CHF) patients. The proposed use of NT-proBNP for monitoring of CHF patients will require accurate information about long-term CV of the peptide. METHODS AND RESULTS...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Schou M,Gustafsson F,Kjaer A,Hildebrandt PR

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The study set out to assess the relative contributions of donor heart rate, respiration and recipient atrial contraction on the mean of pulsed wave transmitral Doppler flow indices in orthotopic heart transplant recipients. This would provide information on the theoretical usefulness of pacemaker synchronization o...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Mannaerts H,Balk A,Roelandt J

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of our study was to examine if echocardiography can reproducibly be used in a multicentre study to select high risk patients with reduced left ventricular function early after an acute myocardial infarction (MI). In the TRAndolapril Cardiac Evaluation Study (TRACE) patients with reduced left ventricular systol...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Køber L,Torp-Pedersen C,Carlsen J,Videbaek R,Egeblad H

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied regional left ventricular (LV) wall motion with M-mode, cross-sectional (2D) echocardiography and LV angiography in 50 patients with a recent myocardial infarction. Regional LV wall motion was evaluated according to a 9-segment model. 2D echocardiography permitted information from all, M-mode echocardi...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Lindvall K,Hamsten A,Landou C,Szamosi A,de Faire U

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A(2) (Lp-PLA(2)) has been suggested as an independent predictor of cardiovascular events in epidemiological studies. We sought to evaluate Lp-PLA(2) as a risk factor for future cardiovascular events in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and to elucidate the relationshi...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Oldgren J,James SK,Siegbahn A,Wallentin L

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if dobutamine-induced myocardial ischaemia causes abnormalities in Doppler parameters of left ventricular ejection and filling and to assess early effects of successful coronary angioplasty (PTCA) on these parameters, dobutamine stress echocardiography and Doppler studies were performed once in 11 normal ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： el-Said ES,Fioretti PM,Roelandt JR,McNeill AJ,Rijsterborgh H,Forster T,Di Mario C,Linker DT

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To identify variables predicting ejection fraction (EF) recovery and characterize prognosis of heart failure (HF) patients with EF recovery (HFrecEF). METHODS AND RESULTS:Retrospective study of adults referred for ≥2 echocardiograms separated by ≥6 months between 2008 and 2016 at the two largest echocardiography ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Ghimire A,Fine N,Ezekowitz JA,Howlett J,Youngson E,McAlister FA

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Our aim was to follow changes in myocardial function and physiology in patients awaiting coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) and relate changes to post-revascularisation functional response. METHODS AND RESULTS:In 21 patients with CAD and LV dysfunction, myocardial glucose utilisation (MGU) and blood flow (MBF)...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Pitt M,Dutka D,Pagano D,Camici P,Bonser R

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) pose a worldwide growing burden to health care systems due to accelerated atherosclerosis and subsequent high cardiovascular (CV) morbidity. Atherogenesis is prominently driven by monocytes and monocyte-derived macrophages. The expression of CD14 and CD16 characterizes th...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Rogacev KS,Seiler S,Zawada AM,Reichart B,Herath E,Roth D,Ulrich C,Fliser D,Heine GH

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To perform a retrospective analysis of subgroups of patients enrolled into the European Myocardial Infarct Amiodarone Trial (EMIAT) in order to identify patients who might benefit from prophylactic amiodarone treatment and patients in whom amiodarone might be harmful. METHODS:Baseline characteristics of the 1486 ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Janse MJ,Malik M,Camm AJ,Julian DG,Frangin GA,Schwartz PJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Surgery in patients with infective endocarditis (IE) can be elective (upon completion of antibiotic treatment) or urgent (before antibiotic treatment has ended) when the clinical course is unfavourable. However, urgent surgery for left-sided endocarditis is associated with high mortality. The aims of this study we...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Revilla A,López J,Vilacosta I,Villacorta E,Rollán MJ,Echevarría JR,Carrascal Y,Di Stefano S,Fulquet E,Rodríguez E,Fiz L,San Román JA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, a new exercise test criterion diagnosing coronary artery disease was proposed, based on a composite of changes in Q-, R- and S-waves: the QRS score. We compared this new criterion with conventional ST-segment depression and other compositions of Q-, R- and S-wave changes in patients and normals and...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： van Campen CM,Visser FC,Visser CA

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：Aim:Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) exhibits genetic heterogeneity that is dominated by variation in eight sarcomeric genes. Genetic variation in a large number of non-sarcomeric genes has also been implicated in HCM but not formally assessed. Here we used very large case and control cohorts to determine the extent t...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Walsh R,Buchan R,Wilk A,John S,Felkin LE,Thomson KL,Chiaw TH,Loong CCW,Pua CJ,Raphael C,Prasad S,Barton PJ,Funke B,Watkins H,Ware JS,Cook SA

更新日期：2017-12-07 00:00:00