Quantifying the heart failure epidemic: prevalence, incidence rate, lifetime risk and prognosis of heart failure The Rotterdam Study.

abstract：AIMS:Ivabradine, a new I(f) inhibitor which acts specifically on the pacemaker activity of the sinoatrial node, is a pure heart rate lowering agent. Ivabradine has shown anti-ischaemic and anti-anginal activity in a placebo-controlled trial. The objective of this study was to compare the anti-anginal and anti-ischaemic...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Tardif JC,Ford I,Tendera M,Bourassa MG,Fox K,INITIATIVE Investigators.

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the characteristics of mitral annular motion during diastole in 28 normal subjects, 40 patients with prior myocardial infarction (MI), and 23 patients with coronary artery disease but without prior MI. Mitral annular motion during diastole was obtained from the apex by M-mode ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Ohte N,Narita H,Hashimoto T,Kobayashi K,Akita S,Fujinami T

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Collagen degradation in atherosclerotic plaques with thin fibrous caps renders them more prone to rupture. Fibroblast activation protein (FAP) plays a role in arthritis and tumour formation through its collagenase activity. However, the significance of FAP in thin-cap human fibroatheromata remains unknown. METHOD...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Brokopp CE,Schoenauer R,Richards P,Bauer S,Lohmann C,Emmert MY,Weber B,Winnik S,Aikawa E,Graves K,Genoni M,Vogt P,Lüscher TF,Renner C,Hoerstrup SP,Matter CM

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To test the hypothesis that increasing age in patients presenting with high-risk non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE-ACS) does not adversely influence the benefit of an early invasive strategy on major adverse events at 6 months. METHODS AND RESULTS:We report clinical outcomes in young (<70), ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Devlin G,Gore JM,Elliott J,Wijesinghe N,Eagle KA,Avezum A,Huang W,Brieger D,GRACE Investigators.

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge for all health care systems is to identify the most efficient use of limited and finite resources available for health care. Economic evaluation provides a balance sheet of the benefits, harms and costs for making choices between alternative health care services and is one strategy to assist decision...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Oldridge NB

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This overview provides a Europe-wide update on the current burden of cardiovascular disease, and specifically of coronary heart disease and stroke. Cardiovascular disease continues to cause a large proportion of deaths and disability in Europe, and places a substantial burden on the health care systems and economies o...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Nichols M,Townsend N,Scarborough P,Rayner M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common complication in patients with acute myocardial infarction and is associated with an increase in the risk of death. The excess mortality associated with AF complicating acute myocardial infarction has not been studied in detail. Observations indicate that AF facilitates inductio...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Pedersen OD,Abildstrøm SZ,Ottesen MM,Rask-Madsen C,Bagger H,Køber L,Torp-Pedersen C,TRACE Study Investigators.

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Growth-differentiation factor-15 (GDF-15) has emerged as a biomarker of increased mortality and recurrent myocardial infarction (MI) in patients diagnosed with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome. We explored the usefulness of GDF-15 for early risk stratification in 479 unselected patients with acute chest pa...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Eggers KM,Kempf T,Allhoff T,Lindahl B,Wallentin L,Wollert KC

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Cardiovascular risk factors such as elevated serum lipid levels are important in the development of coronary atherosclerosis. Radiofrequency (RF) analysis of intravascular ultrasound [IVUS, Virtual histology (VH)] offers a unique tool to study the composition of coronary atherosclerotic plaque in vivo. We used dat...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Philipp S,Böse D,Wijns W,Marso SP,Schwartz RS,König A,Lerman A,Garcia-Garcia HM,Serruys PW,Erbel R

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiazide diuretics are efficacious, either as monotherapy or in combination with other antihypertensive drugs. They reduce blood pressure in a high percentage of hypertensive patients with minimal subjective side effects. There is increasing evidence that the use of diuretics, singly or in combination, will reduce mor...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Moser M

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:OBJECTIVE, DESIGN AND PATIENTS: Between August 1981 and July 1983, 5839 consecutive myocardial infarction patients were hospitalized in 13 coronary care units in Israel. The present study examines 10 year survival among 4037 consecutive patients with a first myocardial infarction with either Q or non-Q waves...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Behar S,Haim M,Hod H,Kornowski R,Reicher-Reiss H,Zion M,Kaplinsky E,Abinader E,Palant A,Kishon Y,Reisin L,Zahavi I,Goldbourt U

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：AIMS:Targeting interleukin-1 (IL-1) represents a novel therapeutic approach to atherosclerosis. CANTOS demonstrated the benefits of IL-1β neutralization in patients post-myocardial infarction with residual inflammatory risk. Yet, some mouse data have shown a prominent role of IL-1α rather than IL-1β in atherosclerosis,...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Vromman A,Ruvkun V,Shvartz E,Wojtkiewicz G,Santos Masson G,Tesmenitsky Y,Folco E,Gram H,Nahrendorf M,Swirski FK,Sukhova GK,Libby P

更新日期：2019-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Aims To assess whether coronary flow velocity reserve following stent implantation is predictive of the subsequent need of target lesion revascularization. Methods and Results The outcome was examined of 417 patients enrolled in a multicentre prospective randomized study (DESTINI), who received a successful single ves...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Nishida T,Di Mario C,Kern MJ,Anderson TJ,Moussa I,Bonan R,Muramatsu T,Jain AC,Suarez de Lezo J,Cho SY,Meredith IT,Moses JW,Colombo A

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sixteen cases of sudden unexpected cardiac death, 15 males and one female, are known to have occurred among young Swedish orienteers from 1979 to 1992, of which seven cases occurred between 1989 and 1992. This is considered to be indicative of an increased death rate. RESULTS:Histopathological evaluation sh...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Wesslén L,Påhlson C,Lindquist O,Hjelm E,Gnarpe J,Larsson E,Baandrup U,Eriksson L,Fohlman J,Engstrand L,Linglöf T,Nyström-Rosander C,Gnarpe H,Magnius L,Rolf C,Friman G

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the long-term benefit-risk ratio of drug-eluting (DES) vs. bare-metal stents (BMS) relative to stent size. METHODS AND RESULTS:All 826 consecutive BASKET (BAsel Stent Kosten-Effektivitäts Trial) patients randomized 2:1 to DES vs. BMS were followed after 3 years. Data were analysed separately for patient...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Pfisterer M,Brunner-La Rocca HP,Rickenbacher P,Hunziker P,Mueller C,Nietlispach F,Leibundgut G,Bader F,Kaiser C,BASKET.

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Periconceptional folate supplementation prevents neural tube defects and possibly congenital heart defects (CHD) as well. The search for candidate genes involved in the folate metabolism includes the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) 677C > T polymorphism. We studied the association between MTHFR 677C > ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： van Beynum IM,Kapusta L,den Heijer M,Vermeulen SH,Kouwenberg M,Daniëls O,Blom HJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:619 patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction (MI) were randomized to receive either a high-dose short-term intravenous infusion of streptokinase (1.5 MU over one hour) or placebo. Using a '2 X 2 X 2 factorial' design, patients were also randomized to receive either oral aspirin (325 mg on alternate days for...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors：

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the adult cardiac myocyte the functional and structural integrity of the sarcolemma depends on the presence of calcium ions in the extracellular fluid. Ultrastructural damage to the myocardial cell after Ca is repleted following brief periods of Ca depletion includes (1) sarcolemmal disruption, (2) mitochondrial da...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Frank JS

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the interpretation of the effect of a drug or intervention in a single patient, it is desirable to know the spontaneous fluctuations of the variable under study. A few studies have determined pulmonary haemodynamic variability in acute and short-term intervals. It seems reasonable to adopt a confidence limit of 6 m...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Schrijen F,Jezková J

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guidelines for the management of cardiovascular disease (CVD) stress the importance of treating global risk, rather than individual risk, factors. Patients at high cardiovascular (CV) risk, for example, benefit from a combination of aspirin, antihypertensive agents, lipid-lowering drugs, and possibly folic acid. As th...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Sleight P,Pouleur H,Zannad F

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrocardiographic patterns, observed during 24-h Holter monitoring, of 10 patients (mean age 35 +/- 22 years) with first and second degree A-V block due to dual A-V nodal pathways are reported. Recordings were selected according to the presence of: sudden and persistent prolongation of the PR interval: sudden n...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Di Biase M,Tritto M,Sabato G,Pitzalis MV,Rizzon P

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exercise test was performed in 455 patients in the third week after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). One hundred and seventeen (26%) of them were considered as having a complicated AMI. During a follow-up of 4.5 years their mortality was 49% vs 23% in the remaining patients with uncomplicated AMI. The survival of...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Saunamaki KI,Andersen JD

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endocardial mapping of atrial fibrillation in humans is limited by its low resolution and by complexities in the arrhythmia and atrial anatomy. METHODS AND RESULTS:A catheter mounted non-contact multielectrode was deployed in the right atrium of 11 patients with atrial fibrillation and used to reconstruct 3...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Schilling RJ,Kadish AH,Peters NS,Goldberger J,Davies DW

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As regional wall motion abnormality (RWA) is the first sign of ischaemia, transoesophageal echocardiography was evaluated as a monitoring device in 51 patients undergoing abdominal aortic surgery. Wall motion of the entire left ventricular wall (nine segments) was semiquantitatively evaluated 15 min before and after a...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Koolen JJ,Visser CA,Reichert SL,Jaarsma WJ,Kromhout JG,van Wezel HB,Dunning AJ

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:In this study we sought to determine the safety, feasibility and prognostic value of pharmacological stress echocardiography performed in a primary care cardiology centre, populated by unselected patients evaluated with the aid of limited financial and technological resources. METHODS AND RESULTS:The study populat...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Cortigiani L,Lombardi M,Landi P,Paolini EA,Nannini E

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of this study was to investigate the 12-month incidence, predictive factors, and prognosis of sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) in chronic heart failure patients implanted with biventricular pacemakers without a back-up defibrillator (CRT-P), assessed by continuous intracardiac ventricular electrogram...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Boveda S,Marijon E,Jacob S,Defaye P,Winter JB,Bulava A,Gras D,Albenque JP,Combes N,Pavin D,Delarche N,Teubl A,Lambiez M,Chevalier P,Mona Lisa Study Group.

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present investigation was to evaluate the type and the incidence of cardiac arrhythmias and ischaemic events in patients suffering from testicular cancer and submitted to combination chemotherapy with cisplatin, bleomycin and vinblastine (PVB) or etoposide (PEB). Forty-seven patients took part in the st...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Villani F,Misrachi D,Galimberti M

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mortality from cardiac surgery is an essential indicator of quality and forms the basis of treatment strategy decisions in eligible patients. No contemporary complete data on unselected adult cardiac surgery patients are available in Germany. METHODS AND RESULTS:A registry was started in June 1997 of all pa...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Vogt A,Grube E,Glunz HG,Hauptmann KE,Sechtem U,Mäurer W,Tebbe U,Heinrich KW,Engel HJ,Kettner W,Krawietz W,Neuhaus KL

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Pre-infarction angina is associated with better outcome after myocardial infarction. The aim of this study was to assess whether pre-infarction angina is associated with decreased no-reflow after coronary recanalization. METHODS AND RESULTS:Twenty-three patients underwent intracoronary myocardial contrast echocar...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Karila-Cohen D,Czitrom D,Brochet E,Faraggi M,Seknadji P,Himbert D,Juliard JM,Assayag P,Steg PG

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00