High-density lipoprotein, but not low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels influence short-term prognosis after acute coronary syndrome: results from the MIRACL trial.

abstract：AIMS:Sudden unexplained death syndrome occurs in previously healthy South-east Asian young adults without any structural cause of death. The common electrocardiographic (ECG) change in sudden unexplained death syndrome survivors is right bundle branch block and ST elevations in leads V(1) to V(3), which are similar to ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Sangwatanaroj S,Prechawat S,Sunsaneewitayakul B,Sitthisook S,Tosukhowong P,Tungsanga K

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the blood-vessel wall, the endothelium plays a key functional role by generating several substances that modulate vascular smooth muscle tone, as well as growth, and platelet function. This review focuses on the role of the endothelial L-arginine/nitric oxide signal transduction pathway in the maintenance of vascul...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Cosentino F,Lüscher TF

更新日期：1995-11-01 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：AIMS:The cardiac extracellular matrix is highly involved in regulating inflammation, remodelling, and function of the heart. Whether matrix alterations relate to the degree of inflammation, fibrosis, and overall rejection in the human transplanted heart remained, until now, unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS:Expression of m...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Vanhoutte D,van Almen GC,Van Aelst LN,Van Cleemput J,Droogné W,Jin Y,Van de Werf F,Carmeliet P,Vanhaecke J,Papageorgiou AP,Heymans S

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opiate agonists were administered into the cisterna magna of normotensive urethane-anaesthetized artificially-ventilated rats. Increases in blood pressure and heart rate were produced by fentanyl (0.3-3.0 nmol). [D-ala]2-met-enkephalinamide (17 nmol), and beta-endorphin (2.9 nmol). On the contrary, ethylketocyclazocin...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Laurent S,Schmitt H

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress echocardiography is an established method for the diagnosis and prognostic stratification of coronary artery disease. In the last few years, the tremendous technological and conceptual versatility of this technique has been increasingly applied in challenging diagnostic fields. Today, in the echocardiography la...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Picano E,Pellikka PA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic nitrates exert their effect by direct inhibition of vascular tone, resulting in decreased myocardial oxygen demand and improved oxygen supply. Less well known is the effect of nitrates on blood rheology. To evaluate the haemodiluting effect of intravenous nitroglycerin we studied 70 consecutive patients admitt...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Arend SM,Bax JJ,Hermans J,van der Wall EE,Sedney MI

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：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：:A 55-year-old woman presented with fever and malaise. Three blood cultures were positive for Streptococcus sanguis. A diagnosis of endocarditis was made and the patient was treated with intravenous penicillin and gentamicin. Endocardiography revealed a large left atrial tumour. At operation a myxoma covered by deposit...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： ten Berg JM,Elbers HR,Defauw JJ,Plokker HW

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (HoFH) is a rare life-threatening condition characterized by markedly elevated circulating levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and accelerated, premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ACVD). Given recent insights into the heterogeneity of geneti...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Cuchel M,Bruckert E,Ginsberg HN,Raal FJ,Santos RD,Hegele RA,Kuivenhoven JA,Nordestgaard BG,Descamps OS,Steinhagen-Thiessen E,Tybjærg-Hansen A,Watts GF,Averna M,Boileau C,Borén J,Catapano AL,Defesche JC,Hovingh GK,Hump

更新日期：2014-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:It has recently been suggested that exercise testing may be more valuable prognostically than it is diagnostically in apparently healthy subjects. We wanted to compare the accuracy of CHD risk assessment based on classical risk factors with an assessment also based on multiple exercise test parameters. METHODS AND...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Erikssen G,Bodegard J,Bjørnholt JV,Liestøl K,Thelle DS,Erikssen J

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have shown that left ventricular geometric adaptation to hypertension is complex. The spectrum of geometric adaptations in a general population and its relationship to systolic and diastolic function has, however, not been investigated. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS:This echocardiographic and Dopple...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Andrén B,Lind L,Hedenstierna G,Lithell H

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 16 people with essential hypertension, heart rate (HR), blood pressure (BP) and relative cardiac volumes were measured at rest and during submaximal upright exercise before and after 10 mg of sublingual nifedipine using radionuclide ventriculography. In 10 patients who had had no previous therapy (BP 152/103 +/- 5/...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Wathen CG,Hannan WJ,Turnbull LW,Muir AL

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-nine patients admitted for assessment of chest pain underwent coronary angiography, planar Thallium 201 myocardial scintigraphy after submaximal exercise (TE) and transoesophageal atrial pacing (TAP). Early hypofixation with redistribution after 4 h indicated ischaemia. The criterion for a myocardial infarction ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Le Feuvre C,Vacheron A,Metzger JP,Berdah J,Etienne D,Albarede P,De Vernejoul P

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Aims:Vascular ageing is characterized by arterial stiffening, dilation, and arterial wall thickening. We investigated the extent to which these changes are related and their heritability during 5 year follow-up in the Twins UK cohort. Methods and results:Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWVcf), carotid diameter, c...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Cecelja M,Jiang B,Keehn L,Hussain T,Silva Vieira M,Phinikaridou A,Greil G,Spector TD,Chowienczyk P

更新日期：2018-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The choice of resynchronization therapy between with (CRT-D) and without (CRT-P) a defibrillator remains a contentious issue. Cause-of-death analysis among CRT-P, compared with CRT-D, patients could help evaluate the extent to which CRT-P patients would have additionally benefited from a defibrillator in a daily c...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Marijon E,Leclercq C,Narayanan K,Boveda S,Klug D,Lacaze-Gadonneix J,Defaye P,Jacob S,Piot O,Deharo JC,Perier MC,Mulak G,Hermida JS,Milliez P,Gras D,Cesari O,Hidden-Lucet F,Anselme F,Chevalier P,Maury P,Sadoul N,

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Metalloproteinases are proteolytic enzymes, which decompose the extracellular matrix, influence cardiac remodelling, and are inhibited by tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases (TIMPs). Little is known about the prognostic impact of the TIMP-1/matrix metalloproteinase complex in patients with future cardiovascular...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Lubos E,Schnabel R,Rupprecht HJ,Bickel C,Messow CM,Prigge S,Cambien F,Tiret L,Münzel T,Blankenberg S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tissue Doppler echocardiography reveals characteristic patterns of myocardial velocities within systole and diastole which are not well understood. AIM:The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of myocardial velocity patterns, as assessed by tissue Doppler echocardiography, to the contract...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Zamorano J,Wallbridge DR,Ge J,Drozd J,Nesser J,Erbel R

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of cholesterol in peripheral lymph is roughly one tenth of that in the blood plasma of the same subject. In lymph, there is virtually no very low density lipoprotein (VLDL), probably due to low permeability of the vascular endothelium for particles of this size. More than 95% of apo B-containing lipo...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Reichl D

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immediate and short-term results of coronary angioplasty were analysed in 16 patients who presented with chest pain at rest associated with transient marked ST-segment elevation (greater than or equal to 0.5 mV). The number of in hospital ischaemic attacks was on average 2.8 (range 1-8). All patients had at least ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： de Feyter PJ,Serruys PW,van den Brand M,Soward A

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the clinical profile and prognosis of elderly patients not eligible for predischarge exercise testing. The database consisted of 133 patients 55-64 years of age, and 111 patients older than 64 years of age who survived an acute myocardial infarction. Follow-up was one year. In the younger age grou...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Deckers JW,Fioretti P,Brower RW,Simoons ML,Baardman T,Hugenholtz PG

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The prognostic role of time-to-treatment in primary angioplasty is still a matter of debate. The aim of our study was to evaluate the relationship between time-to-treatment and myocardial perfusion in patients with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) treated by primary angioplasty. METHODS AND RESU...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： De Luca G,van 't Hof AW,de Boer MJ,Ottervanger JP,Hoorntje JC,Gosselink AT,Dambrink JH,Zijlstra F,Suryapranata H

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The impact on mortality outcomes of beta-blockers and calcium blockers in post-myocardial infarction (MI) has been suggested to be related to resting heart rate (HR) reduction. A meta-regression of randomized clinical trials was carried out to assess this relationship using weighted meta-regression of logarithm of...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Cucherat M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Through a 4-year follow-up of the abstracts submitted to the European Society of Cardiology Congress in 2006, we aimed at identifying factors predicting high-quality research, appraising the quality of the peer review and editorial processes, and thereby revealing potential ways to improve future research, peer re...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Winnik S,Raptis DA,Walker JH,Hasun M,Speer T,Clavien PA,Komajda M,Bax JJ,Tendera M,Fox K,Van de Werf F,Mundow C,Lüscher TF,Ruschitzka F,Matter CM

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of this study was to compare on-thienopyridine platelet reactivity of elderly patients (≥75 years) vs. younger patients (<75 years). Elderly patients represent a growing and challenging segment of the coronary population for whom the effect of dual antiplatelet therapy on platelet inhibition has not been s...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Silvain J,Cayla G,Hulot JS,Finzi J,Kerneis M,O'Connor SA,Bellemain-Appaix A,Barthélémy O,Beygui F,Collet JP,Montalescot G

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Increased left ventricular wall thickness (LVWT) is a common finding in cardiology. It is not known how often hereditary transthyretin-related familial amyloid cardiomyopathy (mTTR-FAC) is responsible for LVWT. Several therapeutic modalities for mTTR-FAC are currently in clinical trials; thus, it is important to e...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Damy T,Costes B,Hagège AA,Donal E,Eicher JC,Slama M,Guellich A,Rappeneau S,Gueffet JP,Logeart D,Planté-Bordeneuve V,Bouvaist H,Huttin O,Mulak G,Dubois-Randé JL,Goossens M,Canoui-Poitrine F,Buxbaum JN

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Elevated resting heart rate (RHR) is a known, independent cardiovascular (CV) risk factor, but is not included in risk estimation systems, including Systematic COronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE). We aimed to derive risk estimation systems including RHR as an extra variable and assess the value of this addition. MET...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Cooney MT,Vartiainen E,Laatikainen T,Joulevi A,Dudina A,Graham I

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To examine the extent of platelet inhibition by prasugrel vs. clopidogrel in a TRITON-TIMI 38 substudy. METHODS AND RESULTS:TRITON-TIMI 38 randomized acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to prasugrel or standard dose clopidogrel. Selected sites prospectively e...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Michelson AD,Frelinger AL 3rd,Braunwald E,Downey WE,Angiolillo DJ,Xenopoulos NP,Jakubowski JA,Li Y,Murphy SA,Qin J,McCabe CH,Antman EM,Wiviott SD,TRITON-TIMI 38 Investigators.

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To present the design of ACTION (A Coronary disease Trial Investigating Outcome with Nifedipine GITS), an ongoing multicentre clinical outcome trial with nifedipine GITS (Gastro-Intestinal Therapeutic System) in patients with stable angina pectoris. METHODS:At least 6000 patients with optimally treated stable ang...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Lubsen J,Poole-Wilson PA,Pocock SJ,van Dalen FJ,Baumann J,Kirwan BA,Parker AB

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00