Immediate blood pressure effects of the renin inhibitor enalkiren and the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor enalaprilat.

abstract：:The results of percutaneous transseptal balloon mitral valvuloplasty (PTBMV) in 30 Chinese patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis are reported. PTBMV with the Inoue balloon catheter was successfully performed in 27 patients without any significant complications. The mean left atrial pressure decreased from 20.15 +/- ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Chen CR,Lo ZX,Huang ZD,Inoue KJ,Cheng TO

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While sudden death after acute myocardial infarction or ischemia most commonly occurs in the first few minutes, usually from tachyarrhythmias, little is known of associated hemodynamics. We monitored hemodynamics for 15 minutes following coronary embolization with mercury in 31 awake dogs. In 17 nonsurvivors, mean art...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Franciosa JA,Heckel R

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence from numerous studies of coronary angiography show differences between observers' assessments of 15% to 45%. The implication of this variation is serious: If readings are erroneous, some patients will undergo revascularization procedures unnecessarily and others will be denied an essential treatment...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Leape LL,Park RE,Bashore TM,Harrison JK,Davidson CJ,Brook RH

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physician adherence to guidelines is often poor, but the reasons have not been completely studied. We investigated whether physician adherence to guidelines for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) varied by source, development methods, or the exten...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Leape LL,Weissman JS,Schneider EC,Piana RN,Gatsonis C,Epstein AM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isovolumic relaxation time (IVRT) is an important noninvasive index of left ventricular diastolic function. Despite its widespread use, however, the IVRT has not been related analytically to invasive parameters of ventricular function. Establishing such a relationship would make the IVRT more useful by itself and ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Thomas JD,Flachskampf FA,Chen C,Guererro JL,Picard MH,Levine RA,Weyman AE

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insulin, in addition to its known metabolic effects, has sympatho-excitatory and vasodilatory actions on muscular blood vessels. The goal of this study was to evaluate insulin sensitivity in young women with vasovagal syncope and positive tilt test results (HUT+) and to compare it with that in patients with ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Ruiz GA,Calvar C,Hermes R,Rivadeneira D,Bengolea V,Chirife R,Tentori MC,Gelpi RJ

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The systemic and renal hemodyanmic effects of bupicomide were studied in 10 male patients with uncomplicated essential hypertension of moderate severity. Bupicomide significantly reduced systolic, diastolic, and mean arterial pressure and peripheral vascular resistance and this hypotensive effect was associated with a...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Chrysant SG,Adamopoulos P,Tsuchiya M,Frohlich ED

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although age is the most important variable associated with death among patients with persistent ST-segment elevation, its impact on outcome among patients without persistent ST-segment elevation remains unknown. Moreover, the impact of age on the efficacy of antiplatelet therapy with eptifibatide is unknown...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Hasdai D,Holmes DR Jr,Criger DA,Topol EJ,Califf RM,Harrington RA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A simple approach is the predominant strategy for the percutaneous coronary intervention of bifurcation lesions. Performing side branch (SB) predilation in this context is currently a matter of controversy. In this study, we assess the efficacy of SB predilatation before a provisional T-stent strategy for bi...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Pan M,Medina A,Romero M,Ojeda S,Martin P,Suarez de Lezo J,Segura J,Mazuelos F,Novoa J,Suarez de Lezo J

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) improves symptoms, reduces heart failure (HF)-related hospitalizations, and reverses left ventricular remodeling in some patients with moderate to severe HF and ventricular dyssynchrony defined by a prolonged QRS duration. The effects of CRT on HF outcomes in patients ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Linde C,Gold M,Abraham WT,Daubert JC,REVERSE Study Group.

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have examined metabolic consequences of coronary occlusion and reperfusion using phosphorus31 nuclear magnetic resonance (31P-NMR) in an intact animal model. Accordingly, we developed a model to study serial changes in myocardial metabolism in the intact open-chest rabbit. Ten animals underwent 20 +/- 2 mi...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kavanaugh KM,Aisen AM,Fechner KP,Chenevert TL,Dunham WR,Buda AJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiarrhythmic efficacy and safety of intravenous amiodarone were evaluated in 13 patients with recurrent sustained ventricular tachycardia. All patients had been refractory to at least three prior antiarrhythmic agents (mean, 3.3 per patient), and 11 had multiple direct current cardioversions. Intravenous amiodar...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Klein RC,Machell C,Rushforth N,Standefur J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the availability of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), the management of patients who present with recurrent angina following coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) has changed. From January 1987 to December 1988, 149 symptomatic post CABG patients underwent coronary angiography at our institut...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Tabbalat RA,Haft JI

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the prevalence and clinical significance of transient U wave inversion in 43 patients with variant angina. Twenty-four patients (group A) had ST segment elevation in the anterolateral and 19 patients (group B) had this finding in the inferoposterior leads of the ECG during spontaneous angina. In none of the...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Matsuguchi T,Koiwaya Y,Nakagaki O,Takeshita A,Nakamura M

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Out of 160 prospectively followed patients with aortic regurgitation, the clinical courses of 53 patients with pure, severe, and chronic aortic regurgitation and without coronary artery disease who were selected for surgery on the basis of predefined criteria is discussed. Surgical criteria were either unequivocal sym...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Tornos MP,Permanyer-Miralda G,Evangelista A,Worner F,Candell J,Garcia-del-Castillo H,Soler-Soler J

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to assess whether pharmacologic preconditioning by exogenous or endogenous adenosine prevents the deterioration of hemodynamic function and left ventricular performance during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). Ischemic preconditioning renders the heart more ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Heidland UE,Heintzen MP,Schwartzkopff B,Strauer BE

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to investigate long-term (≥5 years) outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) versus coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) for left main coronary artery disease (LMCAD) using a meta-analysis from updated published randomized trials. Our data showed that the risk of all-cause death as well as cardi...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kuno T,Ueyama H,Rao SV,Cohen MG,Tamis-Holland JE,Thompson C,Takagi H,Bangalore S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Statins are effective in the prevention of coronary events and the treatment of acute coronary syndromes. However, their efficacy and safety in patients with heart failure (HF) are unknown. In this review, we discuss the evidence for the efficacy and safety of statin therapy in patients with HF. METHODS:We ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Raina A,Pickering T,Shimbo D

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracoronary stents may potentially alleviate some of the problems associated with coronary angioplasty. Since the anatomy and physiology of swine coronary arteries closely resemble those of humans, the response to implantation of the Glanturco-Roubin, balloon-expandable, flexible stent was studied in this model. Add...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Rodgers GP,Minor ST,Robinson K,Cromeens D,Stephens LC,Woolbert SC,Guyton JR,Wright K,Siegel R,Roubin GS

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the clinical course of chronic heart failure demonstrates that current outcomes remain highly unsatisfactory both in mortality and perhaps more important in morbidity. The extraordinary satisfactory functional responses seen in patients who undergo cardiac transplantation clearly identify the primary cause...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Swan HJ

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can noninvasively assess changes in atherosclerotic plaque morphology and composition. The ORION trial assessed the effects of rosuvastatin on carotid plaque volume and composition. METHODS:The randomized, double-blind ORION trial used 1.5-T MRI to image carotid atherosclero...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Underhill HR,Yuan C,Zhao XQ,Kraiss LW,Parker DL,Saam T,Chu B,Takaya N,Liu F,Polissar NL,Neradilek B,Raichlen JS,Cain VA,Waterton JC,Hamar W,Hatsukami TS

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Experimental studies suggest that metabolic myocardial support by intravenous (IV) glucose, insulin, and potassium (GIK) reduces ischemia-induced arrhythmias, cardiac arrest, mortality, progression from unstable angina pectoris to acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and myocardial infarction size. However, tr...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Selker HP,Beshansky JR,Griffith JL,D'Agostino RB,Massaro JM,Udelson JE,Rashba EJ,Ruthazer R,Sheehan PR,Desvigne-Nickens P,Rosenberg YD,Atkins JM,Sayah AJ,Aufderheide TP,Rackley CE,Opie LH,Lambrew CT,Cobb LA,Macleod BA

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study refers to six patients in whom an A-V reciprocal rhythm could be documented; in four cases it took the form of sustained tachycardia. None of the patients showed any ECG feature of ventricular pre-excitation (PR interval of more than 0.12 sec. and normal QRS configuration). The extrastimulus method s...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Touboul P,Huerta F,Porte J,Delahaye JP

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main threat to patients with mild to moderate hypertension is coronary heart disease (CHD), but controlled trials of antihypertensive drug therapy have given disappointing results: overall, the reduction in CHD mortality (11%) and morbidity (10%) were small and nonsignificant. Recent trials comparing a beta blocke...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Rose G

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrates are widely used for the management of congestive heart failure (CHF), as well as angina pectoris. In both situations, nitrates significantly increase exercise capacity. The mechanism of this beneficial effect is unclear, especially in CHF. Isosorbide dinitrate reduces pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP)...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Franciosa JA

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:In adults with coarctation of the aorta (CoA), hypertension (HTN) is a common long-term complication. We investigated the prevalence of HTN and analyzed factors associated with HTN. METHODS AND RESULTS:In the national register for congenital heart disease, 653 adults with repaired CoA were identified (mean age 36...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Rinnström D,Dellborg M,Thilén U,Sörensson P,Nielsen NE,Christersson C,Johansson B

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myocardial infarction (MI) patients remain at high risk for recurrent events. Cholesterol efflux, mediated by apolipoprotein A-I, removes excess cholesterol from atherosclerotic plaque and transports it to the liver for excretion. Impaired cholesterol efflux is associated with higher cardiovascular (CV) event ra...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Gibson CM,Kastelein JJP,Phillips AT,Aylward PE,Yee MK,Tendera M,Nicholls SJ,Pocock S,Goodman SG,Alexander JH,Lincoff AM,Bode C,Duffy D,Heise M,Berman G,Mears SJ,Tricoci P,Deckelbaum LI,Steg PG,Ridker P,Mehran R

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the TRACER trial, vorapaxar, a protease-activated receptor-1 antagonist, plus standard care in non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE ACS) patients did not significantly reduce the primary composite end point but reduced a key secondary end point and significantly increased bleeding. Histo...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Jones WS,Tricoci P,Huang Z,Moliterno DJ,Harrington RA,Sinnaeve PR,Strony J,Van de Werf F,White HD,Held C,Armstrong PW,Aylward PE,Chen E,Patel MR,Mahaffey KW

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three kinds of torso surface isopotential maps (measured, simulated, and difference maps) were delineated at every 1.5 (or 3) msec. during the QRS duration from the 85 unipolar lead ECG's led from the surface of a cylindrical torso model filled with perfusate and containing a canine heart undergoing Langendorff's perf...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Toyoshima H

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The significance of troponin elevation and clinical utility of troponin testing in ambulatory patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) have not been examined. We sought to investigate the prevalence and prognostic value of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) elevation in a population with stable CAD. METHODS:We st...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Hsieh BP,Rogers AM,Na B,Wu AH,Schiller NB,Whooley MA

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00