Angina symptoms in men and women with stable coronary artery disease and evidence of exercise-induced myocardial perfusion defects.

abstract：:We retrospectively contrasted the medical outcome of patients removed from the heart transplant consideration list because of clinical improvement with that of transplant recipients. Of 60 patients awaiting transplantation, 18 were removed from the list (group A), and 42 required transplant or died (group B). Group A ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Levine TB,Levine AB,Goldberg AD,Tobes M,Narins B,Lesch M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four children with cor triatriatum underwent intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography. Two patients had cor triatriatum alone and two had associated complex congenital heart disease. Transesophageal echocardiography provided optimal imaging of these defects and provided unique information that facilitated surgi...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Shuler CO,Fyfe DA,Sade R,Crawford FA

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to determine the relationship of adverse diastolic remodeling (ie, worsening diastolic or persistent restrictive filling) with infarct scar characteristics, and to evaluate its prognostic value after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). BACKGROUND:Severe diastolic dysfunction (restr...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Nguyen TL,Phan J,Hogan J,Hee L,Moses D,Otton J,Premawardhana U,Rajaratnam R,Juergens CP,Dimitri H,French JK,Richards D,Thomas L

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the correlation between cardiac abnormalities and cytosine-thymine-guanine (CTG) trinucleotide repeat expansion in patients with myotonic dystrophy (MD). We studied 18 patients with the adult form of classical MD and 18 age-matched control subjects. In patients with MD, left ventricular systoli...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Hayashi Y,Ikeda U,Kojo T,Nishinaga M,Miyashita H,Kuroda T,Inoue K,Nishizawa M,Shimada K

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the United States as well as globally, Asians are a growing proportion of patients presenting with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), yet little is known about their longitudinal outcomes. METHODS:We linked Centers for Medicare & Medicaid claims data to detailed clinical data for 37...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Xu W,Holmes DN,Becker RC,Roe MT,Peterson ED,Wang TY

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies have shown that patency of the epicardial vessel does not guarantee optimal myocardial perfusion in patients undergoing primary angioplasty for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). The aim of the current study was to identify clinical and angiographic correlates of unsuccessful...

journal_title：American heart journal

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

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Apparent treatment-resistant hypertension (aTRH) is associated with an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes. We studied the frequency and intensity of care for aTRH among participants aged 65 years and older in the US-based REGARDS study linked with Medicare claims. METHODS:Blood pressure (BP) ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Vemulapalli S,Deng L,Patel MR,Kilgore ML,Jones WS,Curtis LH,Irvin MR,Svetkey LP,Shimbo D,Calhoun DA,Muntner P

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epinephrine increases coronary blood flow but may not improve the balance between myocardial oxygen supply and demand during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The objective of this study was to determine whether this balance can be improved by administering a relatively pure alpha-adrenergic vasoconstrictor, alone ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Ditchey RV,Slinker BK

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peak oxygen consumption is a cornerstone for prognostic determination in patients with congestive heart failure. The purpose of this study was to assess whether plasma B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) provided any additional prognostic information. METHODS:Plasma concentrations of atrial natriuretic peptide...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Isnard R,Pousset F,Chafirovskaïa O,Carayon A,Hulot JS,Thomas D,Komajda M

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, long (> or =20 mm) coronary stents were introduced for clinical use. They are intended as an alternative to multiple conventional stents to treat extensive dissections or suboptimal results of long lesions after balloon angioplasty. METHODS:In a total of 113 such consecutive vessels in 107 patient...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： De Scheerder IK,Wang K,Kostopoulos K,Dens J,Desmet W,Piessens JH

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with unstable angina (UA) and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) remain at risk for death and cardiac ischemic events after being discharged from the hospital. METHODS:We examined whether the Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) risk score for UA/NSTEMI, ascertained at presenta...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Sabatine MS,McCabe CH,Morrow DA,Giugliano RP,de Lemos JA,Cohen M,Antman EM,Braunwald E

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the effects of IV digoxin (0.04 mg/kg) and nitroprusside (NP) (1.2 and 1.8 microgram/kg/min) on left ventricular (LV) performance in six preinstrumented conscious dogs with 3 and 6 hours after digoxin administration (serum level, 3.5 +/- 0.6 ng/ml), there were no changes in heart rate, LV systolic (LVSP) a...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： O'Rourke RA,Badke FR,Forst D

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognostic significance of functional status has not been previously studied in the setting of acute myocardial infarction. We assessed the Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) score, a simple functional status scale that is commonly used to categorize physical ability, in 849 patients with acute myocardial infarcti...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Brezinski D,Stone PH,Muller JE,Tofler GH,Davis V,Parker C,Hartley LH,Braunwald E

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guidelines published in 2001 recommended 1 regional adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) center per 3 to 10 million population. Our objective was to determine if published guidelines on the numbers of regional ACHD centers are sufficient to meet the needs of adults with congenital heart disease in the general populat...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Marelli AJ,Therrien J,Mackie AS,Ionescu-Ittu R,Pilote L

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the effect of delay times on racial differences in thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction. BACKGROUND:Lower rates of thrombolytic therapy in blacks with acute myocardial infarction have recently been reported, but the reasons for this disparity are unknown. We hypothesized that lower rates o...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Syed M,Khaja F,Rybicki BA,Wulbrecht N,Alam M,Sabbah HN,Goldstein S,Borzak S

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study is to examine ethnic differences in depressive symptoms and antidepressant treatment in a cohort of patients undergoing diagnostic coronary angiography. BACKGROUND:Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of mortality in the United States, with an excess of mortality in African...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Waldman SV,Blumenthal JA,Babyak MA,Sherwood A,Sketch M,Davidson J,Watkins LL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the impact of accountable care organizations (ACO) on hospitalized heart failure (HF) patients, a high-cost and high-risk population. OBJECTIVE:We linked Medicare fee-for-service claims from 2013 to 2015 with data from American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-HF registry to compare HF ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Luo N,Hammill BG,DeVore AD,Xu H,Fonarow GC,Albert NM,Matsouaka RA,Hernandez AF,Yancy C,Mentz RJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of age on the in-hospital mortality of all 30,972 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in New York in 1991 and 1992. Mortality rates were relatively low for patients 40-49, 50-59, and 60-64, 65-69, and 70-74 years old (1.10%, 1.65%, 2.17%...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Hannan EL,Burke J

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria in skeletal and cardiac muscle have been found to be less stable in aging hamsters, in contrast to preparations from young animals. We have found previously that clofibrate (Atromid-S) will reverse this degeneration in the older hamsters. This study examined the exercise tolerance of aged hamsters, to see...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Guntheroth WG,Inamdar AR,Person R,Mackler B

更新日期：1977-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:In animal models, physical activity (PA) prevents cardiac myocyte cell death. Data for PA mitigating myocyte injury in humans are limited to observational studies. Using a randomized controlled trial design, we sought to determine if introducing moderate PA to previously sedentary older adults could reduce t...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： deFilippi CR,de Lemos JA,Newman AB,Guralnik JM,Christenson RH,Pahor M,Church T,Espeland M,Krithevsky SB,Stafford R,Seliger SL,LIFE Study Group.

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a group of calcium channel blockers that prolong the QT interval has raised interest in their possible proarrhythmic potential. In animal experiments lidoflazine has no observed arrhythmogenic potential and no antiarrhythmic potential in a model sensitive to the antiarrhythmic properties of both con...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Somberg JC

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were conducted in 15 patients with coronary artery disease to determine if the type of pacing used to induce an extrasystole had a bearing on subsequent postextrasystolic potentiation (PESP) and if the fact that these were evaluated in jeopardized or nonjeopardized portions of the ventricle altered the ability...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Cooper MW,Lutherer LO,Stanton MW,Lust RM Jr

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Noninvasive methods are needed for the identification of women at highest risk for coronary artery disease (CAD) who might benefit most from aggressive preventive therapy. Identification of brachial artery atherosclerosis, which correlates with coronary artery atherosclerosis, may be useful to estimate or st...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Holubkov R,Karas RH,Pepine CJ,Rickens CR,Reichek N,Rogers WJ,Sharaf BL,Sopko G,Merz CN,Kelsey SF,McGorray SP,Reis SE

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endothelial injury plays a critical role in coronary artery disease (CAD), but the assessment of this injury has been problematical. Recently, it has been shown in vitro that endothelial cells (ECs) release endothelial microparticles (EMPs) on activation or apoptosis and that an assay of EMPs can provide use...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Bernal-Mizrachi L,Jy W,Jimenez JJ,Pastor J,Mauro LM,Horstman LL,de Marchena E,Ahn YS

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) is the most prevalent genetic cardiac disease caused by a mutation in sarcomeres, Z-disks, or calcium-handling genes and is characterized by unexplained left ventricular hypertrophy. The aim of this study was to determine the genetic profile of Brazilian patients with HC and ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Marsiglia JD,Credidio FL,de Oliveira TG,Reis RF,Antunes Mde O,de Araujo AQ,Pedrosa RP,Barbosa-Ferreira JM,Mady C,Krieger JE,Arteaga-Fernandez E,Pereira Ada C

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low heart rate recovery (HRR) at exercise test and the metabolic syndrome (MetS) are both predictors of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. We studied in 75-year-old women and men, representative of the general population, the relationship between (1) HRR and the MetS, (2) HRR and the individual componen...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Nilsson G,Hedberg P,Jonason T,Lönnberg I,Ohrvik J

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the pauses that followed the spontaneous termination of supraventricular tachyarrhythmias with the pauses that followed the cessation of atrial overdrive pacing in 21 patients. In 10 patients with abnormal sinus node function and in 11 patients with normal sinus node function we recorded the spontaneous te...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Gang ES,Reiffel JA,Livelli FD Jr,Bigger JT Jr

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ECGs taken from four patients with concealed atrial bigeminy were analyzed to find the mechanisms of disappearance and reappearance of extrasystoles. Observations in three patients showing the classic form of concealed bigeminy suggest that when the extrasystole disappeared, the first sinus impulse after the last mani...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kinoshita S,Kato Y,Nakagawa K,Yasukouchi T

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intramuscular lidocaine administration is known to produce blood concentration levels considered to be therapeutic for prevention of premature ventricular contractions. This double blind study was designed to study the effect of intramuscular lidocaine in the prevention of PVC's in acute myocardial infarction. Forty-s...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Singh JB,Kocot SL

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00