More is not better in the early care of acute myocardial infarction: a prospective cohort analysis on administrative databases.

abstract：AIMS:Aldosterone plays a crucial role in cardiovascular disease. 'Systemic' inhibition of its mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) decreases atherosclerosis by reducing inflammation and oxidative stress. Obesity, an important cardiovascular risk factor, is an inflammatory disease associated with increased plasma aldosterone...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Schäfer N,Lohmann C,Winnik S,van Tits LJ,Miranda MX,Vergopoulos A,Ruschitzka F,Nussberger J,Berger S,Lüscher TF,Verrey F,Matter CM

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to improve the reproducibility and the standardization of the topographical assessment of myocardial infarctions in routine two-dimensional echocardiography. A myocardial map of the left ventricle was derived from a necropsy study of normal human hearts; interventricular grooves and papillary...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Touche T,Vervin P,Prasquier R,Diebold B,Curien N,Gourgon R

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 369 patients with native valve infective endocarditis observed during a 14-year period, 17 were related to S: pneumoniae. Fourteen of them were observed in the last 7 years. At the time of admission 13 exhibited purulent meningitis, 6 of them being comatose. An apparent portal of entry was present in 13 patients...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Wolff M,Regnier B,Witchitz S,Gibert C,Amoudry C,Vachon F

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to compare different criteria for the definition of late potentials in patients after myocardial infarction, three signal averaged ECG variables, duration of the signal-averaged QRS complex (QRS), root-mean-square voltage of the terminal 40 ms (RMS-40), and the duration of low amplitude signals less than 40 m...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Malik M,Odemuyiwa O,Poloniecki J,Kulakowski P,Farrell T,Staunton A,Camm AJ

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Re-entry was demonstrated as a self-perpetuating mechanism as early as 1906. It may lead to single-cycle electrocardiographic phenomena as well as reciprocating tachycardias. Factors favouring re-entry are as follows. Unidirectional or temporary local block of conduction, a mechanism always involved in initiation of r...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Olsson SB

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulsed Doppler tracings of the mitral inflow are often proposed to describe left ventricular function during filling in hypertensive patients. The tracings are determined by the complex interaction of left atrial pressure and left ventricular relaxation, diastolic compliance and contractility of the left atrium. They ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Diebold B,Cohen A,Zelinsky R,Raffoul H,Foucher A,Guermonprez JL,Peronneau P

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patient, a 74-year-old man, developed a persistent nonparoxysmal junctional accelerated rhythm at rate of 60-75 beats min-1 because of chronic depressed sinus node function. Intravenous atropine resulted in no change of junctional pacemaker rate but i.v. isoproterenol significantly accelerated it suggesting that a...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Santinelli V,Chiariello M,Condorelli M

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable effort and large sums of money have been spent on constructing a risk profile for sudden death in the myocardial infarction survivor at the time of discharge from hospital. However, these patients are only a minority among those dying suddenly outside hospital. The majority of sudden death victims cannot ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Wellens HJ,de Vreede J,Gorgels AP

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) levels predict outcomes in ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients treated with fibrinolysis or primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). However, its role in facilitated PCI has not yet been assessed; it may be a tool to evaluate the lower event rat...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Sinnaeve PR,Ezekowitz JA,Bogaerts K,Droogne W,Jarai R,Huber K,Granger CB,Desmet WJ,Armstrong PW,Van de Werf FJ,ASSENT-4 PCI Investigators.

更新日期：2009-09-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the acute phase of myocardial infarction (acute MI) marked endothelial damage occurs within the first 24h following thrombolysis with streptokinase. We investigated whether this is associated with a change in levels of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF, possibly marking angiogenesis) in the first 2...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Chung NA,Lydakis C,Belgore F,Blann AD,Lip GY

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 16 male patients with heart failure (NYHA II-III), the influence of a single dose of 25 mg captopril on the carotid sinus baroreceptor reflex was examined. Blood pressure fell significantly by 11 +/- 1.7 mm Hg (P less than 0.001), whereas heart rate remained unchanged (85 +/- 3 vs. 83 +/- 3 beats min-1). Carotid si...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Osterziel KJ,Röhrig N,Dietz R,Manthey J,Hecht J,Kübler W

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Pulmonary hypertension (PH) represents an important phenotype among the broader spectrum of patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), but its mechanistic basis remains unclear. We hypothesized that activation of endothelin and adrenomedullin, two counterregulatory pathways important in ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Obokata M,Kane GC,Reddy YNV,Melenovsky V,Olson TP,Jarolim P,Borlaug BA

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Recent randomized clinical trials have reported a reduction in restenosis with intracoronary stents and have suggested that this restenosis reduction is a result of the higher immediate luminal gain, in comparison to conventional percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). The hypothesis of this study i...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Haase KK,Athanasiadis A,Mahrholdt H,Treusch A,Wullen B,Jaramillo C,Baumbach A,Voelker W,Meisner C,Karsch KR

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Support with left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) improves cardiac performance in patients with end-stage heart failure. In some cases this strategy, combined with pharmacological treatment, has led to a clinical improvement which remained after LVAD explant. This study defines changes in Ca handling at the cell...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Terracciano CM,Harding SE,Adamson D,Koban M,Tansley P,Birks EJ,Barton PJ,Yacoub MH

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that the incidence and distribution of conduction system disease simultaneously affecting several levels of the system had been incompletely described. We therefore analysed all patients in whom conduction disease had been diagnosed and a complete electrophysiological study of the conduction system had been m...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Rasmussen K,Myhre ES,Gunnes P,Wang H

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Prospective studies indicate that apolipoprotein measurements predict coronary heart disease (CHD) risk; however, evidence is conflicting, especially in the US. Our aim was to assess whether measurements of apolipoprotein B (apoB) and apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) can improve the ability to predict CHD death beyond ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Sierra-Johnson J,Fisher RM,Romero-Corral A,Somers VK,Lopez-Jimenez F,Ohrvik J,Walldius G,Hellenius ML,Hamsten A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of coronary vascular reserve stems from the description of coronary autoregulation by Mosher in 1964. Schematically, the coronary blood flow at rest depends on the determinants of myocardial oxygen demand (heart rate, contractility and ventricular load). If maximal coronary vasodilation is produced, it res...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Nitenberg A,Antony I

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently published epidemiological and genetic studies strongly suggest a causal relationship of elevated concentrations of lipoprotein (a) [Lp(a)] with cardiovascular disease (CVD), independent of low-density lipoproteins (LDLs), reduced high density lipoproteins (HDL), and other traditional CVD risk factors. The ath...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Kostner KM,März W,Kostner GM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of nadolol in modifying the standard deviation of RR intervals (SDRR) and the coefficient of variance (CV) in 47 patients characterized by symptomatic, frequent (> 30 h-1) and reproducible premature ventricular contractions (PVCs). Sixteen patients had suffered a previo...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Pitzalis MV,Mastropasqua F,Massari F,Totaro P,Passantino A,Rizzon P

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that in patients with stress cardiomyopathy the type of triggering event is associated with different clinical, instrumental, and laboratory features that characterize the phenotype at presentation. ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Ancona F,Bertoldi LF,Ruggieri F,Cerri M,Magnoni M,Beretta L,Cianflone D,Camici PG

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven patients with an atrioventricular accessory pathway were studied by programmed electrical stimulation to determine if reentrant tachycardia could be prevented by delivery of either a single atrial extrastimulus, applied at a critical time after the tachycardia-initiating stimulus (or stimuli), or a train of sti...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Kuck KH,Kunze KP,Schlüter M,Bleifeld W

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early treatment with ACE inhibitors of even moderate heart failure is clinically beneficial, even though haemodynamic measurements cannot adequately quantitate such improvement. Neurohumoral assessment is, however, supposed to be more accurate. In 55 patients with moderate heart failure (ejection fraction < or = 35%),...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Nussberger J,Fleck E,Bahrmann H,Delius W,Schultheiss HP,Brunner HR

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To estimate the incidence of dementia after the first atrial fibrillation (AF), and its impact on survival in a community-based cohort. METHODS AND RESULTS:Olmsted County, Minnesota adult residents diagnosed with first AF during 1986-2000 were identified, and followed until 2004. The primary outcome was new detec...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Miyasaka Y,Barnes ME,Petersen RC,Cha SS,Bailey KR,Gersh BJ,Casaclang-Verzosa G,Abhayaratna WP,Seward JB,Iwasaka T,Tsang TS

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One case of unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm causing left coronary artery compression and lethal myocardial infarction in a 39-year old woman is described. In reviewing the literature, 15 previously published cases of sinus of Valsalva aneurysms disturbing coronary flow were found. It is concluded that the mechan...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Brandt J,Jögi P,Lührs C

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen consumption was measured during 30 min of work in 16 patients, after a myocardial infarction (anterior or posterior), and compared with 16 normal subjects, of the same age, involved in the same activities, in a steel factory. The VO2 at work of the patients was a little lower than in normals. The mean heart rat...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Denolin H,Riviere A

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of abnormal gradients between the apical cavity and the subaortic valvular region of the left ventricle in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) has traditionally been equated to a dynamic obstruction to left ventricular outflow. To examine this concept in more detail, left ventricular ejectio...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Murgo JP,Alter BR,Dorethy JF,Altobelli SA,Craig WE,McGranahan GM Jr

更新日期：1983-11-01 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：:The benefits of exercise are irrefutable. Individuals engaging in regular exercise have a favourable cardiovascular risk profile for coronary artery disease and reduce their risk of myocardial infarction by 50%. Exercise promotes longevity of life, reduces the risk of some malignancies, retards the onset of dementia, ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Sharma S,Merghani A,Mont L

更新日期：2015-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated quadricuspid aortic valve is very rare. The identification of this malformation can be made by cross-sectional echocardiography. Two cases of quadricuspid aortic valve diagnosed by cross-sectional echocardiography are described. ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Chamsi-Pasha H,Barnes PC,Beton DC

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00