Strain rate imaging for functional quantification of the left atrium: atrial deformation predicts the maintenance of sinus rhythm after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation.

abstract：:The diagnosis of prosthetic valve thrombosis (PVT) may be difficult in cases without valve obstruction. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of 111indium-labelled autologous platelet imaging in the detection of PVT. We studied 41 patients with 45 prostheses, mechanical (37) or biological (8), ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Acar J,Vahanian A,Dorent R,Fauchet M,Mundler O,Michel PL,Roger V,Cormier B

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Phenotypic heterogeneity and incomplete penetrance are common in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). We aim to improve the understanding in genotype-phenotype correlations in HCM, particularly the contribution of an MYL2 founder mutation and risk factors to left ventricular hypertrophic remodelling. ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Claes GR,van Tienen FH,Lindsey P,Krapels IP,Helderman-van den Enden AT,Hoos MB,Barrois YE,Janssen JW,Paulussen AD,Sels JW,Kuijpers SH,van Tintelen JP,van den Berg MP,Heesen WF,Garcia-Pavia P,Perrot A,Christiaans I,Salem

更新日期：2016-06-14 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：:Eight young healthy male subjects, members of a Himalayan expedition, underwent 24 h Holter monitoring before departure, after 1 and 4 weeks at high altitude (5000 m) and after return to sea level. At high altitude, the circadian reciprocal changes in low and high frequency (LF, HF) were absent, with no significant re...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Ponchia A,Noventa D,Bertaglia M,Carretta R,Zaccaria M,Miraglia G,Pascotto P,Buja G

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous adenosine proved effective in eight out of ten episodes of acute spontaneous supraventricular tachycardia. AV node blockade induced by adenosine occurred 20 s after injection, and disappeared very quickly. Side-effects were transient and never serious. Therefore, it is thought that adenosine can be propose...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Munoz A,Leenhardt A,Sassine A,Galley P,Puech P

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Efficacy of aspirin in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) may be influenced by a common allele in guanylate cyclase GUCY1A3, which has been shown to modify platelet function and increase CVD risk. METHODS AND RESULTS:We investigated whether homozygotes of the GUCY1A3 rs7692387 risk (G) allele bene...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Hall KT,Kessler T,Buring JE,Passow D,Sesso HD,Zee RYL,Ridker PM,Chasman DI,Schunkert H

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventricular arrhythmias present with strongly varying intensity. This spontaneous variability makes it difficult to use one of the existing arrhythmia grading systems for risk or therapy efficacy studies. We attempted to explain the variability by the changing autonomic, ischaemic, circadian, and rhythmic factors. Fou...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Janssen MJ,Swenne CA,Manger Cats V,van Bemmel JH,Bruschke AV

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Our aim was to follow changes in myocardial function and physiology in patients awaiting coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) and relate changes to post-revascularisation functional response. METHODS AND RESULTS:In 21 patients with CAD and LV dysfunction, myocardial glucose utilisation (MGU) and blood flow (MBF)...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Pitt M,Dutka D,Pagano D,Camici P,Bonser R

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exercise-induced U-wave inversion on chest wall mapping was compared with coronary arteriographic findings in 160 consecutive patients who presented with chest pain suggestive of ischaemic heart disease. ECG recordings were made from 16 points on the chest wall before, during and after exercise. None of the 27 patient...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Salmasi AM,Salmasi SN,Nicolaides AN,Vecht RJ,Hendry WG,Kidner PH,Besterman EM

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the neurohormonal response to angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition after acute myocardial infarction, 36 patients presenting within 6 h of the onset of chest pain were studied in a single regional cardiology service. In this double-blind study, 13 patients were randomized to receive captopril, 1...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Foy SG,Crozier IG,Richards AM,Nicholls MG,Turner JG,Frampton CM,Ikram H

更新日期：1995-06-01 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：AIMS:Oral glucose-lowering medications are associated with excess risk of heart failure (HF). Given the absence of comparative data among drug classes, we performed a retrospective study in 32 Health Services of 16 Italian regions accounting for a population of 18 million individuals, to assess the association between ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Fadini GP,Avogaro A,Degli Esposti L,Russo P,Saragoni S,Buda S,Rosano G,Pecorelli S,Pani L,OsMed Health-DB Network.

更新日期：2015-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Aims Epidemiological studies reported two contrasting trends: on one hand, a significant improvement in the use of evidence-based treatments of patients discharged with a myocardial infarction (MI). On the other hand, the increasing number of elderly and co-morbid patients who are usually less treated. The aim of this...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Macchia A,Romero M,D'Ettorre A,Mariani J,Tognoni G

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus adjacens and S. defectivus are two recently individualized species of viridans streptococci. Both species were previously designated as nutritionally variant streptococci and characterized by their growth as small satellite colonies supported by 'helper' bacteria, or requiring complex media enriched with...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Bouvet A

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transdermal nitroglycerin patches have been very successful nitrate formulations since their introduction in 1982. Nevertheless, considerable controversy regarding efficacy and tolerance has arisen. Nitroglycerin has multiple mechanisms of action in angina pectoris. Transdermal nitroglycerin in ointment formulatio...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Abrams J

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Aims:To date, clinical evidence of microvascular dysfunction in patients with heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) has been limited. We aimed to investigate the prevalence of coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) and its association with systemic endothelial dysfunction, HF severity, and myoca...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Shah SJ,Lam CSP,Svedlund S,Saraste A,Hage C,Tan RS,Beussink-Nelson L,Ljung Faxén U,Fermer ML,Broberg MA,Gan LM,Lund LH

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Long-term randomized comparisons of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in left main coronary (LM) disease and/or three-vessel disease (3VD) patients have been limited. This analysis compares 3-year outcomes in LM and/or 3VD patients treated with CABG or PCI with TAXU...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Kappetein AP,Feldman TE,Mack MJ,Morice MC,Holmes DR,Ståhle E,Dawkins KD,Mohr FW,Serruys PW,Colombo A

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is much interest in reported associations between serum C-reactive protein and incident ischaemic heart disease. It is uncertain what this association represents. We aimed to assess the effect of confounding from a number of different sources in the Caerphilly Prospective Heart Disease Study and in par...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Mendall MA,Strachan DP,Butland BK,Ballam L,Morris J,Sweetnam PM,Elwood PC

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atrial abnormalities in patients with progressive systemic sclerosis have not been evaluated in terms of intra-atrial conduction. We hypothesized that a delay in atrial conduction in these patients might produce diastolic abnormalities as well as atrial arrhythmias. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the atrial function...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Mizuno R,Fujimoto S,Nakano H,Nakajima T,Kimura A,Nakagawa Y,Dohi K

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study 27 post-myocardial infarction patients were treated with Persantin capsules (Depot-Kapseln, sustained release form), containing 200 mg dipyridamole, b.i.d. over a period of 3 weeks. Baseline levels for plasma beta-thromboglobulin (BTG), platelet factor 4 (PF4), and serum thromboxane B2 (TXB2) were...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Safai-Kutti S,Kutti J,Vedin A,Wilhelmsson C

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:In patients with atrial fibrillation, minor troponin I elevation is regularly detected; however, the prognostic significance of this finding is unknown. We therefore sought to examine the prognostic value of elevated troponin I in patients with atrial fibrillation. METHODS AND RESULTS:A prospective study was cond...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： van den Bos EJ,Constantinescu AA,van Domburg RT,Akin S,Jordaens LJ,Kofflard MJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A twenty-first century model for the training and assessment of cardiac interventionists’ skills, outlined by Prof. John Morgan FRCP FESC. ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Morgan JM,Burri H,Binner L,Mansour H,Retzlaff H,Roca M,Gallagher A

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：: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：:The feasibility of transcatheter laser coagulation of atrial myocardium was tested in a canine model by using a combined electrode-laser catheter. In 17 anaesthetized beagles a total of 264 lesions, 12-19 per dog, and 3-5 in each area were produced in: (1) the lateral walls, (2) the posterior right atrial walls, (3) t...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Weber HP,Heinze A,Enders S,Ruprecht L,Unsöld E

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the prognostic significance of infarct core tissue characteristics using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging in survivors of acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). METHODS AND RESULTS:We performed an observational prospective single centre cohort study in 300 reperfused STEMI patients (m...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Carrick D,Haig C,Rauhalammi S,Ahmed N,Mordi I,McEntegart M,Petrie MC,Eteiba H,Hood S,Watkins S,Lindsay M,Mahrous A,Ford I,Tzemos N,Sattar N,Welsh P,Radjenovic A,Oldroyd KG,Berry C

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：:Cardiac troponins (cTns) I and T have long been the most successful cardiac-specific circulating biomarkers in cardiovascular (CV) medicine, having changed dramatically the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction, while being independent predictors of outcome in several cardiac conditions and non-cardiac conditions. ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Farmakis D,Mueller C,Apple FS

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late potentials detected by the signal-averaged ECG (SAECG) identify post-infarction patients at risk from sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) and sudden death. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is also associated with increased risk of sudden death. In adults, episodes of non-sustained VT on ambulatory ECG monitor...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Kulakowski P,Counihan PJ,Camm AJ,McKenna WJ

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:A higher intake of fruits and vegetables has been associated with a lower risk of ischaemic heart disease (IHD), but there is some uncertainty about the interpretation of this association. The objective was to assess the relation between fruit and vegetable intake and risk of mortality from IHD in the European Pro...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Crowe FL,Roddam AW,Key TJ,Appleby PN,Overvad K,Jakobsen MU,Tjønneland A,Hansen L,Boeing H,Weikert C,Linseisen J,Kaaks R,Trichopoulou A,Misirli G,Lagiou P,Sacerdote C,Pala V,Palli D,Tumino R,Panico S,Bueno-de-Mesqu

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00