Effects of atorvastatin on vascular intimal hyperplasia: an experimental rodent model.

abstract：:Both essential hypertension (EH) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) can impair the elasticity of the ascending aorta. We prospectively enrolled 42 patients with T2DM, 44 patients with EH, 45 patients with T2DM and EH (T2DM + EH), and 41 healthy subjects (HS). They all underwent transthoracic echocardiography to measu...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Song XT,Fan L,Yan ZN,Rui YF

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The benefits of β-blockers in patients with heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and atrial fibrillation (AF) are controversial. The Gulf Survey of Atrial Fibrillation Events was a prospective, multinational, observational registry of consecutive patients with AF recruited from the emergency depar...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Abi Khalil C,Zubaid M,Asaad N,Rashed WA,Hamad AK,Singh R,Al Suwaidi J

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with Raynaud's phenomenon were found to be hypothyroid and their symptoms disappeared with thyroid replacement therapy. Vascular reactivity studies in one patient demonstrated decreased vasomotor tone after therapy. Raynaud's phenomenon may be an expression of altered autonomic function in hypothyroidism....

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Shagan BP,Friedman SA

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 52-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of unstable angina pectoris. Coronary angiography revealed severe stenosis at a proximal site of the left anterior descending artery. Essential thrombocythemia (ET) was diagnosed on the basis of findings of marked thrombocytosis (106 x 10(4)/microL) and an increas...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Fujimura M,Akaike M,Kato M,Takamori N,Abe M,Nishiuchi T,Azuma H,Matsumoto T

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent clinical studies have demonstrated that 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors are effective in the prevention of cardiovascular events and regression of atherosclerotic lesions evaluated by angiography. In this study, the authors investigated how lipid-lowering therapy effects on ...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Arai Y,Hirose N,Yamamura K,Kimura M,Murayama A,Fujii I,Tsushima M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of arterial-graft infection are presented. In all cases the gram stain obtained at surgery demonstrated white blood cells but no bacteria. Cultures obtained at operation subsequently grew Pseudomonas aeruginosa in two patients and Bacteroides fragilis in one patient. Failure to recognize the fallibility of...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Samson RH,Gupta SK,Scher LA,Veith FJ

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid lowering with statins improves morbidity and mortality, particularly in diabetics, and may have additional nonlipid effects. South Asians (SAs) are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes compared with white Europeans (WEs). We hypothesized that abnormal endothelial (marked by von Willebrand factor...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Jaumdally RJ,Lip GY,Varma C,Blann AD

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a 3 month daily administration of 800 mg pentoxifylline (Trental 400 bds) or placebo was assessed under double blind crossover design in 18 patients (12 males and 6 females) with peripheral occlusive arterial disease in respect of painfree walking distance and various hemorheological and hemostasiologica...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Strano A,Davi G,Avellone G,Novo S,Pinto A

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral neuropathy is often found in ischemic limbs with nondiabetic atherosclerotic peripheral vascular disease (PVD). Sensory symptoms such as burning pain are common in severely ischemic limbs, and sympathectomy has been undertaken for ischemic rest pain. The authors assessed noninvasive quantitative skin vasomo...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Nukada H,van Rij AM,Packer SG,Patterson A

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isocenter calibration transforms cardiac structures in digitized biplane angiograms to absolute dimensions, calculating their radiological magnification and video transformation. Since a scaling device is not required, isocenter calibration yields to more accurate measurements than the widely used reference object cal...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Wunderlich W,Fischer F,Linderer T,Kirkeeide RL

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostacyclin treatment successfully delays the need for lung transplantation in many patients with progressive primary pulmonary hypertension by vasodilating pulmonary arteries. However, the treatment of pulmonary hypertension with prostacyclin may cause a paradoxical increase in pulmonary artery pressure, as shown in...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Younger JR,Lui CY

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated protein C resistance (APC-R) is the most common inherited cause of clinically apparent venous thromboembolism. Previous data indicate that left atrial thrombus (LAT) formation is a common complication in mitral stenosis (MS) and a hypercoagulable state exists in these patients. The aim of this study was to i...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Hisar I,Ileri M,Yetkĭn E,Atak R,Senen K,Kosar F,Dŭndar S,Demĭrkan D

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impairment of endothelial functions has been shown to occur after acute and chronic exposure to passive smoking (PS), as assessed by flow-mediated dilatation (FMD) of the brachial artery. A total of 61 participants, 30 male and 31 female, mean ages 26 (18-36) were enrolled in the study. All were clinically well and no...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Gül I,Karapinar H,Yarlioglues M,Ozdogru I,Kaya MG,Yilmaz A,Turgut OO,Tandogan I,Eryol NK

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-four patients with symptoms suggesting mitral valve prolapse were evaluated by M-mode echocardiography, real time, two-dimensional, phase array echocardiography, and cardiac catheterization. Ten of these patients had unequivocal evidence of mitral valve prolapse during cardiac catheterization. This diagnosis wa...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Kounis NG

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial ultrastructural changes are described in a twenty-five-year-old female with typical Kearns-Sayre syndrome. The electrocardiogram revealed complete atrioventricular block with an occasional torsades de pointes type of ventricular tachycardia. His bundle recording demonstrated HV block with normal AH interval...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Nakano T,Imanaka K,Uchida H,Isaka N,Takezawa H

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enlarged superior thyroid artery with increased blood flow to a large benign adenomatous goiter was found to be the cause of a bruit in the region of the right carotid bifurcation. We have not been able to find mention of this cause for a cervical bruit in the literature. ...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Healy JF,Brault T

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The syndrome of intermittent claudication can be induced not only by vascular insufficiency of the lower limbs but also by diseases of the spinal cord and cauda equina. The authors describe a sixty-year-old man with intermittent claudication due to spinal canal stenosis who was successfully treated with beraprost sodi...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Kato H,Emura S,Ngashima K,Kishikawa H,Takashima T,Ohmori K

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Procoagulant and prothrombotic states in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation (AF) are higher than those in patients with normal sinus rhythm. We assessed and compared serum γ-glutamyltranferase (GGT) activity in elderly patients with nonvalvular AF and control participants with normal sinus rhythm. Consecutive p...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Tekin G,Tekin YK,Senarslan DA,Gocmen AY,Senarslan O,Erbay AR

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electromagnetic field-focusing (EFF) probe is a precision surgical and interventional tool. Use of the device produces maximum temperature in excess of 1800 degrees C by convergence of radio-frequency (RF) induced eddy currents in biological tissues. Applications of the EFF probe in angioplasty, aneurysm thrombosis, a...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Yamanashi WS,Saksanen SJ,Valentine JL,Powers M,Phillips SW,Wagner BD,Hill D,Lewis JE

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular malformations of the mediastinum including mediastinal lymphangioma are exceedingly rare in adults. A resected case of mediastinal cystic lymphangioma (cystic hygroma) that presented with acute onset of retrosternal chest pain is reported in a 45-year-old man. Cystic hygromas are benign cysts frequently disco...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Daya SK,Gowda RM,Gowda MR,Khan IA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are reported to prevent neointimal formation after balloon injury in animal models, but in most prospective studies in humans, ACE inhibitors failed to prevent restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). The ACE genotype assigned by an insertio...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Okamura A,Ohishi M,Rakugi H,Katsuya T,Yanagitani Y,Takiuchi S,Taniyama Y,Moriguchi K,Ito H,Higashino Y,Fujii K,Higaki J,Ogihara T

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphologic changes in the walls of hollow viscera caused by contraction and relaxation of smooth muscle cells were studied from autopsy and surgical specimens. The specimens studied included: esophageal spasm (corkscrew and nutcracker esophagus), contraction of the lower esophageal sphincter with marked esophagea...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Lin CS,Goldfischer M,Sicular A,Landais G,Cohen LB

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After sublingual nitroglycerin, the ejection fraction increased at least 8 percent in 10 of 19 patients (53 percent), changed less than 8 percent in 5 of 19 patients (26 percent), and decreased at least 8 percent in 4 of 19 patients (21 percent). After sublingual nitroglycerin, 16 of 21 areas (76 percent) of hypokines...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Khemka M,Prakash R,Aronow WS,Kern JC,Cassidy J,Vangrow JS,March H

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical observations and animal experiments indicate that T wave alternans (TWA) is associated with an increased propensity for ventricular fibrillation, and thus it may be considered as a noninvasive marker of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. There is substantial evidence indicating that TWA is an intrinsic...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Batur MK,Oto A,Ider Z,Aksöyek S,Kabakci G,Ovünç K,Tokgözoglu L,Ozmen F

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between echocardiographically measured epicardial fat thickness (EFT) and plasma concentrations of leptin, ghrelin, and adiponectin has not been evaluated in patients with noncachectic heart failure (HF). Patients with noncachectic HF and age- and sex-matched controls did not differ significantly in E...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Karayannis G,Giamouzis G,Tziolas N,Georgoulias P,Skoularigis J,Mikhailidis DP,Triposkiadis F

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a retrospective study carried out by clinical analysis of the authors' experience in 60 patients with cerebellar strokes--of which 39 were spontaneous cerebellar hemorrhage and 21 were cerebellar infarction--to compare the clinical presentation, course, and prognosis. Hypertension was found to be the most impo...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Turgut M,Ozcan OE,Ertürk O,Saribaş O,Erbengi A

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-mobility group box 1 (HMGB-1) is a nuclear protein physiologically involved in the maintaining of DNA structure in the nucleus. When tissue damage occurs, necrotic cells as well as inflammatory cells, once activated, release this protein in circulating blood, where it seems to exert a direct proinflammatory actio...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Cirillo P,Giallauria F,Di Palma V,Maresca F,Ziviello F,Bevilacqua M,Vigorito C,Trimarco B

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient pulsus alternans was induced by isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN) in a patient with postmyocarditis congestive heart failure under diuretic therapy. The severity and duration of pulsus alternans depended on the dose of ISDN. According to the echocardiographic and hemodynamic examinations, the superimposed preload ...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Matsuhashi H,Onodera S,Hasebe N,Maruyama J,Honda H,Yamashita H,Tobise K

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are only a few reports concerning coexistent hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and vasospastic angina. Clinical characteristics in patients with both diseases have not been clarified yet. This study was designed to elucidate the relationship between chest pain and coronary vasospasm in HCM patients and to deline...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Kodama K,Hamada M,Kazatani Y,Matsuzaki K,Murakami E,Shigematsu Y,Hiwada K

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the observation of a 31-year-old woman who presented with total occlusion of digestive arteries and was successfully treated pharmacologically. A review of the literature shows that digestive arteries thrombosis is a rare condition in young women. Only 15 cases have been previously reported. Prognos...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Crètel E,Disdier P,Chagnaud C,Tournigand P,Harlé JR,Piette JC,Weiller PJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00