Gastrointestinal complications after open heart surgery: incidence and determinants of risk factors.

abstract：:The cyclic variation of thickness during the cardiac cycle in age-related degenerative mitral valve (MV) has not been reported. Transthoracic echocardiography was used to evaluate the cyclic alteration in MV thickness in 40 patients with age-related MV thickening (diastolic MV thickness > or = 4 mm, age 70 +/- 14 year...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Mizushige K,Masugata H,Senda S,Manabe K,Sakamoto H,Kinoshita A,Sakamoto S,Matsuo H

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal blood rheology is a known characteristics of coronary artery disease. The authors evaluated the effects of pentoxifylline on the exercise capacity ejection fraction and symptoms of 9 patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy. All patients had signs and symptoms of left ventricular dysfunction. All had at least tw...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Barnett JC,Touchon RC

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Women have higher risk of contrast-induced nephropathy than men. The purpose of this study was to determine the relative impact of gender on long-term renal function after percutaneous renal interventions (PRI). METHODS AND RESULTS:We included all patients undergoing PRI. Men (n = 72) and women (n = 28) had...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Albertal M,Nau G,Padilla LT,Cura FA,Thierer J,Belardi JA

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 78-year-old woman was admitted for pulmonary embolism requiring orotracheal intubation and positive end-expiratory pressure. The pulmonary angiography confirmed a massive pulmonary embolism as suggested by echocardiography. Heparin and recombinant tissue plasminogen activator were successfully administrated; neverth...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Rigatelli G,Zanchetta M,Pedon L,Zennaro M,Maiolino P

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACSs) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are at high risk of contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI), a complication associated with poor clinical outcomes. Serum albumin (SA) levels are associated with cardiovascular mortality. We assessed the association...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Murat SN,Kurtul A,Yarlioglues M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium antagonists are known to exert various effects on the kidney that might modulate their antihypertensive potential. This study evaluated the renal effects, along with the efficacy, of isradipine in two subgroups of patients with mild to moderate essential hypertension (EH), defined according to plasma renin act...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Allikmets K,Parik T,Teesalu R

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique instance of an anomalous chorda tendinae visualized in the left ventricular outflow tract during M-Mode and two-dimensional echocardiography, and subsequently confirmed during surgery for concomitant severe rheumatic valvular disease, is described. The M-Mode appearance can be confused with more serious forms...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Choo MH,Chia BL,Wu DC,Tan AT,Ee BK

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of a new method of treatment, endovascular blood irradiation with He-Ne laser, developed by the authors, was studied in 295 patients with primary acute transmural myocardial infarction (MI). Twenty-four-hour Holter monitoring findings before and after laser irradiation suggested the possibility of prevent...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Kipshidze NN,Chapidze GE,Bokhua MR,Marsagishvili LA,Dolidze NK,Eristavi DG

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyze the left ventricular (LV) geometric changes occurring in chronic pressure overload due to valvular aortic stenosis (AS). Fifty-six adult patients (30 women, 26 men, mean age seventy-two +/- nine years, range forty-five to eighty-five years) with isolated AS (mean valve area by Dopp...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Faggiano P,Rusconi C,Ghizzoni G,Sabatini T

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors encountered 2 brothers with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), both of whom were later found to have progressed to dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Case No. 1 (younger brother): A diagnosis of HCM without left ventricular (LV) dilatation was made at age two by cardiac catheterization and echocardiogram. Howev...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Okamoto S,Ozaki M,Konishi T,Nakano T

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify relationships between the (endothelial vasodilatory and vasoconstrictive function) and leukocyte inflammatory mediators in subjects with asymptomatic atherosclerosis, we measured (intraplatelet cyclic 3',5'-guanosine monophosphate [cGMP] and cyclic 3',5'-adenosine monophosphate [cAMP]), plasma endothelin (E...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Anwaar I,Gottsäter A,Hedblad B,Palmqvist B,Mattiasson I,Lindgärde F

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrendipine is a new dihydropyridine derivative developed specifically for the treatment of hypertension. Oral nitrendipine was administered to twelve patients with severe hypertension (diastolic blood pressure greater than 114 mm/Hg). All antihypertensive drugs were discontinued at least 72 hours prior to nitrendipi...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Mroczek WJ,Burris JF

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Endurance training has been shown to increase arterial compliance; however, the effect of resistance training is unclear. PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to examine the effect lower body resistance training on arterial compliance in healthy premenopausal women. METHODS:Thirty-two women were assigned ...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Fjeldstad AS,Bemben MG,Bemben DA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although lipoprotein (a) [Lp(a)] has been shown to interfere with thrombolysis in vitro, its effects on thrombolytic therapy in patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) are not clear. The authors evaluated 32 male patients ages thirty-five to seventy-five (mean fifty-two +/- ten) with the diagnosis of acute MI w...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Tokgözoğlu SL,Ozmen F,Kabukçu M,Karanfil A,Aytemir K,Ozkuyumcu C,Uğurlu S

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superficial venous thrombosis usually resolves spontaneously in a few weeks. In most cases, treatment includes peroral analgesics or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs accompanied by the recommendation to wear elastic stockings and perform regular mild ambulation. In contrast to this "standard treatment," a recent A...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Katzenschlager R,Ugurlouglu A,Sipos G,Bihari I,Anyova EB,Hirschl M,Maruszynski M,Noszczyk W,Rybak Z,Cencora A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A forty-eight-year-old man presented with cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis and widening of the mediastinum. Mediastinal widening was due to multiple saccular aneurysms of the ascending aorta and the arch of the aorta. The various presentations of tubercular aortitis and the reasons for considering alternative etiology ...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Mally A,D'Souza C,Dwivedi S,Shatapathi P

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a 47-year-old woman with intravenous leiomyomatosis (IVL) extending into the right ventricular cavity. This rare entity is a neoplasm originating from smooth muscle of the uterus, with vermiform extensions into the inferior vena cava. The patient underwent a one-stage operation under simultaneous ...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Wakiyama H,Sugimoto T,Ataka K,Yamashita C,Tsuji Y,Nakagiri K,Inoue K,Okada M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the proportion of Greek patients referred to outpatient clinics for dyslipidemia who achieved the low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) goal defined by the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III (NCEP-ATP III) guidelines, using lifestyle chan...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Diamantopoulos EJ,Athyros VG,Yfanti GK,Migdalis EN,Elisaf M,Vardas PE,Manolis AS,Karamitsos DT,Ganotakis ES,Hatseras D,OLYMPIC Study Group.

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Arteriosclerotic lesions in the carotid arteries are the main cause of ischemic cerebral infarction. Only a few studies of the incidence of carotid lesions in patients with chronic peripheral arterial disease (CPAD) and myocardial infarction (MI) have been made. Thus the aim of this study was to investigate ...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Spürk P,Angelkort B,Selter P

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is new in human evolutionary history, having become possible at the population level with increased food security. As with any phenotype, obesity is at base an outcome of gene-environment interactions. However, different disciplines working in obesity research have identified different facets of the problem an...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Ulijaszek SJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta blockers are one of the oral agents shown to decrease cardiovascular morbidity and mortality rates in randomized, controlled trials, and hence, they are widely used for the management of many cardiovascular situations. In terms of side effects there are 3 major modes of action: (1) contraction of smooth muscles, ...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Yilmaz MB,Turhan H,Akin Y,Kisacik HL,Korkmaz S

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiologies of venous leg ulcers have been well known for millennia, and yet there remains no simple solution to this very common problem. Achieving closure of venous leg ulcers is often a lengthy process that is further complicated by the presence of significant comorbidities. The authors present data on healing v...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Bongiovanni CM,Hughes MD,Bomengen RW

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bile pulmonary emboli were present at autopsy in a seventy-year-old woman who had undergone percutaneous transhepatic cholangiodrainage for pancreatic carcinoma obstructing the common bile duct. The patient also developed hemobilia following the drainage. In spite of emergency surgery, she died on the third day after ...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Kihira T,Konishi T,Shiraishi T,Yatani R,Nakano T

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to develop a method for the analytical assessment of arterial obstruction in conditions of Raynaud's phenomenon capable of providing diagnostic criteria. Numerous attempts have been made to determine and quantify arterial obstruction in terms of Doppler ultrasound measurements of arteri...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Seitz WS,Kline HJ,McIlroy MB

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to elucidate the cause of T wave changes after ventricular pacing using thallium 201 single photon emission computed tomography (Tl-SPECT). Tl-SPECT was performed in 20 patients with sick sinus syndrome who had negative T wave after ventricular pacing and had had a ventricular demand pacemake...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Abe M,Hamada M,Matsuoka H,Shigematsu Y,Sumimoto T,Okayama H,Kawakami H,Nakata S,Hiwada K

更新日期：1995-06-01 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：:A gel including aescin, essential phospholipids (EPL), and heparin (EG) has been used for many years for local treatment of venous, microcirculatory alterations (varicose veins, chronic venous insufficiency). Bruises, swelling, thrombophlebitis, and contusions are effectively treated with this compound. The aim of thi...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Cesarone MR,Belcaro G,Ippolito E,Ricci A,Ruffini M,Dugall M

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An echocardiographic study of a 67-year-old patient with pseudoidiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis due to secondary pulmonary hypertension is reported. Autopsy revealed findings consistent with pulmonary hypertension, and no evidence of idiopathic subaortic stenosis was found. ...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Pandian MG,Greenwald JG,Lichtman A,Truax H

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and beta-thromboglobulin (beta-TG) are released from alpha granules during platelet activation. PDGF may play a role in the development of atherosclerosis and the late restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). The effect of acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) ...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Vissinger H,Husted SE,Kristensen SD,Nielsen HK

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shortly after Dreyfus and his colleagues demonstrated that procainamide was metabolized by acetylation to N-acetylprocainamide (NAPA), Drayer, Reidenberg and Sevy reported that NAPA had antiarrhythmic activity in an animal model. We confirmed these findings and found that plasma levels of NAPA were high enough to warr...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Atkinson AJ Jr,Ruo TI

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00