Blood flow and vasoactive drug effects in internal mammary and venous bypass grafts.

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) is characterized by pulmonary hypertension, increased pulmonary capillary permeability, and hypoxemia. Treatment is limited to descent to lower altitude and administration of oxygen. METHODS AND RESULTS:We studied the acute effects of inhaled nitric oxide (NO), 50% oxyge...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Anand IS,Prasad BA,Chugh SS,Rao KR,Cornfield DN,Milla CE,Singh N,Singh S,Selvamurthy W

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although prospective studies, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses have documented an association between depression and increased morbidity and mortality in a variety of cardiac populations, depression has not yet achieved formal recognition as a risk factor for poor prognosis in patients with acute corona...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lichtman JH,Froelicher ES,Blumenthal JA,Carney RM,Doering LV,Frasure-Smith N,Freedland KE,Jaffe AS,Leifheit-Limson EC,Sheps DS,Vaccarino V,Wulsin L,American Heart Association Statistics Committee of the Council on Epidemiology an

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Growth of atherosclerotic plaques is accompanied by neovascularization from vasa vasorum microvessels extending through the tunica media into the base of the plaque and by lumen-derived microvessels through the fibrous cap. Microvessels are associated with plaque hemorrhage and may play a role in plaque rupt...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Moreno PR,Purushothaman KR,Fuster V,Echeverri D,Truszczynska H,Sharma SK,Badimon JJ,O'Connor WN

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In 18 patients with stable effort angina, verapamil, 80 mg four times daily, was compared with propranolol, 80 mg four times daily, in a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to assess the effects on anginal threshold, exercise capacity and left ventricular function measured by gated equilibrium blood pool scanning. ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sadick NN,Tan AT,Fletcher PJ,Morris J,Kelly DT

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The concept of natriuretic peptide guidance has been extensively studied in patients with chronic heart failure (HF), with only limited success. The effect of NT-proBNP (N-terminal probrain natriuretic peptide)-guided therapy in patients with acute decompensated HF using a relative NT-proBNP target has not b...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Stienen S,Salah K,Moons AH,Bakx AL,van Pol P,Kortz RAM,Ferreira JP,Marques I,Schroeder-Tanka JM,Keijer JT,Bayés-Genis A,Tijssen JGP,Pinto YM,Kok WE

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, it was shown that intraindividual variation in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) predicts both cerebrovascular and cardiovascular events. We aimed to examine whether this extends to cognitive function and examined possible pathways using a magnetic resonance imaging substudy. METHODS:We ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Smit RA,Trompet S,Sabayan B,le Cessie S,van der Grond J,van Buchem MA,de Craen AJ,Jukema JW

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Body fat distribution has been cross-sectionally associated with atherosclerotic disease risk factors, but the prospective relation with coronary heart disease remains uncertain. METHODS AND RESULTS:We examined the prospective relation between fat distribution indices and coronary heart disease among 24,508...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Canoy D,Boekholdt SM,Wareham N,Luben R,Welch A,Bingham S,Buchan I,Day N,Khaw KT

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the last decades, interest has increased in the potential deleterious atherogenic effects of some cellular elastase activities. The results of experimental and clinical investigations were inconsistent. In this report, we assessed the associations of serum elastase activity and serum elastase inhibitors w...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Zureik M,Robert L,Courbon D,Touboul PJ,Bizbiz L,Ducimetière P

更新日期：2002-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest not associated with acute myocardial infarction are at high risk for recurrent cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death. The impact of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator on long-term prognosis in these patients is uncertain. METHODS AND RESULTS:Three hundre...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Powell AC,Fuchs T,Finkelstein DM,Garan H,Cannom DS,McGovern BA,Kelly E,Vlahakes GJ,Torchiana DF,Ruskin JN

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The combination of statin therapy and PCSK9 (proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9) inhibition markedly lowers low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and reduces cardiovascular event rates. Whether residual inflammatory risk as measured by on-treatment high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP)...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pradhan AD,Aday AW,Rose LM,Ridker PM

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with Brugada syndrome who were resuscitated from an episode of ventricular fibrillation are at high risk for recurrent sudden death. There is general agreement about the therapeutic strategy for these patients. Conversely, the prognosis and approach in patients with a diagnostic ECG but without a pr...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Brugada J,Brugada R,Brugada P

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Eplerenone is known to reduce time to first hospitalization for heart failure or cardiovascular death in patients with heart failure and mild symptoms. In chronic diseases such as heart failure, characterized by repeat hospitalizations, analyzing all heart failure hospitalizations, not just the first, should...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Rogers JK,McMurray JJ,Pocock SJ,Zannad F,Krum H,van Veldhuisen DJ,Swedberg K,Shi H,Vincent J,Pitt B

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The conjoint trait hypothesis proposes that combined low HDL cholesterol (HDL-C) and high triglyceride (TG) levels represent a single, inherited phenotype that adiposity may influence in an unspecified manner. We conducted formal statistical genetic tests of the conjoint trait hypothesis and the relation of ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Mahaney MC,Blangero J,Comuzzie AG,VandeBerg JL,Stern MP,MacCluer JW

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac volume overload by an aortocaval shunt increases left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP) and plasma and cardiac renin activity and results in LV hypertrophy. To a similar extent, the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors enalapril and quinapril prevent the increase in LVEDP. However,...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Ruzicka M,Skarda V,Leenen FH

更新日期：1995-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species such as the superoxide anion (.O2-) have recently been implicated as important agents involved in causing cell death in the setting of myocardial ischemia and reperfusion. When superoxide anion is involved in ischemic injury the administration of superoxide dismutase (SOD) may limit infarct siz...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Uraizee A,Reimer KA,Murry CE,Jennings RB

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since the clinical introduction of dynamic cardiomyoplasty, a discrepancy has been observed between unchanged measurements of cardiac function and improved clinical outcome. METHODS AND RESULTS:We performed a beat-to-beat analysis of cardiac performance at rest in nine cardiomyoplasty patients 6 to 24 month...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Schreuder JJ,van der Veen FH,van der Velde ET,Delahaye F,Alfieri O,Jegaden O,Lorusso R,Jansen JR,van Ommen V,Finet G

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of two Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Trials, we obtained angiographic patency data for internal mammary artery (IMA) and saphenous vein grafts to the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery at 1 year after coronary artery bypass surgery. Patients received either aspirin 325 mg q.d., aspirin...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Goldman S,Copeland J,Moritz T,Henderson W,Zadina K,Ovitt T,Kern KB,Sethi G,Sharma GV,Khuri S

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a heterogeneous syndrome. Phenotyping patients into pathophysiologically homogeneous groups may enable better targeting of treatment. Obesity is common in HFpEF and has many cardiovascular effects, suggesting that it may be a viable candidate for...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Obokata M,Reddy YNV,Pislaru SV,Melenovsky V,Borlaug BA

更新日期：2017-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred consecutive patients who developed unstable postinfarction angina requiring isolated coronary artery bypass from 1982 through 1987 were analyzed. Hospital mortality was 5%; 15 (5.5%) additional late deaths occurred during the 69-month follow-up period (mean follow-up, 23.3 months). Significant independen...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Gardner TJ,Stuart RS,Greene PS,Baumgartner WA

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiarrhythmic efficacy and safety of oral flecainide acetate and quinidine sulfate were compared in a double-blind, 16-center parallel trial involving 280 patients with chronic premature ventricular complexes (PVCs). Eighty-five percent of the flecainide patients had at least 80% suppression of PVCs, vs 57% of th...

journal_title：Circulation

authors：

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of coronary bypass 5-10 years after operation at the Baylor College of Medicine are reported. The late results demonstrate that good relief of symptoms of angina pectoris persisted in 89% of patients at 10 years of follow-up. An overall annual attrition rate of 3% has been fairly constant through 10 years ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lawrie GM,Morris GC Jr

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Angina symptoms have been reported to predict mortality in men. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between angina symptoms and mortality in women. METHODS AND RESULTS:In 2004, 873 older participants in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health with self-reported ischemic hear...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Berecki-Gisolf J,Humphreyes-Reid L,Wilson A,Dobson A

更新日期：2009-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ST-segment depression during exercise testing is frequently observed in the absence of restenosis after coronary angioplasty. METHODS AND RESULTS:We studied the determinants of this phenomenon in 70 consecutive patients with unstable angina related to a single left anterior descending coronary artery lesion...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Beregi JP,Bauters C,McFadden EP,Quandalle P,Bertrand ME,Lablanche JM

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many vasodilators have been tried as antianginal agents, but the reflex increase in sympathetic tone produced by these drugs necessitate their use with caution in patients with angina. In the first part of this study, captopril was given to 14 patients with angina and systolic arterial pressures of greater than 120 mm...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Daly P,Mettauer B,Rouleau JL,Cousineau D,Burgess JH

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mild oxidation of LDL enhances its atherogenic potential and induces a synergistic interaction with serotonin (5HT) on vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) proliferation. Because of its complex chemical nature, the mitogenic components of mildly oxidized LDL (moxLDL) remain unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS:We exa...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Watanabe T,Pakala R,Koba S,Katagiri T,Benedict CR

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) and urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) are thought to play critical roles in vascular remodeling after injury, with tPA mediating intravascular clot lysis and uPA modulating cell migration within the vessel wall. In human vascular disease, however, thrombus org...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Schäfer K,Konstantinides S,Riedel C,Thinnes T,Müller K,Dellas C,Hasenfuss G,Loskutoff DJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitral valve closure during cardiopulmonary resuscitation may result from direct cardiac compression. An alternative hypothesis is that with a rise in intrathoracic pressure, mitral valve closure can occur but may be influenced by whether the lungs are inflated or deflated. To test this hypothesis, we placed a large-b...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Halperin HR,Weiss JL,Guerci AD,Chandra N,Tsitlik JE,Brower R,Beattie C,Wurmb E,Cadden J,Weisfeldt ML

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anisotropy creates nonuniformity in electrical propagation and may contribute to the occurrence of unidirectional conduction block and reentry. We describe the characteristics of reentrant tachycardia in a 2D layer of anisotropic ventricular myocardium. METHODS AND RESULTS:A Langendorff-perfused epicardial ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Schalij MJ,Boersma L,Huijberts M,Allessie MA

更新日期：2000-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pollution by particulates has been consistently associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. However, the mechanisms responsible for these effects are not well-elucidated. METHODS AND RESULTS:To assess to what extent and how rapidly inhaled pollutant particles pass into the systemic cir...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Nemmar A,Hoet PH,Vanquickenborne B,Dinsdale D,Thomeer M,Hoylaerts MF,Vanbilloen H,Mortelmans L,Nemery B

更新日期：2002-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Venous thromboembolism can be a presenting symptom of cancer, but the association between lower limb arterial thrombosis and cancer is unknown. We therefore examined cancer risk and prognosis of cancer in patients with lower limb arterial thrombosis. METHODS:Using nationwide population-based Danish medical ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sundbøll J,Veres K,Horváth-Puhó E,Adelborg K,Sørensen HT

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00