Rosuvastatin versus atorvastatin to prevent contrast induced nephropathy in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (ROSA-cIN trial).

abstract：:An anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the left sinus of Valsalva with an interarterial course is a rather rare congenital anomaly. Treatment strategies are determined by the risk of sudden cardiac death and the presence of cardiac ischaemia. We present two cases of middle-aged patients who were diagnos...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： De Pooter J,Van Driessche L,Bartunek J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 67-year-old Caucasian woman presented with chest pain suggestive of acute pericarditis. On initial evaluation the apical ballooning variant of stress-related cardiomyopathy (CMP) was present. The stress CMP and acute pericarditis resolved within a week. The patient returned in four weeks with early cardiac tamponade...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Li JW,Nanda S,Longo S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Color-coded liquid plastic was injected intraparenchymally (not into the blood vessels) into more than 300 hearts of homeotherms--including dog, cat, sheep, beef, horse, mammalian dolphins, chickens, turkeys, etc. The organization of the hearts of all these species appears to be similar. After injection of a heart seg...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Rodbard S

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We aimed to investigate the role of QRS duration on the surface electrocardiogram (ECG) in predicting response to levosimendan therapy in patients with acute systolic heart failure. METHODS:Patients with an ejection fraction (EF) lower than 35% who required intravenous inotropic support despite optimal heart f...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Cetin M,Uçar O,Cicekçioğlu H,Güven Cetin Z,Sahin M,Vasfi Ulusoy F,Aydoğdu S

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) is a key enzyme in the production of angiotensin II and thus may participate in the modulation of cardiac growth. The cloning of the ACE gene has made it possible to identify a deletion (D)-insertion (I) polymorphism that appears to affect the level of serum ACE activity. ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Dursunoglu D,Evrengül H,Tanriverdi H,Turgut G,Genç O,Kaftan HA,Kilic M

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meningitis due to Neisseria meningitidis occurred in a young man. On admission, he was in septic shock and the electrocardiogram revealed convex upwards ST-segment elevation in inferior and lateral leads. Rapid and complete normalisation of the ECG was observed and the patient had a favourable evolution with intensive...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Gach O,Lancellotti P,Pierard LA

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective Heart fatty acid binding protein (HFABP) is a low-molecular-weight free protein that is abundant in the intracytoplasmic space of myocytes. Due to its unique features, serum HFABP levels may increase in myocardial ischaemia. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of myocardial ischaemia induced by ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Akinci S,Balcioğlu AS,Taçoy G,Tavil Y,Gülbahar Ö,Özdemir M

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to evaluate pain and pulmonary function after partial upper versus complete sternotomy for aortic valve surgery. METHODS AND RESULTS:In a prospective study of 31 adult patients, 15 individuals underwent aortic valve replacement via partial upper sternotomy, and 16 patients were oper...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Candaele S,Herijgers P,Demeyere R,Flameng W,Evers G

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The coronary slow flow phenomenon is an angiographic finding characterized by delayed distal vessel opacification in the absence of significant epicardial coronary disease, and is an important clinical entity because it may be the cause of angina at rest or during exercise, acute myocardial infarction, and h...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Yilmaz H,Demir I,Uyar Z

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: The presence of intracoronary thrombus is associated with increased ischaemic complications in patients with NSTEMI. High thrombus burden is an independent predictor of major adverse cardiovascular events, stent thrombosis and no reflow in patients with STEMI. CHA2DS2-VASc score predicts thrombus burden in...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Satılmış S,Durmuş G

更新日期：2020-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aimed at determining the effect of percutaneous ASD closure on the AV conduction. Percutaneous closure of ostium secundum atrial septal defects (ASDs) has been widely accepted and has become the standard treatment of this malformation. However, some complications have been reported. Because of the ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Cottens D,Van De Bruaene A,Troost E,Willems R,Moons P,Budts W

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Defibrillation threshold testing (DT) following implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation has not shown to improve mortality. However, the impact of DT on burden of heart failure (HF) hospitalisations has not been well defined.Methods: We studied retrospectively consecutive patients who und...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Akdemir B,Li Y,Krishnan B,Adabag S,Tholakanahalli V,Benditt DG,Li JM

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary cardiac tumours are uncommon, with an estimated incidence between 0.0017% and 0.19%. Cardiac myxoma is a rare cause of cerebrovascular disease, especially in children. This case report emphasizes the importance of cardiac evaluation, especially echocardiographic examination in cases with stroke and peripheral ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Uner A,Dogan M,Sal E,Peker E

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The left ventricular haemodynamic alterations during right atrial pacing were studied in 12 cases. Cardiac index varied little: during maximal rate however, its mean value was slightly lower than the resting one. Stroke index decreased inversely to the heart rate. The course of these indices did not separate the norma...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Kolettis M,Gialafos J,Toutouzas P,Avgoustakis D

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During inflammation, several cell types synthesize and secrete phospholipase A2 that catalyses lipid oxidation in LDL. Myeloperoxidase, a haeme protein secreted by activated phagocytes, oxidizes L-tyrosine to a tyrosyl radical that is a physiological catalyst for the initiation of lipid oxidation in LDL. Lipid oxidati...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Holvoet P

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental demonstration that the external phonocardiogram is similar to the third derivative (rate of acceleration) of LV pressure, and that catecholamines cause a similar increase of the early systolic wave of the first derivative of LV pressure and of S1 prompted a study of the first sound during stress testing. ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Luisada A,Singhal A,Knighten V

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial cells release both relaxing and contracting factors that modulate vascular smooth muscle tone and also participate in the pathophysiology of essential hypertension. Endothelium-dependent vasodilation is regulated primarily by nitric oxide but also by an unidentified endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing fact...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Puddu P,Puddu GM,Zaca F,Muscari A

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasoconstrictory responses to noradrenaline (NA) or high potassium chloride (130 mM) usually show a biphasic behaviour: an initial peak is followed by a lower steady state level. The influence of three beta-sympatholytic agents (propranolol, pindolol, practolol) and a "Ca-antagonist" (verapamil) on this particular beh...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Kababgi MD,Henrich H,Schneider KW

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to prepare Belgian participation in the International Study "Monitoring of trends and determinants in cardiovascular disease (MONICA)", a pilot project for registration of acute myocardial infarctions was organized in the Flemish city of Ghent and the Walloon city of Charleroi. Thanks to the collaboration of ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Berghmans L,Heyerick P,De Backer G,Kornitzer M,Fux M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report nine surgical attempts in ventricular septal rupture following myocardial infarction and compare their experience with data from the literature. Two of the three long-term successes have been obtained by the association of infarcectomy and myocardial revascularisation to the repair of the septal rup...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： De Roy L,Col J,Cosyns J,Rousseau M,Ponlot R,Kremer R

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Subclinical hypothyroidism (SH) is characterized by normal serum free T4 (fT4), free T3 (fT3) levels and increased serum thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels.The aim of this study was to assess the validity of tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) in evaluating cardiac effects of SH and to demonstrate the improvi...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Oner FA,Yurdakul S,Oner E,Uzum AK,Erguney M

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aims at evaluating the acute hemodynamic effects of external and internal (3 and 15 mA) pacing on 30 patients with severe cardiac failure. The global and regional ejection fraction were calculated by repeated radionuclide ventriculography at rest (control) and during increasing pacing rates. Blood pr...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Toumanidis ST,Danopoulos A,Vassilopoulos N,Nanas SN,Kostamis P,Sideris DA,Moulopoulos SD

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen patients were examined hemodynamically with echocardiography, calibrated apexcardiography, and systolic time intervals before treatment, after 1 week treatment with amiodarone 600 mg daily and after 2-4 months treatment with 300 mg daily. During the treatment thyroid function was controlled. The echocardiogram...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Buch J,Andersen ED

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Patients with chest pain are risk-stratified using serial high-sensitivity troponin (T) assays (hsTnT). Those with change in (Δ)hsTnT <20% are often categorised as low-risk and are less likely to be managed as acute coronary syndromes (ACS). We sought to characterise such a population of 'low-risk' chest p...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Weir RAP,Osmanska J,Docherty KF,Petrie CJ

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereological methods under light and electron microscopy have been used to study the ventricular myocardium of rats exhausted by swimming exercise. The proportion of myocardial cell/interstitium diminishes with the exercise. This result is interpreted as a consequence of an intercellular edema which becomes more pron...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Lucena MC,Paniagua R

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiographic findings in a patient with familial amyloidosis. The diagnosis was made by the clinical picture and histologic evidence of amyloid in peripheral nerve biopsy. Though the patient had no clinical sign of heart failure, extensive involvement of the heart was demo...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Piérard L,Verheugt FW,Meltzer RS,Roelandt J

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High platelet reactivity (HPR) to clopidogrel is associated with an increased risk of ischaemic complications during and after coronary interventions and concerns up to 50% of patients undergoing PCI. AIM OF THE STUDY:The aim of the study was to identify patients with HPR to clopidogrel using bedside clinic...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Legrand D,Barbato E,Chenu P,Magne J,Vrolix M,Wijns W,Legrand V,STIB investigators.

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this paper was to investigate the association between levels of HO-1 expression and angiographic morphology as well as the quantity of coronary lesions in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). METHODS:110 patients with CHD were diagnosed by coronary angiography which contained coronary lesio...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Li YG,Wang DM,Chen SM,Tan XR,Fang XY,Wu JW,Zhang GH,Mai RQ

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"No-reflow" is an important complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the setting of acute myocardial infarction and is associated with worse outcomes. Visible thrombus on the angiogram is a significant risk factor for "no-reflow". A variety of strategies have been employed to prevent this phenomenon...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Jafary FH,Najaf SM

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Heart failure (HF) is a lethal disorder most common in blacks. Available treatment options have little impact on prognosis, making primary prevention a priority. We aimed to describe the spectrum of established HF risk factors and clinical features in Nigerian adults. METHODS:We recruited consecutive adults...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Laabes EP,Thacher TD,Okeahialam BN

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00