Facing Morbid Obesity: How to Approach It.

abstract：:Beta-blocker usage in the United Kingdom centers around propranolol and oxprenolol as noncardioselective drugs, atenolol and metoprolol as cardioselective agents, and pindolol or oxprenolol when partial agonist activity is desired. Any meaningful comparison of a novel beta blocker against the established drugs must be...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Maclean D

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes and evaluates a non-invasive technique for continuous monitoring of hemodynamic changes in the legs during walking. The method involves monitoring of cutaneous toe temperature. In six normal subjects we have shown that, during exercise under carefully controlled conditions, a unique steady-state...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Baccelli G,Corbellini E,Walsh JT,Busca S,Boccaccini U,Zanchetti A

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fifty-four-year-old woman was evaluated at the authors' hospital for symptoms of repeated chest and back pain. The symptoms had recurred for five months prior to admission. A dynamic computed tomographic scan was performed on admission and demonstrated an enlarged ascending aorta with four barrels secondary to split...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Ohte N,Takase R,Hashimoto T,Suzuki K,Narita H,Fujinami T

更新日期：1995-11-01 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

abstract：:Two patients suffering from idiopathic unilateral lower limb lymphedema were treated with a diet in which long-chain triglycerides (LCT) were drastically restricted. From the beginning of the treatment, a distinct improvement was observed in both patients, with reduction of the affected limb perimeters, decrease of ed...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Soria P,Cuesta A,Romero H,Martínez FJ,Sastre A

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis as a cause of spontaneous dissection in the cervical internal carotid arteries has been described in only a few cases. The authors present a surgically and pathologically proven case of dissection on the base of atherosclerosis of the cervical internal carotid artery. A resection of the pathologic segm...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： De Baets P,Delanote G,Jackers G,De Puydt P,Wilms G

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the extensive literature on the diagnosis of deep vein thrombophlebitis (DVT) is presented. DVT affects approximately 10% of all patients with superficial thrombophlebitis. Many authors have shown that the clinical finding of DVT are unreliable. Although pulmonary emboli are relatively frequent in all pati...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Painter TD

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of glucocorticoid on the metabolism and contractility in the stunned myocardium was examined by phosphorus 31 nuclear magnetic resonance (31P-NMR) in Langendorff rabbit hearts by use of an artificial blood substitute, perfluorochemical emulsion Flusol-43. After normothermic global ischemia of fifteen minute...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Kawabata H,Takada K,Katori R

更新日期：1995-10-01 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：:Mortality and morbidity from cerebrovascular and coronary arterial disease over a period of six years were studied in 224 non-diabetic patients with intermittent claudication. Patients with multiple arterial stenoses in the leg had a lower six-year survival than patients with single stenoses (55% versus 77%), with a h...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Jonason T,Ringqvist I

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the prevalence and severity of occult coronary artery disease (CAD) and cerebrovascular disease (CeVD) in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). We studied 100 consecutive patients with no history of CAD, normal electrocardiogram, normal systolic function, and no angina or dyspnea. All patients un...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Marsico F,Giugliano G,Ruggiero D,Parente A,Paolillo S,Guercio LD,Esposito G,Trimarco B,Filardi PP

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) is present in adult atria but at very low concentrations in normal adult mammalian ventricles. In the atria, the production of ANP is regulated by physical distension of the atrial wall. The same phenomenon was investigated in the ventricles of rats and men. Cardiac tissues from human ...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Gu J,D'Andrea M,Seethapathy M,McDonnell C,Cichon R

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, the authors describe the angiographic findings in the forearm and hand in Okihiro's syndrome. To the best of their knowledge, it has not been described before. Okihiro et al described hypoplasia of the thenar eminence in association with a congenital disorder of ocular motility previously reported in D...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Rashad F,Keith MW,Shields R,Barre PS,Sobel M

更新日期：1987-08-01 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 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：:Two sisters who presented with diffuse hypoplasia of pulmonary arteries, relative hypoplasia of ascending aorta, obstructive uropathy, bilateral ureteral reflux, and hydronephrosis, are described. The subsequent course was characterized by progressive and gradual onset of right heart failure, failure to thrive, chroni...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Kashani IA,Strom CM,Utley JE,Marin-Garcia J,Higgins CB

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrocardiographic manifestations of hyperkalemia have been well described. We report a patient with chronic congestive heart failure and atrial fibrillation for 6 years. who converted to sinus rhythm during an episode of hyperkalemia. To our knowledge, this is the first report of hyperkalemia-induced conversion...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Mathew PK

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood viscosity (eta B) at shear rates 10 and 100s-1, plasma viscosity (eta P), hematocrit (Hct), and whole blood cholesterol (Chol) were measured in 50 patients with a history of myocardial infarction or unstable angina pectoris. Erythrocyte morphology was also studied by scanning electron microscopy to determine the...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Fawcett JP,Menkes DB

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) ≥2.0 mg/L was associated with increased intima-media thickness (IMT), plaque burden, and plaque echolucency in carotid arteries. Women (n = 635) from a population sample of 64-year-old females with varying degrees of glucose tolerance underwent risk facto...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Prahl U,Wikstrand J,Bergström GM,Behre CJ,Hulthe J,Fagerberg B

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The idea of cerebrovascular injury in cases of thromboangiitis obliterans was not strange to Leo Buerger, but Jäger (1932), as well Lindenberg and Spatz (1939), first established it. The aim of this study was to investigate the hemodynamics in the basal cerebral arteries by means of transcranial Doppler in patients wi...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Matchev S,Petrov V,Batchvarova V,Maljakova A,Doneva S

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a recent need to study glucose metabolism of the heart in ischemic, as well as in "hibernating or stunned" myocardium, and compare it with that in perfusion studies. In non-positron emission tomography centers, positron imaging is possible with a standard Anger-type camera if proper collimation and adequate s...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Höflin F,Ledermann H,Noelpp U,Weinreich R,Rösler H

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine alterations in control functions of the heart, which may account for the pathophysiologic conditions precipitating coronary arterial spasm, heart rate response to exercise in vasospastic angina was evaluated by using our previously developed method of frequency analysis. We also examined the effects of thre...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Sato I,Hasegawa Y,Ohe T,Funahashi T,Tomobuchi Y,Shimomura K

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of sublingual nitroglycerin on septal and left ventricular wall motion were determined by echocardiography in the early hours of acute myocardial infarction (MI) in 20 patients admitted via a mobile coronary care unit. Left ventricular and septal echoes were obtained in 11 patients with acute anterior MI a...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Kounis NG,Zavras GM,Papadaki PJ,Soufras GD,Kitrou MP

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study correlated cigarette smoking, systolic or diastolic hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolemia, low serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, hypertriglyceridemia, and obesity with development of new atherothrombotic brain infarction in 192 elderly men and 516 elderly women. Mean follo...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Aronow WS,Gutstein H,Lee NH,Edwards M

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale epidemiological studies show that hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidaemia are highly prevalent among obese individuals. Regrettably, preventive efforts have failed to abolish the increasing prevalence of obesity worldwide. The endocannabinoid system is implicated in the regulation of appetite, food intak...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Andrikopoulos GK,Tzeis S

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate precocious alterations in the artery wall of patients with primary antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). METHODS:We evaluated flow-mediated dilation (FMD) of the brachial artery and intima-media thickness (IMT) of carotid arteries in 16 patients and 16 healthy controls matched for age, gender, and ...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Bilora F,Sartori MT,Zanon E,Campagnolo E,Arzenton M,Rossato A

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) and stiffness, reflecting subclinical atherosclerosis, are associated with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). The relationship between serum fetuin-A, which inhibits ectopic calcification, and atherosclerosis is unclear. Therefore, we investigated the association b...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Akyuz A,Oran M,Alpsoy S,Mutlu LC,Akkoyun DC,Guzel S,Alp R

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proportion of individuals >80 years of age constitute an increasing proportion of patients who present with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). The objective of this study is to evaluate in-hospital outcomes and 1-year survival of very elderly patients who present with an STEMI and undergo primary ...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Sharma R,Hiebert B,Cheung D,Jassal DS,Minhas K

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the effects of heart rate (HR) on brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) and ankle-brachial pressure index (ABI). Thirty-two patients without significant organic heart disease underwent elective cardiac catheterization or electrophysiologic study, and were then enrolled in right atrial pacing ...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Su HM,Lee KT,Chu CS,Lee MY,Lin TH,Voon WC,Sheu SH,Lai WT

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The junctions between endothelial cells in lymph capillaries may have different degrees of complexity and have been classified as three types: "end to end" (EE), "overlapping" (OVL), and "interdigitating" (ID). Under normal conditions, the more complex junction types (ID and OVL) are more frequent than the simple type...

journal_title：Angiology

authors： Weber E,Sacchi G,Comparini L

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00