Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' readmission reports inaccurately describe an institution's decompensated heart failure admissions.

abstract：:The left ventricular filling and regional wall motion patterns were compared in 6 normal subjects, 20 patients with coronary artery disease, and 10 patients with syndrome X by means of Doppler and two-dimensional echocardiography during high-dose (0.9 mg/kg body weight in 10 min) dipyridamole infusion. During the proc...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Nadazdin A,Shahi M,Foale RA

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angina pectoris usually occurs in patients with significant coronary artery disease during periods of increased coronary demand such as increased heart rate. Bradycardia is a rare and unusal cause of angina pectoris that should be considered during the evaluation of patients with agnia. This paper reports three cases ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Shaheen J,Wanderman A,Tzivoni D

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUNDS:The causes and prognosis of pericardial effusion (PE) may be different according to time, region, economy, and hospital. This study was performed to evaluate the etiology, clinical outcome, and prognosis of patients with large, symptomatic PE treated by echo-guided pericardiocentesis at Kangnam St. Mary's H...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Kil UH,Jung HO,Koh YS,Park HJ,Park CS,Kim PJ,Baek SH,Seung KB,Choi KB

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The global T-inversion (GTI) electrocardiogram (ECG) is strikingly abnormal with major QTc prolongation, but with a surprisingly good prognosis by Kaplan-Meier curve. This contrasts with most significant QTc prolongations. HYPOTHESIS:This study was undertaken to ascertain QT interval dispersion (QTd) in glo...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Desai SA,Mehrok S,Spodick DH

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In clinical cardiology, heart rate variability is a putative index of autonomic cardiovascular function. Signs of reduced vagal activity are not only associated with an enhanced risk of sudden cardiac death, but such impaired heart rate variability became a new predictor of sudden cardiac death and other mor...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Otsuka K,Cornélissen G,Halberg F

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Checking for lower-extremity edema is important for diagnosing, monitoring, and managing heart failure (HF). However, the characteristics of this sign in the early stages of cardiovascular disease (stage A, as defined by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association 2001 chronic HF guidelines...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Kataoka H

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ST-segment depression during exercise testing is frequently observed in the absence of restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). HYPOTHESIS:With the goal of improving the prediction of restenosis after PTCA, we evaluated the usefulness of ST-segment depression plus QT dispersio...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Aytemir K,Ozer N,Aksöyek S,Ozkutlu H,Oto A,Ozmen F

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To enhance the bedside diagnosis of tricuspid regurgitation, the influence of manual pressure applied below the liver on lower left sternal border murmurs was determined in 23 patients. All 23 subjects had right ventriculograms and right atrial phonocardiograms. The sign was positive in 13 cases, including 3 who were ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Gooch AS,Cha SD,Maranhao V

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited information exists regarding the association between subjective well-being (SWB) and systolic blood pressure (SBP) among hypertensive patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). HYPOTHESIS:We tested the hypothesis that there is an association between SBP and SWB. METHODS:We studied 22,576 hyperten...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Gong Y,Handberg EM,Gerhard T,Cooper-Dehoff RM,Ried LD,Johnson JA,Pepine CJ,INVEST Investigators.

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare cause of heart failure. It is defined as cardiomyopathy that develops in the last month of pregnancy or within 5 months of the postpartum period without an identifiable cause. We conducted a systematic review of literature of prospective studies with a focus on echocardiograp...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Asad ZUA,Maiwand M,Farah F,Dasari TW

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rising costs have reached a point at which physicians must assume a major role in dealing with the cost of medicine. Little information is available regarding actual practice at the community hospital level. In order to develop some insight on this issue, a survey of cardiovascular specialists was conducted regarding ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Vogel JH

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to chronic inflammatory status, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients are exposed to changes in left ventricular (LV) geometry and function. We assessed prevalence, factors associated with, and prognostic role of concentric LV geometry and systolic dysfunction (LVSD) detected by echocardiography in a large ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Cioffi G,Ognibeni F,Dalbeni A,Giollo A,Orsolini G,Gatti D,Rossini M,Viapiana O

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial dysfunction is increasingly recognized as an early event in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease. This observation is consistent with the growing appreciation of the role of endothelium in maintaining cardiovascular health. Endothelial dysfunction and coronary artery disease are both linked to hypert...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Pepine CJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Warfarin and other 4-hydroxycoumarins are effective antithrombotic agents. They affect four blood coagulation proteins that act sequentially to produce thrombin. Coumarin therapy decreases the biological activity of these proteins, and therefore decreases the rate at which blood clots. As the mechanism by which these ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Suttie JW

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is increasing evidence that chronic atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with a prothrombotic or hypercoagulable state. HYPOTHESIS:This study was undertaken to determine whether short-term exercise in patients with chronic AF would shift the overall hemostatic balance toward a more prothrombotic sta...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Li-Saw-Hee FL,Blann AD,Edmunds E,Gibbs CR,Lip GY

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac dysfunction, including mitral valve regurgitation and congestive heart failure, can occur in patients with sickle cell disease. However, major surgery poses a greater risk in this population. This paper reports on the management of a patient with sickle cell disease who underwent successful replacement of the ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Sgambati MT,Kon ND,Cruz JM

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a family of 4 members, all of whom have had multifocal, recurrent atrial myxomas associated with skin pigmentation, melanotic schwannomas, mucocutaneous myxomas, and tumors of the ovary and pituitary, adrenal, and thyroid glands. Immunochemistry of the myxoma cells is positive for calretinin, confirming t...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Shetty Roy AN,Radin M,Sarabi D,Shaoulian E

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently two types of atypical T-wave evolution were recognized as electrocardiographic (ECG) markers of regional postinfarction pericarditis. The sensitivity and specificity of these changes for this condition were 100 and 77%, respectively. The major purpose of this investigation is to show how these ECG changes can...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Oliva PB,Hammill SC

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Echocardiography plays an important role in the diagnostic work up of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). We sought to determine the left ventricular (LV) diastolic profile by echocardiography in patients diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension (PH) due to PH-HFpEF. HYPOTHESIS:The study of...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Raeisi-Giglou P,Lam L,Tamarappoo BK,Newman J,Dweik RA,Tonelli AR

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In animal models, pretreatment with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI) can reduce no-reflow. In the present study, we investigated whether pretreatment with ACEI may prevent no-reflow in patients who underwent primary coronary intervention for AMI. METHOD AND RESULTS:A total of 259 consecutive p...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Zhao JL,Yang YJ,Zhang YH,Pei WD,Sun YH,Chen JL,Gao RL

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF), both natriuretic peptides and renal impairment predict adverse outcomes. Our aim was to evaluate the complementary prognosis role of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and the newly developed Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Col...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Flores-Blanco PJ,Manzano-Fernández S,Pérez-Calvo JI,Pastor-Pérez FJ,Ruiz-Ruiz FJ,Carrasco-Sánchez FJ,Morales-Rull JL,Pascual-Figal D,Galisteo-Almeda L,Januzzi JL

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last several years dilating balloons have been applied in the treatment of stenotic cardiac valves. This interest has been extended to stenotic porcine bioprosthetic valves. Part I of this review discusses the pathologic changes producing stenotic porcine prosthetic valves. Part II of this review describes ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Waller BF,McKay C,VanTassel J,Allen M

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with coronary artery disease have a variety of treatment options available to them. These include medications to control anginal episodes and, when appropriate, revascularization interventions in the form of coronary artery bypass graft and angioplasty. Despite advances in the treatment of angina, a substanti...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Holmes DR Jr

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Advanced age remains one of the principal determinants of mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). HYPOTHESIS:The aim of this study was to determine the in-hospital outcome of elderly (> 75 years) patients with AMI who were admitted to hospitals participating in the national MITRA (Maxi...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Haase KK,Schiele R,Wagner S,Fischer F,Burczyk U,Zahn R,Schuster S,Senges J

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-acting oral isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN) was replaced by Nitroderm TTS, and the utility of this drug in long-term treatment was assessed in 69 patients with angina pectoris. The frequency of attacks (p < 0.001) and the consumption of sublingual nitrate tablets (p < 0.01) were found to be significantly lower at 2 w...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Hayashi H,Ito T,Matsubara T,Watanabe T,Kuzuya F,Mizuno Y,Sotohata I,Fujinami T,Toyama J,Yamada K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stimulated endothelium-derived relaxing factor-mediated vasodilation and conduit artery distensibility are impaired in congestive heart failure (CHF). L-arginine could have a potentially beneficial role in CHF, acting through the nitric oxide (NO)-L-arginine pathway or by growth hormone increment. HYPOTHESI...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Bocchi EA,Vilella de Moraes AV,Esteves-Filho A,Bacal F,Auler JO,Carmona MJ,Bellotti G,Ramires AF

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac troponins (CTn) are the most sensitive and specific biochemical markers of myocardial injury and risk stratification. The assay for troponin T (cTnI) is standardized, and results obtained from different institutions are comparable. This is not the case with troponin I (cTnT), and clinicians should be aware tha...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Agzew Y

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasodilating prostaglandins may be increased in patients with chronic congestive heart failure (CHF) to balance out the effects of vasoconstricting forces. Significant increases in plasma levels of bicycloprostaglandin E2 metabolite (PGEm), a chemically stable degradation product of the vasodilating prostaglandin E2, ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Stanek B,Punzengruber C,Silberbauer K

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is now accumulating which strongly suggests that prognosis of patients with painless myocardial ischemia determined either by ambulatory ECG monitoring or exercise testing may be no different than the prognosis of patients who have overt clinical manifestations of myocardial ischemia associated with transient...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Conti CR

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1350 patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction, serum potassium levels during the first 3 days in hospital was correlated to clinical history and clinical course. A higher incidence of hypokalemia was observed in women, in patients with hypertension, and in those on chronic diuretic treatment. Patients wi...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Herlitz J,Hjalmarson A,Bengtson A

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00