Long-term results of combined cardiac contractility modulation and subcutaneous defibrillator therapy in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction.

abstract：:Full recovery occurred after 15 months of severe congestive heart failure in a patient with peripartum cardiomyopathy. Clinical improvement was noted when propranolol was added to conventional therapy. ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Moreyra AE,Kostis JB,Amendo M

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Females with Ullrich-Turner syndrome (UTS) have typical clinical features such as short stature, ovarian failure, visible dysmorphic stigmata, and abnormalities in different organs such as kidney or heart. HYPOTHESIS:The aim of the present study was to analyze the distribution, prevalence, and relative risk...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Völkl TM,Degenhardt K,Koch A,Simm D,Dörr HG,Singer H

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite advances in the treatment of congestive heart failure (CHF), the mortality rate continues to be high. A large number of the deaths are sudden, presumably due to ventricular arrhythmias. Complex ventricular arrhythmias are recorded in as many as 80% of patients with CHF, with nonsustained ventricular tachycardi...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Chakko S,de Marchena E,Kessler KM,Myerburg RJ

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cusp entrapment is a previously unreported mechanism of aortic insufficiency after balloon aortic valvuloplasty. In a patient who developed severe acute aortic insufficiency and expired after balloon aortic valvuloplasty, pathologic evaluation revealed a large, solitary, fractured, calcific nodule in the noncoronary c...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Treasure CB,Schoen FJ,Treseler PA,Bittl JA

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammatory process plays an important role in the pathogenesis of acute coronary syndromes. HYPOTHESIS:The study was undertaken to evaluate whether admission levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), fibrinogen, interleukin-6 (IL-6). and macrophage colony stimulating factor (MCSF) can predict short-term prognos...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Rallidis LS,Zolindaki MG,Manioudaki HS,Laoutaris NP,Velissaridou AH,Papasteriadis EG

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of our reported experience with colchicine for recurrent pericarditis, we administered colchicine to two patients with large pericardial effusions complicating idiopathic pericarditis. The first was a 26-year-old male who showed clinical deterioration following emergency pericardiocentesis and aspirin (3 ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Adler Y,Guindo J,Finkelstein Y,Khouri A,Assali A,Bayes-Genis A,Bayes de Luna A

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a serious infectious disease that continues to occur with increasing incidence in various areas of the United States. A high case-fatality ratio (11%) persists in spite of availability of adequate chemotherapeutic agents, and the cardiac involvement may play an important role in the fin...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Marin-Garcia J

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to describe the use of angioscopes in flowing bloodstreams of animals and humans, to demonstrate the ability to precisely deliver laser energy to an intravascular target using visual guidance and to determine the information content and spatial content of angioscopy. Angioscopy was perform...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Litvack F,Grundfest WS,Lee ME,Carroll RM,Foran R,Chaux A,Berci G,Rose HB,Matloff JM,Forrester JS

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 33-year-old man was investigated for dyspnea on exertion and the presence of a pansystolic murmur. Physical examination revealed dextrocardia confirmed by chest radiograph, which also showed oligemic right lung field. Subsequent cardiac catheterization revealed secundum atrial septal defect, persistent left sided su...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Yip AS,Chow WH,Lee DF,Cheung KL

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with high cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, which is not fully explained by traditional risk factors; hence, the interest in nontraditional risk factors such as inflammation and insulin resistance (IR). Though IR is shown in nondiabetic CKD, its association wi...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Banerjee D,Recio-Mayoral A,Chitalia N,Kaski JC

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapy for acute myocardial infarction has advanced dramatically since the early 1980s with the use of early intravenous fibrinolytic therapy. Combining low-dose fibrinolysis and platelet lysis appears to provide an additional increase in infarct-related artery (IRA) patency, but the large-scale mortality reduction t...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Gassler JP,Topol EJ

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effect of body fat distribution on left ventricular (LV) mass and geometry has been recently recognized. However, data regarding circulating inflammatory markers in relation to regional visceral fat deposits, which are metabolically active tissues that can impact cardiac structural remodeling, remain spa...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Lai YH,Liu CC,Kuo JY,Hung TC,Wu YJ,Yeh HI,Bulwer BE,Hung CL

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of congestive heart failure (CHF) has not significantly declined over the past 50 years, and overall survival rates are low at 5 years following diagnosis. Numerous studies have shown low serum sodium to be a poor prognostic indicator of all cause mortality in CHF patients. HYPOTHESIS:The goal...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： DeWolfe A,Lopez B,Arcement LM,Hebert K

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subaortic stenosis has been described with increasing frequency as an ominous feature of atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD), especially following surgical correction of the anomaly in non-Down's syndrome patients. In order to study the surgical anatomy of the left ventricular outflow tract in this malformation, 48 ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Gallo P,Formigari R,Hokayem NJ,D'Offizi F,D'Alessandro,Francalanci P,d'Amati G,Colloridi V,Pizzuto F

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A community-wide study of patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction in metropolitan Baltimore was conducted to examine socio-demographic and clinical characteristics in association with ventricular fibrillation and cardiac arrest (VF/CA). Multivariate analyses revealed that variables significantly associa...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Tonascia J,Szklo M,Goldberg R,Kennedy H

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with malignant ventricular arrhythmias, antiarrhythmic therapy is known to carry a substantial risk of proarrhythmia. This risk is usually considered to be low when supraventricular arrhythmias or benign ventricular arrhythmias are considered. We were able to collect data on four patients without a history...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Faber TS,Zehender M,Van de Loo A,Hohnloser S,Just H

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural history studies in heart failure have shown that increases in left ventricular (LV) volume and LV mass are directly related to future deterioration in LV performance and a less favorable clinical course. Despite the recognized importance of remodeling in heart failure, very little is known about the basic mech...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Kurrelmeyer K,Kalra D,Bozkurt B,Wang F,Dibbs Z,Seta Y,Baumgarten G,Engle D,Sivasubramanian N,Mann DL

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aortic valve disease is an important and frequent clinical problem with a mortality rate as high as 50-80% in a 5-year natural history of patients with severe aortic valve disease. Biological or mechanical prosthesis implantation is the only way to improve prognosis. HYPOTHESIS:The aim of our study was to a...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Waszyrowski T,Kasprzak JD,Krzemińska-Pakuła M,Dziatkowiak A,Zasłonka J

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of a history of angina pectoris on long-term timolol treatment after myocardial infarction was studied with respect to mortality and reinfarction. The analyses were performed retrospectively using cohorts from the Norwegian timolol multicenter study. In patients without angina pectoris prior to the infa...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Gundersen T,Kjekshus J

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The extracellular matrix tissue of the myocardium importantly contributes to left ventricular (LV) performance. Inherited connective tissue disorders related to the FBN1 gene could involve cardiac interstitium resulting in functional abnormalities. HYPOTHESIS:To disclose a primary involvement of myocardium,...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Porciani MC,Giurlani L,Chelucci A,Pepe G,Giusti BH,Brunelli T,Attanasio M,Martinucci P,Fattrori R,Abbatea R,Gensini GF

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Troponin I (TnI) is increasingly employed as a highly specific marker of acute myocardial ischemia. The value of this marker after cardiac surgery is unclear. HYPOTHESIS:The purpose of this study was to measure serum TnI levels prospectively at 1, 6, and 72 h after elective cardiac operations. In addition, ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Horvath KA,Parker MA,Frederiksen JW,Palmer AS,Fullerton DA

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperkalemia was associated with complete heart block in one patient that resolved by first showing right anterior hemiblock). Then the right bundle branch block resolved, leaving the marked left axis deviation that was present before the hyperkalemic episode. Another patient with hyperkalemia had right bundle branch ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Ohmae M,Rabkin SW

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The AFFIRM study showed no clear survival advantage for a rhythm versus rate control strategy in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). However, rhythm control with antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs) is appropriate in a large number of patients with AF. The American College of Cardiology/ American Heart Association/European...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Reiffel JA,Naccarelli GV

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of neuroleptanalgesia in acute myocardial infarction offers the possibility of reducing pain and emotional stress. The influence of such treatment on hemodynamic parameters (heart rate, cardiac output, stroke volume, peripheral resistance, systemic blood pressure, and pulmonary pressure) and on the plasma leve...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Magometschnigg D,Hörtnagl H,Gassner A,Hammerle AF,Kleinberger G,Lenzhofer R,Lochs H,Pall H,Pichler M

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although sudden death (SD) is a rare complication after atrioventricular junction (AVJ) ablation and permanent pacemaker implantation, the risk factors leading to this SD remain unknown. The purpose of this study was to investigate SD and its risk factors after ablate-and-pace strategy for rate control in at...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Wang RX,Lee HC,Li JP,Hodge DO,Cha YM,Friedman PA,Munger TM,Srivathsan K,Pavri BB,Shen WK

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the diagnostic value of dipyridamole (D) testing, we studied the responses of 34 patients with chest pain and 10 normal subjects. Blood pressure and 12-lead ECG were recorded during and after intravenous infusion of 0.6 mg/kg dipyridamole for 10 minutes. Coronary arteriography and maximal or symptom...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： DeAmbroggi L,Barbieri P,DeBiase AM,Repetto S,Radice M

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The normal and dilated heart behaves as a single functional unit during preload reduction: volume unloading in the setting of diastolic ventricular interaction allows for increased left ventricular (LV) filling. HYPOTHESIS:We hypothesized that reduction of venous return induced by a physiologic stimulus (ti...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Pepi M,Tamborini G,Maltagliati A,Guazzi M,Berna G,Susini F,Muratori M,Celeste F

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic cardiomyoplasty is a new surgical procedure proposed for treatment of the failing heart. Clinically, the latissimus dorsi muscle is raised as a pedicled flap and wrapped around the heart. The skeletal muscle is transformed to produce a myocardium-like fatigue-resistant muscle. It is stimulated to contract in s...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Hill AB,Chiu RC

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite efforts targeting the growth of healthcare spending within the United States, the current increase in expenditures remains a widespread systemic issue. The overuse of healthcare testing has previously been identified as a modifiable contributing factor. One such test, echocardiography, has seen a con...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Bethge A,Penciu O,Baksh S,Parve S,Lobraico J,Keller AM

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:QT interval shortens with exercise. Some of this shortening is due to an increase in heart rate, and some is due to other effects of exercise, probably mostly neuroendocrine effects. Data from subjects with cardiac transplants have suggested that non-heart rate-related changes in QT interval on exercise are ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Davey P,Bateman J

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00