Coronary artery disease and restenosis after peripheral endovascular intervention are predictors of poor outcome in peripheral arterial disease.

abstract：:The aim of our study is to evaluate the prognostic value of heart rate turbulence and heart rate variability in children with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Twenty-five children with DCM and 24 age- and sex-matched healthy children who were admitted between January 2002 and September 2004, enrolled in this prospective ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Karakurt C,Aytemir K,Karademir S,Sungur M,Oğuz D,Ocal B,Senocak F

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:Background: Quality indicators (QIs) are used to measure and evaluate quality of care. However, QIs to evaluate care for HF patients in general practice in Belgium are lacking. Therefore, this study aimed to determine which QIs, rooted in the electronic health record (EHR), are useful to monitor quality of care for pa...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Smets M,Smeets M,Van den Bulck S,Janssens S,Aertgeerts B,Vaes B

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eighteen consecutive patients (14 male, 4 females, in the age 37-52 years, mean = 43 years) with dilated cardiomyopathy in NYHA functional classification groups III-IV, the efficacy of ambulatory long-term (mean = 6 years) vasodilator therapy by means mechanocardiography (systolic and diastolic time intervals) and ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Riecansky I

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The primary aim of the study was to investigate whether there is a difference in plasma B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels among the left ventricular systolic dysfunction caused by different types of heart disease. METHODS AND RESULTS:Plasma BNP was measured in patients with left ventricular systolic d...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Wei T,Zeng C,Chen Q,Chen L,Zhao R,Lu G,Lu C,Wang L

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To attain a long and healthy life has always been one of the major goals of humanity. The Chinese emperors, the Egyptian pharaohs and the Aztec kings all aspired to become immortal. To try to avoid mortality and to decrease morbidity at the population level is the role of public health, taken in its broadest sense, in...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Kesteloot H

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between cardiovascular diseases and serum immunoglobulin E (Ig E) levels has been investigated by different authors. Serum Ig E may play a direct role in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases, or it may only be a marker formed during pathological mechanisms. In this study, we determined serum Ig E l...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Büyükberber S,Sencan O,Büyükberber N,Tuncer C,Akyol O,Turgay M,Kocakavak C

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young woman with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) developed progressive heart failure several years after mitral valve replacement with a Björk-Shiley prosthesis for treating mitral stenosis due to Libman-Sacks endocarditis. She was admitted to the hospital with pulmonary oedema. Transoesophageal echocardiography ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Hoffer E,Itoua M,Radermecker M,Piérard L

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetic parameters for a two compartment open model were defined for six patients receiving a wide range of Digoxin doses. It was demonstrated that the two compartment model is a valid one to use for Digoxin pharmacokinetics. This model is an useful concept because it can explain the necessity to vary Digo...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Rabkin SW,Grupp G

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The levels of adiponectin, an anti-atherogenic protein, are decreased in patients with coronary artery disease. Syndrome X is associated with endothelial dysfunction, which is a key feature in the evolution of atherosclerosis. We sought to determine whether serum adiponectin levels are decreased in patients w...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Susam I,Yaylali YT,Dursunoglu D,Göksoy H,Oztürk M,Yaylali O,Semiz E

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A prospective randomized multicentre pilot trial, comparing stenting with balloon angioplasty as a treatment for coronary lesions, located in a bifurcation was performed. METHODS AND RESULTS:After balloon dilatation, with a < 30% residual stenosis in the main vessel and < 50% residual stenosis in the side br...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Dens J,Dubois C,Vermeersch P,Coussement P,Vrolix M,Janssens L,Desmet W,Piessens J

更新日期：2005-08-01 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 present study aimed to compare the effectiveness and safety of the potential- and the anatomic-guided approach for slow pathway ablation in patients with recurrent episodes of symptomatic common type atrioventricular (AV) nodal reentrant tachycardia. METHODS:Two hundred and twenty-eight patients were ran...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Efremidis M,Sideris A,Letsas KP,Alexanian IP,Pappas LK,Mihas CC,Manolatos D,Xydonas S,Gavrielatos G,Filippatos GS,Kardaras F

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indices of the first derivative and of the normalized first derivative of the left apexcardiogram were used to evaluate the contractile state of the left ventricle of cyclists in the competitive season compared to their resting season and of cardiac patients before and after a physical training program. In both groups...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Vanhees L,Fagard R,Amery A

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital left ventricular diverticulum is rare and usually isolated or associated with midline thoracoabdominal defects and other congenital cardiac malformations. We describe a case with a previously undescribed malformation syndrome including bilateral obstruction of the ureteropelvic junction, agenesis of corpus ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Massin MM,Verloes A

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this paper is to study the degree of subclinical arterial wall damage in subjects at low and moderate risk of cardiovascular death by the SCORE scale using instrumental research methods. METHODS:We enrolled 600 patients (mean age 49.0 +/- 7.1 years, 74% women) with a calculated SCORE 5%, who passed a ca...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Boytcov SA,Urazalina SJ,Kukharchuk VV,Balakhonova TV,Sergienko IV

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although non-adherence to medications is associated with increased cardiovascular risks, very little information is focused on the relationship between knowledge and medication adherence among patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). AIM:The purposes were to assess the relationship between medication adh...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Zhao S,Zhao H,Wang L,Du S,Qin Y

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary dissemination of a cardiac cyst is a rare condition. In the present study, we report a case of a 20-year-old patient with cardiac hydatosis located in the interventricular septum, which was previously diagnosed and treated as pulmonary hydatid disease. Diagnosis was made by spiral computed tomography and tre...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Darçin OT,Kazaz H,Celkan A

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital absence of the left atrial appendage (LAA) is extremely rare.We describe a case of congenial absence of the LAA in a patient scheduled for atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation. Absence of the LAA was found pre-procedurally by transoesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and cardiac computer tomography (CT). During ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Zhang ZJ,Dong JZ,Ma CS

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a 64-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency department after suffering a motor vehicle accident, involving multiple soft tissue and bone trauma. Even though she was free from cardiovascular symptoms for the last three years, her past medical history of aorto-coronary bypass surgery prompted preoper...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Albrecht CA,Pepper G,Fuentes F

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The main function of hepatic lipase (HL) with respect to high-density lipoprotein (HDL) is hydrolysis of phospholipids and triglycerides. The -514C-->T polymorphism in the promoter region of the hepatic lipase gene affects HL activity. We aimed to investigate the association between the frequency of the -514C...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Gündoğdu F,Gurlertop Y,Pirim I,Aksakal E,Dogan H,Islamoglu Y,Ozkan A,Senocak H

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of a 87-year-old patient presenting with signs suggestive of new-onset heart failure which lead to the diagnosis of a large right ventricular mass occupying the entire cavity and extending to the right ventricular outflow tract. ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Briasoulis A,Siddiqui F,Siddiqui S,Mohamad T,Afonso L

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac rehabilitation for ischaemic heart disease effectively reduces cardiovascular readmission rate and mortality. Current uptake rates however, remain low. This study assesses the social and economic impact of increasing centre-based cardiac rehabilitation uptake and the additional value of cardiac teler...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Frederix I,Vandijck D,Hens N,De Sutter J,Dendale P

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimal management of high-risk patients requiring urgent or emergency noncardiac surgery when the options for further testing and evaluation are limited, is unclear. The focus of most of the literature, including the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines, has been on patients underg...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Jafary FH

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that the circulating white blood cell (WBC) and neutrophil counts are related to left ventricular (LV) indices in patients with the same risk area for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), we examined 100 consecutive AMI patients who had the culprit lesion at segment 6 according to the Ame...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Uesugi T,Iwasaki K,Murakami M,Yamamoto K,Kusachi S,Murakami T,Obika M,Kamikawa S,Miyoshi T,Shiratori Y

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: The objective was to explore the value of serum carbohydrate antigen 125 (CA125) combined with N-terminal pro B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in predicting the clinical prognosis of patients with acute heart failure (AHF).Methods: We prospectively observed 213 patients with AHF. CA125 (U/ml) and NT-...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Chen X,Wu M,Xu K,Huang M,Zhuo X

更新日期：2020-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the changes in cardiovascular and splanchnic hemodynamic, diuresis and urinary and hepatic veins osmolarity induced by hypotonic water load in five normal subjects and in five patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Pulmonary wedge pressure increased significantly only in CHF patients wh...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Ferrara N,Bonaduce D,Canonico V,Abete P,Rengo F,Condorelli M

更新日期：1983-01-01 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