The role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in patients with acute coronary syndromes.

abstract：:A hundred years from its description, Chagas cardiomyopathy remains a challenging disease. Although successful vector-control strategies have decreased the incidence of Chagas disease in several Latin American countries, both migration to urban areas and immigration have spread the disease worldwide; and now, blood tr...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Biolo A,Ribeiro AL,Clausell N

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial Doppler ultrasound allows noninvasive monitoring of the large intracranial vessels. Microembolic signals (MES) have been observed under a variety of circumstances, especially in symptomatic carotid stenosis, high-risk cardiac conditions, and surgical procedures (such as carotid endarterectomy and cardiopu...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Gorman M

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, emerging clinical trial data supported the usefulness of implanted therapeutic cardiac devices (pacemakers and defibrillators) for the treatment of heart failure (HF). Interest has now developed in evaluating the potential of device diagnostics to identify HF patients at risk for clinical events ...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Whellan DJ,Adams S,Bowerman L

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of drug trials for prevention of restenosis have been conducted with many showing little or conflicting benefit. Antiplatelets such as aspirin, ticlopidine and thromboxane A2 receptor inhibitors have not shown a clear benefit. Similarly, antithrombotics, either acting indirectly such as heparin, or as d...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Lefkovits J,Topol EJ

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is a systemic disease of the white adipose tissue, which has evolved into a global epidemic. It is associated with a plethora of adipocyte hormonal (adipokine) imbalances, dysregulation of the energy-balance system, imbalances in metabolic homeostasis, a pro-inflammatory state and multiple target organ damages...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Lakkis JI,Weir MR

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between thyroid disease states and cardiovascular hemodynamics is well recognized. Although the long-term effects of thyroid hormone are thought to result from changes in myocardial gene expression, attention has recently focused on acute, non-nuclear-mediated actions of L-triidothyronine (T3), the bi...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Klemperer JD,Ojamaa K,Klein I

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Barometric pressure falls with increasing altitude and consequently there is a reduction in the partial pressure of oxygen resulting in a hypoxic challenge to any individual ascending to altitude. A spectrum of high altitude illnesses can occur when the hypoxic stress outstrips the subject's ability to acclimatize. Ac...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Imray C,Wright A,Subudhi A,Roach R

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The benefits of physical activity in cardiovascular diseases have long been appreciated. However, the molecular mechanisms that trigger and sustain the cardiac benefits of exercise are poorly understood, and it is anticipated that unveiling these mechanisms will identify novel therapeutic targets. In search of these m...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Moreira JBN,Wohlwend M,Fenk S,Åmellem I,Flatberg A,Kraljevic J,Marinovic J,Ljubkovic M,Bjørkøy G,Wisløff U

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myocardial infarction is caused by coronary occlusion, and the mainstay of treatment has become reperfusion by either coronary angioplasty with possible stenting or surgical bypass grafting. Unfortunately, reperfusion can seldom be done soon enough to prevent infarction. Thus, the search for effective cardioprot...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Downey JM,Cohen MV

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echocardiography guidance for interventions in the catheterization laboratory allows for reduction in radiation exposure from fluoroscopy as well as superior anatomic definition and visualization. The additional information provided over fluoroscopy has translated into an increasing use during interventional procedure...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Pislaru SV,Michelena HI,Mankad SV

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of noninvasive stress cardiac imaging for stratifying risk in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease is growing as a tool for identification of the subgroup most likely to benefit from the expense and risk of more invasive procedures, including cardiac catheterization and coronary revasculari...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Brown KA,Rosman DR,Dave RM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The definition of syncope has clinical and pathophysiological parts. The clinical part is that syncope is a form of transient loss of consciousness (TLOC), while the pathophysiological element is that syncope differs from other forms of TLOC by virtue of the basis of true syncope - specifically cerebral hypoperfusion....

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： van Dijk JG,Wieling W

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physicians who supervise stress-imaging procedures, whether they be stress nuclear or stress echocardiography tests, are increasingly required to incorporate important principles in the interpretation of the test results. Important guiding principles, common to these tests, are reviewed in this article. The principles...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Rozanski A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary percutaneous intervention (PCI) is the treatment of choice for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Patients with STEMI frequently have obstructive non-culprit lesions. In addition, STEMI patients with multivessel disease are at increased risk of major adverse cardiac events. However, current gu...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Qamar A,Bhatt DL

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe mitral regurgitation (MR) confers an adverse prognosis, frequently with debilitating symptoms of heart failure. While open surgical correction has been the standard of care for decades, novel catheter-based technologies have emerged that are highly effective in the treatment of MR. These percutaneous technologi...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Sorajja P,Maisano F

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response to injury in the vasculature and the heart is inflammation. Atherosclerosis is often the result of injury followed by inflammation and atherosclerosis. Vascular and myocardial infections from various pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, chlamydia, and other infections result in vascular inflammation an...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Willerson JT

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) offers a non-invasive method to detect coronary plaque and stenosis. However, to date, CTA has been most useful as a method of ruling out coronary artery disease (CAD) among patients with low to intermediate pretest probability of significant CAD. The reduced specificity ...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Hulten E,Ahmadi A,Blankstein R

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rigorous training remodels the heart of elite endurance athletes to produce the phenotype of the "athlete's heart." This remodeling, which advantages cardiac performance, creates challenges in the diagnosis of cardiac disorders within this population. This is particularly so for right ventricular pathologies because o...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Sniderman JD,Sado DM,Sniderman AD,McKenna WJ

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several randomized trials and meta-analyses have shown that primary angioplasty is superior to thrombolysis in the treatment of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (MI) in terms of death, reinfarction, and stroke. However, primary angioplasty should be regarded as the preferred strategy as long as it can not be...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： De Luca G,Suryapranata H,Marino P

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telecardiology holds great promise for Africa, from tele-echocardiography and tele-ECG s, to home monitoring and text messaging for medication adherence monitoring. The burden of disease is great and there is an extreme shortage of health professionals. Telemedicine can provide access to scarce specialist care, improv...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Mars M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in most of the Westernized world. Overweightness and obesity adversely impact cardiac structure and function, including on both the right and, especially, left sides of the heart, with adverse affects on systolic and, especially, diastolic ventricular function. Therefore, it is...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Lavie CJ,Sharma A,Alpert MA,De Schutter A,Lopez-Jimenez F,Milani RV,Ventura HO

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), a protein belonging to the family of cytokines, is one of the leading mediators of the immune response to inflammation. Its widespread biological effects are modulated by two circulating binding proteins corresponding to the extracellular domain of the membrane receptors, namel...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Ceconi C,Curello S,Bachetti T,Corti A,Ferrari R

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac imaging plays an important role in coronary artery disease (CAD), congestive heart failure (HF) and valvular heart disease (VHD) in the elderly. Imaging defines the structure and function of the cardiac system, refining the understanding of patients' anatomy and physiology and informing a host of clinical care...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Mehta N,Chokshi NP,Kirkpatrick JN

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study systematically analyzed the incidence and variety of adverse reactions to quinidine sulfate in 652 consecutively monitored hospitalized patients. Fourteen percent of the patients sustained adverse reactions of sufficient severity to warrant discontinuation of the drug. These reactions include GI intolerance...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Cohen IS,Jick H,Cohen SI

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible methods of preventing myocardial infarction have been discussed. The desirability of prevention in the total problem of myocardial infarction is stressed. The methods consist of the prevention of the underlying coronary atherosclerosis, and the secondary prevention of myocardial ischemia contributed by ot...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Dawber TR,Thomas HE Jr

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent clinical studies performed in human subjects have provided important clues that improved our understanding of the mechanisms of atrial fibrillation (AF) and facilitated development of new treatment strategies. When analyzed together, these studies confirm the complexity and multifactorial nature of AF. Because ...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Oral H

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The QT Variability Index (QTVI) is a non-invasive measure of repolarization lability that has been applied to a wide variety of subjects with cardiovascular disease. It is a ratio of normalized QT variability to normalized heart rate variability, and therefore includes an assessment of autonomic nervous system tone. T...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Dobson CP,Kim A,Haigney M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugars are foundational to biological life and played essential roles in human evolution and dietary patterns for most of recorded history. The simple sugar glucose is so central to human health that it is one of the World Health Organization's Essential Medicines. Given these facts, it defies both logic and a large b...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Archer E

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:First isolated in the early 1960s, doxorubicin (DOX) remains among the most effective anticancer drug ever developed. However, this drug has proven to be a double-edged sword because it also causes a cardiomyopathy that leads to a form of congestive heart failure that is usually refractory to common medications. It is...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Takemura G,Fujiwara H

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this article is to highlight approaches to increase movement, physical activity (PA), and cardiorespiratory fitness, and reduce sedentary behavior (SB) in the context of the workplace. A deliberate strategy that will enable the successful promotion of movement at the workplace includes a business plan a...

journal_title：Progress in cardiovascular diseases

authors： Pronk NP

更新日期：2020-10-24 00:00:00