Cardiac chamber growth pattern determined by two-dimensional echocardiography.

abstract：:In the present study, we investigated whether gallic acid (GA) can induce death in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), and whether production of the hydroxyl radical (.OH) is involved in the process of GA action. GA killed cultured VSMCs from rat aorta, in a dosc- and time-dependent manner. Cytoplasmic shri...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Qiu X,Takemura G,Koshiji M,Hayakawa Y,Kanoh M,Maruyama R,Ohno Y,Minatoguchi S,Akao S,Fukuda K,Fujiwara T,Fujiwara H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to investigate the effect of low-dose nesiritide on renal function and major cardiac events in patients with acute decompensated heart failure following acute myocardial infarction. Sixty patients were randomized into nesiritide (loading dose 0.5 microg/kg, maintenance dose 0.0075 microg/kg/min...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Zhao Q,Wu TG,Lin Y,Li B,Luo JY,Wang LX

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to identify the clinical parameters of absolutely poor-prognosis patients with chronic critical limb ischemia (AP-CLI). Sixteen no-option CLI patients with arteriosclerosis obliterans: ASO (nine) and non-ASO patients (seven) treated with bone marrow-mononuclear cell implantation (BMI) were an...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Oda M,Toba K,Kato K,Ozawa T,Yanagawa T,Ikarashi N,Takayama T,Suzuki T,Hanawa H,Masuko M,Kobayashi H,Aizawa Y

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary cardiac osteosarcomas are uncommon tumors. Their growth pattern is aggressive and the prognosis is poor. A 34-year-old, 7-month pregnant woman with a primary cardiac osteosarcoma associated with the anterior mitral leaflet and connected to the interatrial septum, causing nearly subtotal obstruction of the mitr...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Koçak H,Karapolat S,Gündogdu C,Bozkurt E,Unlü Y

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of intravenous enoximone on forearm venous circulation was studied in ten healthy volunteers (group A) and in ten patients with NYHA class III-IV congestive heart failure (group B). Distensibility of the forearm capacitance vessels was assessed from pressure-volume curves by venous occlusion plethysmography...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Branzi A,Berardi C,Ferretti RM,Beato E,Magnani G,Melandri G,Zannoli R,Magnani B

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical and immunological follow-up of a 38-year-old female patient with hypereosinophilic syndrome and classical cardiac involvement, but without demonstrable degranulation of eosinophils and lacking binding of a specific antibody for activated eosinophils, is presented. Instead, the patient demonstrated all the...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Maisch B,Drude L,Kochsiek K

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unclear whether the electrocardiogram amplitude in the inferior leads (Amp-I) can always predict the height of the origin of right ventricular outflow tract arrhythmias (RVOT-VAs). We analyzed patients who received catheter ablation of multiple RVOT-VAs in the same session in our hospital from 2011 to 2016. Two ...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Kajiyama T,Hachiya H,Kusa S,Watanabe T,Hamaya R,Yamao K,Miyazaki S,Igarashi M,Nakamura H,Iesaka Y

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resting bradycardia is an important symptom for early diagnosis of anorexia nervosa (AN) during weight loss, and it improves with body-weight recovery. However, chronotropic incompetence (CI) in exercise is observed in some patients with AN despite amelioration of resting bradycardia in the recovery phase. We examined...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Yoshida Y,Maeda J,Fukushima H,Tokita N,Yamagishi H,Tokumura M

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular effects of endogenous digitalis-like factors (EDLFs) extracted from the urine of hypertensive patients were investigated in isolated and perfused intermediate auricular and mesenteric arterial preparations of dogs. EDLFs produced a transient vasoconstriction in a dose-related manner in intermediate auricu...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Chiba S,Tsukada M,Katsuyama Y,Tada A,Zenda H

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inflammation has received a great deal of attention due to the role it plays in cardiovascular disease (CVD). The cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) has recently been developed to evaluate arterial stiffness. This index is independent of blood pressure at the time that it is measured, making it a better measur...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Kotani K,Yamada T,Miyamoto M,Kario K,Ishibashi S,Taniguchi N

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined mRNA expression of the clock genes (Per1, Per2, and Bmal1) and PAI-1 (plasminogen activator inhibitor-1) after aldosterone treatment every 4 h up to 48 h in H9c2 cardiomyoblasts by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. To block the MR (mineralocorticoid receptor), the MR antagonist, spironolacto...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Tanaka K,Ashizawa N,Kawano H,Sato O,Seto S,Nishihara E,Terazono H,Isomoto S,Shinohara K,Yano K

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is a prospective evaluation of the effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in terms of clinical outcomes for small abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) that were previously reported in a retrospective cohort study. We conducted a prospective non-randomized trial on patients with small AAA (N = 40; mean age...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Nakayama A,Amiya E,Morita H,Hyodo K,Takayama N,Konishi Y,Taya M,Fujiwara T,Hosoya Y,Hoshina K,Komuro I

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed whether smoking was associated with major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) and the progression of coronary atherosclerosis as assessed by coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) as screening for coronary artery disease (CAD). We enrolled 443 patients who had all undergone CCTA and either were c...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Higashi S,Shiga Y,Yano M,Imaizumi T,Tashiro K,Idemoto Y,Kato Y,Kuwano T,Sugihara M,Miura SI

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Balneotherapy has been shown to reduce systemic blood pressure in healthy volunteers. Hyperthermia might ameliorate the inflammatory status in heart failure through improving cardiac function. The purpose of this study was to examine the beneficial effects of balneotherapy in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF)....

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Oyama J,Kudo Y,Maeda T,Node K,Makino N

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of dialyzing oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oLDL) against Krebs-Ringer solution, in the absence (yielding d-oLDL) or presence (yielding EDTA-oLDL) of ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA), to investigate the mechanism that underlies the inhibition of endothelium-dependent relaxation (EDR) b...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Hayashi T,Ishikawa T,Kuzuya M,Naito M,Yamada K,Asai K,Hidaka H,Iguchi A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subendocardial side of myocardium makes a major contribution to left ventricular (LV) contraction and is very susceptible to ischemia. In this study we sought to quantify regional wall motion during low-dose dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) by using the myocardial velocity gradient (MVG) derived from tissu...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Tsutsui H,Uematsu M,Yamagishi M,Haruta S,Shimakura T,Miyatake K

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful restoration of patency of the infarct-related artery is important in management of acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI); however, it does not necessarily translate into the restoration of perfusion at the tissue level. In this study, we evaluate the prognostic role of qualitative and qua...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Abdelmoneim SS,Martinez MW,Mankad SV,Bernier M,Dhoble A,Pellikka PA,Chandrasekaran K,Oh JK,Mulvagh SL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to search genes altered in expression after long-term treatment with the angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT1) antagonist, CV-11974, in volume-overloaded hearts. Arteriovenous shunt was made between the common carotid artery and jugular vein in Japanese White rabbits. Shunt-operated rabbits were random...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Itoh M,Takeishi Y,Nakada S,Miyamoto T,Tsunoda Y,Takahashi H,Kubota I,Tomoike H

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence suggests that mitral regurgitation (MR) is associated with higher mortality in heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction. However, prognostic impact of MR on heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) has not been fully examined. The Japanese Heart Failure Sy...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Oikawa M,Yoshihisa A,Sato Y,Nagai T,Yoshikawa T,Saito Y,Yamamoto K,Takeishi Y,Anzai T

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary artery spasm is involved in the pathogenesis of various cardiac disorders. We investigated patients with a history of syncope who underwent elective coronary angiography. We retrospectively analyzed 5781 consecutive patients who had diagnostic or follow-up angiography during a 26-year period. During this peri...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Sueda S,Kohno H

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is controversial data regarding the relationship between uric acid (UA) and coronary artery disease and cardiovascular events. Despite the deleterious effects of hyperuricemia on endothelial function, the effect of UA on myocardial ischemia has not been previously studied. We aimed to investigate the relationshi...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Aribas A,Akilli H,Kayrak M,Alibasic H,Yildirim O,Sertdemir AL,Karanfil M,Ozdemir K

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phrenic nerve (PN) stimulation is essential for the elimination of PN palsy during balloon-based pulmonary vein isolation (PVI). Although ultrasound-guided vascular access is safe, insertion of a PN stimulation catheter via central venous access carries a potential risk of the development of mechanical complications. ...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Chikata A,Kato T,Usuda K,Fujita S,Maruyama M,Otowa KI,Takashima SI,Murai H,Usui S,Furusho H,Kaneko S,Takamura M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) increases coronary artery disease (CAD) risk. In this study, we used T2DM clinical variables to predict abnormality in thallium-201 myocardial perfusion scans (Th-201 scans). These clinical variables were summed stress score (SSS), summed rest score, and summed difference score (SDS), w...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Lu CH,Pei D,Wu CZ,Kua HC,Liang YJ,Chen YL,Lin JD

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Late-acquired stent malapposition (LASM) is a common finding after sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) implantation and may be the cause for late stent thrombosis. Inflammation may play a pivotal role in LASM just as it plays in stent restenosis. We have therefore investigated seven polymorphisms involved in inflammatory pr...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Bergheanu SC,Pons D,van der Hoeven BL,Liem SS,Siegerink B,Schalij MJ,van der Bom JG,Jukema JW

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood traces tortuous paths of flow through the heart. We postulate that momentum changes associated with direction changes optimize dynamic coupling between ventricular and atrial function, particularly on exercise. Traces of pulsed Doppler mitral flow and M-mode long-axis mitral ring movement were recorded before an...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Kilner PJ,Henein MY,Gibson DG

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia, characterized by a lack of atrial contraction and an irregular ventricular rhythm. We assessed the effect of fibrillatory wave amplitude on coronary blood flow in patients with AF using the thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) frame count. Sixty-one patie...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Sumimoto Y,Kurisu S,Hitta K,Ikenaga H,Ishibashi K,Fukuda Y,Nakano Y,Kihara Y

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, coronary diagnostic parameters, pressure drop coefficient (CDP: ratio of trans-stenotic pressure drop to distal dynamic pressure), and lesion flow coefficient (LFC: ratio of % area stenosis (%AS) to the CDP at throat region), were evaluated to distinguish levels of %AS under varying contractility condit...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Peelukhana SV,Kolli KK,Leesar MA,Effat MA,Helmy TA,Arif I,Schneeberger EW,Succop P,Banerjee RK

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relations of the light chains of myosins of the atria, ventricles, and atrioventricular conducting tissue (specialized myocardial tissue) and the distribution of the light chains of myosin in different regions of the atrioventricular conducting tissue in bovine heart were examined. Two-dimensional gel electrophore...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Tamura Y,Orino S,Saijyo Y,Nishimoto T,Nagase N,Mori H

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between central pulse pressure (CPP) measured at the time of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) and long-term prognosis after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) has not been investigated. CPP measurements were performed in 1348 patients with STEMI (327 women; mean age 62...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Ndrepepa G,Cassese S,Kufner S,Xhepa E,Fusaro M,Laugwitz KL,Schunkert H,Kastrati A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coronary flow velocity reserve (CFR) is decreased in patients with aortic valve stenosis (AS). The aim of the present prospective study was to examine the CFR in AS patients with normal epicardial coronary arteries during a 3-year follow-up of aortic valve replacement (AVR). A total of 30 AS patients (17 women and...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Nemes A,Forster T,Kovács Z,Csanády M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00