Echocardiographic findings in pannus ingrowth on an omniscience mitral prosthesis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metabolic syndrome (MS) and diabetes mellitus (DM) are risk factors for cardiovascular diseases in general population. However, there was a paucity of studies investigating their impact in primary glomerular diseases (PGD). HYPOTHESIS:MS and concomitant DM are associated with higher risk of cardiovascular c...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Xie Z,Li Z,Dong W,Chen Y,Li R,Wu Y,Lin T,Tao Y,Liang H,Wang W,Liu S,Ye Z,Shi W,Liang X

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is the most effective treatment available for terminating potentially life-threatening ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation and reducing the risk of mortality. Despite its established health benefits, ICD therapy is accompanied by a unique arra...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Stutts LA,Cross NJ,Conti JB,Sears SF

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) is a useful index of preload and an important determinant of cardiac function. HYPOTHESIS:We postulated that the rate of blood propagating into the left atrium (LAIF-PR) would be a useful measure of PCWP in critically ill patients. METHODS:Fifty-two critically ill ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Stoddard MF,Calzada N,Longaker RA

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have shown that viable but stunned myocardium displays contractile reserve and exhibits cardiac cycle-dependent variations of integrated backscatter (CVIB), whereas infarcted myocardium does not. HYPOTHESIS:This study was designed to clarify whether assessment of the acoustic properties of ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Hu X,Wang J,Sun Y,Jiang X,Sun B,Fu H,Guo R

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although ischemic threshold reportedly is lower in the early morning than in the afternoon, the mechanisms that account for the diurnal change in minimal coronary vascular resistance in the potentially ischemic area are unknown. HYPOTHESIS:We hypothesized that calcium-channel blockers and alpha 1 blockers m...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Fujita M,Tanaka T,Nakae I,Tamaki S,Kihara Y,Nohara R,Sasayama S

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intravenous inotropic intervention in congestive heart failure is generally associated with a poor prognosis and is largely used as a "bridge" to mechanical support or heart transplantation. HYPOTHESIS:We hypothesized that the inotropic support afforded by dobutamine may serve as a bridge to the introductio...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Levine TB,Levine AB,Elliott WG,Narins B,Stomel RJ

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VA Cooperative Studies Program #571 (DIVA) was designed to evaluate the efficacy of drug-eluting stents (DES) for reducing aortocoronary saphenous vein bypass graft (SVG) failure when compared with bare-metal stents (BMS) in participants undergoing stenting of de novo SVG lesions. Participants undergoing clinically in...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Brilakis ES,Banerjee S,Edson R,Shunk K,Goldman S,Holmes DR Jr,Bhatt DL,Rao SV,Smith MW,Sather M,Colling C,Kar B,Nielsen L,Conner T,Wagner T,Rangan BV,Ventura B,Lu Y,Holodniy M,Shih MC

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antihypertensive drug therapy can lower blood pressure and prolong life, but many hypertensive patients continue to develop further risk factors and to die prematurely of heart disease. Antihypertensive drugs can also interfere with the patient's quality of life, and many are not compatible with the concomitant medica...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Itskovitz HD

更新日期：1995-06-01 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：:A patient with vasospastic angina who developed myocardial ischemia following ethanol ingestion but not after exercise was described. Myocardial ischemia was evidenced by electrocardiograms (ECGs) and thallium-201 scintigrams. The blood acetaldehyde level after ethanol ingestion was abnormally high. The time course an...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Ando H,Abe H,Hisanou R

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the initial report of balloon coarctation angioplasty in 1982, several workers used this technique in native coarctation and postoperative recoarctation. Immediate and intermediate-term follow-up results are generally good with a small chance for recoarctation and aneurysmal formation at the site of coarctation....

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Rao PS

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a complex cardiac arrhythmia in clinical practice with increasing incidence. However, the effects of statins on patients with AF are not quite clear. HYPOTHESIS:To investigate the protective effect of calcium channel blocker (CCB) and valsartan combined fluvastatin on hypertensio...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Zhao Z,Yang Y,Wang J,Dong Z,Niu X,Liu E,Liu T,Li L,Liang Y,Li G

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:K-strophanthin or digoxin were added to diuretics (all cases) and vasodilators (most cases) for treating advanced congestive heart failure in 22 patients with dilated cardiomyopathy and sinus rhythm. K-strophanthin (0.125 mg intravenously) or digoxin (0.25 mg orally) were administered daily in two 3-month periods, dur...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Agostoni PG,Doria E,Berti M,Guazzi MD

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The normal human aorta is not a stiff tube but is characterized by elastic properties with a buffering Windkessel function. Aortic stiffening may cause an increase in aortic pulse pressure, left ventricular load, and ultimately left ventricular hypertrophy. This, together with the decreased diastolic transmyocardial p...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Nemes A,Geleijnse ML,Forster T,Soliman OI,Ten Cate FJ,Csanády M

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiogenic shock usually is the result of marked depression in myocardial function. Rapid recognition and stabilization are essential if the patient is to survive. A variety of cardiovascular conditions can lead to cardiogenic shock; the most common of these is acute myocardial infarction. Once stabilization of the c...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Alpert JS,Becker RC

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previously, the high maternal mortality in cardiac patients who became pregnant prompted the assertion: Women with an abnormal heart should not become pregnant. This long-standing notion needs to be revised today. HYPOTHESIS:The study was undertaken to ascertain the experience with a large series of pregnan...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Avila WS,Rossi EG,Ramires JA,Grinberg M,Bortolotto MR,Zugaib M,da Luz PL

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Contraction-excitation feedback, that is, electrophysiologic changes that are caused or preceded by mechanical changes of the myocardium, has been extensively studied in the ventricles. The role of contraction-excitation feedback in the atria, and more particularly in the genesis and maintenance of atrial fi...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Antoniou A,Milonas D,Kanakakis J,Rokas S,Sideris DA

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) is the third cause of acute deterioration of renal function in hospitalized patients. HYPOTHESIS:The purpose of the study was to compare the efficacy of saline infusion, saline infusion plus N-acetylcysteine (NAC), and sodium bicarbonate (SB) infusion to prevent CIN in pat...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Castini D,Lucreziotti S,Bosotti L,Salerno Uriarte D,Sponzilli C,Verzoni A,Lombardi F

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this editorial, I would like to share some thoughts about clinical studies, including value and limitations using as an example a recently published randomized clinical trial. Randomized and non-randomized clinical trials, epidemiologic studies, and registries guide our clinical practice. They are good but not perf...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Richard Conti C

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scorpion envenomation is quite common in India, southeast Asia, the U.S. southwest, and Israel (in the Negev and around Jerusalem). Yellow scorpion is considered the most dangerous scorpion that causes cardiac toxicity. Two patients are described, who lived in a nonendemic area of yellow scorpions and were envenomated...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Blum A,Lubezki A,Sclarovsky S

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the relationship of body fluid status with the levels and fluctuations of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) over the long-term. HYPOTHESIS:If BNP is to become useful for monitoring of patients with chronic heart failure (HF), the levels should reliably reflect both decompensation and im...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Kataoka H

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is prevalent among renal transplant patients. Increase in serum total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein, and very low-density lipoprotein is common in those patients. Alterations in chylomicron metabolism, however, are also related to atherogenesis and were not studi...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： De Lima JJ,Latrilha Mda C,Toffoletto O,Ianhez LE,Krieger EM,Maranhão RC

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS:The aim of this study was to define the prevalence of previously undetected coronary heart disease among asymptomatic males, aged 30-65 years, by means of resting and exercise electrocardiography in conjunction with an analysis of conventional and exertional coronary risk factors. METHODS:Bet...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Davies B,Ashton WD,Rowlands DJ,eL-Sayed M,Wallace PC,Duckett K,Coley J,Daggett AM

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The impact of permanent pacemaker (PPM) on long-term clinical outcomes of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has not been studied. HYPOTHESIS:PPM may increase heart failure (HF) burden on patients undergoing PCI. METHODS:We recruited consecutive patients undergoing PCI and carried...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Li YJ,Zhang WW,Yang XX,Li N,Qiu XB,Qu XK,Fang WY,Yang YQ,Li RG

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The safety of quinapril hydrochloride, a new nonsulfhydryl angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor with an intermediate duration of action, has been evaluated in 3,031 patients with hypertension and congestive heart failure (CHF) and has been compared with other ACE inhibitors. A comparison of double-blind studi...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Canter D,Frank GJ,Knapp LE,McLain RW

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Balancing the benefits, risks, and cost of thrombolytic treatment is a complex issue which depends considerably upon the variable threat of the thrombus to organ physiology and patient survival. For example, after deep vein thrombosis (DVT), the major risk is long-term disability due to the postphlebitic syndrome, whi...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Marder VJ

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiarrhythmic drugs are an essential tool in the management of atrial fibrillation (AF). Although we are already on the threshold of a large expansion in the use of ablation therapies, these will not, however, be appropriate for all patients, and pharmacological therapies will continue to have an important place in t...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Savelieva I,Camm J

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 231 patients suffering from a first acute myocardial infarction were randomly allocated within 4 hours following the onset of symptoms either to anistreplase or anisoylated plasminogen streptokinase activator complex (APSAC), 30 U over 5 minutes, or to conventional heparin therapy, 5000 IU in bolus injectio...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Bassand JP,Bernard Y,Lusson JR,Machecourt J,Cassagnes J,Borel E

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography have become extremely useful in the management of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Echocardiography is noninvasive, relatively inexpensive, and has no known biohazards. It offers unequaled information about cardiac anatomy and function. In the acute setting ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Katz AS,Harrigan P,Parisi AF

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00