Effect of thromboxane synthetase inhibition on vulnerability to ventricular arrhythmia following coronary occlusion.

abstract：:Quinidine serum levels and pharmacokinetic data were assessed during steady state therapy with oral quinidine sulfate in 19 hospitalized patients who were being treated for ventricular arrhythmias. A new high performance liquid chromatography assay was employed. Four patients were studied both after the first dose of ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Carliner NH,Crouthamel WG,Fisher ML,Mugmon MA,Vassar DL,Narang PK,Plotnick GD

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pulmonary venous flow signal measured by transesophageal echocardiography is generally recorded from the left upper pulmonary vein in the left lateral decubitus position, whereas that by transthoracic echocardiography is from the right upper pulmonary vein in the left semi-lateral decubitus position. The...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Izumi C,Iga K,Himura Y,Gen H,Konishi T

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of saphenous vein graft (SVG) is associated with frequent postprocedural enzyme elevation and late cardiac events. New strategies are proposed to minimize distal embolization and to improve the outcome of patients treated with stenting for SVG lesions. The objectives ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Leborgne L,Cheneau E,Pichard A,Ajani A,Pakala R,Yazdi H,Satler L,Kent K,Suddath WO,Pinnow E,Canos D,Waksman R

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The skeletal muscle of three cases presenting with idiopathic congestive cardiomyopathy has been studied, histologically, histochemically, ultramicroscopically, and electromyographically. In all three there is clinical evidence of skeletal muscle weakness, and in all three, pathologic changes were found in the muscle....

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Isaacs H,Muncke G

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart failure is associated with a hypercoagulable state. A single-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was performed to test the hypothesis that warfarin will modify a hypercoagulable state in heart failure. This study included 76 patients with heart failure. At baseline, patients had evidence f...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Jafri SM,Mammen EF,Masura J,Goldstein S

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite clopidogrel therapy, patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with stenting are at risk of recurrent coronary events. This could be partly explained by a reduced efficacy of clopidogrel to inhibit platelet aggregation, an ex vivo defined phenomenon called clopidogrel nonresponsive...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Snoep JD,Hovens MM,Eikenboom JC,van der Bom JG,Jukema JW,Huisman MV

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae (Cpn) has been associated with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in sero-epidemiological, pathological and animal-model studies. Inflammation and immune activation has been proposed as the pathophysiological link between chronic infection and atherosclerosis. ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Smith DA,Zouridakis EG,Mariani M,Fredericks S,Cole D,Kaski JC

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In January 1997, experts from the United States, Europe, and Japan gathered at Stanford University to review their collective experience with intracoronary and noncoronary stenting and to identify and prioritize issues requiring further clinical investigation. This report summarizes the discussions that took place dur...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Oesterle SN,Whitbourn R,Fitzgerald PJ,Yeung AC,Stertzer SH,Dake MD,Yock PG,Virmani R

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracoronary stents may potentially alleviate some of the problems associated with coronary angioplasty. Since the anatomy and physiology of swine coronary arteries closely resemble those of humans, the response to implantation of the Glanturco-Roubin, balloon-expandable, flexible stent was studied in this model. Add...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Rodgers GP,Minor ST,Robinson K,Cromeens D,Stephens LC,Woolbert SC,Guyton JR,Wright K,Siegel R,Roubin GS

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Body surface isopotential maps were recorded in 30 normal subjects and 32 patients with clinical evidence of old anterior myocardial infarction but without ECG findings of infarction. Position of the minimum in maps was compared at 5 msec intervals from the onset of QRS between the normal and infarction groups. A sign...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Hirai M,Ohta T,Kinoshita A,Toyama J,Nagaya T,Yamada K

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though congestive heart failure is extremely common, the mechanisms responsible for the clinical manifestations remain a puzzle. The central and autonomic (sympathetic) nervous systems are responsible for a large part of the clinical manifestations. The role of the nervous system in CHF is discussed briefly. It i...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Burch GE

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The inverse relation between alcohol intake and clinical coronary artery disease (CAD) is well established, although the mechanisms remain speculative. We studied the relation between alcohol intake and subclinical CAD to assess the possible role of alcohol in atherogenesis. METHODS:We conducted a prospecti...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Tofferi JK,Taylor AJ,Feuerstein IM,O'Malley PG

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Experimental studies suggest that metabolic myocardial support by intravenous (IV) glucose, insulin, and potassium (GIK) reduces ischemia-induced arrhythmias, cardiac arrest, mortality, progression from unstable angina pectoris to acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and myocardial infarction size. However, tr...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Selker HP,Beshansky JR,Griffith JL,D'Agostino RB,Massaro JM,Udelson JE,Rashba EJ,Ruthazer R,Sheehan PR,Desvigne-Nickens P,Rosenberg YD,Atkins JM,Sayah AJ,Aufderheide TP,Rackley CE,Opie LH,Lambrew CT,Cobb LA,Macleod BA

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the incidence and clinical significance of postoperative pericardial effusion (PE), the presence of PE was evaluated by echocardiography, 1 and 2 weeks postoperatively, in 50 patients after insertion of a valve prosthesis and in 100 patients after coronary bypass surgery (50 patients receiving a combina...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Ikäheimo MJ,Huikuri HV,Airaksinen KE,Korhonen UR,Linnaluoto MK,Tarkka MR,Takkunen JT

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:AutoCapture (AC) is a programmable feature that enables the pacemaker to both track the capture threshold and automatically adjust the output on a beat-by-beat basis. Although AC safely and significantly reduces the current drainage, some authors have argued that the longevity benefit of such a system is ove...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Ribeiro AL,Rincón LG,Oliveira BG,Vinha CR,Melatto D,Torres AA,Barros VC,Levine PA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An "obesity paradox" has been described in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), whereby obese and overweight patients have a lower risk of short-term mortality after AMI than normal-weight patients. However, the long-term association of obesity with mortality after AMI remains unknown. METHODS:W...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Bucholz EM,Beckman AL,Krumholz HA,Krumholz HM,Dr. Bucholz was affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health during the time that the work was conducted.

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ambulatory ECG recordings were obtained from 313 consecutive, totally symptom-free male subjects on whom cardiac catheterization was subsequently performed for occupational reasons. These recordings were examined for ventricular ectopy and the results were studied in relation to the findings on selective coronary angi...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Batchelor AJ,Kruyer WB,Hickman JR Jr

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of chronic ambulatory captopril (CPT) therapy was evaluated over an 18-month period in 36 patients with refractory chronic congestive heart failure (CHF) by cardiac catheterization, treadmill exercise, nuclear scintigraphy, echocardiography, and symptomatology. Clinical improvement to New York Heart Assoc...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Creager MA,Faxon DP,Halperin JL,Melidossian CD,McCabe CH,Schick EC,Ryan TJ

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Moderate alcohol drinking and marine omega-3 fatty acids (omega3) have both been associated with low mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD). However, there is little data evaluating the interactions of wine ethanol drinking with omega3 in CHD patients. METHODS:The relationships between wine drinking an...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： de Lorgeril M,Salen P,Martin JL,Boucher F,de Leiris J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical spectrum and outcome of 119 patients with acute non-Q wave myocardial infarction (NQMI) were studied, in comparison with those of 354 patients with acute Q wave myocardial infarction (QMI). The patients with NQMI had a significantly higher incidence of preinfarction angina (73% vs 63%), previous myocardia...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Ogawa H,Hiramori K,Haze K,Saito M,Sumiyoshi T,Fukami K,Goto Y,Ikeda M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 17-year-old man with staphylococcal endocarditis of the mitral valve developed an infective aneurysm of the posterior left ventricular wall. Echocardiography revealed an echo-free space posterior to the posterior left ventricular wall. This echo-free space undoubtedly represented the aneurysmal sac, because it could...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Saksena FB,Kramer NE,Towne WD,Khan M,Gamble R,Cruz JB,Gill S

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 15 patients with left bundle branch block (LBBB), atrial (A), His bundle (H), and ventricular (V) electrograms were recorded. Successively more premature atrial depolarizations were introduced via a catheter in the right antrium. In eight patients, the ventricular specialized conducting system (VSCS) was the most r...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Cannom DS,Goldreyer BN,Damato AN

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The recent North American and European practice guidelines in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome (nSTE ACS) recommend glycoprotein IIb/IIIa (GpIIb-IIIa) inhibition in patients undergoing an early invasive treatment strategy. However, the guidelines are not explicit regarding the t...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Giugliano RP,Newby LK,Harrington RA,Gibson CM,Van de Werf F,Armstrong P,Montalescot G,Gilbert J,Strony JT,Califf RM,Braunwald E,EARLY ACS Steering Committee.

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 47-year-old man presented with exertional angina. Selective coronary arteriography showed complete systolic segmental occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery producing milking effect. Permanent relief of symptoms was achieved by surgical excision of myocardial bridges. Postoperative angiography per...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Betriu A,Tubau J,Sanz G,Magriña J,Navarro-Lopez F

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitation of coronary luminal diameter with a 20 MHz mechanically rotating intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) catheter was compared with orthogonal-view cineangiography by use of a semiautomated edge-detection algorithm in 48 patients undergoing coronary angioplasty. Quantitative comparison of 196 matched segments was...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： De Scheerder I,De Man F,Herregods MC,Wilczek K,Barrios L,Raymenants E,Desmet W,De Geest H,Piessens J

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been considerable debate regarding the value of programmed electrical stimulation in patients who present with asymptomatic, or minimally symptomatic, nonsustained VT. Unfortunately, there has never been a sufficiently large study of an untreated group of patients to make any sense of the issue. We culled th...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kowey PR,Taylor JE,Marinchak RA,Rials SJ

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammation has been suggested as a factor in the initiation and maintenance of atrial fibrillation (AF). Several observational studies have suggested that statins, presumably through their anti-inflammatory properties, decrease the risk of AF. METHODS:We analyzed 2 large, randomized trials, PROVE IT-TIMI ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： McLean DS,Ravid S,Blazing M,Gersh B,Shui A,Cannon CP

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute electrophysiologic effects of a bolus injection of 100 mg. of lidocaine were investigated in 39 patients with impulse formation and conduction defects by means of His-bundle recording and were correlated with plasma lidocaine levels. The effects of therapeutic plasma levels on conduction intervals and refrac...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Roos JC,Dunning AJ

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of vascular closure devices (VCDs) for the reduction of access site complications following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remains controversial. Patients undergoing primary PCI for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) are at high risk of femoral artery complications. A ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Prada-Delgado Ó,Estévez-Loureiro R,Calviño-Santos R,Barge-Caballero E,Salgado-Fernández J,Piñón-Esteban P,Vázquez-Rodríguez JM,Aldama-López G,Flores-Ríos X,Soler-Martín MR,Vázquez-González N,Castro-Beiras A

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pacing leads with a small electrode surface for high-impedance stimulation have been shown to prolong pacemaker longevity, but no sufficient data is available on the safety and feasibility of a defibrillation lead with this novel design. METHODS:We evaluated the clinical performance of a tined, steroid-elut...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Vollmann D,Ahern T,Gerritse B,Canby RC,Zenker D,Binner L,Kimber SK,Unterberg C,Worldwide Medtronic Model 6944 Investigators.

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00