Accuracy of volume measurement by conductance catheter in isolated, ejecting canine hearts.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The timing of onset of angina before myocardial infarction in relation to outcome is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS:We prospectively determined the importance of the time of onset of preinfarction angina in relation to 30-day outcomes in the TIMI-9B study from standardized forms. Of the 3002 patients entered ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kloner RA,Shook T,Antman EM,Cannon CP,Przyklenk K,Yoo K,McCabe CH,Braunwald E

更新日期：1998-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whether myocardial reperfusion obtained with thrombolysis or primary angioplasty is associated with a similar recovery of function and with the same risk of hemorrhagic infarction is unknown. We evaluated the effects of mechanical and pharmacological reperfusion (with or without a plasma lytic state) on infa...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pislaru SV,Barrios L,Stassen T,Jun L,Pislaru C,Van de Werf F

更新日期：1997-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of intra-aortic balloon pumping in augmenting ventricular performance during acute myocardial ischemic syndromes was determined by noninvasive multigated cardiac blood pool imaging. Nine patients with unstable angina refractory to medical therapy and nine patients with acute myocardial infarction com...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Nichols AB,Pohost GM,Gold HK,Leinbach RC,Beller GA,McKusick KA,Strauss HW,Buckley MJ

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In individuals without known cardiovascular disease, elevated body mass index (BMI) (weight/height2) is associated with an increased risk of death. However, in patients with certain specific chronic diseases, including heart failure, low BMI has been associated with increased mortality. METHODS AND RESULTS:...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kenchaiah S,Pocock SJ,Wang D,Finn PV,Zornoff LA,Skali H,Pfeffer MA,Yusuf S,Swedberg K,Michelson EL,Granger CB,McMurray JJ,Solomon SD,CHARM Investigators.

更新日期：2007-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The alpha(v)beta3 integrin plays a critical role in cell proliferation and migration. We hypothesized that vascular cell proliferation, a hallmark of injury-induced remodeling, can be tracked by targeting alpha(v)beta3 integrin expression in vivo. METHODS AND RESULTS:RP748, a novel 111In-labeled alpha(v)bet...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sadeghi MM,Krassilnikova S,Zhang J,Gharaei AA,Fassaei HR,Esmailzadeh L,Kooshkabadi A,Edwards S,Yalamanchili P,Harris TD,Sinusas AJ,Zaret BL,Bender JR

更新日期：2004-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Macrophages in human atherosclerotic plaques produce a family of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), which may influence vascular remodeling and plaque disruption. Because oxidized LDL (ox-LDL) is implicated in many proatherogenic events, we hypothesized that ox-LDL would regulate expression of MMP-9 and tissu...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Xu XP,Meisel SR,Ong JM,Kaul S,Cercek B,Rajavashisth TB,Sharifi B,Shah PK

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Noninvasive gated cardiac blood pool imaging with technetium-99m autologous erythrocytes was employed to differentiate reversible verus irreversible abnormal ventricular segmental contraction by regional wall and pump responses to sublingual nitroglycerin in 25 patients with chronic coronary heart disease. In 12 patie...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Salel AF,Berman DS,DeNardo GL,Mason DT

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited information exists on the intermediate-term graft patency and 5-year clinical outcomes of patients receiving saphenous vein grafts with multiple (m-SVG) versus single distal targets (s-SVG) during coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in the current era. METHODS AND RESULTS:We studied the asso...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Mehta RH,Ferguson TB,Lopes RD,Hafley GE,Mack MJ,Kouchoukos NT,Gibson CM,Harrington RA,Califf RM,Peterson ED,Alexander JH,Project of Ex-vivo Vein Graft Engineering via Transfection (PREVENT) IV Investigators.

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of predischarge quantitative exercise thallium-201 (201T1) scintigraphy to predict future cardiac events was evaluated prospectively in 140 consecutive patients with uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction; the results were compared with those of submaximal exercise treadmill testing and coronary angiogr...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Gibson RS,Watson DD,Craddock GB,Crampton RS,Kaiser DL,Denny MJ,Beller GA

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few data have evaluated physician adherence to cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention guidelines according to physician specialty or patient characteristics, particularly gender. METHODS AND RESULTS:An online study of 500 randomly selected physicians (300 primary care physicians, 100 obstetricians/gynecolo...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Mosca L,Linfante AH,Benjamin EJ,Berra K,Hayes SN,Walsh BW,Fabunmi RP,Kwan J,Mills T,Simpson SL

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from 981 patients evaluated for ischemic heart disease with coronary angiography were reviewed to identify variables predictive of sudden death and duration from onset of symptoms to death. During the period of follow-up, 113 patients died. Of these deaths, 99 were classified as cardiovascular. Forty percent occu...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Oberman A,Ray M,Turner ME,Barnes G,Grooms C

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent findings suggesting the involvement of adventitial cells in coronary repair have raised questions regarding the phenotypic "plasticity" of medial smooth muscle cells (SMCs). Accordingly, the aims of the present study were to examine the characteristics of coronary medial and adventitial cells and to c...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Patel S,Shi Y,Niculescu R,Chung EH,Martin JL,Zalewski A

更新日期：2000-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several noninvasive methods are available to investigate the severity of extracoronary atherosclerotic disease. No population-based study has yet examined whether differences exist between these measures with regard to their predictive value for myocardial infarction (MI) or whether a given measure of athero...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： van der Meer IM,Bots ML,Hofman A,del Sol AI,van der Kuip DA,Witteman JC

更新日期：2004-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Reperfusion of ischemic myocardium may accelerate necrosis of injured myocytes. To determine the role of neutrophil leukocytes in this process, we examined whether neutrophil depletion during reperfusion could modify infarct size in anesthetized dogs. The proximal circumflex coronary artery was occluded for 90 minutes...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Litt MR,Jeremy RW,Weisman HF,Winkelstein JA,Becker LC

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In patients with acute coronary syndromes and planned percutaneous coronary intervention, the Trial to Assess Improvement in Therapeutic Outcomes by Optimizing Platelet Inhibition With Prasugrel-Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction 38 (TRITON-TIMI 38) demonstrated that treatment with prasugrel versus clopid...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Mahoney EM,Wang K,Arnold SV,Proskorovsky I,Wiviott S,Antman E,Braunwald E,Cohen DJ

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:approximately half of patients with heart failure die suddenly as a result of ventricular arrhythmias. Although abnormal Ca(2+) release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum through ryanodine receptors (RyR2) has been linked to arrhythmogenesis, the molecular mechanisms triggering release of arrhythmogenic Ca(2+) ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： van Oort RJ,McCauley MD,Dixit SS,Pereira L,Yang Y,Respress JL,Wang Q,De Almeida AC,Skapura DG,Anderson ME,Bers DM,Wehrens XH

更新日期：2010-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Estrogen may increase the long-term survival of women who have suffered from a myocardial infarction (MI). We examined the acute and chronic influence of estrogen on MI in the rat left coronary artery ligation model. METHODS AND RESULTS:Female Sprague-Dawley rats (10 to 12 weeks, n=93), divided into 3 group...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Smith PJ,Ornatsky O,Stewart DJ,Picard P,Dawood F,Wen WH,Liu PP,Webb DJ,Monge JC

更新日期：2000-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Doppler Substudy of the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Reinfusion of Enriched Progenitor Cells and Infarct Remodeling in Acute Myocardial Infarction (REPAIR-AMI) trial aimed to investigate the effects of intracoronary infusion of bone marrow-derived progenitor cells (BMCs) on coronary blood...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Erbs S,Linke A,Schächinger V,Assmus B,Thiele H,Diederich KW,Hoffmann C,Dimmeler S,Tonn T,Hambrecht R,Zeiher AM,Schuler G

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To explore roles of endogenous atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) in blood pressure and volume regulation, we examined the effects of a newly developed ANP antagonist, HS-142-1 (HS) in deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)-salt hypertensive rats. METHODS AND RESULTS:We examined 1) the effects of HS on ANP- or br...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Hirata Y,Matsuoka H,Suzuki E,Hayakawa H,Sugimoto T,Matsuda Y,Morishita Y,Kangawa K,Minamino N,Matsuo H

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac resynchronization therapy for heart failure with left bundle branch block reduces left ventricular (LV) conduction delay, contraction asynchrony, and LV end-systolic volume ("reverse remodeling"). Up to one third of patients do not improve, and the electric requirements for reverse remodeling are unc...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sweeney MO,van Bommel RJ,Schalij MJ,Borleffs CJ,Hellkamp AS,Bax JJ

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adenosine receptor activation has been proposed to explain the cardioprotective effect of ischemic preconditioning in rabbit hearts. We tested this hypothesis in a rat model by assessing whether administration of an adenosine antagonist could block the protective effect of preconditioning and whether adenosi...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Li Y,Kloner RA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insulin modulates sympathetic vasoconstriction, but the mechanisms underlying this effect are not completely elucidated. We have recently investigated the insulin effect on the alpha 1- and alpha 2-adrenergic vasoconstriction pathway, where it is still conflicting with the possible insulin influence on the b...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lembo G,Iaccarino G,Vecchione C,Rendina V,Parrella L,Trimarco B

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique is described to control recurrent or sustained supraventricular tachycardia associated with rapid ventricular rates following open heart surgery. The technique utilizes a pair of temporarily implanted atrial epicardial wire electrodes to pace the heart. In one group of patients with recurrent atrial flutte...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Waldo AL,MacLean WA,Karp RB,Kouchoukos NT,James TN

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac hypertrophy is a common response to circulatory or neurohumoral stressors as a mechanism to augment contractility. When the heart is under sustained stress, the hypertrophic response can evolve into decompensated heart failure, although the mechanism(s) underlying this transition remain largely unkno...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Warren SA,Briggs LE,Zeng H,Chuang J,Chang EI,Terada R,Li M,Swanson MS,Lecker SH,Willis MS,Spinale FG,Maupin-Furlowe J,McMullen JR,Moss RL,Kasahara H

更新日期：2012-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The long-term administration of ACE inhibitors to selected patients with left ventricular dysfunction appears to reduce the incidence of recurrent myocardial infarction (MI) and unstable angina pectoris. The mechanisms responsible for the reduction in ischemic events are unknown, but likely candidates includ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Vaughan DE,Rouleau JL,Ridker PM,Arnold JM,Menapace FJ,Pfeffer MA

更新日期：1997-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional suprasternal notch echocardiography was performed in 1033 patients, ages 1 day to 18 years. For the long-axis suprasternal notch view, the transducer was positioned in the suprasternal notch and angled to obtain a plane passing between the right nipple and left scapular tip. In this view, the entire ao...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Snider AR,Silverman NH

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Angiotensin may play a pathophysiological role in experimental and human cardiovascular disease. Clinical studies have shown that ACE inhibitors reduce mortality, recurrent myocardial infarction, and ischemic events in patients with left ventricular dysfunction. Animal studies suggest that tissue ACE, partic...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Diet F,Pratt RE,Berry GJ,Momose N,Gibbons GH,Dzau VJ

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Convincing evidence suggests that atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease. The inflammatory response is an important determinant of atherosclerotic plaque instability. Therefore, we investigated the prognostic impact of key inflammatory players, namely the inflammatory marker C-reactive protein (CRP) and ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Heeschen C,Dimmeler S,Hamm CW,Fichtlscherer S,Boersma E,Simoons ML,Zeiher AM,CAPTURE Study Investigators.

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Body fat distribution has been cross-sectionally associated with atherosclerotic disease risk factors, but the prospective relation with coronary heart disease remains uncertain. METHODS AND RESULTS:We examined the prospective relation between fat distribution indices and coronary heart disease among 24,508...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Canoy D,Boekholdt SM,Wareham N,Luben R,Welch A,Bingham S,Buchan I,Day N,Khaw KT

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of experimentally induced emotional stress (mental arithmetic) on different hemodynamic parameters, catecholamine levels, and serum and platelet function tests in 25 postinfarction patients and in 10 apparently healthy, age-matched control subjects. Mental stress (10 minutes) induced significant...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Grignani G,Soffiantino F,Zucchella M,Pacchiarini L,Tacconi F,Bonomi E,Pastoris A,Sbaffi A,Fratino P,Tavazzi L

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00