Hemodynamic effects of intravenous phentolamine in low output cardiac failu;e. Dose-response relationships.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have shown that pericytes can differentiate into osteoblasts and form bone. This study investigated whether pericytes can also differentiate into chondrocytes and adipocytes. METHODS AND RESULTS:Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction demonstrated that pericytes express mRNA for the...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Farrington-Rock C,Crofts NJ,Doherty MJ,Ashton BA,Griffin-Jones C,Canfield AE

更新日期：2004-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a life-threatening disease. Bone marrow cell transplantation is reported to reduce the development of PH by increasing vascular beds in pulmonary circulation. However, adenoviral overexpression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) in the lung is also known to reduce PH. ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kanki-Horimoto S,Horimoto H,Mieno S,Kishida K,Watanabe F,Furuya E,Katsumata T

更新日期：2006-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We tested the hypothesis that long-term administration of the specific angiotensin II subtype 1 (AT1)-receptor blocker BMS-186295 will regress hypertrophy and modify left ventricular angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) expression in rats with ascending aortic stenosis. METHODS AND RESULTS:Six weeks after su...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Weinberg EO,Lee MA,Weigner M,Lindpaintner K,Bishop SP,Benedict CR,Ho KK,Douglas PS,Chafizadeh E,Lorell BH

更新日期：1997-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic heart failure remains a major cause of mortality and morbidity. The role of antithrombotic therapy in patients with chronic heart failure has long been debated. The objective of this study was to determine the optimal antithrombotic agent for heart failure patients with reduced ejection fractions who...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Massie BM,Collins JF,Ammon SE,Armstrong PW,Cleland JG,Ezekowitz M,Jafri SM,Krol WF,O'Connor CM,Schulman KA,Teo K,Warren SR,WATCH Trial Investigators.

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Autopsy studies in children have shown that atherosclerotic lesions begin to develop first in the intima of the aorta. Recent developments in ultrasound techniques have made it possible to visualize the intima-medial thickness of the abdominal aorta directly (aIMT). Therefore, we examined the feasibility of ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Järvisalo MJ,Jartti L,Näntö-Salonen K,Irjala K,Rönnemaa T,Hartiala JJ,Celermajer DS,Raitakari OT

更新日期：2001-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A low ankle-arm index (AAI) is a strong predictor of mortality and cardiovascular events. A high AAI also appears to be associated with higher mortality risk in select populations. However, mortality and cardiovascular risk across the AAI spectrum have not been described in a more broadly defined population....

journal_title：Circulation

authors： O'Hare AM,Katz R,Shlipak MG,Cushman M,Newman AB

更新日期：2006-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although dyslipoproteinemia is associated with arterial atherothrombosis, little is known about plasma lipoproteins in venous thrombosis patients. METHODS AND RESULTS:We determined plasma lipoprotein subclass concentrations using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and antigenic levels of apolipoprotein...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Deguchi H,Pecheniuk NM,Elias DJ,Averell PM,Griffin JH

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chemokines are important mediators of inflammatory cell recruitment that play a significant role in atherosclerosis. Fractalkine (CX3CL1) is an unusual membrane-bound chemokine that mediates chemotaxis through the CX3CR1 receptor. Recently, functional polymorphisms in the human CX3CR1 gene have been describe...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lucas AD,Bursill C,Guzik TJ,Sadowski J,Channon KM,Greaves DR

更新日期：2003-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Contrary to expectation, most studies have demonstrated that initiation of an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor in conventional doses in patients with heart failure reduces the diuretic efficacy of furosemide. Recently, it has been suggested that single low doses (1 mg) but not high doses (25 mg)...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Good JM,Brady AJ,Noormohamed FH,Oakley CM,Cleland JG

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy is considered the only effective treatment for high-risk patients with Brugada syndrome. Quinidine depresses I(to) current, which may play an important role in the arrhythmogenesis of this disease. METHODS AND RESULTS:The effects of quinidine bisulfat...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Belhassen B,Glick A,Viskin S

更新日期：2004-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It remains unclear how mineralocorticoids induce cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis. Recently, activation of the calcium-dependent phosphatase, calcineurin, has been shown to induce cardiac hypertrophy. In the present study, we examine the role of calcineurin in mineralocorticoid-induced cardiac hypertrophy an...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Takeda Y,Yoneda T,Demura M,Usukura M,Mabuchi H

更新日期：2002-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obstruction to left ventricular outflow can be seen after surgical repair of congenital heart disease in which a ventricular septal defect (VSD) is closed by means of a baffle to the systemic great artery arising from the right ventricle (Rastelli operation, intraventricular repair, for conotruncal anomaly)....

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Rychik J,Jacobs ML,Norwood WI

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proto-oncogenes have been implicated in the pathogenesis of gene-mediated myocardial remodeling. In the human heart, however, it has not been clarified whether these proto-oncogenes are related to contractile impairment and structural alteration of the myocardium. The present study is designed to investigate...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Taketani S,Sawa Y,Taniguchi K,Mitsuno M,Kawaguchi N,Onishi S,Matsuda H

更新日期：1997-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Together with pulmonary veins, many extrapulmonary vein areas may be the source of initiation and maintenance of atrial fibrillation. The left atrial appendage (LAA) is an underestimated site of initiation of atrial fibrillation. Here, we report the prevalence of triggers from the LAA and the best strategy f...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Di Biase L,Burkhardt JD,Mohanty P,Sanchez J,Mohanty S,Horton R,Gallinghouse GJ,Bailey SM,Zagrodzky JD,Santangeli P,Hao S,Hongo R,Beheiry S,Themistoclakis S,Bonso A,Rossillo A,Corrado A,Raviele A,Al-Ahmad A,Wang P,

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a life-threatening disorder characterized by increased pulmonary artery pressure, remodeling of the pulmonary vasculature, and right ventricular failure. Loss of endothelium-derived nitric oxide (NO) and prostacyclin contributes to PH pathogenesis, and current therapies are tar...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Bubb KJ,Trinder SL,Baliga RS,Patel J,Clapp LH,MacAllister RJ,Hobbs AJ

更新日期：2014-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this study we tested the hypothesis that atrial fibrillation (AF) causes electrophysiological changes of the atrial myocardium which might explain the progressive nature of the arrhythmia. METHODS AND RESULTS:Twelve goats were chronically instrumented with multiple electrodes sutured to the epicardium of...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Wijffels MC,Kirchhof CJ,Dorland R,Allessie MA

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have monitored ambulant intra-arterial blood pressure with the Oxford system in six subjects with autonomic failure who exhibited postural hypotension. Plotting pooled hourly mean values we have demonstrated a consistent circadian trend in blood pressure that was the inverse of the normal pattern, with the highest ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Mann S,Altman DG,Raftery EB,Bannister R

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The therapeutic effects of nonspecific beta-blockers are limited by vasoconstriction, thus justifying the interest in molecules with ancillary vasodilating properties. Nebivolol is a selective beta1-adrenoreceptor antagonist that releases nitric oxide (NO) through incompletely characterized mechanisms. We id...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Dessy C,Saliez J,Ghisdal P,Daneau G,Lobysheva II,Frérart F,Belge C,Jnaoui K,Noirhomme P,Feron O,Balligand JL

更新日期：2005-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Beta-Blocker Heart Attack Trial was a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of propranolol therapy in 3837 men and women with acute myocardial infarction. The patients began their treatment 5-21 days after hospital admission (mean 13.8 days). During an average follow-up of 25 months, ther...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Goldstein S

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) catalyzes the degradation of heme into biliverdin, iron, and carbon monoxide (CO). Although HO-1 is induced in vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs), the biological role of HO-1 in these cells has not been completely characterized. METHODS AND RESULTS:In the present study, we overexpre...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Liu XM,Chapman GB,Wang H,Durante W

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO) occurs in 4% to 5% of patients after prosthetic ring mitral valve repair. Major anatomic factors incriminated in the genesis of LVOTO include degenerative mitral valve insufficiency with excess leaflet tissue, nondilated left ventricular cavity, and narrow m...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Jebara VA,Mihaileanu S,Acar C,Brizard C,Grare P,Latremouille C,Chauvaud S,Fabiani JN,Deloche A,Carpentier A

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Contrast agents can cause a reduction in renal function that may be due to the generation of reactive oxygen species. Conflicting evidence suggests that administration of the antioxidant acetylcysteine prevents this renal impairment. The action of other antioxidant agents has not been investigated. METHODS ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Spargias K,Alexopoulos E,Kyrzopoulos S,Iokovis P,Greenwood DC,Manginas A,Voudris V,Pavlides G,Buller CE,Kremastinos D,Cokkinos DV

更新日期：2004-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purposes of this study were to evaluate the comparative accuracy of dobutamine echocardiography and quantitative rest-redistribution 201Tl tomography in the prediction of recovery of function after revascularization and to assess the relation of contractile reserve to thallium uptake. METHODS AND RESULT...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Qureshi U,Nagueh SF,Afridi I,Vaduganathan P,Blaustein A,Verani MS,Winters WL Jr,Zoghbi WA

更新日期：1997-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with Brugada syndrome who were resuscitated from an episode of ventricular fibrillation are at high risk for recurrent sudden death. There is general agreement about the therapeutic strategy for these patients. Conversely, the prognosis and approach in patients with a diagnostic ECG but without a pr...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Brugada J,Brugada R,Brugada P

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral arterial disease is one manifestation of systemic atherosclerosis. The prevalence of peripheral arterial disease increases with the age of the population. It is important to remember the significant association of coincident coronary artery disease, which is the major cause of mortality in these patients. R...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： White CJ,Gray WA

更新日期：2007-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coronary heart disease patients with low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels, high triglyceride levels, or both are at an increased risk of cardiovascular events, but the clinical impact of raising HDL-C or decreasing triglycerides remains to be confirmed. METHODS AND RESULTS:In a double-bli...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Bezafibrate Infarction Prevention (BIP) study.

更新日期：2000-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In 72% of 143 patients undergoing a second coronary bypass grafting, mural or occlusive late thrombosis was observed histologically in 69% of 173 resected grafts. Late thrombosis was particularly prevalent in atherosclerotic grafts (80.2% vs. 40.4% in nonatherosclerotic grafts) and was always noted in 16 grafts with a...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Solymoss BC,Nadeau P,Millette D,Campeau L

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk of recurrent venous thrombosis is 2-fold higher in men than in women. In contrast, no such sex difference in the risk of first venous thrombosis has been reported. We hypothesized that, for a first event, a risk difference between the sexes is masked by female exposure to reproductive factors (oral ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Roach RE,Lijfering WM,Rosendaal FR,Cannegieter SC,le Cessie S

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role of structural heart disease and sodium channel dysfunction in the induction of electrical instability in Brugada syndrome is still debated. METHODS AND RESULTS:We studied 18 consecutive patients (15 males, 3 females; mean age 42.0+/-12.4 years) with clinical phenotype of Brugada syndrome and normal...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Frustaci A,Priori SG,Pieroni M,Chimenti C,Napolitano C,Rivolta I,Sanna T,Bellocci F,Russo MA

更新日期：2005-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The Persantine-Aspirin Reinfarction Study (PARIS) was a randomized, controlled, double-blind study of dipyridamole (Persantine) and aspirin in secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. Two thousand twenty-six men and women with myocardial infarction (MI) documented by electrocardiographic findings, clinical hist...

journal_title：Circulation

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更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00