Impact of thallium-201 imaging on clinical assessment and management of patients with chest pain.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited information is available regarding outcome of very elderly patients referred for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). PURPOSE:This study aimed to assess acute and intermediate term clinical outcomes among nonagenarians. METHODS:The study included 32 consecutive nonagenarian patients undergoing...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Parikh R,Chennareddy S,Debari V,Hamdan A,Konlian D,Shamoon F,Bikkina M

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although suppression of premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) is not a predictor of mortality over the long term, the extent of PVC suppression is an important characteristic of any antiarrhythmic drug. HYPOTHESIS:This study was undertaken to determine whether intravenous (i.v.) dofetilide has the abili...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Pool PE,Singh SN,Friedrich T

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recommendations in the 2007 update of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines for patients with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) provide considerable latitude regarding treatment choices and care pathways. Nevertheless, as accumulating evidence leads to increased recomme...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Boden WE,Gupta V

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Noncardiac organ failure has been associated with worse outcomes among a cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) population. HYPOTHESIS:We hypothesized that early organ failure based on the sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score would be associated with mortality in CICU patients. METHODS:Adult CICU p...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Jentzer JC,Wiley B,Bennett C,Murphree DH,Keegan MT,Gajic O,Kashani KB,Barsness GW

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although nocturnal pulseoximetry is routinely performed in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), pulseoximetry over a 24-h period has not been studied. HYPOTHESIS:The purpose of the study was to determine whether simultaneous 24-h oxygen desaturation and electrocardiographic (ECG) recording might be used...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Noda A,Ito R,Okada T,Yasuma F,Nakashima N,Yokota M

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ventriculophasic response (VR) refers to shortening of atrial cycle length during heart block when a QRS complex is interposed between P waves. No formal quantitative definition has heretofore been proposed, nor have its potential clinical correlations been studied. HYPOTHESIS:We hypothesized that VR is...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Dadu RT,McPherson CA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increased salt intake may induce hypertension, lead to cardiac hypertrophy, and exacerbate heart failure. When elderly patients develop heart failure, diastolic dysfunction is often observed, although the ejection fraction has decreased. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is an established risk factor for heart failure....

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Kagiyama S,Koga T,Kaseda S,Ishihara S,Kawazoe N,Sadoshima S,Matsumura K,Takata Y,Tsuchihashi T,Iida M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic cardiomyoplasty is a new surgical procedure proposed for treatment of the failing heart. Clinically, the latissimus dorsi muscle is raised as a pedicled flap and wrapped around the heart. The skeletal muscle is transformed to produce a myocardium-like fatigue-resistant muscle. It is stimulated to contract in s...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Hill AB,Chiu RC

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently two types of atypical T-wave evolution were recognized as electrocardiographic (ECG) markers of regional postinfarction pericarditis. The sensitivity and specificity of these changes for this condition were 100 and 77%, respectively. The major purpose of this investigation is to show how these ECG changes can...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Oliva PB,Hammill SC

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Massive evidence supports that increase of lipids bring more risk of atherosclerosis. However, it is not clear if lipids measured a long time ago bear more risk than the current measurement. HYPOTHESIS:Lipids measured currently is more associated with carotid atherosclerosis than lipids measured long time a...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Huang Y,Yu X,Millican D,Wu L,Shi P,Lu M,Wu Y

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/HYPOTHESIS:SMARTWOMAN™ was designed to develop and assess the feasibility of a smartphone app to control cardiovascular risk factors in vulnerable diabetic women. METHODS:Fourteen African-American women with diabetes and without known cardiovascular disease were enrolled. A weight-scale, glucometer, sphygmo...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Wenger NK,Williams OO,Parashar S

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study affirms that compliance with medical regimen in a university cardiac clinic favorably influences patient outcome. The multiplicity of factors influencing compliance are emphasized, as is the need for continuing physician evaluation of compliance, and attempts to favorably influence it. ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Sampson JJ,Arbona CL

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paradoxical interventricular septal motion with right ventricular dilatation has been considered the hallmark of right ventricular volume overload. We report a 43-year-old woman with severe pulmonary hypertension due to pulmonary veno-occlusive disease who exhibited these echocardiographic abnormalities. Right ventric...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Zee-Cheng CS,Gibbs HR

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last 15 years, intense interest has focused on various interventional, pharmacologic, and mechanical forms of therapy for the treatment of atherosclerotic coronary artery disease. Many techniques and devices (dilating balloons, perfusion catheters, thermal probes and balloons, lasers, atherectomy devices, stent...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Waller BF,Orr CM,Slack JD,Pinkerton CA,Van Tassel JV,Peters T

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and nonobstructive coronary artery disease (nonobCAD) may be perceived to be at lower risk for cardiac events, relative to those with obstructive CAD (obCAD), and thus less likely to receive optimal preventive medications in the year following AMI. HYPOTHESIS:...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Pitts R,Daugherty SL,Tang F,Jones P,Ho PM,Tsai TT,Spertus J,Maddox TM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most series of patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT) of right bundle-branch block (RBBB)-left axis deviation (LAD) morphology include young individuals with no overt evidence of structural heart disease. In the present report, the clinical and electrophysiologic findings in two patients with verapamil-responsive ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Rechavia E,Strasberg B,Kusniec J,Sclarovsky S

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After reviewing these published studies, I think one can conclude that in the patient population with chronic and/or paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, warfarin is beneficial and the benefits outweigh the risks. However, it is important to point out that patients at high risk for embolic disease, for example, dilated car...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Conti CR

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of nisoldipine (10-20 mg b.i.d.) was evaluated as a replacement therapy for long-acting nifedipine (40-120 mg/day) in 21 patients with severe hypertension, who were resistant to or intolerant of nifedipine. Except for one patient with specific contraindications, all participants received an individually determ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Grossman E,Rosenthal T

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Internal cardioversion of atrial fibrillation with direct current energy has become an increasingly employed technique for patients who fail external cardioversion. HYPOTHESIS:The purpose of this study was to determine whether internal cardioversion could be avoided by careful attention to cardioversion tec...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Verdino RJ,Teuteberg JJ,Burke MC,Kopp DE,Johnson CT,Lin AC,Alberts M,Kall JG,Wilber DJ

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of atrial fibrillation (AF) on the immediate and long-term outcome of patients undergoing balloon mitral valvotomy (BMV). HYPOTHESIS:Patients with atrial fibrillation fair poorly after balloon mitral valvotomy. METHODS:There were a total of 818 consecu...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Nair KK,Pillai HS,Thajudeen A,Krishnamoorthy KM,Sivasubramonian S,Namboodiri N,Sasidharan B,Ganapathy S,Varaparambil A,Titus T,Tharakan J

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evaluation of chest pain accounts for millions of costly Emergency Department (ED) visits and hospital admissions annually. Of these, approximately 10-20% are myocardial infarctions (MI). HYPOTHESIS:Patients with chest pain whose initial electrocardiogram (ECG) is normal do not require hospital admission fo...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Challa PK,Smith KM,Conti CR

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases with acute myocardial infarction are presented. Both had thrombotic occlusion of the infarct-related artery. Following successful thrombolysis with streptokinase, coronary angiography was normal. These cases prove that "myocardial infarction with normal coronaries" can be associated with coronary thrombosis ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Fernandez MS,Pichard AD,Marchant E,Lindsay J Jr

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, instrumenting the pericardium was possible only when a pericardial effusion is present or by surgical exposure of the pericardium. Techniques are now being developed to instrument the normal pericardium. This development will allow clinicians and investigators to study pericardial fluid in health and i...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Shabetai R

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient left ventricular (LV) apical ballooning and normal epicardial coronary arteries are the hallmarks of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. The syndrome is often triggered by emotional or physiologic stress, and its pathogenesis is poorly understood. Current proposals focus on elevated cathecolamines in association with ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Novak G,Kross K,Follmer K,Brofferio A,Shirani J

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Therapeutic hypothermia improves survival for selected patients who remain comatose after cardiac arrest. Hypothermia triggers changes in electrocardiographic (ECG) parameters; however, the association of these changes to in-hospital mortality remains unclear. HYPOTHESIS:QT interval changes induced by thera...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Lam DH,Dhingra R,Conley SM,Kono AT

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary amyloidosis, systemic senile amyloidosis, isolated atrial amyloidosis, and transthyretin isoleucine 122 amyloidosis frequently involve the heart. Amyloid fibrils infiltrate the myocardium, impairing ventricular contraction and relaxation. The clinical manifestations of cardiac infiltration in these disorders a...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： McCarthy RE 3rd,Kasper EK

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Warfarin and other 4-hydroxycoumarins are effective antithrombotic agents. They affect four blood coagulation proteins that act sequentially to produce thrombin. Coumarin therapy decreases the biological activity of these proteins, and therefore decreases the rate at which blood clots. As the mechanism by which these ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Suttie JW

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atrial fibrillation (AF), a disease of the elderly, occasionally occurs at younger age. Pathophysiology of AF in younger patients is diverse, including channelopathies and cardiomyopathies. Data on the significance and complications of AF in young patients are scarce. HYPOTHESIS:Atrial fibrillation is the f...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Wutzler A,von Ulmenstein S,Attanasio P,Huemer M,Parwani AS,Völk K,Blaschke F,Boldt LH,Haverkamp W

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium channel blockers are important drugs for the treatment of chronic stable angina. However, negative inotropic and dromotropic effects may limit their usefulness in patients with atrioventricular conduction abnormalities or left ventricular dysfunction. A new generation of calcium channel blockers will soon be a...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Pepine C

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Electronic health record systems (EHR) are expected to facilitate higher quality patient care; however, studies evaluating EHR effectiveness in improving care have yielded mixed results. HYPOTHESIS:Implementation of a performance improvement system in outpatient practices with EHR may better demonstrate the...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Walsh MN,Albert NM,Curtis AB,Gheorghiade M,Heywood JT,Liu Y,Mehra MR,O'Connor CM,Reynolds D,Yancy CW,Fonarow GC

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00