The inaccuracy of aortic valve systolic flutter as a screening test for significant aortic stenosis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myocardial blush grade (MBG), corrected TIMI frame count (cTFC), and ST-segment reduction are indices of myocardial reperfusion. HYPOTHESIS:We evaluated their predictive value for left ventricular (LV) function recovery by gated single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) after acute myocardial infar...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Bellandi F,Leoncini M,Maioli M,Toso A,Gallopin M,Piero Dabizzi R

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta is of paramount importance because of its propensity to rupture. As the frequency of surgical procedures involving the aortic root and valve increases, an increase in the incidence of aortic pseudoaneurysm may be anticipated. We recently studied a patient who deve...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Lasorda DM,Power TP,Dianzumba SB,Incorvati RL

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific properties of the vessel wall of arteries employed as coronary bypass grafts are thought to play an important role in the short- and long-term performance of these conduits. Heterogeneity in the endothelial and smooth muscle cell function between different arteries may provide particular vessels with properti...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Dzimiri N,Chester AH,Allen SP,Duran C,Yacoub MH

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite a totality of evidence indicating clear benefits of statin therapy in secondary and primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD), a large number of additional trials are currently planned or in progress to help us better understand, treat, and prevent CVD. Both monotherapy and combination statin regimens...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Pfeffer MA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies were conducted in France to compare the efficacy and safety of once-daily simvastatin treatment (10-40 mg/day) with conventional therapy with gemfibrozil 900 mg/day, ciprofibrate 100 mg/day, bezafibrate 400 mg/day, and fenofibrate 300 or 400 mg/day...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Bruckert E,De Gennes JL,Malbecq W,Baigts F

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To enhance the bedside diagnosis of tricuspid regurgitation, the influence of manual pressure applied below the liver on lower left sternal border murmurs was determined in 23 patients. All 23 subjects had right ventriculograms and right atrial phonocardiograms. The sign was positive in 13 cases, including 3 who were ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Gooch AS,Cha SD,Maranhao V

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ST-segment depression during exercise testing is frequently observed in the absence of restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). HYPOTHESIS:With the goal of improving the prediction of restenosis after PTCA, we evaluated the usefulness of ST-segment depression plus QT dispersio...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Aytemir K,Ozer N,Aksöyek S,Ozkutlu H,Oto A,Ozmen F

更新日期：1999-06-01 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 coronary artery thrombus that causes acute myocardial infarction can be lysed, and reperfusion can be achieved, in the first few hours after infarction. However, the infarct vessel will reocclude in 15-30% of patients, and this event is frequently associated with pain, reinfarction, arrhythmias, or death. The risk...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Goldberg RK,Levine S,Fenster PE

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two recent observations based on echocardiographic studies in large population-based studies may have far-reaching implications: The concentric form of left ventricular hypertrophy emerges prominently in white Framingham (MA) men aged 40-49 years, and ten years later in white Framingham women. This parallels the patte...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Savage DD,Watkins LO,McGee DL

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of competitive blood flow in the left coronary circulation after saphenous vein bypass grafting that resulted in the apparent progression of a proximal stenosis to total occlusion at coronary angiography. Repeat angiography with careful attention to catheter position and adequate injection of contrast...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Miller WP,Dash H

更新日期：1984-03-01 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：:Hospitals typically use Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) administrative reports as the standard of heart failure (HF) admission quantification. We aimed to evaluate the HF admission population identified by CMS HRRP definition of HF hospital admissions comp...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Cox ZL,Lai P,Lewis CM,Lenihan DJ

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 62-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with unstable angina. The coronary arteriography showed the occlusion of the left anterior descending artery and other stenotic lesions. The patient underwent an aortocoronary bypass operation, but unfortunately he did not survive. Surprisingly, the necropsy revealed him ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Sciagrà R,Tebbe U,Rahlf G,Neuhaus KL,Kreuzer H

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Relationships between heart rate (HR) variability and different prognostic markers such as ejection fraction, functional capacity, and patency of the infarct-related artery, as well as the comparison of their time courses are not fully elucidated. HYPOTHESIS:The aim of study was to assess prospectively the ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Monmeneu JV,Chorro FJ,Bodí V,Sanchis J,Llácer A,García-Civera R,Ruiz R,Sanjuán R,Burguera M,López-Merino V

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At a recent Transcatheter Therapeutics meeting in San Francisco the PROSPECT Trial was presented by Dr. Greg Stone. Prospect stands for Providing Regional Observations to Study Predictors of Events in the Coronary Tree. This was a natural history study of atherosclerosis using multi-modality intracoronary imaging to p...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Conti CR

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The reproducibility of left ventricular (LV) mass measurement by two-dimensional (2-D) echocardiography is inadequate for individual assessments. HYPOTHESIS:This study was undertaken to evaluate the potential of LV mass determination with a new three-dimensional (3-D) echocardiographic method compared with ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Rodevand O,Bjornerheim R,Kolbjornsen O,Ihlen H,Kjekshus J

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physicians previously perceived heart disease to be a man's disease; yet, since 1984, more women have died of ischemic heart disease. Because women who develop obstructive coronary heart disease and heart failure tend to do so 10 years later than men, cardiology clinical trials that use arbitrary age cutoffs or exclus...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Clayton JA,Arnegard ME

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an open, multicenter extension of a short-term study, 159 patients with mild to moderate hypertension were treated with either ramipril monotherapy or a combination of ramipril and hydrochlorothiazide for up to 1 year. Patients started with either 5 mg ramipril once daily (responders in the short-term study) or a c...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Heidbreder D,Froer KL,Bauer B,Cairns V,Breitstadt A,Bender N

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress echocardiography is a widely applied technique for the evaluation of individuals with known or suspected coronary artery disease. The technique combines echocardiographic imaging with exercise testing or pharmacologic stress. Advances in digital image acquisition and harmonic imaging have substantially improved...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Lewis JF

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:QT dispersion (QTd = QTmax-QTmin) measured as interlead variability of QT interval reflects the spatial inhomogeneity of ventricular repolarization times, and increased QTd may provide a substrate for malignant ventricular arrhythmias. Ischemia is associated with regional abnormalities of conduction and repo...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Aytemir K,Bavafa V,Ozer N,Aksoyek S,Oto A,Ozmen F

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, several treadmill scores have been proposed as means for improving the diagnostic accuracy of the exercise treadmill test (ETT). Questions remain regarding the diagnostic accuracy of treadmill scores when applied to a different patient population than that from which they were derived; furthermore,...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Fearon WF,Gauri AJ,Myers J,Raxwal VK,Atwood JE,Froelicher VF

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2011 Update of the American Heart Association's Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Guideline for Women is designed to help women and their physicians understand cardiovascular Disease (CVD) risks and undertake practical steps that are most effective in preventing heart disease and stroke. Defining a woman's risk st...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Wenger NK

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of interatrial block (IAB) is high in the elderly, particularly in those with heart disease. Despite this high prevalence-and the association of IAB with the risk of atrial fibrillation (AF), stroke, and cognitive decline-little information exists about the prognosis of older patients with IAB. P-wave d...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Martínez-Sellés M,Baranchuk A,Elosua R,de Luna AB

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The poor clinical outcome in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has been attributed to myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury (MIRI). OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to identify the predictive factors of MIRI during PCI in Chinese AMI patients w...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Luo Y,Li GL,Pan YZ,Zhou SF

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six patients undergoing aortic valve replacement had rare or unusual causes of isolated, pure aortic regurgitation. Two patients had congenitally bicuspid aortic valves with a false commissure (raphe) displaced to the aortic wall ("tethered bicuspid aortic valve"), two had floppy aortic valves, one had a congenital qu...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Waller BF,Taliercio CP,Dickos DK,Howard J,Adlam JH,Jolly W

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The real-world impact of remote pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) monitoring on New York Heart Association (NYHA) class improvement and heart failure (HF) hospitalization rate is presented here from a single center. HYPOTHESIS:METHODS: Seventy-seven previously hospitalized outpatients with NYHA class III HF w...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Jermyn R,Alam A,Kvasic J,Saeed O,Jorde U

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The global T-inversion (GTI) electrocardiogram (ECG) is strikingly abnormal with major QTc prolongation, but with a surprisingly good prognosis by Kaplan-Meier curve. This contrasts with most significant QTc prolongations. HYPOTHESIS:This study was undertaken to ascertain QT interval dispersion (QTd) in glo...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Desai SA,Mehrok S,Spodick DH

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rarely occurring in the pediatric and adolescent population, aortic dissection is a condition with many predisposing factors. Previous studies have suggested that congenital cardiovascular disorders are the most common predisposing conditions. Trauma-associated aortic dissection is considered a rare occurren...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Fikar CR,Fikar R

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) is a reliable cardiac risk stratifier that has widespread applicability because of its clinical accuracy and cost effectiveness. Dobutamine has positive inotropic and chronotropic effects and is commonly used in patients who cannot exercise or achieve an adequate heart rate res...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Usher BW Jr,O'Brien TX

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00