Follow-up study in congestive (dilated) cardiomyopathy.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The scope of this study is to detect whether or not the entropy (E) circadian rhythm (CR) is maintained preserved in sinusal R-R intervals (SRRI), its loss being the expression of a transition to an indeterministic chaos in heart rate variability (HRV). METHODS:The E of SRRI was estimated in 14 type I diabet...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Cugini P,Curione M,Castro C,Napoli A,Francia P,Colatrella A,Di Bona S,Cammarota C,Cardarelli G,Amato S,Fallucca F

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The effect of inhibiting mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT) on cardioprotection induced by ischaemic postconditioning remains debatable. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether ischaemic postconditioning attenuates cardiomyocyte ultrastructure injury and apoptosis by blocking MPT. ME...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Fang J,Wu L,Chen L

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), combined with optimal medical therapy (OMT), is an established treatment for patients with advanced chronic heart failure (ACHF). In ACHF, carvedilol at the dose used in clinical trials, reduces morbidity and mortality. However, patients often do not tolerate the drug ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Grosu A,Senni M,Iacovoni A,Gori M,Cantù F,Bisetti S,De Santo T,De Luca A,Gavazzi A

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) plays an important role in blood pressure regulation, left ventricular and vascular structure. Some hypertensive patients develop left ventricular dilatation and heart failure symptoms while others are relatively less affected. The purpose of our study was to d...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Olcay A,Nisanci Y,Ekmekci CG,Umman B,Bugra Z,Sezer M,Acar RD,Ozbek U

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Annular calcifications carry some technical difficulties for success in conventional valve surgery. In this paper we present an easy alternative mitral valve replacement method applied for a patient with a heavily calcified mitral annulus. Excision of both leaflets and partial resection of the annular calcification wi...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Sirin BH,Iskesen I,Erbuyun K

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Coronary stenoses of intermediate severity create difficulties in decision making when revascularization is concerned. Myocardial fractional flow reserve (mFFR), an accurate tool to identify physiological significance of individual coronary stenoses, may help solve this problem. METHODS AND RESULTS:Fifty-eig...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Ozdemir M,Timurkaynak T,Cemri M,Boyaci B,Yalçin R,Cengel A,Dörtlemez O,Dörtlemez H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enalapril is a new angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor which, when absorbed by the digestive tract, is converted to enalaprilat. This metabolite is, in fact, the active form of enalapril. Its duration of action is sufficiently long so that enalapril can be administered in a single daily dose. Enalapril has been pr...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Brunner HR,Nussberger J,Waeber B

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) is a key enzyme in the production of angiotensin II and thus may participate in the modulation of cardiac growth. The cloning of the ACE gene has made it possible to identify a deletion (D)-insertion (I) polymorphism that appears to affect the level of serum ACE activity. ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Dursunoglu D,Evrengül H,Tanriverdi H,Turgut G,Genç O,Kaftan HA,Kilic M

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:3D echocardiography offers options of left ventricular systolic function analysis. The aims of this study are: to assess the usefulness of 3D echocardiography, to test 3D regional measurements (with area strain) among a spectrum of patients and then to check prospectively the value of 3D echocardiography v...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Szulik M,Śliwińska A,Lenarczyk R,Szymała M,Kalinowski ME,Markowicz-Pawlus E,Kalarus Z,Kukulski T

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 73-year-old man admitted to our hospital for acute hepatic failure. Antemortem diagnosis of systemic AA amyloidosis was made because of typical electrocardiographic and echocardiographic findings, in the absence of the classic clinical picture of kidney involvement. ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Morelli S,Bonfiglio D,Galasso L

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During inflammation, several cell types synthesize and secrete phospholipase A2 that catalyses lipid oxidation in LDL. Myeloperoxidase, a haeme protein secreted by activated phagocytes, oxidizes L-tyrosine to a tyrosyl radical that is a physiological catalyst for the initiation of lipid oxidation in LDL. Lipid oxidati...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Holvoet P

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated ventricular noncompaction of myocardium is a rare congenital disease due to an arrest of myocardial morphogenesis during foetal development. It is characterized by a thin compacted epicardial and an extremely thickened endocardial layer with prominent trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses. The pers...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Okçün Baniş,Tekin A,Oz B,Küçükoğlu MS

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young woman with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) developed progressive heart failure several years after mitral valve replacement with a Björk-Shiley prosthesis for treating mitral stenosis due to Libman-Sacks endocarditis. She was admitted to the hospital with pulmonary oedema. Transoesophageal echocardiography ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Hoffer E,Itoua M,Radermecker M,Piérard L

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aortic distensibility index, as a measure of vascular function, can serve as a marker of coronary artery disease severity. This study explores the feasibility of using the non-invasively measured index as an indicator of severity of coronary stenosis. METHODS:One hundred patients with normal left ventric...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Shehata M,Elsayegh A,Gomaa Y,Gamal M

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aims at evaluating the acute hemodynamic effects of external and internal (3 and 15 mA) pacing on 30 patients with severe cardiac failure. The global and regional ejection fraction were calculated by repeated radionuclide ventriculography at rest (control) and during increasing pacing rates. Blood pr...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Toumanidis ST,Danopoulos A,Vassilopoulos N,Nanas SN,Kostamis P,Sideris DA,Moulopoulos SD

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 57-year-old woman suffering from severe Prinzmetal's angina was treated with a 7-week course of enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP). After completing EECP the angina intensity was reduced from CCS class IV to class I, quality of life was increased and medication was significantly reduced. The number of hospita...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Tarpgaard Jørgensen M,Gerdes C,May O

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To attain a long and healthy life has always been one of the major goals of humanity. The Chinese emperors, the Egyptian pharaohs and the Aztec kings all aspired to become immortal. To try to avoid mortality and to decrease morbidity at the population level is the role of public health, taken in its broadest sense, in...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Kesteloot H

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Due to uncertainty in the clinical implications of slow coronary flow (SCF), we aimed to investigate the clinical features and mid-term outcome of the Iranian patients with the slow coronary flow phenomenon. METHODS:During a four-year period from January 2005 to December 2009, out of 3523 consecutive patient...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Amirzadegan A,Motamed A,Davarpasand T,Shahrzad M,Lotfi-Tokaldany M

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this randomized trial was to evaluate whether omission of heparin infusion after successful coronary interventions increased the incidence of ischaemic complications. Continuous heparin infusion after percutaneous coronary interventions could increase the occurrence of bleeding; however, the probab...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Zibaeenezhad MJ,Mazloum Y

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Available clinical and angiographic scoring systems fail to predict clinical outcomes in real-world patients undergoing revascularization of the unprotected left main coronary artery (ULMCA). METHODS:We prospectively assessed major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) in a real-world populatio...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Kayaert P,Desmet W,Sinnaeve P,Adriaenssens T,Coosemans M,Ferdinande B,Dubois C

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Defibrillation threshold testing (DT) following implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation has not shown to improve mortality. However, the impact of DT on burden of heart failure (HF) hospitalisations has not been well defined.Methods: We studied retrospectively consecutive patients who und...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Akdemir B,Li Y,Krishnan B,Adabag S,Tholakanahalli V,Benditt DG,Li JM

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:In order to detect myocardial viability in coronary artery disease patients (CAD) with a previous myocardial infarction and dysfunction of the left ventricle (LV), the reliability of the left atrioventricular plane displacement (LAVPD) during low dose dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE), was validated. ...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Bouki K,Kranidis A,Kostopoulos K,Rondogianni F,Giannopoulou H,Antonelis J,Fehske W,Tavernarakis A,Kesse M,Anthopoulos L

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD) is a heart muscle disease characterized pathologically by fibrofatty replacement of right ventricular myocardium. It is further characterized by an electrical instability that precipitates ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death. The prevalence is estimated at 0.4% de...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Hagenah G,Andreas S,Konstantinides S

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jugular vein thrombosis (JVT) is usually secondary to central venous catheterisation, distant malignancy, hypercoagulable state or ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. Spontaneous internal JVT is an extremely rare entity. A 61-year-old man presented with swelling of the right side of his face. An ultrasonographic scan s...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Chlumský J,Havlín J

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: All previous meta-analyses including clinical outcomes after remote ischaemic conditioning (RIC) in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) demonstrated that RIC significantly reduced all-cause mortality and major adverse cardiovascular...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Borracci RA,Amrein E,Alvarez Gallesio JM,Trucksäss S,Higa CC

更新日期：2020-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological information on the prevalence, incidence and natural history of intermittent claudication and peripheral vascular disease is limited, partially by the limitation of techniques of their study. The available data from the literature are review and supplemented by results from an on-going survey the ankle...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： De Backer G,Kornitzer M,Sobolski J,Denolin H

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 51-year-old man of central African origin. Medical evaluation revealed severe heart failure. Echocardiography disclosed poor left ventricular function. The apex of the left ventricle showed complete obliteration and retraction. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed subendocardial hyperenhancement...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Vermeulen T,Conraads VM,Vrints CJ,Paelinck BP

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Color-coded liquid plastic was injected intraparenchymally (not into the blood vessels) into more than 300 hearts of homeotherms--including dog, cat, sheep, beef, horse, mammalian dolphins, chickens, turkeys, etc. The organization of the hearts of all these species appears to be similar. After injection of a heart seg...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Rodbard S

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a review of the effects of E on the symptoms of CHF which affect patients' (pts) quality of life and the signs associated with pts' prognosis. The review is based on clinical studies which were included in the New Drug Application for Vasotec (enalapril maleate, MSD) in the United States. There were 3 open-lab...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Rucinska EJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) in patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy. We explored the accuracy of resting echocardiographic and tissue Doppler parameters to predict a positive response by low-dose METHODS AND RESULTS:We enrolled 100 consecutive patients with prior myocardial infarction, and a l...

journal_title：Acta cardiologica

authors： Abdel-Salam Z,Nammas W

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00