The linearity of the end-systolic pressure-volume relationship in man and its sensitivity for assessment of left ventricular function.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alfieri edge-to-edge mitral repair has been used clinically with ring annuloplasty to correct ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR), but its efficacy without concomitant ring annuloplasty has not been described in this setting. METHODS:Seventeen sheep underwent implantation of 9 radiopaque markers on the left...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Timek TA,Nielsen SL,Lai DT,Tibayan FA,Liang D,Rodriguez F,Daughters GT,Ingels NB Jr,Miller DC

更新日期：2003-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Congenital long-QT syndrome (LQTS) is a primary arrhythmogenic syndrome stemming from perturbed cardiac repolarization. LQTS, which affects approximately 1 in 3000 persons, is 1 of the most common causes of autopsy-negative sudden death in the young. Since the sentinel discovery of cardiac channel gene mutat...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Vatta M,Ackerman MJ,Ye B,Makielski JC,Ughanze EE,Taylor EW,Tester DJ,Balijepalli RC,Foell JD,Li Z,Kamp TJ,Towbin JA

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of acute alterations in coronary blood flow (CBF) on left ventricular (LV) end-diastolic wall thickness was measured by reflected ultrasound in twelve anesthetized dogs. During five minutes of coronary ligation, wall thickness decreased from a control of 9.0 +/- 0.3 mm to 8.1 +/- 0.3 mm (P less than 0.001);...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Gaasch WH,Bernard SA

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The growing postnatal human heart maintains electromechanical function while undergoing substantial changes of cellular topology and myocardial architecture. The capacity for growth and remodeling of ventricular myocardium in adaptation to the hemodynamic changes of early infancy later declines. This decline...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Peters NS,Severs NJ,Rothery SM,Lincoln C,Yacoub MH,Green CR

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispatcher-delivered telephone instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been proposed to increase rates of bystander CPR in cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. We tested the efficacy of a previously developed CPR message using a recording mannikin in a high stress, simulated cardiac arrest scenario....

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kellermann AL,Hackman BB,Somes G

更新日期：1989-11-01 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:Human cardiac troponin I is known to be phosphorylated at multiple amino acid residues by several kinases. Advances in mass spectrometry allow sensitive detection of known and novel phosphorylation sites and measurement of the level of phosphorylation simultaneously at each site in myocardial samples. METHO...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Zhang P,Kirk JA,Ji W,dos Remedios CG,Kass DA,Van Eyk JE,Murphy AM

更新日期：2012-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Advances in surgical technique and perioperative myocardial protection have reduced the risk of aortic and mitral valve surgery. Improved methods of valve repair have reduced the proportion of patients who require valve replacement. However, patients who require valve replacement often have advanced disease ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Rao V,Christakis GT,Weisel RD,Buth KJ,Ikonomidis JS,Shirai T,Cohen G,David TE

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Approximately half of all patients with chronic heart failure (HF) have a decreased ejection fraction (EF) (systolic HF [SHF]); the other half have HF with a normal EF (diastolic HF [DHF]). However, the underlying pathophysiological differences between DHF and SHF patients are incompletely defined. The purpo...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Zile MR,Bennett TD,St John Sutton M,Cho YK,Adamson PB,Aaron MF,Aranda JM Jr,Abraham WT,Smart FW,Stevenson LW,Kueffer FJ,Bourge RC

更新日期：2008-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), as a cardiac hormone, is expressed together with atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) in the ventricles in congestive heart failure. However, the ventricular expression of BNP in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) with normal systolic function is still unclear. METHODS AND RESULT...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Hasegawa K,Fujiwara H,Doyama K,Miyamae M,Fujiwara T,Suga S,Mukoyama M,Nakao K,Imura H,Sasayama S

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A warm-water bath (WWB) or sauna bath (SB) has generally been considered inappropriate for patients with severe congestive heart failure (CHF). However, a comprehensive investigation of the hemodynamic effects of thermal vasodilation in CHF has not been previously undertaken. METHODS AND RESULTS:To investig...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tei C,Horikiri Y,Park JC,Jeong JW,Chang KS,Toyama Y,Tanaka N

更新日期：1995-05-15 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:Disease-associated electrophysiological alterations may contribute to the increased predisposition to arrhythmias of the hypertrophied or failing myocardium. An I(f)-like current is expressed in rat left ventricular myocytes (LVMs), its amplitude being linearly related to the severity of cardiac hypertrophy....

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Cerbai E,Pino R,Porciatti F,Sani G,Toscano M,Maccherini M,Giunti G,Mugelli A

更新日期：1997-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cytoskeleton plays an important role in maintaining cell structure and integrity. Defects in cytoskeletal proteins can cripple cell strength and may cause cardiomyopathy. We analyzed heart tissues from subjects with dilated cardiomyopathy for abnormalities in the cardiac cytoskeleton. Metavinculin, a car...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Maeda M,Holder E,Lowes B,Valent S,Bies RD

更新日期：1997-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of the study was to establish the influence of proximal coronary artery atheroma and smoking habit on the stimulated release of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) from the heart. METHODS AND RESULTS:After diagnostic coronary angiography in 25 patients, the left anterior descending coronary artery (L...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Newby DE,McLeod AL,Uren NG,Flint L,Ludlam CA,Webb DJ,Fox KA,Boon NA

更新日期：2001-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients exhibit myocardial energetic impairment, but a causative role for this energy deficiency in the pathophysiology of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy remains unproven. We hypothesized that the metabolic modulator perhexiline would ameliorate myocardial energy deficiency and ther...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Abozguia K,Elliott P,McKenna W,Phan TT,Nallur-Shivu G,Ahmed I,Maher AR,Kaur K,Taylor J,Henning A,Ashrafian H,Watkins H,Frenneaux M

更新日期：2010-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Serum paraoxonase (PON1), an enzyme carried on HDL, inhibits LDL oxidation, and in human population studies, low PON1 activity is associated with atherosclerosis. In addition, PON1 knockout mice are more susceptible to lipoprotein oxidation and atherosclerosis. To evaluate whether PON1 protects against ather...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tward A,Xia YR,Wang XP,Shi YS,Park C,Castellani LW,Lusis AJ,Shih DM

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Unfractionated heparin has been the primary anticoagulant therapy for percutaneous coronary intervention for >20 years. Despite the availability of rapid "point of care" testing, little clinical data defining the optimal level of anticoagulation are available. Furthermore, recent reports have advocated the u...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Chew DP,Bhatt DL,Lincoff AM,Moliterno DJ,Brener SJ,Wolski KE,Topol EJ

更新日期：2001-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The widespread use of exercise testing for the detection of myocardial ischemia in patients suspected of having coronary artery disease led to the detection of ischemic changes in many subjects who subsequently were found to have angiographically normal epicardial vessels--the false positive response. Such a result is...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Epstein SE,Cannon RO 3rd,Bonow RO

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exogenous adenosine has been shown to have potent electrophysiologic effects and antiarrhythmic properties within the atrioventricular (AV) node. Endogenous adenosine, a nucleoside with an increased release signaled by ischemia and hypoxia, is not believed to exert significant effects during homeostatic conditions. Re...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lerman BB,Wesley RC,Belardinelli L

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fixed-dose unmonitored treatment with dabigatran etexilate is effective and has a favorable safety profile in the prevention of stroke in atrial fibrillation patients compared with warfarin. We hypothesized that genetic variants could contribute to interindividual variability in blood concentrations of the a...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Paré G,Eriksson N,Lehr T,Connolly S,Eikelboom J,Ezekowitz MD,Axelsson T,Haertter S,Oldgren J,Reilly P,Siegbahn A,Syvanen AC,Wadelius C,Wadelius M,Zimdahl-Gelling H,Yusuf S,Wallentin L

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was performed to determine whether chronic cocaine abuse is associated with left ventricular hypertrophy in humans. METHODS AND RESULTS:A consecutive series of 40 chronic cocaine abusers 23-44 years old who were enrolled in an inpatient drug rehabilitation program were considered for the study. S...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Brickner ME,Willard JE,Eichhorn EJ,Black J,Grayburn PA

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have documented the strong association between availability of on-site cardiac catheterization facilities and increased use of coronary angiography in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Although these studies have shown little influence of the availability of catheterization la...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Every NR,Parsons LS,Fihn SD,Larson EB,Maynard C,Hallstrom AP,Martin JS,Weaver WD

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Proarrhythmic effects of flecainide acetate have been reported during exercise, but the mechanism for the arrhythmogenic interaction between flecainide and exercise is unknown. We hypothesized that the sinus tachycardia of exercise may enhance flecainide-induced conduction slowing by increasing use-dependent sodium ch...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Ranger S,Talajic M,Lemery R,Roy D,Nattel S

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During the 1980s, mortality from coronary artery disease (CAD) decreased markedly in the United States. This raises the question of whether a parallel decrease occurred in excess mortality due to CAD in patients undergoing surgical correction of valvular regurgitation. METHODS AND RESULTS:Survival of 752 pa...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tribouilloy CM,Enriquez-Sarano M,Schaff HV,Orszulak TA,Fett SL,Bailey KR,Tajik AJ,Frye RL

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The capability of a pulsed Doppler flowmeter combined with a phased-array imaging system to measure volume flow was tested in vitro and in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. The Doppler-phased-array system (DPA) was used to determine vessel diameter and a superimposed cursor was used to locate the range and ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Magnin PA,Stewart JA,Myers S,von Ramm O,Kisslo JA

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The combination of a single-bolus fibrinolytic and a low-molecular-weight heparin may facilitate prehospital reperfusion and further improve clinical outcome in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction. METHODS AND RESULTS:In the prehospital setting, 1639 patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarc...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Wallentin L,Goldstein P,Armstrong PW,Granger CB,Adgey AA,Arntz HR,Bogaerts K,Danays T,Lindahl B,Mäkijärvi M,Verheugt F,Van de Werf F

更新日期：2003-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Background-Endocardial (EE) and myocardial capillary vascular endothelial (myocap VE) cells have been shown to modulate the contractile characteristics of myocardium in a calcium-dependent manner. We evaluated the endothelial-myocardial interaction in the rat postinfarction myocardial infarction (MI) model and the eff...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Qi XL,Stewart DJ,Gosselin H,Azad A,Picard P,Andries L,Sys SU,Brutsaert DL,Rouleau JL

更新日期：1999-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral flecainide acetate was administered to 34 patients with documented symptomatic paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT) with a double-blind, placebo-controlled, 8-week crossover trial design. PSVT was defined as a regular tachycardia of at least 120 beats/min without evidence of atrioventricular dissociatio...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Henthorn RW,Waldo AL,Anderson JL,Gilbert EM,Alpert BL,Bhandari AK,Hawkinson RW,Pritchett EL

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of paradoxical hypertension after resection of coarctation of the aorta was investigated by comparing the course of seven children undergoing repair of coarctation with five acyanotic children undergoing elective cardiovascular surgery. During the first 24 hours after surgery, all coarctation patients...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Rocchini AP,Rosenthal A,Barger AC,Castaneda AR,Nadas AS

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00