Premature ventricular complexes in the absence of identifiable heart disease.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Apoptosis is common in advanced human atheroma and contributes to plaque instability. Because annexin V has a high affinity for exposed phosphatidylserine on apoptotic cells, radiolabeled annexin V may be used for noninvasive detection of apoptosis in atherosclerotic lesions. METHODS AND RESULTS:Atheroscler...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kolodgie FD,Petrov A,Virmani R,Narula N,Verjans JW,Weber DK,Hartung D,Steinmetz N,Vanderheyden JL,Vannan MA,Gold HK,Reutelingsperger CP,Hofstra L,Narula J

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cystic medial degeneration (CMD) is a histological abnormality that is common in the aortic diseases associated with Marfan's syndrome (MFS). Although little known about the mechanism underlying CMD, several recent reports have demonstrated that vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) apoptosis could play a subst...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Nagashima H,Sakomura Y,Aoka Y,Uto K,Kameyama Ki,Ogawa M,Aomi S,Koyanagi H,Ishizuka N,Naruse M,Kawana M,Kasanuki H

更新日期：2001-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drug-eluting stents have shown promising antirestenotic effects in clinical trials. Non-stent-based local delivery of antiproliferative drugs may offer additional flexibility and also reach vessel areas beyond the immediate stent coverage. The aim of the present study was to evaluate a novel method of local ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Scheller B,Speck U,Abramjuk C,Bernhardt U,Böhm M,Nickenig G

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The present study was designed to define the prevalence and characteristics of skeletal muscle alterations in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) and their relation to exercise capacity. METHODS AND RESULTS:The ultrastructure of skeletal muscle was analyzed by ultrastructural morphometry in 57 patient...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Drexler H,Riede U,Münzel T,König H,Funke E,Just H

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary regurgitation frequently occurs after surgical correction of tetralogy of Fallot. To date, reliable quantitation of pulmonary regurgitation has not been possible, and therefore the clinical significance of pulmonary regurgitation is controversial. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) velocity mapping a...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Rebergen SA,Chin JG,Ottenkamp J,van der Wall EE,de Roos A

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the behavior with regard to restenosis of multiple lesions within the same patient treated with intracoronary stenting. Our objective was to test the hypothesis that there is an intrapatient dependence of restenosis between lesions. METHODS AND RESULTS:Quantitative analysis was carried...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kastrati A,Schömig A,Elezi S,Schühlen H,Wilhelm M,Dirschinger J

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vascular smooth muscle cell (VMSC) proliferation is an essential component of myointimal hyperplasia, which is implicated in the failure of 30% to 50% of vascular interventions, such as coronary angioplasty and peripheral vein grafting. We have shown that cells derived from stenotic lesions in infrainguinal ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Refson JS,Schachter M,Patel MK,Hughes AD,Munro E,Chan P,Wolfe JH,Sever PS

更新日期：1998-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The age association of cardiovascular disease may be in part because its metabolic risk factors tend to rise with age. Few studies have analyzed age associations of multiple metabolic risks in the same population, especially in nationally representative samples. We examined worldwide variations in the age as...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Singh GM,Danaei G,Pelizzari PM,Lin JK,Cowan MJ,Stevens GA,Farzadfar F,Khang YH,Lu Y,Riley LM,Lim SS,Ezzati M

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hemodialysis vascular access dysfunction is the single most important cause of morbidity in kidney hemodialysis patients. Failure of an arteriovenous polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) graft, the most common form of hemodialysis access, is primarily due to intimal hyperplasia and thrombosis at the venous anastom...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Luo Z,Akita GY,Date T,Treleaven C,Vincent KA,Woodcock D,Cheng SH,Gregory RJ,Jiang C

更新日期：2005-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The outcome of aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis, low transvalvular gradient, and severe left ventricular dysfunction is not well known. METHODS AND RESULTS:Between 1985 and 1995, 52 patients with left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) < or =35% and aortic stenosis with trans...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Connolly HM,Oh JK,Schaff HV,Roger VL,Osborn SL,Hodge DO,Tajik AJ

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Exit block from a parasystolic focus is recognized when automatic discharges fail to become manifest during the excitable phase of the ventricular cycle. In the present study, an apparently complete exit block and a persistently concealed ventricular parasystole (VP) resulted from an exit refractory period (ExRP) long...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Nau GJ,Aldariz AE,Acunzo RS,Chiale PA,Elizari MV,Rosenbaum MB

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:By the formation of cGMP, nitric oxide (NO)-sensitive guanylyl cyclase (GC) acts as the effector for the signaling molecule NO and mediates the relaxation of vascular smooth muscle and the inhibition of platelet aggregation. The compounds YC-1 and BAY 41-2272 are regarded as NO-independent activators and sen...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Mullershausen F,Russwurm M,Friebe A,Koesling D

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The acute effect of atrial fibrillation (AF) on the atrial effective refractory period (ERP) in humans is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS:In 20 patients without structural heart disease, the atrial ERP was measured before and after pacing-induced AF at drive cycle lengths of 350 and 500 ms. Immediately after s...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Daoud EG,Bogun F,Goyal R,Harvey M,Man KC,Strickberger SA,Morady F

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We hypothesized that cytomegalovirus (CMV) may contribute to the vasculopathy observed in cardiac allograft recipients by impairing the endothelial nitric oxide synthase pathway. We focused on asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA, the endogenous inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase) as a potential mediator of the...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Weis M,Kledal TN,Lin KY,Panchal SN,Gao SZ,Valantine HA,Mocarski ES,Cooke JP

更新日期：2004-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We measured the content and activities of components of the beta-adrenergic receptor-G protein-adenylate cyclase complex and adrenergic neurotransmitter levels in left and right ventricular myocardial preparations derived from 77 end-stage failing human hearts from patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyop...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Bristow MR,Anderson FL,Port JD,Skerl L,Hershberger RE,Larrabee P,O'Connell JB,Renlund DG,Volkman K,Murray J

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heart failure is a growing cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β1) promotes cardiac fibrosis, but also activates counterregulatory pathways that serve to regulate TGF-β1 activity in heart failure. Bone morphogenetic protein 9 (BMP9) is a member of the TGFβ family ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Morine KJ,Qiao X,York S,Natov PS,Paruchuri V,Zhang Y,Aronovitz MJ,Karas RH,Kapur NK

更新日期：2018-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To describe the coronary arteriographic findings during early transmural myocardial infarction and to define the prevalence of coronary thrombosis by arteriography, we performed coronary arteriography and left ventriculography within 24 hours from symptom onset of transmural myocardial infarction in 517 patients. The ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： DeWood MA,Spores J,Hensley GR,Simpson CS,Eugster GS,Sutherland KI,Grunwald RP,Shields JP

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A prior diagnosis of diabetes mellitus is associated with adverse outcomes after acute myocardial infarction (MI), but the risk associated with a new diagnosis of diabetes in this setting has not been well defined. METHODS AND RESULTS:We assessed the risk of death and major cardiovascular events associated ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Aguilar D,Solomon SD,Køber L,Rouleau JL,Skali H,McMurray JJ,Francis GS,Henis M,O'Connor CM,Diaz R,Belenkov YN,Varshavsky S,Leimberger JD,Velazquez EJ,Califf RM,Pfeffer MA

更新日期：2004-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adenosine has several potentially cardioprotective effects. We hypothesized that the effects of endogenous adenosine vary with degree of ischemia and that elevating endogenous levels is protective. METHODS AND RESULTS:Isolated blood-perfused piglet hearts underwent 120 minutes of low-flow ischemia (10% flow...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sommerschild HT,Grund F,Offstad J,Jynge P,Ilebekk A,Kirkebøen KA

更新日期：1997-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Erythropoietin (Epo) receptors (EpoRs) are expressed in the heart. We have recently demonstrated that the endogenous Epo-EpoR system plays an important protective role in myocardial ischemia in mice and humans. In the present study, we tested our hypothesis that the endogenous Epo-EpoR system in nonhematopoi...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Asaumi Y,Kagaya Y,Takeda M,Yamaguchi N,Tada H,Ito K,Ohta J,Shiroto T,Shirato K,Minegishi N,Shimokawa H

更新日期：2007-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: In ISCHEMIA, an initial invasive strategy did not significantly reduce rates of cardiovascular events or all-cause mortality compared with a conservative strategy in patients with stable ischemic heart disease and moderate/severe myocardial ischemia. The most frequent component of composite cardiovascular ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Chaitman BR,Alexander KP,Cyr DD,Berger JS,Reynolds HR,Bangalore S,Boden WE,Lopes RD,Demkow M,Perna GP,Riezebos RK,McFalls EO,Banerjee S,Bagai A,Gosselin G,O'Brien SM,Rockhold FW,Waters DD,Thygesen KA,Stone GW,Whit

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:If drug refractoriness to paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) occurs, arrhythmia surgery that involves channelling and the exclusion of specific atrial areas can abolish atrial fibrillation. The purpose of this study was to establish the effectiveness and safety of maze III surgery to abolish PAF. METHODS ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Jessurun ER,van Hemel NM,Defauw JA,Stofmeel MA,Kelder JC,de la Rivière AB,Ernst JM

更新日期：2000-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The identification of sites of dominant activation frequency during atrial fibrillation (AF) in humans and the effect of ablation at these sites have not been reported. METHODS AND RESULTS:Thirty-two patients undergoing AF ablation (19 paroxysmal, 13 permanent) during ongoing arrhythmia were studied. Electr...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sanders P,Berenfeld O,Hocini M,Jaïs P,Vaidyanathan R,Hsu LF,Garrigue S,Takahashi Y,Rotter M,Sacher F,Scavée C,Ploutz-Snyder R,Jalife J,Haïssaguerre M

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between left atrial size and atrial fibrillation was examined in 37 patients who had left ventriculomyotomy and myectomy at the National Heart and Lung Institute. Atrial fibrillation was present in 11 of 27 (41%) patients with an echocardiographically measured left atrial dimension greater than 45 mm. No ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Watson DC,Henry WL,Epstein SE,Morrow AG

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relationship between autonomic activation and the mechanisms of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation remains unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS:We implanted a pacemaker and a radio transmitter in 7 dogs (group 1). After baseline recording, we paced the left atrium at 20 Hz for 1 week and then monitored left stellat...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tan AY,Zhou S,Ogawa M,Song J,Chu M,Li H,Fishbein MC,Lin SF,Chen LS,Chen PS

更新日期：2008-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRs) participate in many cardiac pathophysiological processes, including ischemia/reperfusion (I/R)-induced cardiac injury. Recently, we and others observed that miR-494 was downregulated in murine I/R-injured and human infarcted hearts. However, the functional consequence of miR-494 in response ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Wang X,Zhang X,Ren XP,Chen J,Liu H,Yang J,Medvedovic M,Hu Z,Fan GC

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One or more brief episodes of coronary artery occlusion protect or "precondition" the myocardium perfused by that artery from a subsequent episode of sustained ischemia. We sought to determine whether ischemic preconditioning protects only those myocytes subjected to brief coronary occlusion or whether brief...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Przyklenk K,Bauer B,Ovize M,Kloner RA,Whittaker P

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Airborne particulate matter has been linked to excess morbidity and mortality. Recent attention has focused on the effects of particulate exposure on cardiac autonomic control. Inhaled particulates may affect the autonomic nervous system either directly, by eliciting a sympathetic stress response, or indirec...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Magari SR,Hauser R,Schwartz J,Williams PL,Smith TJ,Christiani DC

更新日期：2001-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Left atrial macroreentrant tachycardia (LAMRT) has not been characterized in detail. METHODS AND RESULTS:Twenty-eight patients with LAMRT, including 4 patients with ablated typical atrial flutter (AFL), underwent electroanatomic mapping of the left atrium (LA) between February 1999 and October 2001. LA maps...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Ouyang F,Ernst S,Vogtmann T,Goya M,Volkmer M,Schaumann A,Bänsch D,Antz M,Kuck KH

更新日期：2002-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are well known for their ability to "protect" the structure and function of native macromolecules, particularly as they traffic across membranes. Considering the role of key mitochondrial proteins in apoptosis and the known antiapoptotic effects of HSP27 and HSP72, we postulated th...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kirchhoff SR,Gupta S,Knowlton AA

更新日期：2002-06-18 00:00:00