Controlled-release drug delivery systems in cardiovascular medicine.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pulmonary venous flow signal measured by transesophageal echocardiography is generally recorded from the left upper pulmonary vein in the left lateral decubitus position, whereas that by transthoracic echocardiography is from the right upper pulmonary vein in the left semi-lateral decubitus position. The...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Izumi C,Iga K,Himura Y,Gen H,Konishi T

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen has long been assumed beneficial for all ill and injured patients. However, hyperoxia may be harmful and aggravate myocardial injury such as that caused by myocardial infarction. We aimed to investigate if hyperoxia increases myocardial injury following direct current cardioversion compared with room air. METH...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Lauridsen KG,Schmidt AS,Adelborg K,Bach L,Hornung N,Jepsen SM,Deakin CD,Rickers H,Løfgren B

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in conduction times induced by ischemia (delta CT) have been shown to be quantitatively related to genesis of spontaneous ischemic ventricular fibrillation (VF). We studied conduction delay encountered by premature impulses in epicardium and endocardium in both anterograde and retrograde directions during isch...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Hamamoto H,Peter T,Fujimoto T,Mandel WJ

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has become a major cause of hospitalization and mortality in China. There has been limited data to date available to characterize AMI presentation, contemporary patterns of medical care, and outcomes in China. AIMS:The CAMI Registry is a national project with the objectives...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Xu H,Li W,Yang J,Wiviott SD,Sabatine MS,Peterson ED,Xian Y,Roe MT,Zhao W,Wang Y,Tang X,Jia X,Wu Y,Gao R,Yang Y,CAMI Registry study group.

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:After the Mustard or Senning procedure, adults with transposition of the great arteries may have right ventricular failure and require consideration of new therapies. A 2-stage arterial switch operation (ASO) may be performed as an alternative to heart transplantation. This procedure is relatively successful...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Benzaquen BS,Webb GD,Colman JM,Therrien J

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracoronary streptokinase (SK) was administered to 11 patients with evolving acute transmural myocardial infarction 5.5 +/- 0.4 hours from the onset of symptoms. Ten patients (91%) had total coronary occlusion, and one had subocclusion of the vessel corresponding to the ECG site of infarction. Intracoronary nitrogly...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Cowley MJ,Hastillo A,Vetrovec GW,Hess ML

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multiprogrammable automatic antitachycardia pacemaker (Cybertach-60), connected to a tined "J" wire electrode, was positioned in the right atrial appendage in three patients with recurrent supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). Mechanisms of SVT included atrioventricular (AV) nodal reentry (two patients) and reciprocat...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Lerman BB,Waxman HL,Buxton AE,Sweeney M,Josephson ME

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to investigate long-term (≥5 years) outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) versus coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) for left main coronary artery disease (LMCAD) using a meta-analysis from updated published randomized trials. Our data showed that the risk of all-cause death as well as cardi...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kuno T,Ueyama H,Rao SV,Cohen MG,Tamis-Holland JE,Thompson C,Takagi H,Bangalore S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noninvasive risk assessment in survivors of AMI can effectively subdivide patients into groups with differing risk profiles after hospital discharge, but some patients at risk for late death or recurrent AMI may be incorrectly identified; data from cardiac catheterization and angiography provide complementary and gene...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kulick DL,Rahimtoola SH

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stroke is a rare but serious event that complicates the course of patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). The type, outcome, and risk factors of stroke occurring in stabilized patients with ACS have not been previously reported. METHODS:We evaluated stroke incidence, subtypes, and outcomes, in additio...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kassem-Moussa H,Mahaffey KW,Graffagnino C,Tasissa G,Sila CA,Simes RJ,White HD,Califf RM,Bhapkar MV,Newby LK,SYMPHONY and 2nd SYMPHONY Investigators.

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with unstable angina (UA) and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) remain at risk for death and cardiac ischemic events after being discharged from the hospital. METHODS:We examined whether the Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) risk score for UA/NSTEMI, ascertained at presenta...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Sabatine MS,McCabe CH,Morrow DA,Giugliano RP,de Lemos JA,Cohen M,Antman EM,Braunwald E

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is currently indicated in patients with moderate to severe heart failure, a wide QRS complex and significant left ventricular dysfunction despite optimal medical therapy. Adoption of these criteria for CRT results in a favorable response in only two thirds of candidate...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Yu CM,Abraham WT,Bax J,Chung E,Fedewa M,Ghio S,Leclercq C,León AR,Merlino J,Nihoyannopoulos P,Notabartolo D,Sun JP,Tavazzi L,PROSPECT Investigators.

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adenosine cardiac stress is widely used as an alternative to exercise testing during myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI). Dyspnea often accompanies the adenosine stress test. Although known asthmatic patients are excluded from this test because of the danger of bronchospasm, there is incomplete information re...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Balan KK,Critchley M

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of 20 variables that might influence postmyocardial infarction prognosis were assessed retrospectively in 139 patients followed up for an average of 11 months after discharge from San Francisco General Hospital following an acute myocardial infarction. When these variables were analyzed with the use of mul...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Rapaport E

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The treatment of cocaine-related acute coronary syndromes presents unique challenges. Although percutaneous coronary intervention in cocaine abusers appears to be safe in the short term, longer-term outcomes have not been reported. We postulated that cocaine use would be associated with increased risk for st...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： McKee SA,Applegate RJ,Hoyle JR,Sacrinty MT,Kutcher MA,Sane DC

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Single center studies using serial cerebral diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in patients having cardiac catheterization have suggested that cerebral microembolism might be responsible for silent cerebral infarct (SCI) as high as 15% to 22%. We evaluated in a multicenter trial the incidence of SC...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Hamon M,Lipiecki J,Carrié D,Burzotta F,Durel N,Coutance G,Boudou N,Colosimo C,Trani C,Dumonteil N,Morello R,Viader F,Claise B,Hamon M

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salient clinical, hemodynamic, angiocardiographic, and pathologic findings are presented in 100 patients with truncus arteriosus communis, 79 of whom were studied at autopsy. In this study of typical truncus, all had a ventricular septal defect (type A). Truncus with a partially formed aorticopulmonary septum (type A1...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Calder L,Van Praagh R,Van Praagh S,Sears WP,Corwin R,Levy A,Keith JD,Paul MH

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A high fasting glucose level may be a marker not only for microvascular complications, but also for macrovascular complications. We evaluated the clinical significance of a high fasting glucose level (> or =110 mg/dL), detected either at baseline or during follow-up, in the Bezafibrate Infarction Prevention ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Arcavi L,Behar S,Caspi A,Reshef N,Boyko V,Knobler H

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The systemic and renal hemodyanmic effects of bupicomide were studied in 10 male patients with uncomplicated essential hypertension of moderate severity. Bupicomide significantly reduced systolic, diastolic, and mean arterial pressure and peripheral vascular resistance and this hypotensive effect was associated with a...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Chrysant SG,Adamopoulos P,Tsuchiya M,Frohlich ED

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen free radical scavengers have been found to decrease infarct size in dogs subjected to myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury. A baboon open-chest model was used to determine if superoxide dismutase (SOD), an oxygen free radical scavenger, together with catalase would be equally effective in subhuman primates (b...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Watanabe BI,Premaratne S,Limm W,Mugiishi MM,McNamara JJ

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a chronologic investigation of left (LV) and right (RV) ventricular myosin ATPase activity and hemodynamics in newborn lambs. We found an elevation in myosin ATPase activity for the LV, which was achieved by 6 to 8 weeks of age and which correlated directly with increasing ventricular stroke work. Myosin ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Riemenschneider TA,Brenner RA,Wikman-Coffelt J,Mason DT

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemodynamic, electrocardiographic, and metabolic responses of dogs with acute myocardial ischemia to intravenous administration of fructose-1,6-diphosphate (FDP) were assessed. Analysis of the results (compared to dextrose control) revealed evidence of major improvement of LVEDP and cardiac output, significant dec...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Markov AK,Oglethorpe NC,Blake TM,Lehan PH,Hellems HK

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate feasibility, safety, and efficacy of implantation of unsheathed Palmaz-Schatz coronary stents via the radial artery. Anticoagulation after coronary stenting has the hazard of vascular complications if large-bore guiding catheters are introduced via the femoral artery. Such com...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kiemeneij F,Laarman GJ

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The long-term prognostic significance of elevated cardiac markers in an undifferentiated patient population with chest pain is unknown. METHODS:Serum troponin I (cTnI), creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB), and myoglobin were measured at presentation in 951 consecutive patients evaluated in the emergency department f...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Jaffery Z,Nowak R,Khoury N,Tokarski G,Lanfear DE,Jacobsen G,McCord J

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interatrial septal aneurysm (IASA) has been detected with increasing frequency since the advent of two-dimensional echocardiography (2DE). In this study, we investigated the prevalence, characteristics, and predisposing factors in IASA formation in 724 infants, children, and adolescents undergoing 2DE. Among this grou...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Wolf WJ,Casta A,Sapire DW

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood platelets play essential roles in normal coagulation and in coronary atherosclerotic disease and its complications. Various antiplatelet therapies, including aspirin, ticlopidine, and dipyridamole, have been developed for use in patients with known coronary artery artery disease to prevent ischemic complications...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Frishman WH,Burns B,Atac B,Alturk N,Altajar B,Lerrick K

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The benefits of intra-aortic balloon pumping (IABP) usage reportedly occur through systolic unloading of the left ventricle and the augmentation of diastolic coronary flow. The aim of this study was to assess the change in intracoronary pressure distal to the coronary stenosis after the IABP by using an intr...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Yoshitani H,Akasaka T,Kaji S,Kawamoto T,Kume T,Neishi Y,Koyama Y,Yoshida K

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cell adhesion molecules are key regulators of atherosclerotic plaque development, but circulating levels of soluble fragments, such as intercellular adhesion molecule (sICAM-1) and vascular cell adhesion molecule (sVCAM-1), have yielded conflicting associations with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (AS...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Ren HY,Khera A,de Lemos JA,Ayers CR,Rohatgi A

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) was performed in 110 consecutive patients (111 vessels) with chronically occluded coronary arteries and was successful in 69 patients (69 vessels). Successful initial PTCA was related to the extent of coronary artery disease, the morphology of the proximal surface ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Ishizaka N,Issiki T,Saeki F,Ishizaka Y,Ikari Y,Abe J,Soumitsu Y,Hashimoto H,Masaki K,Yamaguchi T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical practice is discrepant regarding routine enlargement of the interatrial communication (IAC) in patients with right-sided atrioventricular valve atresia. We determined the percentage and risk factors of those who develop a restrictive IAC. METHODS:Medical records were reviewed for patients treated f...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Tzifa A,Gauvreau K,Geggel RL

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00