Activated clotting time as an appropriate test to compare heparin and direct thrombin inhibitors such as hirudin or Ro 46-6240 in experimental arterial thrombosis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proliferation of smooth muscle cells (SMCs) plays an important role in vascular pathobiology, being involved in the development of coronary restenosis and atherosclerosis. The activation of nuclear proto-oncogenes appears to be a final common pathway onto which various mitogenic signals coverage. Accordingly...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Shi Y,Hutchinson HG,Hall DJ,Zalewski A

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Impaired endothelium-dependent, nitric oxide (NO)-mediated vasodilation may contribute to increased vasomotor tone in patients with heart failure. Whether decreased endothelium-dependent, NO-mediated vasodilation in patients with heart failure is due to decreased synthesis or increased degradation of NO is u...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Katz SD,Khan T,Zeballos GA,Mathew L,Potharlanka P,Knecht M,Whelan J

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Diseases that cause symptoms incompletely relieved by available modes of treatment stimulate search for new therapies. Chronic disease processes, in which interventions are palliative rather than curative provide a particular challenge in determining the value of therapeutic intervention. Management of patients with a...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Parisi AF,Strauss WE,McIntyre KM,Sasahara AA

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenalterol, a beta-adrenergic agonist, was given to nine patients with angiographically proved coronary artery disease. Subjects were studied during chronic beta-adrenergic blockade. The adequacy of blockade was assessed by the exercise heart rate response and by plasma concentrations of blocking agents. After increm...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Shiu MF,Ireland MA,Littler WA

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The CAPRICORN trial has shown that carvedilol improved outcome in patients with left ventricular dysfunction after acute myocardial infarction treated with ACE inhibitors. The aim of this substudy was to determine the effects of carvedilol on left ventricular remodeling in this patient group. METHODS AND RE...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Doughty RN,Whalley GA,Walsh HA,Gamble GD,López-Sendón J,Sharpe N,CAPRICORN Echo Substudy Investigators.

更新日期：2004-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the association of plasma high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels with levels of cholesterol in other plasma lipoprotein fractions (low-density [LDL], very low density [VLDL] and their sum) and with total plasma cholesterol and triglyceride levels in 3493 males and 3318 females in the Lipid R...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Davis CE,Gordon D,LaRosa J,Wood PD,Halperin M

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical studies have implicated preinfarct angina (brief antecedent ischemia/reperfusion [I/R]) as a predictor of more rapid thrombolysis and lower rates of reocclusion. However, the effects of antecedent ischemia on the efficacy of thrombolysis have not been rigorously assessed. Using a canine model of cor...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Przyklenk K,Whittaker P

更新日期：2000-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:To compare acute effects of nitroglycerin (0.8 mg sublingually), nifedipine (5 ng/kg/min i.v.) and metoprolol (0.15 mg/kg i.v.) on normal, ischemic and scarred myocardial segments in man, we performed simultaneous hemodynamic and radionuclide measurements of left ventricular functions. Sixteen patients with isolated l...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pfisterer M,Glaus L,Burkart F

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In humans, angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition attenuates the vasoconstriction induced by sympathetic stimulation in a number of peripheral districts. Whether this is also the case in the coronary circulation is unknown, however. METHODS AND RESULTS:In nine normotensive patients with angiographic...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Perondi R,Saino A,Tio RA,Pomidossi G,Gregorini L,Alessio P,Morganti A,Zanchetti A,Mancia G

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anthracyclines are the most effective drugs available in the treatment of neoplastic diseases; however, they have profound consequences on the structure and function of the heart, which over time cause a cardiomyopathy that leads to congestive heart failure. METHODS AND RESULTS:Administration of doxorubicin...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： De Angelis A,Piegari E,Cappetta D,Marino L,Filippelli A,Berrino L,Ferreira-Martins J,Zheng H,Hosoda T,Rota M,Urbanek K,Kajstura J,Leri A,Rossi F,Anversa P

更新日期：2010-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Diastolic hypertension has been widely and justifiably accepted as a cause of cardiovascular mortality. However, it has also been accepted that the cardiovascular sequelae of hypertension derive chiefly from the diastolic component. Because systolic and diastolic pressure are usually highly correlated it is not easy t...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kannel WB,Dawber TR,McGee DL

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Three distinct cardiac arrhythmia disorders, the long-QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, and conduction system disease, have been associated with heterozygous mutations in the cardiac voltage-gated sodium channel alpha-subunit gene (SCN5A). We present clinical, genetic, and biophysical features of 2 new SCN5A mu...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Wang DW,Viswanathan PC,Balser JR,George AL Jr,Benson DW

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous-wave Doppler echocardiography was used to estimate pulmonary artery pressures by measuring pulmonary regurgitant flow velocity in 21 patients with pulmonary hypertension (mean pulmonary artery pressure greater than or equal to 20 mm Hg) and 24 patients without pulmonary hypertension. The pulmonary regurgita...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Masuyama T,Kodama K,Kitabatake A,Sato H,Nanto S,Inoue M

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:C-reactive protein (CRP) has been proposed as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease and has been positively associated with body weight and body fatness. We examined the hypothesis that weight loss would reduce plasma CRP levels in obese postmenopausal women. METHODS AND RESULTS:In a sample ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tchernof A,Nolan A,Sites CK,Ades PA,Poehlman ET

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recombinant staphylokinase (STAR) was shown recently to offer promise for coronary arterial thrombolysis in patients with evolving myocardial infarction. The present multicenter randomized open trial was designed to assess the thrombolytic efficacy, safety, and fibrin specificity of STAR relative to accelera...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Vanderschueren S,Barrios L,Kerdsinchai P,Van den Heuvel P,Hermans L,Vrolix M,De Man F,Benit E,Muyldermans L,Collen D

更新日期：1995-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:National and international guidelines recommend fasting lipid panel measurement for risk stratification of patients for prevention of cardiovascular events. However, the prognostic value of fasting versus nonfasting low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is uncertain. METHODS AND RESULTS:Patients enrol...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Doran B,Guo Y,Xu J,Weintraub H,Mora S,Maron DJ,Bangalore S

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pathophysiology of mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia, which occurs at lower heart rates than during physical stress, is not well understood. METHODS AND RESULTS:The Psychophysiological Investigations of Myocardial Ischemia Study (PIMI) evaluated the physiological and neuroendocrine functioning i...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Goldberg AD,Becker LC,Bonsall R,Cohen JD,Ketterer MW,Kaufman PG,Krantz DS,Light KC,McMahon RP,Noreuil T,Pepine CJ,Raczynski J,Stone PH,Strother D,Taylor H,Sheps DS

更新日期：1996-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many vasodilators have been tried as antianginal agents, but the reflex increase in sympathetic tone produced by these drugs necessitate their use with caution in patients with angina. In the first part of this study, captopril was given to 14 patients with angina and systolic arterial pressures of greater than 120 mm...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Daly P,Mettauer B,Rouleau JL,Cousineau D,Burgess JH

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental studies demonstrate that short-term regional perfusion-contraction matching, in which the energy demands of regional myocardial contraction are reduced to match the diminished myocardial substrate supply, occurs during states of low coronary blood flow under resting conditions and during exercise-induced ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Ross J Jr

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Natural history of aortic dissection (AD) with intimal tear in the descending or abdominal aorta and retrograde extension into the ascending aorta (retrograde AD) remains unknown. The purpose of this study was to elucidate medium-term prognosis of patients with retrograde AD. METHODS AND RESULTS:Study popul...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kaji S,Akasaka T,Katayama M,Yamamuro A,Yamabe K,Tamita K,Akiyama M,Watanabe N,Tanemoto K,Morioka S,Yoshida K

更新日期：2003-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Isomerism is associated with a complex spectrum of anomalies. There is paucity of data on prenatally detected cases. METHODS AND RESULTS:Between January 1990 and February 2004, 83 of 166 cases (50%) had a prenatal diagnosis of left isomerism (LAI; 52 of 97) or right isomerism (RAI; 31 of 69) at our institut...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lim JS,McCrindle BW,Smallhorn JF,Golding F,Caldarone CA,Taketazu M,Jaeggi ET

更新日期：2005-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The future risk of myocardial infarction is commonly assessed using cardiovascular risk scores, coronary artery calcium score, or coronary artery stenosis severity. We assessed whether noncalcified low-attenuation plaque burden on coronary CT angiography (CCTA) might be a better predictor of the future risk ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Williams MC,Kwiecinski J,Doris M,McElhinney P,D'Souza MS,Cadet S,Adamson PD,Moss AJ,Alam S,Hunter A,Shah ASV,Mills NL,Pawade T,Wang C,Weir McCall J,Bonnici-Mallia M,Murrills C,Roditi G,van Beek EJR,Shaw LJ,Nicol E

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The left ventricular (LV) dilatation of isolated mitral regurgitation (MR) is associated with an increase in chymase and a decrease in interstitial collagen and extracellular matrix. In addition to profibrotic effects, chymase has significant antifibrotic actions because it activates matrix metalloproteinase...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pat B,Chen Y,Killingsworth C,Gladden JD,Shi K,Zheng J,Powell PC,Walcott G,Ahmed MI,Gupta H,Desai R,Wei CC,Hase N,Kobayashi T,Sabri A,Granzier H,Denney T,Tillson M,Dillon AR,Husain A,Dell'italia LJ

更新日期：2010-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient who had disabling supraventricular tachycardia showed electrophysiologic evidence of coexistent right and left Kent bundles. The supraventricular tachycardia was accelerated by sequential antegrade and retrograde conduction over the right and left Kent bundles, respectively. Spontaneous blocking of the condu...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Cinca J,Valle V,Gutierrez L,Figueras J,Rius J

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In large mammals and humans, the contribution of IKs to ventricular repolarization is still incompletely understood. METHODS AND RESULTS:In vivo and cellular electrophysiological experiments were conducted to study IKs in canine ventricular repolarization. In conscious dogs, administration of the selective ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Volders PG,Stengl M,van Opstal JM,Gerlach U,Spätjens RL,Beekman JD,Sipido KR,Vos MA

更新日期：2003-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The composition of plaque is a major determinant of coronary-related clinical syndromes. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) elastography has proven to be a technique capable of reflecting the mechanical properties of phantom material and the femoral arterial wall. The aim of this study was to investigate the ca...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： de Korte CL,Pasterkamp G,van der Steen AF,Woutman HA,Bom N

更新日期：2000-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether blood vessels could develop de novo between an extracardiac artery and a collateral-dependent zone of the heart and to quantify the nutritive blood flow afforded by the new vessels. We also adapted the preparation so that angiogenically active agents could be ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Unger EF,Sheffield CD,Epstein SE

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 contributes to vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) proliferation induced by tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and angiotensin II. The present study demonstrates, however, that depending on prevailing conditions, COX-2-derived prostanoids may also inhibit VSMC proliferation. METHODS AND RESUL...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Haider A,Lee I,Grabarek J,Darzynkiewicz Z,Ferreri NR

更新日期：2003-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During heart development, the ventricular activation sequence changes from a base-to-apex to an apex-to-base pattern. We investigated the possibility of impulse propagation through remnants of atrioventricular (AV) connections in quail hearts. METHODS AND RESULTS:In 86 hearts (group A, HH30-34, n=15; group ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kolditz DP,Wijffels MC,Blom NA,van der Laarse A,Markwald RR,Schalij MJ,Gittenberger-de Groot AC

更新日期：2007-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium metabolism may play an important role in the pathogenesis of myocardial ischemic injury. The effect of the sarcolemmal calcium flux inhibitor, verapamil, on myocardial necrosis was studied in dogs subjected to temporary coronary artery occlusion. One group of dogs was untreated. A second group was given 0.8 mg...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Reimer KA,Lowe JE,Jennings RB

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00