Cardiac transplantation for the cardiologist not trained in transplantation.

abstract：:Electrolyte balance has been regarded as a factor important to cardiovascular stability, particularly in congestive heart failure. Among the common electrolytes, the significance of magnesium has been debated because of difficulty in accurate measurement and other associated factors, including other electrolyte abnorm...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Douban S,Brodsky MA,Whang DD,Whang R

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiarrhythmic effects of mexiletine (n = 14) were compared to procainamide (n = 16) by a double-blind parallel protocol in 30 patients (group I) with frequent premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) (greater than 20/hr), and to amiodarone by an open-label sequential approach in 25 patients (mean left ventricula...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Nademanee K,Feld G,Hendrickson J,Intarachot V,Yale C,Heng MK,Singh BN

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with recurrent forms of atrial fibrillation may receive dual-chamber pacemakers after atrioventricular junction ablation for refractory symptoms. These patients are at risk for chronic atrial fibrillation, which would negate the benefits of dual-chamber pacing. The purpose of this study was to exami...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Wood MA,Curtis AB,Takle-Newhouse TA,Ellenbogen KA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:The pathogenesis of human coronary artery disease (CAD) is likely to require the transcription of many different genes. We report here the differential gene expression profiling of human CAD using copy DNA (cDNA)/nylon array hybridization techniques. METHODS AND RESULTS:Human coronary arteries...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Satterthwaite G,Francis SE,Suvarna K,Blakemore S,Ward C,Wallace D,Braddock M,Crossman D

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Today most patients with congenital heart disease survive childhood to be cared for by adult cardiologists. The number of physicians that should be trained to manage these lesions is unknown because we do not know the number of patients. METHODS:To answer this question, the expected numbers of infants with ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Hoffman JI,Kaplan S,Liberthson RR

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the long-term outcome and frequency of complications after heart transplantation for peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), we compared the courses of eight consecutive patients undergoing transplantation for PPCM with those of nine female age-matched control subjects undergoing transplantation for idiopathic ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Rickenbacher PR,Rizeq MN,Hunt SA,Billingham ME,Fowler MB

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:beta-blockers have been shown to benefit patients after myocardial infarction by decreasing mortality, sudden cardiac death, and reinfarction. Although beta-blockers are recommended for all patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) without contraindications, a target heart rate (HR) is recommended only fo...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Herman M,Donovan J,Tran M,McKenna B,Gore JM,Goldberg RJ,Tighe DA

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Older adults presenting with acute myocardial infarction (MI) often have multivessel coronary artery disease amenable to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), yet the risks of multivessel intervention may outweigh potential benefits in these patients. We sought to determine if nonculprit intervention dur...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Wang TY,McCoy LA,Bhatt DL,Rao SV,Roe MT,Resnic FS,Cavender MA,Messenger JC,Peterson ED

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiplatelet therapy has been shown to significantly reduce the risk of serious vascular events in high-risk patients, including those with a prior acute ischemic event. The long-term use of antiplatelet agents is a key component of secondary prevention measures following acute coronary syndromes, including ST-segment...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Valgimigli M,Minarelli M

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of heart failure (HF) is high and still on the rise. In 2004, an estimated 5.2 million adults in the United States carried the diagnosis of HF with a mortality rate of >19%. The incidence of HF is higher in individuals 65 years or older. As the US population grows older, the personal and economic costs ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Gradman AH,Papademetriou V

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To date, considerable controversy exists on the prognostic significance of morphometric endomyocardial biopsy findings in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC). METHODS:Quantitative analyses of interstitial structured tissue, myofibril volume fraction, and myocytic fiber diameters of left ve...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Grimm W,Rudolph S,Christ M,Pankuweit S,Maisch B

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the pathogenesis of congestive heart failure (CHF) has improved remarkably in recent years. However, despite better knowledge and novel pharmaceutical strategies, this disease is still one of the most brutal killers in the Western world. The pathophysiology of CHF is complex, and much of our compr...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Malinin AI,O'Connor CM,Dzhanashvili AI,Sane DC,Serebruany VL

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pilot study was performed to determine the safety and efficacy of coronary pulsed mid-infra-red laser angioplasty. The laser was coupled with a novel 2.0 mm multifiber catheter consisting of 37 optical fibers of 150 microns each arranged concentrically around a 0.018-inch central lumen and a soft leading tapered dis...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Geschwind HJ,Dubois-Rande JL,Zelinsky R,Morelle JF,Boussignac G

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred four patients (101 men, three women), under 40 years of age, with myocardial infarction (MI), underwent coronary arteriography. Eighty patients had significant obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) (group 1), 23 had normal coronary arteries (group 2), and one patient had coronary ostial stenosis as a r...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kaul U,Dogra B,Manchanda SC,Wasir HS,Rajani M,Bhatia ML

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of atrial pacing on the signal-averaged electrocardiogram were studied in 14 patients with remote myocardial infarction and a history of cardiac arrest or sustained ventricular tachycardia (group I) and in 13 patients with coronary artery disease and no history of sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmia (gro...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Greenspon AJ,Volosin K

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The DANHEART trial is a multicenter, randomized (1:1), parallel-group, double-blind, placebo-controlled study in chronic heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). This investigator driven study will include 1500 HFrEF patients and test in a 2 × 2 factorial design: 1) if hydralazine-isoso...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Wiggers H,Køber L,Gislason G,Schou M,Poulsen MK,Vraa S,Nielsen OW,Bruun NE,Nørrelund H,Hollingdal M,Barasa A,Bøttcher M,Dodt K,Hansen VB,Nielsen G,Knudsen AS,Lomholdt J,Mikkelsen KV,Jonczy B,Brønnum-Schou J,Poenar

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the efficacy of microwave-frequency energy for ablating atrial tachycardia in eight open-chest dogs. Five other dogs served as controls. Atrial tachycardia was induced by direct application of aconitine crystals to the epicardial atrial surface or by injection of aconitine solution (0.15 mg/ml) into the righ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Rho TH,Ito M,Pride HP,Waller B,Zipes DP

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contrast bidimensional echocardiographic (2DE) studies were performed in eight patients with d-transposition of the great vessels in the postoperative period of the Senning technique. Contrast was injected into a peripheral vein of all patients, and into the arterial atrium in five in the postoperative period. The 2DE...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Pasalodos J,González V,Suárez de Lezo J,Concha M,Vallés F

更新日期：1984-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:While pharmacologic stress single photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT-MPI) is used for noninvasive evaluation of patients who are unable to perform treadmill exercise, its impact on net reclassification improvement (NRI) of prognosis is unknown. METHODS:We evaluated the p...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Lee DS,Husain M,Wang X,Austin PC,Iwanochko RM

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protease-activated receptor 1 antagonism with vorapaxar represents a novel strategy for platelet inhibition. In TRACER, vorapaxar was compared with placebo plus standard of care among 12,944 patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. We anticipated that most patients would have received...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Tricoci P,Lokhnygina Y,Huang Z,Van de Werf F,Cornel JH,Chen E,Wallentin L,Held C,Aylward PE,Moliterno DJ,Jennings LK,White HD,Armstrong PW,Harrington RA,Strony J,Mahaffey KW

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whether low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) is superior to unfractionated heparin (UFH) in acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents (DESs) remains unclear. METHODS:A total of 3,372 STEMI patients wh...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Li YJ,Rha SW,Chen KY,Poddar KL,Jin Z,Minami Y,Wang L,Dang Q,Li GP,Ramasamy S,Park JY,Choi CU,Kim JW,Kim EJ,Park CG,Seo HS,Oh DJ,Jeong MH,Ahn YK,Hong TJ,Park JS,Kim YJ,Hur SH,Seong IW,Chae JK,Cho MC,Bae

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen patients who arrived between 6 and 24 hours after the onset of acute myocardial infarction and who were found to have totally occluded coronary arteries, received aspirin, heparin, and tissue plasminogen activator given over 3 hours. Eight patients were randomly assigned to receive intravenous prostaglandin E1...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kleiman NS,Tracy RP,Schaaff LJ,Harris S,Hill RD,Puleo P,Roberts R

更新日期：1994-04-01 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：:Left ventricular mass (LVM) measurements made by the truncated ellipsoid algorithm from clinical two-dimensional echocardiograms (2DE) were compared to autopsy weights in 37 patients. All six 2DE instruments were calibrated with an ultrasound phantom to standardize LVM measurements. Measurements were made by an experi...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Byrd BF 3rd,Finkbeiner W,Bouchard A,Silverman NH,Schiller NB

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with intractable heart failure (New York Heart Association [NYHA] class III and IV) who were receiving maximal conventional treatment were enrolled in an outpatient program that included inotropic infusions, intensive patient education, and close follow-up. The effects of this approach to therapy were evaluat...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Marius-Nunez AL,Heaney L,Fernandez RN,Clark WA,Ranganini A,Silber E,Denes P

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aortocaval fistula is a classic model of pure cardiac volume overload in rats. This model is characterized by dilation of the ventricular cavities and eccentric cardiac hypertrophy. There are also changes in peripheral arterial flow: high flow in the proximal part of the aorta, upstream of the shunt, and low flow ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Arnal JF,Philippe M,Laboulandine I,Michel JB

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) substantially improves the early detection of myocardial injury, it lacks specificity for acute myocardial infarction (MI). In suspected non-ST-elevation MI, invasive coronary angiography (ICA) remains necessary to distinguish between acute MI and noncorona...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Smulders MW,Kietselaer BL,Das M,Wildberger JE,Crijns HJ,Veenstra LF,Brunner-La Rocca HP,van Dieijen-Visser MP,Mingels AM,Dagnelie PC,Post MJ,Gorgels AP,van Asselt AD,Vogel G,Schalla S,Kim RJ,Bekkers SC

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dyspnea is a complex system with multiple etiologies, including myocardial ischemia ("anginal equivalent"). Few studies have examined the utility of stress testing to detect coronary artery disease in this setting. The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence, severity, and prognostic value of per...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Balaravi B,Miller TD,Hodge DO,Gibbons RJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify a method for characterizing the dynamic behavior of ventricular arrhythmias at different heart rates, 201 consecutive patients with frequent premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) underwent two 24-hour electrocardiographic monitoring periods. The percentage of PVCs for each cycle length was calculated a...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Pitzalis MV,Mastropasqua F,Massari F,Passantino A,Forleo C,Luzzi G,Totaro P,De Nicolò M,Rizzon P

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00