Programmed left ventricular contrast injection. A method to minimize left ventricular irritability during angiography.

abstract：:Left ventricular aneurysm has been associated with increased mortality rates. The Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial (CAST) database was used prospectively to assess (1) the prognostic significance of left ventricular (LV) aneurysm after myocardial infarction on mortality rates and (2) the relation of LV aneurysm to...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Hochman JS,Brooks MM,Morris M,Ahmad T

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A shortcoming of the pediatric electrocardiogram (ECG) appears to be its inability to accurately detect left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). This study prospectively assesses the usefulness of the pediatric ECG as a screening modality for LVH. METHODS:Concomitant echocardiograms and ECGs from a large cohort ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Rivenes SM,Colan SD,Easley KA,Kaplan S,Jenkins KJ,Khan MN,Lai WW,Lipshultz SE,Moodie DS,Starc TJ,Sopko G,Zhang W,Bricker JT,Pediatric Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Complications of Vertically Transmitted HIV Infection Study Grou

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Digoxin intoxication has been reported to be a common adverse drug reaction with an in-hospital incidence of 6% to 23% and an associated mortality rate as high as 41%. A retrospective review was conducted to assess the accuracy of diagnosis, the morbidity and mortality of digoxin intoxication, and its incidence in hos...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Mahdyoon H,Battilana G,Rosman H,Goldstein S,Gheorghiade M

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) experience higher rates of in-stent restenosis and greater benefit from drug-eluting stents implant at the time of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), necessitating prolonged dual anti-platelet therapy (DAPT). While DAPT reduces risk of ischemic events post-PCI, it ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Grodzinsky A,Arnold SV,Wang TY,Sharma P,Gosch K,Jones PG,Bhatt DL,Steg PG,McGuire DK,Cohen DJ,Spertus JA,Chhatriwalla AK,Lind M,Graham G,Kosiborod M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Out of 160 prospectively followed patients with aortic regurgitation, the clinical courses of 53 patients with pure, severe, and chronic aortic regurgitation and without coronary artery disease who were selected for surgery on the basis of predefined criteria is discussed. Surgical criteria were either unequivocal sym...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Tornos MP,Permanyer-Miralda G,Evangelista A,Worner F,Candell J,Garcia-del-Castillo H,Soler-Soler J

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasma levels of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) are increased in patients with left heart failure. In patients with severe pulmonary embolism (PE), primary right ventricular (RV) dysfunction is frequent. Little is known about BNP secretion in acute RV failure. METHODS:We prospectively studied 50 consecutiv...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Krüger S,Graf J,Merx MW,Koch KC,Kunz D,Hanrath P,Janssens U

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resting measurements of left ventricular systolic function do not reliably predict exercise capacity in patients with cardiac disease. Therefore left ventricular filling shortly after a myocardial infarction was prospectively studied to determine whether it could predict subsequent exercise time. Consecutive patients ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Finkelhor RS,Sun JP,Bahler RC

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The calcium antagonist, manidipine, was developed on the basis of the hypothesis that antihypertensive drugs that act to improve renal hemodynamic alterations will be therapeutically beneficial in hypertensive patients. Manidipine shows long-lasting calcium channel-blocking action in vascular smooth muscle cells and a...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Nagaoka A

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) produces high-resolution images of great-vessel anatomy in pediatric patients. In this study seven patients, aged 6 to 27 months were evaluated by using gated MRI and two-dimensional echocardiography 4 to 26 months after arterial switch operation for D-transposition of the great arteri...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Hardy CE,Helton GJ,Kondo C,Higgins SS,Young NJ,Higgins CB

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute hemodynamic and hormonal effects of the oral angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor lisinopril (MK-521) were assessed over a period of 96 hours in 12 patients with heart failure. This compound is the lysine analogue of enalaprilat (MK-422), is biologically active following absorption, and is cleared v...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Dickstein K,Aarsland T,Woie L,Abrahamsen AM,Fyhrquist F,Cummings S,Gomex HJ,Hagen E,Kristianson K

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:African-American ancestry, hypokalemia, and QT interval prolongation on the electrocardiogram are all risk factors for sudden cardiac death (SCD), but their interactions remain to be characterized. SCN5A-1103Y is a common missense variant, of African ancestry, of the cardiac sodium channel gene. SCN5A-1103Y ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Akylbekova EL,Payne JP,Newton-Cheh C,May WL,Fox ER,Wilson JG,Sarpong DF,Taylor HA,Maher JF

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the impact of accountable care organizations (ACO) on hospitalized heart failure (HF) patients, a high-cost and high-risk population. OBJECTIVE:We linked Medicare fee-for-service claims from 2013 to 2015 with data from American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-HF registry to compare HF ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Luo N,Hammill BG,DeVore AD,Xu H,Fonarow GC,Albert NM,Matsouaka RA,Hernandez AF,Yancy C,Mentz RJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The single-dose pharmacokinetics of amiodarone have been studied in volunteer subjects given 400 mg doses by the intravenous and oral routes. The data show the compound to have a very large volume of distribution, a low total clearance, and a long and variable terminal elimination half-life. In patients the terminal e...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Holt DW,Tucker GT,Jackson PR,Storey GC

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular anomalies are a frequently reported feature of the fetal alcohol syndrome, but only rarely have such children been catheterized. This article fully described the cardiac anomaly in two infants with this syndrome. The malformations found in both cases include a ventricular septal defect, and the rather u...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Steeg CN,Woolf P

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among patients receiving thrombolytic therapy for myocardial infarction, the outcome for those with a history of infarction is dramatically worse than for those with their first event. Methods And Results We performed a post hoc analysis of patients with a history of myocardial infarction enrolled in the Glo...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Brieger DB,Mak KH,Miller DP,Califf RM,Topol EJ

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Left atrial appendage flow velocity (LAAFV) is a predictor of thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients, as well as CHA2DS2-VASc score. However, little is known about LAAFV in sinus rhythm (SR) after catheter ablation. The aim of this study was to determine clinical predictors of low LAAFV in pati...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kusa S,Komatsu Y,Taniguchi H,Uchiyama T,Takagi T,Nakamura H,Miyazaki S,Hachiya H,Iesaka Y

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Appropriate use criteria (AUC) for stress single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) are only one step in appropriate use of imaging. Other steps include pretest clinical risk evaluation and optimal management responses. We sought to understand the link between AUC, risk evaluation, management, and o...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Aldweib N,Negishi K,Seicean S,Jaber WA,Hachamovitch R,Cerqueira M,Marwick TH

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental canine model of pericardial effusion was designed to validate previous clinical nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMR) studies. Saline (n = 7), serum (n = 4), blood (10% hematocrit [n = 5]; 20% hematocrit [n = 5]), and lipid (n = 4) effusions were chosen to resemble: (1) transudative/exudative, (2) n...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Rokey R,Vick GW 3rd,Bolli R,Lewandowski ED

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the significance of atrial natriuretic polypeptide (ANP) in essential hypertension, we measured plasma ANP concentrations in 43 subjects with essential hypertension uncomplicated by cardiac or renal failure, in 16 subjects with borderline hypertension, and in 17 normotensive control subjects. Plasma ANP...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kohno M,Yasunari K,Matsuura T,Murakawa K,Takeda T

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute anatomic and valvular consequences of radiofrequency catheter ablation of accessory pathways were evaluated in 62 patients by means of serial echocardiographic examinations. Semiquantitative assessment of valvular incompetence and classification into one of four grades according to the width and the extensio...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Metzger JT,Cheriex EC,Smeets JL,Vanagt E,Rodriguez LM,Pieters FA,Weide A,Wellens HJ

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The method for evaluating right ventricular and pulmonary artery systolic pressures by subtracting the systolic pressure gradient across the ventricular septal defect from the cuff systolic blood pressure is documented. To confirm the reliability and accuracy of this method, simultaneous continuous wave Doppler echoca...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Ge Z,Zhang Y,Kang W,Fan D,Ji X,Duran C

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically available automatic implantable defibrillators use a monophasic truncated exponential waveform shock; after delivery the charge remaining on the device's capacitors is "dumped" internally and wasted. The efficacy of a monophasic and biphasic truncated exponential defibrillation waveform produced by a single...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Fain ES,Sweeney MB,Franz MR

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Late prognosis after infective endocarditis has not been systematically studied in large series of patients with different underlying heart conditions in recent years. METHODS:We studied an inception cohort study of 420 patients discharged after treatment of endocarditis from a university tertiary care hosp...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Mansur AJ,Dal Bó CM,Fukushima JT,Issa VS,Grinberg M,Pomerantzeff PM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ODYSSEY COMBO I study (http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01644175) evaluated efficacy and safety of alirocumab as add-on therapy to stable maximally tolerated daily statin with or without other lipid-lowering therapy in high cardiovascular risk patients with suboptimally controlled hypercholesterolemia. ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kereiakes DJ,Robinson JG,Cannon CP,Lorenzato C,Pordy R,Chaudhari U,Colhoun HM

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doxorubicin (Adriamycin) is an effective anticancer agent but its therapeutic value is limited by its myocardial cardiotoxicity. To improve early detection of doxorubicin cardiotoxicity, studies were performed in patients with long-term doxorubicin treatment using pulsed Doppler echocardiography to assess the changes ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Marchandise B,Schroeder E,Bosly A,Doyen C,Weynants P,Kremer R,Pouleur H

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnostic value of 12-lead electrocardiography during dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) is not well documented. METHODS AND RESULTS:We reviewed the records of 116 patients referred for DSE and coronary angiography, 52 of whom were excluded because of abnormal ST segment or inadequate DSE. Of the...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Shaheen J,Luria D,Klutstein MW,Rosenmann D,Tzivoni D

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether a dose of 5 mg of nifedipine would be useful in the treatment of hypertensive emergencies, we compared the acute hypotensive effects of two different doses of nifedipine, 5 mg and 10 mg, in patients with severe hypertension. In this prospective, randomized, double-blind study, 30 consecutive black...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Maharaj B,van der Byl K

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study uses echocardiography to characterize the pattern of left ventricular hypertrophy in a new hypertensive heart failure-prone rat strain designated SHHF/Mcc-cp (SHHF). M-mode echocardiograms of the left ventricle in nine 10- to 12-month old SHHF rats and nine age-matched spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Haas GJ,McCune SA,Brown DM,Cody RJ

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anemia in heart failure is both common and associated with worse symptoms and increased mortality. Several small randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have assessed erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs), but definitive evaluation and clinical guidance are required. We sought to systematically review the eff...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kotecha D,Ngo K,Walters JA,Manzano L,Palazzuoli A,Flather MD

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary artery disease remains the leading cause of death in developed countries despite significant progress in primary prevention and treatment strategies. Older patients are at particularly high risk of poor outcomes following acute coronary syndrome and impaired nutrition, including low vitamin D levels, may play...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kunadian V,Ford GA,Bawamia B,Qiu W,Manson JE

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00