Experience with bretylium tosylate by a hospital cardiac arrest team.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early graft failure after the use of less satisfactory autologous grafts (30% of all vein grafts) is caused primarily by the following problems: (1) suitable autologous transplants are limited; (2) biotechnology has not yet been able to produce reliable graft substitutes that are legally and ethically approv...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lamm P,Juchem G,Milz S,Schuffenhauer M,Reichart B

更新日期：2001-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In experimental animals, the calcium channel-blocking agents lessen the arrhythmogenic, ionic, metabolic, and electrical changes that occur during acute myocardial ischemia. To date, these effects have been studied separately, and the effects of these agents on local activation have not been correlated with ionic or m...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Fleet WF,Johnson TA,Graebner CA,Engle CL,Gettes LS

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary hypertension induced by chronic hypoxia is characterized by thickening of pulmonary artery walls, elevated pulmonary vascular resistance, and right-heart failure. Prostacyclin analogues reduce pulmonary pressures in this condition; raising the possibility that cycloxygenase-2 (COX-2) modulates the ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pidgeon GP,Tamosiuniene R,Chen G,Leonard I,Belton O,Bradford A,Fitzgerald DJ

更新日期：2004-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Correlates of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels were studied in 4756 white males and females ages 20-59 years examined during a population survey conducted by 10 North American Lipid Research Clinics. Multivariable analysis was used to assess the relation of social, demographic, physical and behavioral...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Heiss G,Johnson NJ,Reiland S,Davis CE,Tyroler HA

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this study was to determine the impact of concurrent cardiac procedures (CCP) on patient outcomes after HeartMate II (HMII) left ventricular assist device implantation. METHODS AND RESULTS:Two hundred eighty-one patients underwent implantation of a HMII as a bridge to transplantation from M...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pal JD,Klodell CT,John R,Pagani FD,Rogers JG,Farrar DJ,Milano CA,HeartMate II Clinical Investigators.

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac resynchronization therapy has emerged as an important therapy for advanced systolic heart failure. Among available cardiac resynchronization therapy pacing modes that restore ventricular synchrony, it is uncertain whether simultaneous biventricular (BiV), sequential BiV, or left ventricular (LV) paci...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Rao RK,Kumar UN,Schafer J,Viloria E,De Lurgio D,Foster E

更新日期：2007-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In contrast to systolic function, which is relatively well preserved with advancing age, diastolic function declines steadily after age 30. Our goal was to determine whether changes in diastolic function that occur with aging could be reversed with exercise training. Methods and Results-- Adult (6-month-old)...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Brenner DA,Apstein CS,Saupe KW

更新日期：2001-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac arrest without evident cardiac disease may be caused by subclinical genetic conditions. Provocative testing to unmask a phenotype is often necessary to detect primary electrical disease, direct genetic testing, and perform family screening. METHODS AND RESULTS:Patients with apparently unexplained ca...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Krahn AD,Healey JS,Chauhan V,Birnie DH,Simpson CS,Champagne J,Gardner M,Sanatani S,Exner DV,Klein GJ,Yee R,Skanes AC,Gula LJ,Gollob MH

更新日期：2009-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several mechanisms have been advanced to explain Mobitz type II atrioventricular block in the ischemically damaged His-Purkinje system. Only recently, however, has an animal model been developed to study this form of conduction defect in vivo and in vitro. METHODS AND RESULTS:Conduction defects were induced...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Gonzalez MD,Scherlag BJ,Mabo P,Lazzara R

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We have reported that there is a limitation of exercise capacity in mice with defects in the expression of endothelial nitric oxide (NO) synthase, which is associated with a greater increase in whole-body oxygen consumption (VO2). We hypothesized that in states in which superoxide anion (O2-) is increased, e...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kinugawa S,Wang Z,Kaminski PM,Wolin MS,Edwards JG,Kaley G,Hintze TH

更新日期：2005-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Z-Val-Ala-Asp(OMe)-CH2F (ZVAD-fmk), a tripeptide inhibitor of the caspase interleukin-1beta-converting enzyme family of cysteine proteases, may reduce myocardial reperfusion injury in vivo by attenuating cardiomyocyte apoptosis within the ischemic area at risk. METHODS AND RESULTS:Sprague-Dawley rats were s...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Yaoita H,Ogawa K,Maehara K,Maruyama Y

更新日期：1998-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although metabolomic profiling offers promise for the prediction of coronary heart disease (CHD), and metabolic risk factors are more strongly associated with CHD in women than men, limited data are available for women. METHODS:We applied a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry metabolomics platfor...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Paynter NP,Balasubramanian R,Giulianini F,Wang DD,Tinker LF,Gopal S,Deik AA,Bullock K,Pierce KA,Scott J,Martínez-González MA,Estruch R,Manson JE,Cook NR,Albert CM,Clish CB,Rexrode KM

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Under the auspices of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently released an update to its 1996 Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) Screening Recommendation Statement. The USPSTF recommended against PAD screening, giving the practice a "D" level rec...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Beckman JA,Jaff MR,Creager MA

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the postoperative hemodynamic and echocardiographic features of idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis have been studied, the expected consistent postoperative thinning of the interventricular septum has not been reported. In this study, the short-term effects of septal myectomy were evaluated in 16 patie...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Schapira JN,Stemple DR,Martin RP,Rakowski H,Stinson EB,Popp RL

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPS-CMs) are a promising source of cells for regenerating myocardium. However, several issues, especially the large-scale preparation of hiPS-CMs and elimination of undifferentiated iPS cells, must be resolved before hiPS cells can be used clinical...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kawamura M,Miyagawa S,Miki K,Saito A,Fukushima S,Higuchi T,Kawamura T,Kuratani T,Daimon T,Shimizu T,Okano T,Sawa Y

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven of 214 patients (3%) with acute myocardial infarction (120 inferior and 94 anterior) developed atrial fibrillation within 3 hr of the onset of chest pain. All seven patients had an inferior infarction and in all seven the left circumflex artery was occluded proximal to the origin of its left atrial circumflex br...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Hod H,Lew AS,Keltai M,Cercek B,Geft IL,Shah PK,Ganz W

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the evolution of amyloid heart disease, 28 patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) were studied by echocardiography. The incidence and degree of the abnormalities were correlated with the neurologic disabilities, duration of the illness, and age in cross-sectional studies. Serial studies were ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Hongo M,Ikeda S

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Noninvasively assessed pulmonary pressure elevations and left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction are associated with increased mortality in adults with sickle cell disease, but their relationship to exercise intolerance has not been evaluated prospectively. METHODS AND RESULTS:Echocardiography, 6-minute...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sachdev V,Kato GJ,Gibbs JS,Barst RJ,Machado RF,Nouraie M,Hassell KL,Little JA,Schraufnagel DE,Krishnamurti L,Novelli EM,Girgis RE,Morris CR,Rosenzweig EB,Badesch DB,Lanzkron S,Castro OL,Taylor JG 6th,Hannoush H,Gold

更新日期：2011-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite intensive investigation, how DNA methylation influences endothelial function remains poorly understood. We used methyl-CpG-binding domain protein 2 (MBD2), an interpreter for DNA methylome-encoded information, to dissect the impact of DNA methylation on endothelial function in both physiological and ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Rao X,Zhong J,Zhang S,Zhang Y,Yu Q,Yang P,Wang MH,Fulton DJ,Shi H,Dong Z,Wang D,Wang CY

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequential control angiographic examinations were performed at 2 weeks, 1 year, 5 to 7 years, and 10 to 12 years after aortocoronary saphenous vein bypass surgery in 82 unselected patients. Graft modifications consisting of wall irregularities and obstructive lesions of various severity and shapes that were found to d...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Campeau L,Enjalbert M,Lespérance J,Vaislic C,Grondin CM,Bourassa MG

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ultrasonic angioplasty was recently shown to ablate thrombi and atherosclerotic plaques in vitro and to recanalize occluded arteries in experimental animal models. The goal of the present study was to examine the clinical feasibility of ultrasonic angioplasty. METHODS AND RESULTS:Intraoperative ultrasonic a...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Rosenschein U,Rozenszajn LA,Kraus L,Marboe CC,Watkins JF,Rose EA,David D,Cannon PJ,Weinstein JS

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cross-talk between vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-A, angiopoietin (Ang), and VE-cadherin coregulates endothelial cell (EC) survival. Cardiac expression of VEGF-A but not its receptor KDR is blunted in dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Whether VE-cadherin/Ang function is affected in DCM is unknown....

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Schäfer R,Abraham D,Paulus P,Blumer R,Grimm M,Wojta J,Aharinejad S

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of valvular heart disease is expected to increase over the next several decades as a large proportion of the US demographic advances into the later decades of life. At the same time, the next several years can be anticipated to bring a broad transition of surgical therapy to minimally invasive (minithora...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Rosengart TK,Feldman T,Borger MA,Vassiliades TA Jr,Gillinov AM,Hoercher KJ,Vahanian A,Bonow RO,O'Neill W,American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia.,American Heart Association Council on Clinical Card

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies have observed an inverse association between height and risk for coronary disease, but it is unclear whether other traditional coronary disease risk factors may have confounded this association. We examined the original Framingham Heart Study cohort to determine whether short stature is assoc...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kannam JP,Levy D,Larson M,Wilson PW

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A complete understanding of fluid mechanics in Fontan physiology includes knowledge of the caval contributions to right (RPA) and left (LPA) pulmonary arterial blood flow, total systemic venous return, and relative blood flow to each lung. METHODS AND RESULTS:Ten Fontan patients underwent cine MRI. Three ci...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Fogel MA,Weinberg PM,Rychik J,Hubbard A,Jacobs M,Spray TL,Haselgrove J

更新日期：1999-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of the present study was to investigate plasma lipid-independent mechanisms for the sex difference in the development of atherosclerosis. METHODS AND RESULTS:In the first experiment, 20 male and 20 female rabbits were balloon-injured in the middle thoracic aorta and maintained at the same plasma...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Holm P,Andersen HL,Arrøe G,Stender S

更新日期：1998-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lipoprotein oxidation plays an important part in atherogenesis. Autoantibodies to oxidation-specific epitopes of LDL occur in plasma and atherosclerotic lesions of humans and animals. The potential role of these autoantibodies in atherogenesis still remains unsolved. We studied the relationship between diffe...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Karvonen J,Päivänsalo M,Kesäniemi YA,Hörkkö S

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We measured cardiovagal baroreflex gain and its vascular mechanical and neural components during dynamic baroreflex engagement in 10 young untrained men, 6 older untrained men, and 12 older, physically active men. METHODS AND RESULTS:Our newly developed assessment of beat-to-beat carotid diameters during ba...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Hunt BE,Farquhar WB,Taylor JA

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:N(omega)-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (l-NAME) is widely used to inhibit endothelial synthesis of NO in vivo. However, it is controversial whether the long-term vascular effects of l-NAME are mediated primarily by inhibition of endothelial NO synthesis. We addressed this point in mice that are deficient in ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Suda O,Tsutsui M,Morishita T,Tanimoto A,Horiuchi M,Tasaki H,Huang PL,Sasaguri Y,Yanagihara N,Nakashima Y

更新日期：2002-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In 526 patients undergoing a first percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) of a single native vessel, we studied the influence of length and eccentricity of the lesion on complications and primary success. Long stenoses (greater than or equal to 5 mm, n = 153) did not differ from short stenoses (less tha...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Meier B,Gruentzig AR,Hollman J,Ischinger T,Bradford JM

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00