Transient terminal U wave inversion as a more specific marker for myocardial ischemia.

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：:The effects of nadolol (N) and propranolol (P) were studied in atrial and ventricular tachyarrhythmias. Interpretation of the results should take into account the dependence of the arrhythmia on the sympathetic tone, and the drug effect on the sinus node frequency. The day/night ratio of the sinus rate is too sensitiv...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Coumel P,Escoubet B,Attuel P

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation of alcohol consumption to coronary heart disease (CHD) was examined in a cohort of 1910 employed men aged 38 to 55 years enrolled in the Albany Study, a prospective investigation of factors related to cardiovascular disease. Two follow-up periods were examined, one between 1953-54 and 1971-72, the other a...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Gordon T,Doyle JT

更新日期：1985-08-01 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：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：BACKGROUND:Despite a survival benefit and guideline recommendation for beta-blockers in left ventricular systolic dysfunction, beta-blockers are underused in clinical practice. METHODS:Medical practices with > or = 15 patients with heart failure (HF) in the Duke Databank for Cardiovascular Disease (DDCD) were identifi...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： LaPointe NM,DeLong ER,Chen A,Hammill BG,Muhlbaier LH,Califf RM,Kramer JM

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:High levels of endogenous plasma catecholamines in patients with severe congestive heart failure induce a down-regulation of the myocardial beta-adrenoreceptors and thus cause adrenoreceptor agonists, such as dobutamine, to be less effective in the treatment of these patients. Phosphodiesterase III inhibitors work ind...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Mager G,Klocke RK,Kux A,Höpp HW,Hilger HH

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen fetuses with atrioventricular canal malformations were examined by two-dimensional echocardiography, pulsed-wave Doppler echocardiography, and color Doppler flow mapping. Eleven fetuses had complete and three fetuses had partial atrioventricular canal malformations. Nonimmune hydrops fetalis was associated wi...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Gembruch U,Knöpfle G,Chatterjee M,Bald R,Redel DA,Födisch HJ,Hansmann M

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patent foramen ovale (PFO) and atrial septal aneurysm (ASA) have been identified as potential risk factors for stroke, but information about the risk of recurrent cerebral ischemia is scarce. The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the absolute risk of recurrent cerebrovascular events in 132 patients under 6...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Mas JL,Zuber M

更新日期：1995-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:Coronary artery disease in women appears 10 to 15 years later than in men. To test the hypothesis that the effects of estrogen may manifest themselves as histologic differences in coronary plaques, we examined the hearts of premenopausal and postmenopausal women who died suddenly from coronary artery disease...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Burke AP,Farb A,Malcom G,Virmani R

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the era of coronary stenting with high-pressure expansion, stent thrombosis remains a major life-threatening risk. Because of its superior imaging mode, intracoronary ultrasound could provide insight into potential risk factors for stent thrombosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS:In 215 patients with stent implant...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Werner GS,Gastmann O,Ferrari M,Schuenemann S,Knies A,Diedrich J,Kreuzer H

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reperfusion therapy has lowered the mortality in patients suffering acute myocardial infarction. Failure to reperfuse is associated with significantly higher risk of short- and long-term mortality. Detection of reperfusion is thus important. In a prospective pilot study, we used continuous on-line computerized vectorc...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Dellborg M,Topol EJ,Swedberg K

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As stenting practice has evolved to include greater numbers of stents and adjunctive balloon catheters per case, concern has focused on the increasing costs of equipment for the delivery of stents. METHODS AND RESULTS:To evaluate temporal changes in costs of intracoronary stenting, we examined total costs, ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Vaitkus PT,Adele C,Wells SK,Zehnacker JP

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical limb ischemia is associated with excessively high risk for cardiovascular events, including myocardial infarction and death. Additionally, in this patient population non-invasive evaluation of coronary artery disease is limited due to (1) inability of exercise testing, (2) frequent occurrence of balanced isch...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Toth G,Brodmann M,Barbato E,Mangiacapra F,Schneller L,Orias V,Gil R,Bil J,Bartus S,Ruzsa Z

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:Sequential bedside electrophysiologic testing was performed over 22 hours at intervals of 1 to 2 hours in 13 patients with left-sided Kent bundles to assess possible daily variations in the capacity to electrically induce reciprocating tachycardia. In all patients the tachycardia involved the accessory pathway in retr...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Cinca J,Moya A,Bardají A,Figueras J,Rius J

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) represent an important technologic innovation in the management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. We propose the following concept: AEDs are machines with the limited task of ventricular fibrillation (VF) identification, countershock delivery, and defibrillation. They cannot b...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Cummins RO,Eisenberg MS,Hallstrom AP,Hearne TR,Graves JR,Litwin PE

更新日期：1985-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:Elevated C-reactive protein (CRP) is a common finding in patients with aortic stenosis (AS) and may be associated with rapid AS progression and worse outcome. The purpose of the study was to examine the role of high-sensitivity CRP and its interaction with rosuvastatin on the progression of AS. METHODS:We m...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Chan KL,Dumesnil JG,Tam J,Ni A,Teo K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of cardiac events in Japanese men (mean age 54 +/- 10 years) with atypical or nonanginal chest pain was assessed prospectively. Three groups of patients, those with typical angina (TA; n = 134), those with atypical angina (AA; n = 192), and those with nonanginal chest pain (NA; n = 311) were studied with...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Sato I,Nishijima H,Matsumura N,Nishida M,Okita K,Yasuda H

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 10 treated and 2 control dogs, the short-term effects of intravenous propafenone (2 mg/kg/10 minutes, followed by 1 mg/min [n = 2] or 25 micrograms/kg/min [n = 8]) on the internal ventricular defibrillation energy requirements (DER) were investigated. Multiple stored energy levels were randomly tested and the perce...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Peters W,Gang ES,Okazaki H,Solingen S,Kobayashi Y,Karagueuzian HS,Mandel WJ

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the possibility that a mitral regurgitant Doppler signal area on a two-dimensional color Doppler echocardiogram can reflect changes in mitral regurgitant volume in 24 patients with several types of mitral regurgitation. In 20 patients, mitral regurgitant Doppler signal areas were clear enough to measure. In...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Otsuji Y,Tei C,Kisanuki A,Natsugoe K,Kawazoe Y

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this overview we studied evidence for the occurrence of silent myocardial ischemia, its pathophysiologic mechanisms, and the circadian distribution of ischemic episodes. The correlation between many hemodynamic parameters and their potential as drug targets was assessed. ECG evidence of myocardial ischemia (ST segm...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Fox K,Mulcahy D,Keegan J,Wright C

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The human KCNE1 protein forms the β-subunit of the IKs potassium channel and is important in the regulation of the atrial action potential duration. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between the nonsynonymous 112G>A mutation of the KCNE1 gene and postcardiac surgery atrial fibrilla...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Voudris KV,Apostolakis S,Karyofillis P,Doukas K,Zaravinos A,Androutsopoulos VP,Michalis A,Voudris V,Spandidos DA

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve cirrhotic patients with portal hypertension and esophageal varices were treated with nadolol for 1 month, and the effects on renal and hepatic hemodynamics and function were studied. A significant decrease in cardiac output, portohepatic gradient, and effective hepatic blood flow was found, whereas mean arteria...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Gatta A,Sacerdoti D,Merkel C,Milani L,Battaglia G,Zuin R

更新日期：1984-10-01 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：:Results of recent studies have suggested that routine cardiac catheterization may be unnecessary after reperfusion therapy for acute myocardial infarction. Therefore to better define the short-term prognostic value of early coronary angiography, and specifically the prognostic significance of multivessel coronary arte...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Muller DW,Topol EJ,Ellis SG,Sigmon KN,Lee K,Califf RM

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Serum levels of pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A) have recently been linked to plaque instability and are increased in acute coronary syndromes. The relation between PAPP-A levels and coronary risk factors, namely blood lipids, has not been studied to date. We have therefore investigated whether...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Stulc T,Malbohan I,Malík J,Fialová L,Soukupová J,Ceska R

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00