Effects of brain natriuretic peptide on exercise hemodynamics and neurohormones in isolated diastolic heart failure.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relations of plasma activated factor XII (FXIIa) concentration and a common polymorphism (C46T) of the factor XII gene with hemostatic status and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) were examined by prospective surveillance. METHODS AND RESULTS:Genotyping for the C46T variant was performed in 2624 men ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Zito F,Drummond F,Bujac SR,Esnouf MP,Morrissey JH,Humphries SE,Miller GJ

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although prospective studies, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses have documented an association between depression and increased morbidity and mortality in a variety of cardiac populations, depression has not yet achieved formal recognition as a risk factor for poor prognosis in patients with acute corona...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lichtman JH,Froelicher ES,Blumenthal JA,Carney RM,Doering LV,Frasure-Smith N,Freedland KE,Jaffe AS,Leifheit-Limson EC,Sheps DS,Vaccarino V,Wulsin L,American Heart Association Statistics Committee of the Council on Epidemiology an

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:While spatial asynergy at end-systole has been well characterized in patients with coronary artery disease, assessment of regional asynchrony has been hampered by technical constraints. We developed a computer-assisted method for analyzing regional asynchrony from the equilibrium (ECG-gated) radionuclide ventriculogra...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Holman BL,Wynne J,Idoine J,Neill J

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the fact that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are contraindicated among patients with established cardiovascular disease, many receive NSAID treatment for a short period of time. However, little is known about the association between NSAID treatment duration and risk of cardiovascular d...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Schjerning Olsen AM,Fosbøl EL,Lindhardsen J,Folke F,Charlot M,Selmer C,Lamberts M,Bjerring Olesen J,Køber L,Hansen PR,Torp-Pedersen C,Gislason GH

更新日期：2011-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alterations in myocardial function and systemic vascular tone are well documented in congestive heart failure (CHF), but little information is available on the effects of CHF on pulmonary vessels. We examined the mechanisms of tone regulation of canine pulmonary arteries during pacing-induced CHF. METHODS A...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Mathew R,Wang J,Gewitz MH,Hintze TH,Wolin MS

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The positions, sizes, and shapes of ventricular septal defects (VSDs) can be difficult to assess by 2-dimensional echocardiography (2DE). Volume-rendered 3-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) can provide unique views of VSDs from the left ventricular (LV) side, allowing complete assessment of their circumfere...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kardon RE,Cao QL,Masani N,Sugeng L,Supran S,Warner KG,Pandian NG,Marx GR

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Timely primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) cannot be offered to all patients with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Pharmaco-invasive (PhI) strategy has been proposed as a valuable alternative for eligible patients with STEMI. We conducted a randomized study to compare the eff...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pu J,Ding S,Ge H,Han Y,Guo J,Lin R,Su X,Zhang H,Chen L,He B,EARLY-MYO Investigators.

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) or idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (IHSS) has been defined as an autosomal dominant myocardial disease characterized by specific physical findings, echocardiographic features, asymmetric septal hypertrophy and disordered myocardial architecture. Echocardiographic and scinti...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Come PC,Bulkley BH,Goodman ZD,Hutchins GM,Pitt B,Fortuin NJ

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obstruction to left ventricular outflow can be seen after surgical repair of congenital heart disease in which a ventricular septal defect (VSD) is closed by means of a baffle to the systemic great artery arising from the right ventricle (Rastelli operation, intraventricular repair, for conotruncal anomaly)....

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Rychik J,Jacobs ML,Norwood WI

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Beta-Blocker Heart Attack Trial was a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of propranolol therapy in 3837 men and women with acute myocardial infarction. The patients began their treatment 5-21 days after hospital admission (mean 13.8 days). During an average follow-up of 25 months, ther...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Goldstein S

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inhomogeneity of dose distribution and anatomic aspects of the atherosclerotic plaque may influence the outcome of irradiated lesions after balloon angioplasty (BA). We evaluated the influence of delivered dose and morphological characteristics of coronary stenoses treated with beta-radiation after BA. METH...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sabaté M,Marijnissen JP,Carlier SG,Kay IP,van der Giessen WJ,Coen VL,Ligthart JM,Boersma E,Costa MA,Levendag PC,Serruys PW

更新日期：2000-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of clinical characteristics on shock occurrence and survival in 241 patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy. METHODS AND RESULTS:Two hundred forty-one consecutive patients underwent ICD implantation between November 1982 and...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Grimm W,Flores BT,Marchlinski FE

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypercholesterolemic mice lacking factors required for activation of CD4+ T cells are characterized by reduced development of atherosclerosis. Consequently, it has been assumed that atherosclerosis involves loss of tolerance against modified self-antigens generated in response to hypercholesterolemia and tha...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Wigren M,Rattik S,Yao Mattisson I,Tomas L,Grönberg C,Söderberg I,Alm R,Sundius L,Ljungcrantz I,Björkbacka H,Fredrikson GN,Nilsson J

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to assess if clampless off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) decreases risk-adjusted mortality, stroke rate, and morbidity in unselected patients in comparison to conventional CABG. METHODS AND RESULTS:Between July 2009 and November 2010, data of 1282 consecutive patients undergoi...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Börgermann J,Hakim K,Renner A,Parsa A,Aboud A,Becker T,Masshoff M,Zittermann A,Gummert JF,Kuss O

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients surviving ventricular fibrillation (VF) or sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) are at a high risk of death due to a recurrence of arrhythmia. The implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) terminates VT or VF, but it is not known whether this device prolongs life in these patients compared with...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Connolly SJ,Gent M,Roberts RS,Dorian P,Roy D,Sheldon RS,Mitchell LB,Green MS,Klein GJ,O'Brien B

更新日期：2000-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elevated pulse pressure is associated strongly with adverse cardiovascular outcome; however, the genetic basis of this condition is unknown. This study examined whether genotypic variation in the extracellular matrix protein fibrillin-1, the Marfan gene, was associated with aortic stiffening and therefore co...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Medley TL,Cole TJ,Gatzka CD,Wang WY,Dart AM,Kingwell BA

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:South Asians (from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) make up one quarter of the world's population and are one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in the United States. Although native South Asians share genetic and cultural risk factors with South Asians abroad, South Asians in...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Volgman AS,Palaniappan LS,Aggarwal NT,Gupta M,Khandelwal A,Krishnan AV,Lichtman JH,Mehta LS,Patel HN,Shah KS,Shah SH,Watson KE,American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention; Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke i

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) is proposed to improve clinical outcomes and decrease resource use. However, off-pump surgery is not widely used in Canada. The purpose of this study was to determine the current use of OPCAB in Canada and determine why surgeons have not adopted this technique. METHOD...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Desai ND,Pelletier MP,Mallidi HR,Christakis GT,Cohen GN,Fremes SE,Goldman BS

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty adult patients with predominant mitral valve disease and variable degrees of tricuspid incompetence (TI) were reinvestigated 6-28 months after mitral valve operation. Postoperatively, 10 of the 20 patients were in sinus rhythm, compared with four of 20 preoperatively. Right ventricula peak systolic pressure dec...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Simon R,Oelert H,Borst HG,Lichtlen PR

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mechanism through which ischemic preconditioning causes cardioprotection is unknown. The present study investigated the role of stunning in preconditioning. METHODS AND RESULTS:We studied three different protocols of preconditioning: two cycles of 2-minute ischemia separated by 5-minute reperfusion (2'P...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Miura T,Goto M,Urabe K,Endoh A,Shimamoto K,Iimura O

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The outcome of resuscitated patients after cardiac arrest complicating acute myocardial infarction remains poor, primarily because of the relatively low success rates of cardiopulmonary resuscitation management. Existing data suggest potential beneficial effects of early myocardial reperfusion, but the predi...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Garot P,Lefevre T,Eltchaninoff H,Morice MC,Tamion F,Abry B,Lesault PF,Le Tarnec JY,Pouges C,Margenet A,Monchi M,Laurent I,Dumas P,Garot J,Louvard Y

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The contractile dysfunction observed in end-stage myocardial hypertrophy has at its base an abnormality in myocyte function. However, whether depressed contractile function is related to an alteration in contractile protein function is presently unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS:Contractile force, tension, and c...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Fan D,Wannenburg T,de Tombe PP

更新日期：1997-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty of the infarct-related artery in stable survivors of acute myocardial infarction is often performed, even in patients without any symptoms or residual ischemia. Despite the lack of randomized studies, it is widely believed that this intervention will improve the...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Zeymer U,Uebis R,Vogt A,Glunz HG,Vöhringer HF,Harmjanz D,Neuhaus KL,ALKK-Study Group.

更新日期：2003-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rate-corrected QT interval (QTc) is heritable, and the discovery of quantitative trait loci that influence the QTc would be an important step in identifying the genes responsible for life-threatening arrhythmias in the general population. We studied 66 pairs of unselected normal dizygotic (DZ) twin subje...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Busjahn A,Knoblauch H,Faulhaber HD,Boeckel T,Rosenthal M,Uhlmann R,Hoehe M,Schuster H,Luft FC

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Regression of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) after surgical correction for aortic stenosis is not fully understood on the molecular level. The aim of this study was to examine whether there is an association between LVH regression and extracellular matrix (ECM) gene expression. METHODS AND RESULTS:A sta...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Walther T,Schubert A,Falk V,Binner C,Kanev A,Bleiziffer S,Walther C,Doll N,Autschbach R,Mohr FW

更新日期：2001-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early risk assessment is important in patients with unstable coronary artery disease, ie, unstable angina or non-Q-wave myocardial infarction. Some previous small studies have indicated that patients with unstable angina and elevation of troponin T (tn-T) have worse short-term and long-term prognoses. In thi...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lindahl B,Venge P,Wallentin L

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease in which interferon (IFN)-gamma, the signature cytokine of Th1 cells, plays a central role. We investigated whether interleukin (IL)-17, the signature cytokine of Th17 cells, is also associated with human coronary atherosclerosis. METHODS AND RESULTS:Circulating IL...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Eid RE,Rao DA,Zhou J,Lo SF,Ranjbaran H,Gallo A,Sokol SI,Pfau S,Pober JS,Tellides G

更新日期：2009-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We tested the hypothesis that intracoronary delivery of an adenovirus encoding adenylyl cyclase type VI (Ad.AC(VI)) would be associated with increased left ventricular (LV) function in pigs with congestive heart failure. METHODS AND RESULTS:Pigs (52+/-6 kg; n=16) underwent placement of pacemakers, LV pressu...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lai NC,Roth DM,Gao MH,Tang T,Dalton N,Lai YY,Spellman M,Clopton P,Hammond HK

更新日期：2004-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although early intravenous beta-blocker therapy during acute myocardial infarction (AMI) reduces the incidence of fatal arrhythmias in patients not treated with thrombolytic agents, its antiarrhythmic effect in thrombolysed patients remains controversial. We investigated prospectively the arrhythmia incidenc...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Heidbüchel H,Tack J,Vanneste L,Ballet A,Ector H,Van de Werf F

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endogenous nitric oxide (NO) has been reported to inhibit oxygen consumption in the normal heart, so that nonselective inhibition of NO synthase (NOS) caused an increase of myocardial oxygen consumption (MVO2). Although endothelial NOS responses are depressed in congestive heart failure (CHF), inducible NOS ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Chen Y,Traverse JH,Du R,Hou M,Bache RJ

更新日期：2002-07-09 00:00:00