Complete atrioventricular block due to large cell lymphoma: resolution with chemotherapy.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Management of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients with nonobstructive epicardial coronary artery disease (CAD) remains poorly understood. HYPOTHESIS:Acute coronary syndrome patients with nonobstructive CAD are less likely to receive effective cardiac medications upon discharge from the hospital. METHODS...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Ramanath VS,Armstrong DF,Grzybowski M,Rahnama-Mohagdam S,Tamhane UU,Gordon K,Froehlich JB,Eagle KA,Jackson EA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We sought to determine whether lifestyle modifications are associated with high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) change in a cohort with long-term follow-up. HYPOTHESIS:Changes in alcohol consumption, smoking, or body mass index (BMI) are associated with within-individual changes in HDL-C. METHODS:W...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Rahilly-Tierney C,Vokonas P,Gaziano JM,Spiro A 3rd

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) provides incremental diagnostic and prognostic information, even in patients with high exercise tolerance. HYPOTHESIS:Myocardial perfusion imaging provides significant diagnostic value, specifically in women with high exercise tolerance. METHODS:Our study population consi...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Chatziioannou SN,Moore WH,Dhekne RD,Ford PV

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS:Although it is well established that diabetes mellitus (DM) induces more severe coronary artery disease (CAD), it is not known whether it contributes to the development of coronary collateral circulation. The present study examines coronary collateral circulation in diabetic and nondiabetic pa...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Melidonis A,Tournis S,Kouvaras G,Baltaretsou E,Hadanis S,Hajissavas I,Tsatsoulis A,Foussas S

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A space-occupying mass of the right atrium was found by two-dimensional echocardiography and angiography in a 68-year-old woman whose clinical diagnosis indicated multiple pulmonary emboli. Since right heart myxomas frequently cause pulmonary thromboembolism, the patient was initially diagnosed by noninvasive and inva...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Buckingham TA,Williams GA,Aker UT,Kennedy HL

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary collateral perfusion to the completely obstructed coronary artery was evaluated by coronary cineangiography in 32 patients. In 13 patients, there was neither history of severe chest pain of longer than 30-min duration nor electrocardiographic evidence of a transmural myocardial infarction (Group I). Among pat...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Fujita M,Sasayama S,Ohno A,Yamanishi K,Hirai T

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyponatremia is common and is increasingly recognized as an independent prognostic marker that adversely affects morbidity and mortality in various disease states, including heart failure. In acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF), the degree of hyponatremia often parallels the severity of cardiac dysfunction and is...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Jao GT,Chiong JR

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work attempted to study the segmental wall motion on left ventriculograms, in terms of segmental shortening, velocity of segmental shortening, and temporal sequences of various events in systole as well as in diastole. The ability of such a method to characterize patterns of normal regional wall motion and to det...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Colle JP,Le Goff G,Ohayon J,Bonnet J,Bricaud H,Besse P

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When used in appropriately selected heart failure (HF) patients, cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) reduces mortality and hospitalization. It is not understood whether CRT implantation during hospitalization for HF is associated with similar benefits. HYPOTHESIS:Timing of CRT implantation relative to h...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Goldstein SA,Mentz RJ,Hellkamp AS,Randolph TC,Fonarow GC,Hernandez A,Yancy CW,Al-Khatib SM

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been debated whether dilated cardiomyopathy seen in patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome is caused by the virus itself or by the combination of other factors such as presence of opportunistic pathogens and/or severe immunosuppression. This paper describes the first reported case of a patient with h...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Fath-Ordoubadi F,van der Watt MJ,Noble MI

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac injury is common in COVID-19 patients and is associated with increased mortality. However, it remains unclear if reduced cardiac function is associated with cardiac injury, and additionally if mortality risk is increased among those with reduced cardiac function in COVID-19 patients. HYPOTHESIS:The ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Chen LQ,Burdowski J,Marfatia R,Weber J,Gliganic K,Diaz N,Ramjattan N,Zheng H,Mihalatos D,Wang L,Barasch E,Leung A,Gopal A,Craft J,Ren X,Stergiopoulos K,Jeremias A,Petrossian G,Robinson N,Levine J,Shlofmitz RA,Gu

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paradoxical interventricular septal motion with right ventricular dilatation has been considered the hallmark of right ventricular volume overload. We report a 43-year-old woman with severe pulmonary hypertension due to pulmonary veno-occlusive disease who exhibited these echocardiographic abnormalities. Right ventric...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Zee-Cheng CS,Gibbs HR

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The normal and dilated heart behaves as a single functional unit during preload reduction: volume unloading in the setting of diastolic ventricular interaction allows for increased left ventricular (LV) filling. HYPOTHESIS:We hypothesized that reduction of venous return induced by a physiologic stimulus (ti...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Pepi M,Tamborini G,Maltagliati A,Guazzi M,Berna G,Susini F,Muratori M,Celeste F

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardiokymograph, a relatively new noninvasive device capable of recording anterior left ventricular segmental wall motion, was used to evaluate the frequency and type of wall motion abnormalities in 25 normal patients and in 109 patients with ischemic heart disease. Of the 25 patients with normal coronary arteries...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Tzivoni D,Diamond GA,Vas R,Silverberg RA,Forrester JS

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2011 Update of the American Heart Association's Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Guideline for Women is designed to help women and their physicians understand cardiovascular Disease (CVD) risks and undertake practical steps that are most effective in preventing heart disease and stroke. Defining a woman's risk st...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Wenger NK

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether exercise-induced ischemia impairs left ventricular diastolic filling in the postischemic period in humans, 101 men (mean age 57 +/- 10 years) were studied before and 2 h after a symptom-limited thallium-201 tomographic treadmill with pulsed Doppler echocardiography of mitral valve inflow. In the p...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Stoddard MF,Johnstone J,Dillon S,Kupersmith J

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) levels were measured prior to and at 1 and 5 minutes postcontrast left ventriculography with an ionic contrast agent (diatrizoate), and a nonionic agent (iopamidol) and the results were compared. Since ionic contrast agents have been found to cause an increase in left ventricular end-d...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Salvucci TJ,Roman C,Cha SD,Maranhao V

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fulminant psychiatric disturbance, as the sole noncardiac manifestation of digitalis toxicity, emerged in a 85-year-old woman during treatment for congestive heart failure. Described more than a century ago as "digitalis delirium," the disorder is characterized by severe agitation, delusional thinking, assaultive be...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Varriale P,Mossavi A

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress echocardiography is a widely applied technique for the evaluation of individuals with known or suspected coronary artery disease. The technique combines echocardiographic imaging with exercise testing or pharmacologic stress. Advances in digital image acquisition and harmonic imaging have substantially improved...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Lewis JF

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-vitamin K dependent oral anticoagulants (NOAC) are now widely used in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) for stroke prevention and in patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE) for the treatment and secondary prevention of the disease. Among NOAC, edoxaban demonstrated noninferiority to warfarin ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Colonna P,von Heymann C,Santamaria A,Matsushita Y,Unverdorben M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embolism of a fragment of a central venous catheter is a serious clinical complication, especially when the fragment cannot be made visible by radiological methods. We report a case where such a fragment could only be localized by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). With combined use of x-rays and TEE, the cathete...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Neumann HP,Hofmann T,Koester W,Billmann P,Kauffmann GW

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a growing body of evidence that advanced glycation end products (AGE) and their receptor (RAGE) system are implicated in chronic kidney disease (CKD). We have previously found that a long-acting calcium channel blocker, azelnidipine, but not amlodipine, improves renal injury in CKD patients. However...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Nakamura T,Sato E,Fujiwara N,Kawagoe Y,Koide H,Ueda Y,Takeuchi M,Yamagishi S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aortic valve disease is an important and frequent clinical problem with a mortality rate as high as 50-80% in a 5-year natural history of patients with severe aortic valve disease. Biological or mechanical prosthesis implantation is the only way to improve prognosis. HYPOTHESIS:The aim of our study was to a...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Waszyrowski T,Kasprzak JD,Krzemińska-Pakuła M,Dziatkowiak A,Zasłonka J

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular interactions between leukocytes and the endothelium are critical events in vascular biology, such as atherosclerosis and acute coronary syndrome. When monocytes and endothelial cells are activated via direct cell-cell interaction, both types of cells express several biologically active molecules such as adhes...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Ikeda U,Takahashi M,Shimada K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of transient myocardial ischemia on left ventricular function was examined by digital subtraction left ventricular angiography. Contrast medium was injected into the right pulmonary artery before, at 60 seconds of balloon inflation, and 10 minutes after balloon deflation. A total of 69 patients completed th...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Kitazume H,Kubo I,Iwama T,Ageishi Y,Suzuki A

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) usually receive acetylsalicylic acid plus an adenosine diphosphate (ADP) receptor inhibitor to reduce the long-term risk of recurrent events. However, patients receiving standard antiplatelet prophylaxis still face a substantial risk of recurrent events. Strategies involving...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Goto S,Tomita A

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite dual antiplatelet therapy, the rate of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remains high. Ex vivo tests of clopidogrel resistance can predict MACE after PCI. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the clinical impact of adjusting phosphorylation ...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Wang XD,Zhang DF,Zhuang SW,Lai Y

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:K-strophanthin or digoxin were added to diuretics (all cases) and vasodilators (most cases) for treating advanced congestive heart failure in 22 patients with dilated cardiomyopathy and sinus rhythm. K-strophanthin (0.125 mg intravenously) or digoxin (0.25 mg orally) were administered daily in two 3-month periods, dur...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Agostoni PG,Doria E,Berti M,Guazzi MD

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Variations in the apolipoprotein E (apo E) gene may predict the incidence of coronary artery disease (CAD). However, the correlation between apo E polymorphism and the severity of CAD is still unclear. HYPOTHESIS:Apolipoprotein E polymorphism can predict CAD. METHODS:Used a case-case study of 213 Chinese a...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Li SS,Yang J,Li LS,Wang HC

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary artery disease (CAD) is still the number-one killer in the world, and clinical trials indicate that it is preventable. Mortality and morbidity can be reduced by at least 30% to 40% by treating known risk factors. Genetic susceptibility is claimed to account for 50% of predisposition. The challenge of preventi...

journal_title：Clinical cardiology

authors： Roberts R,Stewart AF

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00