Abstract:
:In untreated congestive heart failure, aldosterone plasma concentrations are elevated in proportion to the severity of the disease and are further increased by the use of diuretic treatment. Angiotensin II, plasma potassium concentration, and corticotropin are the major stimulators of aldosterone synthesis. During angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition, the role of alternative major or minor regulatory mechanisms may become significant. This may explain why during continuous ACE inhibition, after an initial reduction, plasma aldosterone measurements may subsequently increase to pretherapeutic levels. In addition to causing sodium and water retention, aldosterone contributes to hypokalaemia and hypomagnesaemia, which may induce electrical instability and death of cardiac myocytes. Aldosterone is also one factor involved in cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis, which, together with myocardial cell death, may underlie progressive adverse myocardial remodelling. Evidence for a direct vascular effect of aldosterone suggests that this hormone may contribute to generalized vasoconstriction. Elevated plasma aldosterone levels can also contribute to depression of baroreflex sensitivity, and they are associated with increased mortality in patients with severe heart failure. Experimental and clinical research should be further expanded to investigate the potential benefits of opposing the effects of aldosterone by use of specific antagonists or other potentially more potent pharmacological agents with favourable side-effect profiles.
journal_name
Eur Heart Jjournal_title
European heart journalauthors
Zannad Fdoi
10.1093/eurheartj/16.suppl_n.98subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1995-12-01 00:00:00pages
98-102eissn
0195-668Xissn
1522-9645journal_volume
16 Suppl Npub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract::The prevalence and type of arrhythmias has been studied in a representative sample of 2000 Athenians, aged 18-81 years, who underwent exercise testing on a treadmill according to the Bruce protocol. It was found that 121 persons (mean age 55.7 +/- 14.9 years, 31% greater than 65 years), exhibited arrhythmias on the EC...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/8.suppl_d.17
更新日期:1987-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:A higher intake of fruits and vegetables has been associated with a lower risk of ischaemic heart disease (IHD), but there is some uncertainty about the interpretation of this association. The objective was to assess the relation between fruit and vegetable intake and risk of mortality from IHD in the European Pro...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehq465
更新日期:2011-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Assessment of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) by early radionuclide exercise test was evaluated for 11 arteries undergoing a successful procedure. Exercise thallium-201 (Tl-201) and radionuclide ventriculography (RNV) were performed within 3 days before and after PTCA and compared to % diameter s...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.eurheartj.a062282
更新日期:1987-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Guidelines for the management of cardiovascular disease (CVD) stress the importance of treating global risk, rather than individual risk, factors. Patients at high cardiovascular (CV) risk, for example, benefit from a combination of aspirin, antihypertensive agents, lipid-lowering drugs, and possibly folic acid. As th...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi841
更新日期:2006-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:To analyse whether the proportion of patients with lone atrial fibrillation engaged in chronic sport practice was higher than that observed in the general population. METHODS AND RESULTS:The records of 1160 patients, seen at the arrhythmia outpatient clinic, were reviewed. A total of 70 patients (6%) suffered lon...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1053/euhj.2001.2802
更新日期:2002-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The management of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) presupposes that the patient is identified by echocardiography and is carefully evaluated for risk stratification, taking into consideration possible associated complications. The role of non-pharmacological treatment is limited, except in obese patients. Drug treat...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/14.suppl_d.22
更新日期:1993-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Recently, a new exercise test criterion diagnosing coronary artery disease was proposed, based on a composite of changes in Q-, R- and S-waves: the QRS score. We compared this new criterion with conventional ST-segment depression and other compositions of Q-, R- and S-wave changes in patients and normals and...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.eurheartj.a014936
更新日期:1996-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Five, ten and fifteen min after sublingual administration of 10mg isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN) in chewing capsules, in 10 patients with coronary artery disease, ISDN plasma levels were correlated with the dilation of epicardial coronary arteries as well as with changes in aortic blood pressure and heart rate. Due to th...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1989-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:To analyse the relationship between initial exercise parameters and peak oxygen consumption and prognosis in 96 patients with congestive heart failure. METHODS AND RESULTS:Comparison of responses during the initial 6 min of cardiopulmonary exercise testing (Naughton modified protocol) in patients stratified to th...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.eurheartj.a015201
更新日期:1997-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Factors that exacerbate the risk of atherosclerotic plaque formation include cigarette smoking, hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, sedentary lifestyle, and oestrogen deficiency. The potentially important role of oestrogen deficiency in this process is evidenced by the significant increase in cardiovascular risk obse...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/17.suppl_d.32
更新日期:1996-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:To quantify the prevalence of coronary artery calcification (CAC) in relation to cardiovascular risk factors in marathon runners, and to study its role for myocardial damage and coronary events. METHODS AND RESULTS:In 108 apparently healthy male marathon runners aged >or=50 years, with >or=5 marathon competitions...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn163
更新日期:2008-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::A necessary part of the strategy of modification of hypercholesterolaemia to prevent coronary heart disease (CHD) is the detection and treatment, by diet or by drugs, of high risk individuals. There are several drawbacks to this approach: (1) the cost of screening to find individuals at risk and of monitoring by physi...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/8.suppl_e.71
更新日期:1987-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:Aspirin combined with clopidogrel is the treatment of choice for acute coronary syndromes. Although the maintenance of aspirin until surgery does not affect postoperative bleeding after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, the latter may be dramatically increased when clopidogrel is continued over a period...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm049
更新日期:2007-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial comparing the antiarrhythmic effects of lidocaine (given intravenously as a bolus injection of 100 mg followed by an infusion of 2 mg min-1) and propafenone (given as a bolus of 105 mg followed by 300 mg orally every 8 h) was conducted in the first 24 h following acute myocardi...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.eurheartj.a062428
更新日期:1988-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:Because benefits of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) appear to be less favourable in non-left bundle branch block (LBBB) patients, this prospective longitudinal study tested the hypothesis that QRS morphology and echocardiographic mechanical dyssynchrony were associated with long-term outcome after CRT. ME...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehs013
更新日期:2012-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Clinical studies suggest that neutrophil activation during acute myocardial infarction (MI) aggravates tissue injury. Activated neutrophils are an important source of oxygen free radicals (OFR), the injurious effects of which are counteracted by endogenous antioxidants. We have previously shown in healthy subjects tha...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.eurheartj.a061045
更新日期:1995-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::A 54 year old woman with isolated stenosis of the left coronary ostium died following cardiac catheterisation and emergency coronary artery bypass surgery. Histological examination showed the ostial narrowing to be a local and discrete plaque of atherosclerosis. Like most reported cases this patient was a young woman ...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.eurheartj.a062359
更新日期:1987-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The efficacy and safety of catheter ablation of accessory pathways (AP) was studied in 79 children (age, 4-16 years), using DC shocks (n = 25) or radiofrequency energy (n = 54). All patients had documented arrhythmias including ventricular fibrillation in four. Organic heart disease was present in four patients. AP lo...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.eurheartj.a060476
更新日期:1994-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:We evaluated the accuracy of 64-slice computed tomography (CT) to identify ischaemic aetiology of heart failure (IHF). METHODS AND RESULTS:Ninety-three consecutive patients in sinus rhythm with dilated cardiomyopathy but without suspicion of coronary artery disease (CAD) were enrolled when admitted for angiograph...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn072
更新日期:2008-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:To compare two different clopidogrel regimens on the outcomes of patients undergoing elective coronary angiography (CAG)+/-ad hoc percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). METHODS AND RESULTS:Open-trial randomized 1028 patients with stable angina to group A ('non-selective'-clopidogrel 600 mg > 6 h before CAG; n ...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn169
更新日期:2008-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:Patients with diabetes are at excessive risk of mortality and cardiovascular morbidity. Previous studies suggest that aspirin may be less effective in diabetic patients. In this multi-centre, randomized, double blind trial picotamide, a dual inhibitor of thromboxane A2 synthase and receptor, was compared with aspi...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/j.ehj.2004.07.013
更新日期:2004-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The economic evaluation of the results of the Global Utilization of Streptokinase and Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Occluded Coronary Artery (GUSTO) trial found that recombinant tissue plasminogen activator is more cost-effective than streptokinase for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction. AIM:We...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:10.1053/euhj.1998.1092
更新日期:1998-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:The role of cardiovascular risk factors and atherosclerosis in the aetiology of abdominal aortic aneurysms is not well understood. The aim of this study was to determine the association between atherosclerosis and aortic aneurysm in the general population and the extent to which cardiovascular risk factors might i...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.eurheartj.a015314
更新日期:1997-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:Although cerebral blood flow (CBF) is known to be low in patients with advanced systolic heart failure (HF), little is known of the prognostic significance of this observation. We investigated whether CBF might be associated with the development of adverse outcomes in systolic HF, and whether it might provide prog...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehr345
更新日期:2012-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:Despite disparities in pathophysiology and disease manifestation between male and female patients with heart failure, studies focusing on sex differences in biomarkers are scarce. The purpose of this study was to assess sex-specific variation in clinical characteristics and biomarker levels to gain more understand...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/eht152
更新日期:2013-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:In this study, we compared the clinical outcomes of elderly patients with unprotected left main coronary artery (ULMCA) stenosis treated with either coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) or drug-eluting stent (DES). METHODS AND RESULTS:From January 2003 to April 2006, 259 patients with ULMCA stenosis and age > o...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm403
更新日期:2007-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The natriuretic peptides are important tools to establish diagnosis and prognosis in heart failure (HF). With application of therapies for HF, changes in both B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and its amino terminal cleavage fragment (NT-proBNP) parallel the benefits of the HF therapy applied. This dynamic nature of BN...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/eht463
更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between paroxysmal atrial fibrillation during acute myocardial infarction and the long-term prognosis of patients after acute myocardial infarction. The incidence of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation among 5803 consecutive hospitalized patients was 9.9% (557/5803). Inci...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.eurheartj.a060046
更新日期:1992-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:In acute coronary syndromes (ACS), the optimal revascularization strategy for unprotected left main coronary disease (ULMCD) has been little studied. The objectives of the present study were to describe the practice of ULMCD revascularization in ACS patients and its evolution over an 8-year period, analyse the pro...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehp353
更新日期:2009-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:Calmodulinopathies are rare life-threatening arrhythmia syndromes which affect mostly young individuals and are, caused by mutations in any of the three genes (CALM 1-3) that encode identical calmodulin proteins. We established the International Calmodulinopathy Registry (ICalmR) to understand the natural history,...
journal_title:European heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehz311
更新日期:2019-09-14 00:00:00