Measuring cardiac output in critically Ill patients: disagreement between thermodilution-, calculated-, expired gas-, and oxygen consumption-based methods.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Studies evaluating the long-term outcome of adults with ventricular septal defect (VSD) are important to inform patients about prognosis. This study investigated the long-term outcome of patients with perimembranous VSD (pmVSD) followed in the Belgian Registry on Adult Congenital Heart Disease. METHODS:All ...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Gabriels C,De Backer J,Pasquet A,Paelinck BP,Morissens M,Helsen F,Van De Bruaene A,Budts W

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:50 patients, 20 without heart disease and 30 with coronary heart disease (CHD), were studied by kinetocardiography (KCG), before and after administration of isoproterenol (initial dose 2 microgram/min, maximum dose 6 microgram/min). In the control subjects the KCG was unaffected by the drug. In contrast, in most of th...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Strozzi C,Cocco G

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden cardiac death accounts for 60% of the total cardiovascular mortality in the United States. Individuals after myocardial infarction or with chronic left ventricular dysfunction are known to be at increased risk. Noninvasive studies have been applied to these populations, but the predictive accuracy of these test...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Hessen SE,Nydegger CC,Kutalek SP

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Simultaneous rupture of the left and right ventricles is an extremely rare mechanical complication of acute myocardial infarction (MI). When associated with the formation of a false aneurysm, an extracardiac left-to-right shunt may occur. METHODS:We summarized all published data describing this unique condi...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Yalonetsky S,Aronson D

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess possible age-related differences in the time of occurrence (hour of the day, day of the week, month of the year) of cardiopulmonary collapses of presumed cardiac etiology, 3,305 out-of-hospital patients registered by the Belgian Cardiopulmonary-Cerebral Resuscitation Study Group between 1983 and 1990 were st...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Martens P,Calle P,Hubloue I,Van den Poel B,Lewi P

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a patient with transient WPW syndrome the electrocardiographic pattern of preexcitation could repeatedly be induced by carotid sinus massage during isoprenaline infusion. Adrenergic and cholinergic discharge may favor the conduction of the impulse over an accessory nonfunctional A-V bundle. ...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Gavrilescu S

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A history of exercise-induced chest pain or even typical angina pectoris combined with normal coronary arteries is usually described with terms like small vessel disease or syndrome X [2, 5]. The aim of this paper is to study the hemodynamics at rest, and with exercise, and the outcome of patients with this syndrome. ...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Gleichmann U,Ohlmeier H,Mannebach H,Fassbender D

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid-lowering agents are used with the purpose of ameliorating hyperlipoproteinemias, in order to prevent arterial disease. Lipid-lowering drugs can be classified into absorbable agents and into nonabsorbable compounds, acting within the gastrointestinal lumen. Absorbable drugs (fibric acids, nicotinic acid, probucol...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Sirtori CR,Manzoni C,Lovati MR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anabolic steroid use is widespread and has been associated with a variety of pathological conditions. The subject of this case is a 20-year-old amateur bodybuilder who died of sudden cardiopulmonary arrest. He had no previous medical complaints but had a history of anabolic steroid abuse and a hypertrophic heart (515 ...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Dickerman RD,Schaller F,Prather I,McConathy WJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is the most frequent cause of occlusion of aortocoronary saphenous vein grafts between 5 and 10 years after coronary artery bypass surgery. The typical atherosclerotic plaque appears between 1 and 3 years after operation and, at a mean of 5 years, histologic changes of atherosclerosis are present in 21...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Bourassa MG,Campeau L,Lespérance J,Solymoss BC

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:During the past decade, the most common causes of mortality and morbidity were cardiovascular diseases and malignancies. The aim of the current study was to describe the incidence, course of admission, and short-term (30-day) prognosis of patients with and without malignancy, admitted to a tertiary center in...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Mazin I,Matetzky S,Shemer L,Fourey D,Fefer P,Segev A,Abu-Much A,Beigel R,Asher E,Platelets and Thrombosis in Sheba (PLATIS) Study Group.

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several lines of evidence support the clinical use of trimetazidine as an adjunctive therapy in cardioischemic patients. Therefore, we assessed here the efficacy and safety of adjunctive trimetazidine therapy in acute myocardial infarction (MI) patients by a systematic review and meta-analysis of the current...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Li Y,Wang D,Hu C,Zhang P,Zhang D,Qin S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of arterial compliance on stenotic hemodynamics were examined in an in vitro arterial preparation. Carotid arteries, obtained from anesthetized mongrel dogs (11.3-15.4 kg), were attached to a perfusion apparatus consisting of a constant pressure reservoir and a fixed distal resistance. To create an intralu...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Santamore WP,Bove AA,Carey RA

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular/cerebrovascular events. The aim of this study is to clarify whether stress myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) could predict cardiovascular/cerebrovascular events. In the Gunma-CKD SPECT Stud...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Toyama T,Kasama S,Sato M,Sano H,Ueda T,Sasaki T,Nakahara T,Higuchi T,Tsushima Y,Kurabayashi M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The PRevention of cArdiac Dysfunction during Adjuvant breast cancer therapy (PRADA) study is a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial to determine whether angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB), or beta-blockers or their combination may prevent the development of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction in ...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Heck SL,Gulati G,Ree AH,Schulz-Menger J,Gravdehaug B,Røsjø H,Steine K,Bratland A,Hoffmann P,Geisler J,Omland T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility, reproducibility, safety and information obtained on exercise physiology from cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPX) in patients with aortic stenosis. METHODS:Patients with an aortic valve area (AVA) <1.3 cm2 who were judged asymptomatic or equivocal sym...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： van Le D,Jensen GV,Carstensen S,Kjøller-Hansen L

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Endothelin-1 (ET-1) induces cardiac hypertrophy, whereas adiponectin may elicit protective effects in the vasculature and myocardium. We therefore evaluated the relationship between plasma ET-1 and adiponectin levels in heart failure (HF) patients, and the association between adiponectin expression and ET-1-...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Yin WH,Chen YH,Wei J,Jen HL,Huang WP,Young MS,Chen DC,Liu PL

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventricular late potentials are obtained by signal-averaged surface electrocardiography. Late potentials in normal subjects may be influenced by physiological elements such as gender, height and body mass index. Considering that growth hormone (GH) hypersecretion is able to markedly alter different anthropometric vari...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Maffei P,Corfini A,de Carlo E,Martini C,Bozza G,Photiou E,Sicolo N

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the relation between the plasma concentration of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and echocardiographic findings to determine the sensitivity of BNP as an indicator of left-ventricular dysfunction in elderly patients with various cardiovascular diseases. The plasma concentration of BNP was positively correla...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Yamada Y,Goto J,Yokota M

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To substitute the stroke volume index (SVi) with flow rate (FR) in the hemodynamic classification of severe aortic stenosis (AS) with preserved ejection fraction (EF), in order to evaluate its prognostic value. METHODS:A total of 529 patients (78.8 ± 9.8 years old, 44.1% males) with isolated severe AS (aort...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Alexandru D,Pollack S,Petillo F,Cao JJ,Barasch E

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of the transfemoral left-ventricular assist device Hemopump (HP; 21 Fr outer diameter) was examined in experiments with adult sheep in two different models of cardiogenic shock (tachycardia shock; ischemia shock), and during ventricular fibrillation. During tachycardia (high frequency pacing-induced; n = ...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Scholz KH,Hering JP,Schröder T,Uhlig P,Kreuzer H,Hellige G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of M-mode tissue Doppler imaging for localizing the accessory pathway in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome. METHODS:Two-dimensional guided tissue Doppler M-mode was recorded at the mitral and tricuspid annular levels in 13 WPW patients...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Nagai H,Takata S,Sakagami S,Furusho H,Takamura M,Yuasa T,Kobayashi K

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess whether postoperative quality of life (QOL) for composite aortic root replacement patients differs according to whether it is based on the use of mechanical valves or bioprosthetic valves. METHODS:The study included 146 consecutive patients who underwent composite aortic root replacement at our ins...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Repack A,Ziganshin BA,Elefteriades JA,Mukherjee SK

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 6-min walk test (6MWT) is a simple and inexpensive exercise test to evaluate physical functional capacity that is widely used in heart failure (HF) patients. With the 6MWT, a distance <350 m is associated with increased mortality in patients with HF, and change in walking distance >50 m is considered clinically re...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Sgorbini L,Rossetti A,Galati A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognostic information from 24-hour monitoring with on-line vectorcardiography (VCG) was assessed in 100 patients with a clinical diagnosis of unstable angina pectoris. ST change vector magnitude, ST vector magnitude and QRS vector difference were monitored. During a follow-up period of 343 +/- 77 days, 7 patients...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Lundin P,Eriksson SV,Fredrikson M,Rehnqvist N

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unstable angina is an acute coronary syndrome characterized by the rapid progression of clinical symptoms which may culminate in acute myocardial infarction, infarct extension or sudden death. The pathologic substrate involves atherosclerotic plaque rupture with platelet deposition, thrombus formation and coronary art...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Becker RC,Gore JM,Alpert JS

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system plays an important role in the development of congestive heart failure (CHF). In patients with chronic heart failure, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, such as captopril, enalapril, and quinapril, have been shown to improve hemodynamics, reduce symptoms of fatigue...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Riegger AJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether detection of pathologic exercise hemodynamics can be based on assessment of noninvasive parameters, pulmonary artery pressure and cardiac output were measured during graded bicycle ergometry in 33 patients with mitral valve replacement and 42 patients with aortic valve replacement. No relationship...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Kraus F,Rudolph W

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Myocardial infarction (MI) may be classified as ST elevation MI (STEMI) or non-ST elevation MI (NSTEMI). Procoagulants such as plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) as well as markers of inflammation such as C-reactive protein (CRP), serum amyloid A (SAA) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) are elevated in acute co...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Rott D,Leibowitz D,Finci-Yeheskel Z,Barak V,Chajek-Shaul T,Weiss T,Levin M,Urieli-Shoval S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports documented the inhibitory efficacy of different doses of aspirin on arachidonic acid (AA)-induced platelet aggregation, however, the sensitivity of platelets toward other agonists as well as the effects of aspirin on platelet and plasma plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) release and levels were...

journal_title：Cardiology

authors： Mousa SA,Forsythe MS,Bozarth JM,Reilly TM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00