Evaluation of superficial femoral artery compromise and limb growth retardation after transfemoral artery balloon dilatations.

abstract：:The benefit of cholesterol-lowering therapy in the prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) is well established. The secondary prevention Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S) and the primary prevention West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study (WOSCOPS) demonstrated that lipid lowering with a statin can dra...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Gotto AM Jr,Grundy SM

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A key component of reperfusion of myocardial infarction is an immediate inflammatory response, which enhances tissue repair. Matrix turnover is crucial to tissue repair, and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are key enzymes involved in matrix degradation. The hypothesis tested is that one inflammation-based e...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lindsey M,Wedin K,Brown MD,Keller C,Evans AJ,Smolen J,Burns AR,Rossen RD,Michael L,Entman M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diabetes mellitus is a predictor of morbidity and mortality in patients with heart failure. The effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors on the prevention of diabetes in patients with left ventricular dysfunction is unknown. The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the effect of the ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Vermes E,Ducharme A,Bourassa MG,Lessard M,White M,Tardif JC,Studies Of Left Ventricular Dysfunction.

更新日期：2003-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is compelling experimental evidence that autologous skeletal muscle (SM) cell transplantation improves postinfarction cardiac function. This study assessed whether this benefit is still manifested in the clinically relevant setting of a treatment by ACE inhibitors. METHODS AND RESULTS:A myocardial inf...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pouzet B,Ghostine S,Vilquin JT,Garcin I,Scorsin M,Hagège AA,Duboc D,Schwartz K,Menasché P

更新日期：2001-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The two-dimensional echocardiographic features of three patients with congenital aneurysms of the left atrium are described. The aneurysm arose from the left atrial appendage in two patients and from the posterior left atrial wall in one. The aneurysms were characterized by their origin from an otherwise normal left a...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Foale RA,Gibson TC,Guyer DE,Gillam L,King ME,Weyman AE

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene-nutrient interactions affecting high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) concentrations may contribute to the interindividual variability of the cardiovascular disease risk associated with dietary fat intake. Hepatic lipase (HL) is a key determinant of HDL metabolism. Four polymorphisms in linkage d...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Ordovas JM,Corella D,Demissie S,Cupples LA,Couture P,Coltell O,Wilson PW,Schaefer EJ,Tucker KL

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aldosterone and angiotensin (Ang) II both may cause organ damage. Circulating aldosterone is produced in the adrenals; however, local cardiac synthesis has been reported. Aldosterone concentrations depend on the activity of aldosterone synthase (CYP11B2). We tested the hypothesis that reducing aldosterone by...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Fiebeler A,Nussberger J,Shagdarsuren E,Rong S,Hilfenhaus G,Al-Saadi N,Dechend R,Wellner M,Meiners S,Maser-Gluth C,Jeng AY,Webb RL,Luft FC,Muller DN

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability of apolipoprotein (apo)A-I to induce regression of preexisting atherosclerotic lesions has not been determined, and a mouse model of atherosclerosis regression has not yet been reported. METHODS AND RESULTS:LDL receptor-deficient mice were fed a western-type diet for 5 weeks to induce atheroscle...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tangirala RK,Tsukamoto K,Chun SH,Usher D,Puré E,Rader DJ

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adipocyte-derived hormones may represent a mechanism linking insulin resistance to cardiovascular disease. In the present study, we evaluated the direct effects of resistin, a novel adipocyte-derived hormone, on endothelial activation. METHODS AND RESULTS:Endothelial cells (ECs) were incubated with human re...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Verma S,Li SH,Wang CH,Fedak PW,Li RK,Weisel RD,Mickle DA

更新日期：2003-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radiofrequency catheter ablation is the treatment of choice for patients with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardias refractory to medical therapy. However, in symptomatic patients with inappropriate sinus tachycardia resistant to drug therapy, catheter ablation of the His' bundle with permanent pacemaker ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lee RJ,Kalman JM,Fitzpatrick AP,Epstein LM,Fisher WG,Olgin JE,Lesh MD,Scheinman MM

更新日期：1995-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Apolipoprotein E (apoE) has long been known to play an important role in the clearance of plasma lipoproteins. More recently, a direct role for apoE in delaying atherogenesis has been proposed. Macrophage production of apoE in the artery wall has been demonstrated to provide protection against atheroscleroti...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Hasty AH,Linton MF,Brandt SJ,Babaev VR,Gleaves LA,Fazio S

更新日期：1999-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few studies have examined the association of race and outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery while controlling for both patient and hospital effects. METHODS AND RESULTS:We retrospectively analyzed data on a cohort of 566,785 white and 24,354 black Medicare beneficiaries 65 years old and...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Konety SH,Vaughan Sarrazin MS,Rosenthal GE

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myocardial uptake of either 201Tl or 99mTc-sestamibi (sestamibi) is known to plateau at high coronary flow rates. However, few direct comparisons have been made between these tracers to determine what effect differences in the uptake plateau for the two tracers may have on the detection of coronary stenoses ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Glover DK,Ruiz M,Edwards NC,Cunningham M,Simanis JP,Smith WH,Watson DD,Beller GA

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heterogeneous electrophysiological properties, which may be due in part to autonomic innervation, are important in the maintenance of atrial fibrillation (AF). We hypothesized that heterogeneous sympathetic denervation with phenol would create a milieu for sustained AF. METHODS AND RESULTS:After the determi...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Olgin JE,Sih HJ,Hanish S,Jayachandran JV,Wu J,Zheng QH,Winkle W,Mulholland GK,Zipes DP,Hutchins G

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with peripheral arterial disease are at high risk of ischemic events and therefore are treated with antithrombotics. In patients with coronary artery disease or cerebrovascular disease, bleeding is related to the subsequent occurrence of ischemic events. Our objective was to assess whether this is a...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： van Hattum ES,Algra A,Lawson JA,Eikelboom BC,Moll FL,Tangelder MJ

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thrombolytic therapy is a promising alternative to valve replacement in the management of prosthetic valve thrombosis. We sought to determine the short- and long-term results of treating thrombosed St. Jude heart valves with thrombolytic therapy as the primary treatment modality. METHODS AND RESULTS:Between...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Silber H,Khan SS,Matloff JM,Chaux A,DeRobertis M,Gray R

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of diabetes on survival after coronary bypass surgery is uncertain. Also, although the overall clinical benefits of internal mammary artery (IMA) grafting are well established, the survival benefit attributable to IMA grafting in diabetics is not well characterized. To determine the influence of diabetes an...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Morris JJ,Smith LR,Jones RH,Glower DD,Morris PB,Muhlbaier LH,Reves JG,Rankin JS

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coronary revascularization with bypass has been shown to improve survival in patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction. In these patients, use of nonsurgical revascularization with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) is increasing, although their long-term outco...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Holmes DR Jr,Detre KM,Williams DO,Kent KM,King SB 3rd,Yeh W,Steenkiste A

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous experimental studies have shown that the effect of serotonin on a coronary stenosis depends on whether that stenosis is compliant or fixed. However, the relation between coronary stenosis morphology and the response to serotonin in patients with angina is not known. METHODS AND RESULTS:Using comput...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tousoulis D,Davies G,McFadden E,Clarke J,Kaski JC,Maseri A

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is uncertain whether Helicobacter pylori is associated with ischemic syndromes and whether this association is mediated by the induction of atherosclerosis. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that atherosclerotic stroke shows a selective association with virulent H pylori strains. METHODS AND RESULT...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pietroiusti A,Diomedi M,Silvestrini M,Cupini LM,Luzzi I,Gomez-Miguel MJ,Bergamaschi A,Magrini A,Carrabs T,Vellini M,Galante A

更新日期：2002-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coxsackievirus-induced myocarditis can be a serious cause of heart failure. In the absence of a specific antiviral therapy, modulating the host immune response may be protective. Interferons (IFNs)-alpha and -beta perform a fundamental role in innate and adaptive antiviral responses, thereby presenting as ca...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Deonarain R,Cerullo D,Fuse K,Liu PP,Fish EN

更新日期：2004-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epinephrine has been the mainstay for cardiac resuscitation for more than 30 years. Its vasopressor effect by which it increases coronary perfusion pressure is likely to favor initial resuscitation. Its beta-adrenergic action, however, may have detrimental effects on postresuscitation myocardial function whe...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tang W,Weil MH,Sun S,Noc M,Yang L,Gazmuri RJ

更新日期：1995-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Angiotensin (Ang) II type 1 receptor (AT1-R) induces cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and fibroblast proliferation, whereas the physiological role of AT2-R in cardiac remodeling remains poorly defined. METHODS AND RESULTS:Using Bio14.6 cardiomyopathic (CM) hamsters, we found that AT2-R sites were increased by 153%...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Ohkubo N,Matsubara H,Nozawa Y,Mori Y,Murasawa S,Kijima K,Maruyama K,Masaki H,Tsutumi Y,Shibazaki Y,Iwasaka T,Inada M

更新日期：1997-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:For estimating left ventricular mass (LVM), ECG criteria for left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) were selected from conventional 12-lead ECGs, orthogonal three-lead ECGs, and multiple-dipole ECGs (MDECG). The three cardiograms were recorded in 139 patients for whom the degree of LVH was independently determined from bi...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Dunn RA,Pipberger HV,Holt JH Jr,Barnard AC,Pipberger HA

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fortilin, a recently characterized nuclear antiapoptotic factor structurally distinct from inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAPs) and Bcl-2 family member proteins, has been suggested to be involved in cell survival and regulation of apoptosis within the cardiovascular system. In this continued investigation,...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tulis DA,Mnjoyan ZH,Schiesser RL,Shelat HS,Evans AJ,Zoldhelyi P,Fujise K

更新日期：2003-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the Basel Antiarrhythmic Study of Infarct Survival trial, low-dose amiodarone improved 1-year survival in patients with asymptomatic complex ventricular arrhythmias persisting 2 weeks after myocardial infarction. To assess whether this beneficial effect persisted despite discontinuation of amiodarone afte...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pfisterer ME,Kiowski W,Brunner H,Burckhardt D,Burkart F

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The combination of statin therapy and PCSK9 (proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9) inhibition markedly lowers low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and reduces cardiovascular event rates. Whether residual inflammatory risk as measured by on-treatment high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP)...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pradhan AD,Aday AW,Rose LM,Ridker PM

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical use of citrate-phosphate-dextrose during blood-product transfusion is known to affect ionized calcium levels and can result in depression of myocardial contractility. The immature heart appears to have an intrinsic reduction in contractile state compared with the adult heart and may be more dependent on t...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Rebeyka IM,Yeh T Jr,Hanan SA,Borges MR,Lee KF,Tuchy GE,Abd-Elfattah AS,Wechsler AS

更新日期：1990-11-01 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:The relations of insulin sensitivity (IS) to hypertension incidence may vary according to baseline age, body mass index (BMI), and blood pressure (BP). METHODS AND RESULTS:We investigated the relations of IS (insulin sensitivity index, ISI(0,120)) to 4-year incidence of hypertension and BP progression in 19...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Arnlöv J,Pencina MJ,Nam BH,Meigs JB,Fox CS,Levy D,D'Agostino RB,Vasan RS

更新日期：2005-09-20 00:00:00