Depressed arterial baroreflex sensitivity and not reduced heart rate variability identifies patients with chronic heart failure and nonsustained ventricular tachycardia: the effect of high ventricular filling pressure.

abstract：:Infections related to cardiac surgery increase morbidity and mortality, and increase cost and use of health resources. With the widespread use of synthetic materials, whether in prosthetic valves or vascular conduits, bacterial infection and, more rarely, fungal complications can be devastating, requiring prolonged an...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Lowy FD,Waldhausen JA,Miller M,Sopko G,Rosenberg Y,Skarlatos SI,National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases working group on antimicrobial strategies and cardiothoracic surgery.

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Circulating mediators, including thromboxane A2, the vasoconstrictor, platelet aggregant, and smooth muscle mitogen, may contribute to the progression of vascular narrowing in primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH). METHODS:To further understand the contribution of thromboxane and to provide novel therapy for...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Langleben D,Christman BW,Barst RJ,Dias VC,Galiè N,Higenbottam TW,Kneussl M,Korducki L,Naeije R,Riedel A,Simonneau G,Hirsch AM,Rich S,Robbins IM,Oudiz R,McGoon MD,Badesch DB,Levy RD,Mehta S,Seeger W,Solèr M

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:New percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) device technologies are often rapidly adopted into clinical practice, yet few studies have examined the overall impact of these new technologies on patient outcomes in community practice. METHODS:In hopes of determining temporal trends in PCI outcomes, we used da...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Rao SV,Hess CN,Dai D,Green CL,Peterson ED,Douglas PS

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the mechanisms of restenosis and detect useful interventions to prevent it, reliable quantitative measurements must be evaluated. Coronary arteries of domestic and minipigs (n = 18) were mechanically injured by balloon overstretching and killed at different intervals (2 to 25 weeks) after quantitative a...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Bonan R,Paiement P,Scortichini D,Cloutier MJ,Leung TK

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The potential exists for microcirculatory impairment during rotational coronary atherectomy (RA) due to embolization of plaque debris, platelet aggregation, or vasospasm. This prospective randomized pilot study aimed to confirm favorable effects of nicorandil during RA compared with verapamil. METHODS:We ra...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Matsuo H,Watanabe S,Watanabe T,Warita S,Kojima T,Hirose T,Iwama M,Ono K,Takahashi H,Segawa T,Minatoguchi S,Fujiwara H

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In patients hospitalized with acutely decompensated heart failure, unresolved signs and symptoms of fluid overload have been consistently associated with poor outcomes. Regardless of dosing and type of administration, intravenous loop diuretics have not reduced heart failure events or mortality in patients w...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Costanzo MR,Negoianu D,Fonarow GC,Jaski BE,Bart BA,Heywood JT,Nabut JL,Schollmeyer MP

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:sulfoconjugated dopamine constitutes the major portion of circulating or excreted dopamine, but its physiologic significance is still unknown. To test whether conjugated dopamine serves as a source of free dopamine in response to acute stress, plasma concentrations of free and conjugated dopamine were measured during ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Nakaya Y,Katayama T,Nomura M,Ishimura Y,Ohuchi T,Oka M,Yamamoto M,Mizobuchi S

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-term follow-up after percutaneous aortic balloon valvuloplasty shows a high incidence of restenosis. Yet a high percentage of patients with restenosis continue to show symptomatic improvement. Those with decreased left ventricular function originally tend to have a recurrence of symptoms. In this study Doppler-d...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Barbosa MM,Nishimura RA,Holmes DR Jr,Reeder GS,Ilstrup DM,Tajik AJ

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because limited information is available on significant arrhythmias after myocardial infarction in pediatric patients, this study was performed to determine the incidence and impact of ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation on the postinfarction course in patients aged 1 day to 16 years. Review of 96 such children sh...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Johnsrude CL,Towbin JA,Cecchin F,Perry JC

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atrial fibrillation (AF) in the setting of heart failure (HF) is linked to embolic stroke and exacerbation of HF. The rate of new-onset AF in patients with left ventricular dysfunction and mild to moderate HF enrolled in the SoLVD trials was significantly lower with enalapril than with placebo (5.4% vs 24% o...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Wagner M,Rindress D,Desjardins B,Meilleur MC,Ducharme A,Tardif JC

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively contrasted the medical outcome of patients removed from the heart transplant consideration list because of clinical improvement with that of transplant recipients. Of 60 patients awaiting transplantation, 18 were removed from the list (group A), and 42 required transplant or died (group B). Group A ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Levine TB,Levine AB,Goldberg AD,Tobes M,Narins B,Lesch M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the influence of intrinsic limb vasodilator capacity on exercise performance, limb reactive hyperemic flows and their relations to exercise capacity during upright bicycle exercise were examined in 52 patients with recent myocardial infarction. Reactive hyperemic flow was measured in the forearm and the...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Hattori T,Sumimoto T,Yuasa F,Kaida M,Jikuhara T,Hikosaka M,Sugiura T,Iwasaka T

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Platelets play an important role in the natural history of coronary artery disease. Enhanced platelet aggregation and receptor expression unquestionably occur after coronary stent implantation; however, the functional characteristics of platelets before stenting have not been fully elucidated. METHODS:Plate...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Serebruany VL,Cummings CC,Malinin AI,Steinhubl SR,Gurbel PA

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1982 and 1988, we observed 312 patients who were affected by syncope or presyncope and whose spontaneous symptoms could be reproduced by means of carotid sinus massage (CSH); no other definite cause of syncope could be identified. The clinical outcome during a 2- to 8-year follow-up period (mean 44 +/- 24 mont...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Brignole M,Oddone D,Cogorno S,Menozzi C,Gianfranchi L,Bertulla A

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adenosine cardiac stress is widely used as an alternative to exercise testing during myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI). Dyspnea often accompanies the adenosine stress test. Although known asthmatic patients are excluded from this test because of the danger of bronchospasm, there is incomplete information re...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Balan KK,Critchley M

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the long-term outcome and frequency of complications after heart transplantation for peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), we compared the courses of eight consecutive patients undergoing transplantation for PPCM with those of nine female age-matched control subjects undergoing transplantation for idiopathic ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Rickenbacher PR,Rizeq MN,Hunt SA,Billingham ME,Fowler MB

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We used virtual histology-intravascular ultrasound (VH-IVUS) to investigate the characteristics of culprit lesions in acute coronary syndromes (ACS). BACKGROUND:Autopsy studies of patients who died of ACS have shown that culprit atheromatous plaques almost always contain a large lipid-necrotic core covered ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Cascón-Pérez JD,de la Torre-Hernández JM,Ruiz-Abellón MC,Martínez-Pascual M,Mármol-Lozano R,López-Candel J,Cano P,Fernández C,Ramos JL,Villegas M,Picó-Aracil F

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We compared efficacy and safety of short- (3 or 6 months) versus long-term (≥12 months) dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) after drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation, according to the presence of chronic kidney disease (CKD). METHODS:Patient-level pooled analysis was performed with 7242 patients (87.2% with ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Hwang D,Park KW,Lee JM,Rhee TM,Hong MK,Jang Y,Valgimigli M,Colombo A,Gilard M,Palmerini T,Stone GW,Kim HS

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CHD remains the leading cause of death in most developed countries; therefore, elucidation of risk factors and associated mechanisms for atherosclerosis and development of CHD has been a high priority. Data from the Framingham Heart Study and other large-scale epidemiologic studies have identified major risk factors a...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Basha BJ,Sowers JR

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combination therapy with mexiletine (MEX) and quinidine (Q) may be more efficacious than monotherapy with either drug in suppressing ventricular arrhythmias, but its effects on ventricular performance are not known. Thus, right ventricular ejection fraction (RVEF) and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and wall...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Sheldon RS,Duff HJ,Mitchell LB,Wyse DG,Manyari DE

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) experience higher rates of in-stent restenosis and greater benefit from drug-eluting stents implant at the time of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), necessitating prolonged dual anti-platelet therapy (DAPT). While DAPT reduces risk of ischemic events post-PCI, it ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Grodzinsky A,Arnold SV,Wang TY,Sharma P,Gosch K,Jones PG,Bhatt DL,Steg PG,McGuire DK,Cohen DJ,Spertus JA,Chhatriwalla AK,Lind M,Graham G,Kosiborod M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Invasive coronary angiography (ICA) alone fails to accurately select patients with intermediate stenoses who should be treated by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Previous studies have demonstrated the usefulness of fractional flow reserve (FFR) for identifying patients in whom deferring an intended...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Rieber J,Jung P,Koenig A,Schiele T,Shapiro M,Hoffmann U,Klauss V

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the treatment of coronary artery disease, a "pro-healing" approach for prevention of in-stent restenosis and late stent thrombosis is intuitively favored over the use of cytotoxic or cytostatic drugs released from a drug-eluting stent (DES). Promoting accelerated endothelial coverage of the stent surface,...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Klomp M,Beijk MA,Verouden NJ,Tijssen JG,de Winter RJ,TRIAS Investigators.

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although age is the most important variable associated with death among patients with persistent ST-segment elevation, its impact on outcome among patients without persistent ST-segment elevation remains unknown. Moreover, the impact of age on the efficacy of antiplatelet therapy with eptifibatide is unknown...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Hasdai D,Holmes DR Jr,Criger DA,Topol EJ,Califf RM,Harrington RA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowledge of the natural course after an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) treated according to guidelines is limited because comprehensive serial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of systolic left ventricular function, edema, perfusion, and infarct size after STEMI has not been undertaken. The aim o...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Ripa RS,Nilsson JC,Wang Y,Søndergaard L,Jørgensen E,Kastrup J

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression is common in cardiac patients and has been associated with adverse clinical outcome. However, little is known about predictors of the onset of depressive symptoms. We examined predictors of the onset of depressive symptoms at 12 months post-percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients trea...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Pedersen SS,Ong AT,Sonnenschein K,Serruys PW,Erdman RA,van Domburg RT

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the use of clopidogrel in patients "unlikely" to require coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is recommended in current guidelines of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) management, an important minority of patients require CABG. We assessed the ability to predict need for CABG from demographics known a...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Chew DP,Mahaffey KW,White HD,Huang Z,Hoekstra JW,Ferguson JJ,Califf RM,Aylward PE

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) represent an important technologic innovation in the management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. We propose the following concept: AEDs are machines with the limited task of ventricular fibrillation (VF) identification, countershock delivery, and defibrillation. They cannot b...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Cummins RO,Eisenberg MS,Hallstrom AP,Hearne TR,Graves JR,Litwin PE

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine correlates of and recent trends in aspirin use in middle-age men and women, we analyzed data from population-based samples selected in four U.S. communities. Aspirin use (during a 2-week period preceding the study examination) was more prevalent in whites than in blacks (30% vs 11%; p < 0.001) and in men ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Shahar E,Folsom AR,Romm FJ,Bisgard KM,Metcalf PA,Crum L,McGovern PG,Hutchinson RG,Heiss G

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The outpatient prognostic assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD) by exercise electrocardiography has limitations, including the feasibility of the test and its low positive predictive value in several clinical conditions. In the current study we investigated the safety, feasibility, and prognostic value...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Cortigiani L,Picano E,Coletta C,Chiarella F,Mathias W,Gandolfo N,De Alcantara M,Mazzoni V,Gensini GF,Landi P,Echo Persantine International Cooperative (EPIC) Study Group.,Echo Dobutamine International Cooperative (EDIC) Study Group

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00