abstract：:Two hundred twenty-nine hospital survivors of acute myocardial infarction (MI) age 60 years or younger underwent coronary arteriography a median of 2 weeks after infarction and were followed a median of 24 months (range 6-62 months). For 62%, MI was the first presentation of coronary disease and 75% were in clinical K...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Roubin GS,Harris PJ,Bernstein L,Kelly DT

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute aortic regurgitation was created experimentally in 21 mongrel dogs to examine the relationship of the regurgitant jet to observed echocardiographic findings. The direction of the regurgitant jet was studied by echo contrast injections in the aortic root. Diastolic fluttering of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Nakao S,Tanaka H,Tahara M,Yoshimura H,Sakurai S,Tei C,Kashima T

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental studies have suggested that electrocardiographic recognition of left ventricular hypertrophy depends on geometric relationships involving wall thickness and chamber size. To determine the clinical significance of these observations, we studied the effects of echocardiographic LV mass (LVM), posterior wall...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Devereux RB,Phillips MC,Casale PN,Eisenberg RR,Kligfield P

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total body surface maps from 15 subjects with left bundle branch block and normal axis (LBBB-NA) and 10 subjects with left bundle branch block and left axis (LBBB-LA) were analyzed and compared with maps from normal subjects. In 19 of the 25 subjects with LBBB, the timing of early upper sternal positivity was similar ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sohi GS,Flowers NC,Horan LG,Sridharan MR,Johnson JC

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 526 patients undergoing a first percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) of a single native vessel, we studied the influence of length and eccentricity of the lesion on complications and primary success. Long stenoses (greater than or equal to 5 mm, n = 153) did not differ from short stenoses (less tha...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Meier B,Gruentzig AR,Hollman J,Ischinger T,Bradford JM

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To compare acute effects of nitroglycerin (0.8 mg sublingually), nifedipine (5 ng/kg/min i.v.) and metoprolol (0.15 mg/kg i.v.) on normal, ischemic and scarred myocardial segments in man, we performed simultaneous hemodynamic and radionuclide measurements of left ventricular functions. Sixteen patients with isolated l...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pfisterer M,Glaus L,Burkart F

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resting left ventricular (LV) function was evaluated in 22 patients with permanent ventricular pacemakers. LV ejection fraction and volume indexes were determined by gated blood pool scintigraphy at ventricular pacing rates of 50-100 beats/min. In patients with a normal heart size, increases in pacing rates resulted i...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Narahara KA,Blettel ML

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report noninvasive and invasive studies designed to clarify the mechanism of the third heart sound (S3) in humans. The noninvasive observations were made using a miniature accelerometer attached to the skin surface at the cardiac apex. In subjects with no S3, the tracings were either flat or showed very low undulat...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Ozawa Y,Smith D,Craige E

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of progressive pulmonary hypertension in a child with a small ventricular septal defect is presented. Natural history studies have indicated that children with small ventricular septal defects can be followed conservatively. This case represents a contradiction to that rule and suggests that further study must ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Bisset GS 3rd,Hirschfeld SS

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we quantitated the region of preserved myocardium between a subendocardial myocardial infarct (SEMI) and the endocardium in dogs and determined whether this preserved zone was within the region at risk and whether infarct extension could occur in this region. We also evaluated whether a similar subendoca...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Forman R,Cho S,Factor SM,Kirk ES

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied isochronal maps of ventricular activation during ventricular arrhythmias induced by programmed premature stimulation in dogs 3-5 days after ligation of the left anterior descending coronary artery. The entire epicardial surface and selective intramural sites were recorded using a computerized multiplexing t...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Mehra R,Zeiler RH,Gough WB,El-Sherif N

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether a ventricular (LV) end-systolic dimension (ESD) greater than or equal to 55 mm and LV left fractional shortening less than 25% are risk factors for aortic valve replacement (AVR) in patients with aortic insufficiency, we analyzed the clinical course and M-mode echocardiograms in 47 consecutive pat...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Fioretti P,Roelandt J,Bos RJ,Meltzer RS,van Hoogenhuijze D,Serruys PW,Nauta J,Hugenholtz PG

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial fiber disarray is a distinctive histopathologic finding seen in asymmetric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. We studied 14 hearts with aortic atresia and intact interventricular septum, six hearts with pulmonic atresia and intact interventricular septum, eight normal infant hearts matched for age of the study he...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Bulkley BH,D'Amico B,Taylor AL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable variability was observed among recruitment sources and centers in the proportion of first protocol visits proceeding to entry. Some of the reasons for these differences are explored. Several characteristics of the participants were also analyzed to determine whether significant variability existed among r...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Hunninghake DB,Knoke J,LaDouceur M,Peterson F

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial ischemia has, for many decades, been viewed as an all-or-none process that causes myocardial necrosis when prolonged and severe, but whose effects are transient when it is brief or mild. In view of the evidence that the ischemic process may "hit, run and stun," perhaps our thinking about the consequences of...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Braunwald E,Kloner RA

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the contribution of disopyramide's suggested opposing direct depressant and indirect acceleratory actions on sinus node function, we studied the effects of disopyramide, 1 x 10(-7) to 1 x 10(-4) M, on isolated rabbit sinus node preparations using standard microelectrode techniques. Transmembrane potential...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Katoh T,Karagueuzian HS,Jordan J,Mandel WJ

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) was measured by radionuclide angiography at rest and during supine bicycle exercise before and 3 months after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) in 20 patients with chronic stable angina. The right anterior oblique gated first-pass technique was used to assess LVEF re...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lim YL,Kalff V,Kelly MJ,Mason PJ,Currie PJ,Harper RW,Anderson ST,Federman J,Stirling GR,Pitt A

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simplified estimates of the potential patients eligible for coronary artery bypass surgery are presented. Various means of identification are discussed, as well as effects of two levels of stenosis. Although ultimate operability is not directly considered, the results demonstrate a substantial and growing pool of elig...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Cutter GR,Oberman A,Kouchoukos N,Rogers W

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred consecutive patients who underwent coronary artery bypass surgery at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center from December 1972 through February 1975 were evaluated at surgery and then followed for as long as 4 1/2 years to study their postoperative psychosocial and behavioral course. One patient died dur...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kornfeld DS,Heller SS,Frank KA,Wilson SN,Malm JR

更新日期：1982-11-01 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：:In three newborn infants with infradiaphragmatic total anomalous pulmonary venous connection, the common pulmonary vein was visualized with two-dimensional echocardiography and validated with saline contrast injections. The transducer was placed in the subcostal region in a sagittal body plane so as to image the desce...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Snider AR,Silverman NH,Turley K,Ebert PA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cause and associated pathophysiology of precordial ST-segment depression (ST decreases) during acute inferior myocardial infarction (IMI) are controversial. To investigate this problem, electrocardiographic findings in 48 consecutive patients with acute IMI were prospectively compared with results of coronary angi...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Gibson RS,Crampton RS,Watson DD,Taylor GJ,Carabello BA,Holt ND,Beller GA

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective electrocardiographic study was designed to establish baseline values for electrocardiographic measurements, with specific reference to the QT interval during infancy, and to test the "QT hypothesis" for the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). In this ongoing study, ECGs are recorded on the fourth day of...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Schwartz PJ,Montemerlo M,Facchini M,Salice P,Rosti D,Poggio G,Giorgetti R

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the sensitivity and specificity of two-dimensional echocardiography in detecting ischemia-induced transient myocardial dyskinesis. We prepared an open-chest dog model of severe coronary stenosis (90% reduction of circumflex coronary artery diameter) and induced ischemia by acute...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pandian NG,Kerber RE

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 18 patients with stable effort angina, verapamil, 80 mg four times daily, was compared with propranolol, 80 mg four times daily, in a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to assess the effects on anginal threshold, exercise capacity and left ventricular function measured by gated equilibrium blood pool scanning. ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sadick NN,Tan AT,Fletcher PJ,Morris J,Kelly DT

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that blood flow during closed-chest cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) results primarily from generalized changes in intrathoracic pressure rather than direct compression of the heart. Since ascending aortic and right atrial pressures rise and fall synchronously and to comparable levels duri...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Ditchey RV,Winkler JV,Rhodes CA

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because discrepancies about baroreflex sensitivity in essential hypertension may have resulted from the use of different measurement techniques, we assessed the extent to which the results of different techniques agree in the same subjects. The eight techniques studied were the change in RR interval per unit change in...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Goldstein DS,Horwitz D,Keiser HR

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Composite graft replacement of the ascending aorta and aortic valve was performed in 78 patients over an 8 1/2-year period. Degenerative lesions of the aortic root in Marfan's syndrome (annuloaortic ectasia) was the indication for operation in 56 cases; the other 22 patients had other causes of aortic root dilatation ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Donaldson RM,Ross DN

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred four patients younger than 20 years of age underwent intracardiac xenograft valve replacement (n = 41) or extracardiac conduit implantation (n = 63). Long-term follow-up averaged 4.5 and 4.3 years, respectively, and cumulative follow-up totaled 344 patient-years (pt-yr). Thirty patients were followed more ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Miller DC,Stinson EB,Oyer PE,Billingham ME,Pitlick PT,Reitz BA,Jamieson SW,Baumgartner WA,Shumway NE

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preservation of regional myocardial function, high-energy phosphate stores and ultrastructure were assessed in 28 canine hearts subjected to 2 hours of global ischemia at either 12 degrees C or 21 degrees C. The preservation achieved with a potassium arrest solution was simultaneously compared in the same heart with e...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Johnson RG,Jacocks MA,Aretz TH,Geffin GA,O'Keefe DD,DeBoer LW,Guyton RA,Fallon JT,Daggett WM

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-two patients who underwent anatomic correction of transposition of the great arteries at the arterial level at the age of 8 weeks to 14 years were reinvestigated 1-4.6 years (mean 2.0 years) after operation. A Dacron tube was used to bridge the gap between the proximal pulmonary route and the distal pulmonary a...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Yacoub MH,Bernhard A,Radley-Smith R,Lange P,Sievers H,Heintzen P

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors related to late narrowing of aortocoronary vein grafts are poorly understood. Repeat aortocoronary bypass graft angiography was performed in 34 patients at 13 +/- 5 months and 61 +/- 13 months after surgery. In these patients, 61 of 65 grafts (94%) were patent at 1 year; at 5 years, 39 of these patent grafts (...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Palac RT,Meadows WR,Hwang MH,Loeb HS,Pifarre R,Gunnar RM

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ameliorative effect of antiplatelet therapy on atherogenesis of vein grafts was assessed in autologous cephalic veins grafted into femoral arteries of 16 normolipemic and 11 hyperlipemic stump-tailed macaque monkeys. Before grafting, one half of each vein was distended at high pressure (700 mm Hg) and the other ha...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Bonchek LI,Boerboom LE,Olinger GN,Pepper JR,Munns J,Hutchinson L,Kissebah AH

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventilation with positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) is associated with reduced cardiac output, but the mechanisms involved are controversial. Possible explanations include increased intrathoracic pressure, reflex changes in myocardial inotropism, pulmonary vascular obstruction and abnormal ventricular interaction...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Rankin JS,Olsen CO,Arentzen CE,Tyson GS,Maier G,Smith PK,Hammon JW Jr,Davis JW,McHale PA,Anderson RW,Sabiston DC Jr

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arterial oxygen transport (cardiac output x arterial oxygen content) may be decreased in heart failure. We studied the determinants of arterial oxygen transport in 15 patients with chronic, severe myocardial failure at rest and during cycle ergometry. During control therapy at rest, arterial oxygen tension was normal ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Rubin SA,Brown HV,Swan HJ

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six instances of sudden death were recorded by Holter monitoring, which showed ventricular fibrillation in five and a bradyarrhythmia in one. Complex ventricular ectopic activity preceded cardiac arrest in five patients, including the one with the bradyarrhythmic arrest. Two patients with chronic bifascicular block ar...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Nikolic G,Bishop RL,Singh JB

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic, renal and splanchnic hemodynamics, intravascular volume, circulating catecholamine levels and plasma renin activity were compared in 39 patients with borderline hypertension and 28 normotensive subjects, who were less than 5% (n = 42, lean patients) or more than 40% overweight (n = 25, obese patients). Lean ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Messerli FH,Ventura HO,Reisin E,Dreslinski GR,Dunn FG,MacPhee AA,Frohlich ED

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the resting hemodynamic effects of captopril in congestive heart failure are known, little information is available about the hemodynamic response to captopril during exercise or about changes in noninvasive measurements of the size and function of both ventricles. In this study, 14 stable New York Heart Asso...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Massie B,Kramer BL,Topic N,Henderson SG

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this double-blind randomized study, 19 patients with acute transmural myocardial infarction were treated with methylprednisolone administered 4.4 +/- 0.7 hours (+/- SEM) after the onset of chest pain, and were compared with 21 patients who received placebo 4.5 +/- 0.4 hours after the start of clinical symptoms. The...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Madias JE,Hood WB Jr

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of encainide on ventricular arrhythmia and left ventricular function were studied in 21 patients with chronic, high-grade ventricular arrhythmia using a prospective, 3-month, placebo-controlled, single-blind trial design. Encainide caused a 96% decrease in the average hourly frequency of ventricular premat...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： DiBianco R,Fletcher RD,Cohen AI,Gottdiener JS,Singh SN,Katz RJ,Bates HR,Sauerbrunn B

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00