abstract：:Concentrations of the circulating hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) increase in the very early phase of acute myocardial infarction, and are a marker of arterial thrombosis. A recently developed, highly sensitive HGF assay can detect the early stages of arterial thrombosis in patients with unstable angina pectoris, acute...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Matsumori A

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To review whether brain natriuretic peptides (BNP) can be used as a surrogate for the traditional methods of assessing functional status in interventional studies of patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD). METHODS AND RESULTS:The traditional methods for assessing functional status including New...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Abdulla J,Køber L,Torp-Pedersen C

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The progressive shortening of the atrial effective refractory period (ERP) during atrial fibrillation (AF) might be due to the activation of the KATP channels by rapid atrial rates. We tested the hypothesis that the cardioselective, sarcolemmal KATP channel blocker HMR 1098 would prevent atrial ERP shortening d...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Vereckei A,Gögelein H,Wirth KJ,Zipes DP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim was to study the pharmacodynamic interactions and safety of the co-administration of the calcium sensitizer levosimendan and the calcium antagonist felodipine in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and with normal ejection fraction (EF). METHODS:The study was a randomized, double blind, placeb...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Põder P,Eha J,Antila S,Heinpalu M,Planken U,Loogna I,Mesikepp A,Akkila J,Lehtonen L

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The primary ain of this study was to investigate the effect of carbachol on ventricular repolarisation in an intact animal heart. METHODS:In five sheep, carbachol was administered to the left circumflex coronary artery (LCX) at 1.0 and 2.5 micromol/ml/min respectively for 3 min. Multiple unipolar ECGs were acquir...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Wang L

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 82-year old man was admitted with acute pulmonary edema. Myocardial ischemia and electrolyte abnormalities were excluded and he responded promptly to frusemide, nitrates and morphine. On admission, the duration of the QRS interval was markedly abnormal at 240 ms with a nonspecific intraventricular conduction defect...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Kolettis TM,Naka KK,Katsouras C,Michalis LK,Bourantas K

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To further evaluate the significance of p38 MAPK as trigger or mediator in ischaemic preconditioning, anisomycin and SB 203580 were used to manipulate its activation status. Special attention was given to the concentration of the drugs and protocols used. The isolated perfused rat heart, subjected to either 25 min glo...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Lochner A,Genade S,Hattingh S,Marais E,Huisamen B,Moolman JA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intravenous infusion of low-dose flecainide (50 mg) followed by oral pilsicainide (50 mg t.i.d.)in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF). METHODS:Thirty-one patients with symptomatic and hemodynamically stable AF lasting less than 48 ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Nagai S,Takeishi Y,Kubota I

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Markers of thrombosis, inflammation, endothelial dysfunction and neurohumoral activation such as fibrinogen, D-dimer, C-reactive protein, von Willebrand factor, tumour necrosis factor-alpha and chromogranin-A are reported to be linked to the increase of cardiovascular risk for atherosclerosis progression and...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Scientific Committee of the PERTINENT Sub-Study, EUROPA-PERTINENT Investigators.

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People who consume a diet rich in fruit and vegetables have lower risks of cancer, cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality. Many prospective cohort studies have reported inverse associations between dietary intake or blood levels of beta-carotene and risks of cancer. Several large-scale trials were set up to as...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Clarke R,Armitage J

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate and compare the functional type and the degree of antagonism of the selective angiotensin II type 1 receptor blockers (ARB) losartan, EXP 3174 (the active metabolite of losartan), valsartan and candesartan in human internal mammary arteries. METHODS:Human internal mammary arteries were obtained ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Wagenaar LJ,Voors AA,Buikema H,van Buiten A,Lübeck RH,Boonstra PW,van Veldhuisen DJ,van Gilst WH

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Although the role of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors for the treatment of hypertension has been well established, no data has been generated regarding the influence of ACE inhibitors for health-related quality-of-life (QOL) dimensions for Chinese patients. MATERIALS:A double-blind, active-contro...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Chien KL,Huang PJ,Chen MF,Chiang FT,Lai LP,Lee YT

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel insights provided by the molecular genetic applied to the study of cardiac arrhythmias have just started to scratch the surface of the complex relationships between the genetic abnormalities of ion channel structure and the susceptibility to life threatening ventricular arrhythmias. These crucial pieces of i...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Priori SG,Napolitano C

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High health service expenditure on the one hand, and the politically declared objective of stability of statutory contributions and restriction of public funds on the other hand, have been central points of the political and social discussion for several years. The over-proportional increase in health servic...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Cathomas G,Erne P,Schwenkglenks M,Szucs TD

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review will present a summary of a description of apoptotic pathways in the heart, followed by ways to measure it and the experimental and clinical evidence for the role of apoptosis in cardiac disease. An evaluation of the effectiveness of pharmacological and other therapeutic interventions in the prevention of ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Neuss M,Crow MT,Chesley A,Lakatta EG

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reducing elevated levels of low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) significantly reduces the incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) events and mortality in hypercholesterolemic patients. CHD risk reduction is proportional to LDL-C reduction. Despite this knowledge, many physicians are not applying existing tre...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： McKenney JM

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The natural history of pediatric patients with severely symptomatic neurocardiogenic syncope is poorly defined respect to the likelihood of remission or symptomatic recurrence along time. We undertook this study to investigate the likelihood of clinical relapse, and to assess the effect of prophylactic pharma...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Biffi M,Boriani G,Bronzetti G,Frabetti L,Picchio FM,Branzi A

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amlodipine increases NO levels in coronary vessels and aorta via bradykinin-dependent mechanisms in vitro. We have previously reported that a long-acting Ca channel blocker, benidipine, increases cardiac NO levels in ischemic canine hearts, suggesting that benidipine may also protect against ischemia and reperfusion i...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Asanuma H,Kitakaze M,Node K,Takashima S,Sakata Y,Asakura M,Sanada S,Shinozaki Y,Mori H,Tada M,Kuzuya T,Hori M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelium gene expression regulates blood-vessel wall interactions, vascular permeability, smooth muscle cell growth and tone. The possibility to introduce exogenous DNA or RNA sequences in endothelial cells represents a novel therapeutic approach of vascular disease. The aim of the work was to investigate ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Colombo MG,Citti L,Basta G,De Caterina R,Biagini A,Rainaldi G

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beneficial effects of monotherapy with ACE inhibitors or beta-blockers on hemodynamic function after myocardial infarction are well known. Until now, the effects of combined treatment on cardiac function and energy metabolism have been poorly described. This study examines the effects of combined ramipril and metoprol...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Theres HP,Wagner KD,Romberg D,Feig C,Strube S,Leiterer KP,Günther J,Stangl K,Baumann G,Schimke I

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colesevelam hydrochloride (colesevelam) is a novel, potent, bile acid-binding agent that has been shown to lower LDL cholesterol a mean of 19% at a dose of 3.8 g/d. We studied the pharmacokinetics of colesevelam coadministered with six drugs: digoxin and warfarin, agents with narrow therapeutic indices; sustained-rele...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Donovan JM,Stypinski D,Stiles MR,Olson TA,Burke SK

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium channel blockers are a group of drugs used for the treatment of hypertension. Carbonic anhydrase (CA) I detected in vascular smooth muscle and in other cells in the organism has a major role in the acid-base balance and in vascular processes. Our previous work has proven that verapamil inhibits CA activity by ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Puscas L,Gilau L,Coltau M,Pasca R,Domuta G,Baican M,Hecht A

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion (I)/deletion (D) polymorphism of the ACE gene has been reported to be involved in various cardiovascular diseases. We investigated prospectively whether the response to the ACE inhibitor fosinopril varied according to the ACE genotype in previously untreated Greek hypertensive patients. After a 4-week observ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Stavroulakis GA,Makris TK,Krespi PG,Hatzizacharias AN,Gialeraki AE,Anastasiadis G,Triposkiadis P,Kyriakidis M

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to determine whether a new KATP channel opener, Y 26763 (Y), can influence the electrophysiological properties in the ischemic myocardium as well as to determine whether the blunting effect of the alpha 1-adrenoceptor antagonist bunazosin (BN) on an ischemia-induced shortening of repolariz...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Tanabe T,Aikawa M,Deguchi Y,Yoshioka K,Handa S

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review we attempt to determine the role of calcium channel blockers in preventing cardiovascular sequelae in patients with both hypertension and diabetes mellitus. The data have been collected from three sources: post-hoc analyses of subgroups of diabetic patients in placebo-controlled hypertension trials (SHE...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Gasowski J,Birkenhäger WH,Staessen JA,de Leeuw PW

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have questioned the safety of calcium antagonists in general, and short-acting dihydropyridine derivatives in particular. Reasons include excessive catecholamine stimulation after stress. We therefore wanted to assess whether amlodipine, a second generation dihydropyridine with a prolonged plasma half-l...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Stankovic S,Panz V,Klug E,Di Nicola G,Joffe BI

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP generates nitric oxide (NO) via activation of P2y receptors, and is degraded to adenosine. This study was undertaken to examine whether ATP causes coronary hyperemic flow via purinoceptors-, NO- and adenosine-dependent mechanisms, and attenuates the severity of contractile and metabolic dysfunction in the ischemic...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Kitakaze M,Node K,Komamura K,Minamino T,Kosaka H,Kuzuya T,Hori M

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the effect of antihypertensive drugs on aortic distensibility, we evaluated the aortic distensibility of 33 hypertensive patients before and after antihypertensive treatment by using cine magnetic resonance imaging. Thirty three hypertensive patients were divided into three groups and treated for 12 weeks wi...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Honda T,Hamada M,Shigematsu Y,Matsumoto Y,Matsuoka H,Hiwada K

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose-insulin-therapy for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has had a long history, going back 37 years to the pioneering concepts of Sodi-Pallares. Although a recent meta-analysis of a number of smaller trials has suggested mortality benefit, it is only the South American trial, published in Circulation in 1998, th...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Apstein CS,Opie LH

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous amiodarone has been found useful in the emergent management of life-threatening arrhythmias. Experimental studies have shown that its electrophysiologic effects are proportional to its myocardial concentration. However, early after its intravenous administration, the extent of the concentration of amiodaro...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Anastasiou-Nana MI,Nanas JN,Alexopoulos G,Karli JN,Margari ZJ,Agapitos E,Patsi EN,Stamatelopoulos SF

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of trimetazidine on late potentials in patients with acute myocardial infarction. A total of 60 patients (52 males, mean age 55 +/- 2 years, and 8 females, mean age 54 +/- 1.8 years) with the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction were included in this study. The ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Ozdemir R,Tuncer C,Aladag M,Güven A,Sezgin AT,Pekdemir H,Korkmaz ME,Müderrisoglu H

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rational approach to the treatment of chronic myocardial ischemia requires an appreciation of the pathophysiology of coronary artery disease and the treatment options available. Any factor that causes an imbalance between myocardial oxygen supply and demand can provoke ischemia. Myocardial oxygen requirements rise w...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Cohn PF

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart rate variability is a noninvasive indicator of autonomic nervous system activity. The role of the autonomic nervous system in the genesis of atrial or ventricular arrhythmias is now well established. Little is known about the effects of flecainide on heart rate variability in patients with normal heart structure...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Fauchier L,Babuty D,Autret ML,Poret P,Cosnay P,Fauchier JP

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pyrimidine base, orotic acid (OA), markedly improves the function of recently infarcted hearts subjected to global ischemia. The mechanism of cardiac action of OA is unclear, but it has been proposed that OA acts by correcting a relative deficiency of nucleotide precursors required for RNA synthesis in the stresse...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Rosenfeldt FL,Richards SM,Lin Z,Pepe S,Conyers RA

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-blocker-induced benefit in heart failure is under intense evaluation. Several large-scale mortality trials are currently being performed, with CIBIS II evaluating bisoprolol. The economic impact of beta-blocker therapy in heart failure has not been previously determined. The present study is a cost-effectiveness ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Levy P,Lechat P,Leizorovicz A,Levy E

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suppression of formation of angiotensin II (A-II) is thought to be a major contributor to the hemodynamic response to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition (ACE-in) therapy. However, angiotensin II (A-II) plasma levels may rebound during ACE-in treatment. The study sought to verify the feasibility, safety, and tole...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Di Pasquale P,Bucca V,Scalzo S,Paterna S

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mivazerol, 3-[1(H-imidazol-4-yl)methyl]-2-hydroxybenzamide hydrochloride, is a selective alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist designed for the prevention of myocardial infarction in perioperative patients. Because unintended hypothermia occurs frequently during surgery, we were interested, in this study, to examine the relati...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Kim SY,Raikoff K,Wülfert E,Hanin I

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to compare once-daily administration of 5-10 mg amlodipine with two daily doses of 40 mg sustained-release isosorbide dinitrate in 59 patients with stable angina using a randomized, double-blind, crossover study design. Anginal episodes, nitroglycerin consumption, and possible adverse events we...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Steffensen R,Melchior T,Bech J,Nissen H,Haastrup B,Grande P,Rasmussen V,Hansen JF,Skagen K,Haghfelt T

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In animal models, calcium antagonists (Ca-A) administered before ischemia and reperfusion reduced myocardial necrosis, attenuated postischemic contractile dysfunction, and reduced tissue calcium. In 753 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), we examined if use of Ca-A at the onset of symptoms (n = 127 patien...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Landmark K,Abdelnoor M,Kilhovd B,Dørum HP

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of chronic heart failure (CHF) remains a major medical problem. Although in the last decades the benefits of several therapies in different patient populations with left ventricular dysfunction have been established, morbidity and mortality of CHF patients are high. Consequently, in the last decade improveme...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Szabó BM,van Veldhuisen DJ,de Graeff PA,Lie KI

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00