abstract：:It is well known that atrial fibrillation can lead to heart failure, and is attributed to rapid ventricular rate (tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy). Some recent studies suggest the possible existence of an intrinsic left-ventricular factor related to atrial fibrillation, irrespective of other elements. In order to d...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Jourdain P,Bellorini M,Funck F,Fulla Y,Guillard N,Loiret J,Thebault B,Sadeg N,Desnos M

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relationship between quality of life (QoL) and survival have been poorly investigated. The aim of this study was to determine the value of QoL score as a prognostic factor in a prospective cohort of patients with advanced chronic heart failure (CHF). METHODS:QoL assessment was performed with a generic q...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Alla F,Briançon S,Guillemin F,Juillière Y,Mertès PM,Villemot JP,Zannad F,EPICAL Investigators.

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role of AT1 receptors in myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury is unclear. We, therefore, investigated the effects of the AT1 receptor antagonist irbesartan (Irb) in isolated hearts of selective myocardial AT1 overexpressing transgenic [transgenic(alphaMHC-hAT1)594-17] and Sprague-Dawley rats (SD) subje...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Han H,Hoffmann S,Hu K,Ertl G

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Drug-induced changes in QT dispersion may be a way of detecting harmful repolarisation abnormalities for patients receiving antiarrhythmic drugs affecting ventricular repolarisation. METHODS AND RESULTS:In 463 congestive heart failure (CHF) patients enrolled in the Danish Investigations Of Arrhythmia and Mortalit...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Brendorp B,Elming H,Jun L,Køber L,Torp-Pedersen C,DIAMOND Study Group. Danish Investigations Of Arrhythmia and Mortality On Dofetilide.

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospital management of CHF and predictors of hospital mortality remain unclear. METHODS:To address these issues, we analyzed the hospital admissions for CHF during 1996 in a large university hospital. Patients discharged with the principal diagnosis of CHF were considered eligible for the study. RESULTS:Am...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Grigioni F,Carinci V,Favero L,Bacchi Reggiani L,Magnani G,Potena L,Barbieri A,Magelli C,Branzi A,Magnani B

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oxygen (O2) uptake at peak exercise (VO2 peak) is an objective measurement of functional capacity in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). The significance of recovery O2 kinetics parameters in predicting exercise capacity, and the parameters of submaximal exercise testing have not been thoroughly exami...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Nanas S,Nanas J,Kassiotis C,Nikolaou C,Tsagalou E,Sakellariou D,Terovitis I,Papazachou O,Drakos S,Papamichalopoulos A,Roussos C

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) appears to play a role in modulating cardiac function in both health and disease. Early studies in isolated rodent cardiac myocytes demonstrated a depressant effect of NO supplied by NO donors (exogenous) as well as NO generated within myocytes (endogenous). There is increasing evidence for a functio...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Sarkar D,Vallance P,Harding SE

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowledge on clinical characteristics and prognosis of patients with heart failure originates from studies of selected populations in clinical trials or from epidemiological observations. Reports on the large numbers of patients with heart failure treated in community hospitals are sparse. OBJECTIVE:Are the...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Taubert G,Bergmeier C,Andresen H,Senges J,Potratz J

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Beneficial effects of left ventricular (LV)-based pacing on acute hemodynamic parameters were reported in several series, but only a few studies examined the long-term effects of this new pacing procedure. AIMS:To assess long-term effects of permanent LV-based pacing on LV function and mitral regurgitation ...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Etienne Y,Mansourati J,Touiza A,Gilard M,Bertault-Valls V,Guillo P,Boschat J,Blanc JJ

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The epidemiology of heart failure in Arabia, with a population different from the West in cultural and ethnic origin, has not been studied before. AIMS:To determine the prevalence and aetiologies of symptomatic heart failure in an indigenous Arab population over a 3-year period. METHODS:All patients with h...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Agarwal AK,Venugopalan P,de Bono D

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical trials, the gold standard for the evaluation of new therapeutic strategies, may prove a drug to be beneficial, harmful or neutral according to its effect on the end-point(s) under study. AIMS:To study the reaction and perspective of the patients participating in a clinical heart failure trial, part...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Yuval R,Uziel K,Gordon N,Merdler A,Khader N,Karkabi B,Flugelman MY,Halon DA,Lewis BS

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Echocardiography with Doppler examination of the aortic valve provides a very accurate assessment of the transvalvular gradient and is used to monitor progression of aortic stenosis (AS). Plasma brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) has been shown to correlate with end-systolic wall stress in patients with AS. AI...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Talwar S,Downie PF,Squire IB,Davies JE,Barnett DB,Ng LL

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Information about the occurrence of heart failure in the acute phase of myocardial infarction (MI) in diabetic patients and its impact on prognosis are sparse. AIM:The purpose of the present study was to describe how MI patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) differed from MI patients without DM with respect t...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Melchior T,Rask-Madsen C,Torp-Pedersen C,Hildebrandt P,Køber L,Jensen G

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The diagnosis of heart failure is an important clinical problem and yet reported diagnostic accuracy in primary care is less than 50%. We established a Rapid Access Heart Failure Clinic (RAHFC) in a district general hospital serving a population of 292,000 in SE London, UK, to diagnose and manage ne...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Fox KF,Cowie MR,Wood DA,Coats AJ,Poole-Wilson PA,Sutton GC

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carvedilol has been shown to be beneficial for patients with heart failure, but it is not clear how it should be initiated in routine clinical practice, particularly in the elderly. This study is a retrospective review of 19 patients of age 80+/-4 years with heart failure, who had Carvedilol treatment initiated in a r...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Owen A

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Experimental data have shown that rIL2 has negative inotropic properties. This has not been investigated in humans with normal left ventricular function. Seventeen consecutive renal cell carcinoma patients who received rIL2 therapy because of dissemination were analyzed before and after treatment with a low ...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Tio RA,Nieken J,de Vries EG,Pfeiffer C,de Jongste MJ,Pieper E,Moshage H,Limburg PC,Mulder NH

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Regional presynaptic sympathetic innervation varies considerably in the cardiomyopathic human heart, as shown in previous studies in vivo and in vitro. The goal of the present study was to correlate markers of presynaptic sympathetic innervation with local measurement of the postsynaptic beta-adrenergic syst...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Ungerer M,Weig HJ,Kübert S,Overbeck M,Bengel F,Schömig A,Schwaiger M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ELITE-II, BEST and CHAMP Trials were reported for the first time at the American Heart Association in November 1999. These trials provide valuable new information to guide clinical practice in the management of heart failure and of myocardial infarction, although none mandate a major change from current clinical p...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Witte K,Thackray S,Banerjee T,Clark AL,Cleland JG

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasma renin activity is normal in left ventricular dysfunction in the absence of diuretic therapy. In health there is a reciprocal relationship between renin and atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) but a positive correlation in advanced heart failure. The relationship between renin and ANP in mild left ventric...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Dutka DP,Puri S,Strong R,Cleland JG

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Platelet-endothelial interactions modulated by adhesion molecules, may play an important role in the pathogenesis of congestive heart failure (CHF). Soluble levels of these molecules and platelet-derived substances are reportedly elevated in patients with CHF. However, no data are available on the plasma lev...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Serebruany VL,Murugesan SR,Pothula A,Atar D,Lowry DR,O'Connor CM,Gurbel PA

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RUSSLAN study, which randomised 504 patients with post-infarction heart failure in whom intravenous inotropic support might be deemed appropriate, was presented for the first time in a hotline session at the annual meeting of the Working Group on Heart Failure of the European Society of Cardiology. The study sugge...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Gomes UC,Cleland JG

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart failure is a major health problem and is associated with a high mortality and morbidity. Recently, the role of the genetic background in the onset and the development of the disease has been evidenced in both heart failure with and without systolic dysfunction and in familial and non-familial forms of this condi...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Komajda M,Charron P,Tesson F

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carvedilol improves left ventricular (LV) function when heart failure is due to LV systolic dysfunction, but the magnitude of the response is heterogeneous among patients with coronary disease, possibly reflecting the presence or volume of hibernating myocardium. AIMS:The primary objective of the study is t...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Cleland JG,Pennel D,Ray S,Murray G,MacFarlane P,Cowley A,Coats A,Lahiri A

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasma concentrations of atrial natriuretic peptides are correlated with atrial pressures, as are left ventricular ejection fraction and left ventricular filling abnormalities. AIMS:This study investigated the relation of atrial natriuretic peptides to both left ventricular systolic and diastolic function i...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Wijbenga AA,Balk AH,Jonkman FA,Boomsma F,Simoons ML,Man in t Veld AJ

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00