abstract：:For 40 years the American College of Cardiology has been a responsible organization in promoting the art and science of cardiac care for people of all ages. This review chronicles the leapfrogging of medical and surgical creativity and contributions to saving lives and making those lives healthy through informed care ...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Engle MA

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether measurement of aortic blood flow velocity and acceleration by pulsed Doppler ultrasound can be used to assess the global performance of the systemic right ventricle noninvasively in young patients who have undergone intraatrial repair of aortopulmonary transposition. ...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Schmidt KG,Cloez JL,Silverman NH

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary angioplasty as it is now performed has several limitations, including abrupt early arterial closure and delayed restenosis. To obviate these problems and to enhance the safety of the technique, several intracoronary stenting devices have been developed and are under investigation. This report reviews the scie...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Ellis SG,Topol EJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combined clinical and pathophysiologic characteristics and diagnostic features as well as current concepts of pathogenesis, therapy and prevention of the principal forms of cardiomyopathy are reviewed. These include hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, restrictive cardiomyopathy and specific cardia...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Abelmann WH,Lorell BH

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the long-term outcome of 33 patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy who experienced a cardiac arrest but were successfully resuscitated. Cardiac arrest occurred at ages 9 to 62 years (mean 32); five patients survived multiple (two or three) arrests. A variety of treatments were administered; 18 ...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Cecchi F,Maron BJ,Epstein SE

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has become an increasingly important health problem worldwide. This review focuses on its cardiac complications. The key elements in the clinical syndrome are the opportunistic infections and the cancer that occur as a by-product of the immunodeficiency process. However, as ea...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Acierno LJ

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty was attempted in 10 newborn infants with critical aortic valve stenosis and severe congestive heart failure. Three had a very small left ventricle and aortic anulus. In one infant, the aortic valve could not be passed, and in another infant, a technical error resulted in severe valvu...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Kasten-Sportes CH,Piechaud JF,Sidi D,Kachaner J

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of an intermittent regimen of transdermal nitroglycerin in chronic stable angina was evaluated in 206 patients using serial treadmill testing. After a placebo stabilization phase, patients were randomized to 4 weeks of double-blind treatment with transdermal nitroglycerin, 10 or 20 cm2 (equivalent to...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： DeMots H,Glasser SP

更新日期：1989-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to determine whether mural thrombus in a dilated left ventricle is associated with specific flow patterns, a study was undertaken to assess qualitatively and quantitatively the flow characteristics by conventional pulsed and two-dimensional Doppler color flow examination. Forty patients with cardiomyopat...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Maze SS,Kotler MN,Parry WR

更新日期：1989-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Histopathologic studies have demonstrated accumulation of lipid droplets in myocardium subjected to greater than or equal to 6 h of ischemic insult. Proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy can provide a noninvasive means to evaluate changes in tissue lipid and, potentially, to characterize the ischemic in...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Reeves RC,Evanochko WT,Canby RC,McMillin JB,Pohost GM

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine predictors of inducible sustained ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation by programmed electrical stimulation in patients with coronary artery disease and ventricular tachyarrhythmias, 14 clinical and angiographic variables were analyzed in 60 consecutive patients. All patients had angiographically docum...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Vorperian VR,Gittelsohn AM,Veltri EP

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether two-dimensional echocardiography can identify patients with left ventricular thrombus after myocardial infarction who are prone to embolism, clinical and echocardiographic variables in 541 patients with a first infarction between 1979 and 1983 were studied prospectively. The first echocardiogram s...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Jugdutt BI,Sivaram CA

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty years ago therapy for congestive heart failure was limited largely to the mercurial diuretics and a variety of cardiac glycoside preparations; these were often ineffective, and the common practice of "pushing" digitalis caused serious, sometimes lethal side effects. Today, a more complete understanding of the re...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Katz AM

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 3,548 patients undergoing a percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty procedure, 714 had multilesion angioplasty (1,550 lesions) in a single session. Acute occlusion occurred in 22 patients (3.1%) and 29 lesions (1.9%). The patients were classified into a group undergoing multivessel angioplasty (348 patien...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Gaul G,Hollman J,Simpfendorfer C,Franco I

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred sixty-two patients, all with either documented spontaneous sustained ventricular tachycardia or cardiac arrest unresponsive to other antiarrhythmic drugs (2.6/patient), were treated with amiodarone. Thirty-five patients (7.6%) failed to respond or died during the initial oral or intravenous loading phase....

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Herre JM,Sauve MJ,Malone P,Griffin JC,Helmy I,Langberg JJ,Goldberg H,Scheinman MM

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the influence of left ventricular chamber stiffness and relaxation on Doppler echocardiographic indexes of diastolic function, 35 patients (mean age 60 +/- 12 years) were examined; 24 had coronary artery disease and 11 (Group I) had no cardiovascular disease. Micromanometer left ventricular pressure was re...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Stoddard MF,Pearson AC,Kern MJ,Ratcliff J,Mrosek DG,Labovitz AJ

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess left ventricular diastolic filling in amyloid heart disease, 17 patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy and 20 normal subjects were examined by radionuclide angiography. None of the patients showed clinical evidence of restrictive cardiomyopathy. All but two patients had normal left ventricular ejectio...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Hongo M,Fujii T,Hirayama J,Kinoshita O,Tanaka M,Okubo S

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of the effects of bundle branch block on ventriculoatrial (VA) intervals during orthodromic reciprocating tachycardia have focused on the timing of the atrial electrograms. However, left bundle branch block importantly affects the timing of initial ventricular activation, and this effect would also be...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Baerman JM,Bauernfeind RA,Swiryn S

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kearns-Sayre syndrome is clinically defined by progressive external ophthalmoplegia, atypical retinitis pigmentosa and the potential occurrence of complete atrioventricular (AV) block. Right septal endomyocardial biopsy specimens from nine patients (four men and five women with a mean [+/- SD] [corrected] age of 36.3 ...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Schwartzkopff B,Frenzel H,Breithardt G,Deckert M,Lösse B,Toyka KV,Borggrefe M,Hort W

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of studies generating normal echocardiographic reference values for left ventricular dimensions have been based on blindly performed M-mode measurements, and there are no previous reports based on two-dimensional echocardiography that provide a comprehensive analysis of the two-dimensional measurements fr...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Pearlman JD,Triulzi MO,King ME,Newell J,Weyman AE

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from 2,883 cardiac catheterizations performed during an 18 month period (from July 1986 through December 1987) were analyzed to assess the current complication profile of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Procedures performed during the study period included 1,609 diagnostic catheterizations, 933 percutaneou...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Wyman RM,Safian RD,Portway V,Skillman JJ,McKay RG,Baim DS

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major clinical uses of the new Doppler color flow mapping technologies involve the imaging of disturbed flow through cardiac defects or valves. Nevertheless, there is little general understanding of the determinants of flow and of how flow is imaged by these new systems. This review will attempt to relate the hydrodyn...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Sahn DJ

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Irregularity of the ventricular rhythm is a hallmark of patients with atrial fibrillation, yet the genesis of the irregularity is not yet fully understood. The role of the atrioventricular (AV) node in determining the irregularity of the ventricular response to atrial fibrillation was investigated by comparing the fre...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Kirsh JA,Sahakian AV,Baerman JM,Swiryn S

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of intravenous magnesium on exercise-induced angina were examined in 15 patients with variant angina and in 13 patients with stable effort angina and were compared with those of placebo. Symptom-limited bicycle exercise and thallium-201 myocardial scintigraphy were performed after intravenous administratio...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Kugiyama K,Yasue H,Okumura K,Goto K,Minoda K,Miyagi H,Matsuyama K,Kojima A,Koga Y,Takahashi M

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 205 patients hospitalized with myocardial infarction 2 to 162 months (mean 66) after bypass surgery and 205 control patients with myocardial infarction were compared and followed up for 34 +/- 25 months after hospital discharge. At baseline the postbypass group contained more men (p less than 0.03) and more...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Wiseman A,Waters DD,Walling A,Pelletier GB,Roy D,Théroux P

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that myocardial contrast echocardiography could be used to simultaneously assess coronary blood flow reserve and the size of the perfusion bed supplied by a coronary artery was examined in nine patients and six dogs. All patients were undergoing cardiac catheterization and had single vessel coronary art...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Keller MW,Glasheen W,Smucker ML,Burwell LR,Watson DD,Kaul S

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the effects of dietary fish oil on cholesterol-induced atherosclerosis, 36 New Zealand rabbits in four groups were fed a 0.3% cholesterol diet for 10 weeks. One group served as control, whereas groups I, II and III received 1, 2 and 3 ml/day, respectively, of fish oil (Protochol, eicosapentaenoic acid, 180...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Zhu BQ,Smith DL,Sievers RE,Isenberg WM,Parmley WW

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The criteria proposed for the clinical diagnosis of Takayasu's disease (chronic inflammatory arteriopathy of unknown origin) were based on clinical and angiographic data from 108 Japanese patients: 96 with Takayasu's disease and 12 with another disease of the aorta. The criteria consist of one obligatory criterion (ag...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Ishikawa K

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utility of using an endurance test as well as a maximal exercise test to assess the effect of amlodipine, a dihydropyridine calcium antagonist, was evaluated in 16 patients with angina pectoris. Amlodipine, 10 mg/day, was compared with placebo in a double blind crossover study. After a 2 week single blind placebo ...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Kinnard DR,Harris M,Hossack KF

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opening of the tricuspid valve and the onset of right ventricular filling precede the opening of the mitral valve and the onset of flow in the normal adult. Sixty-five studies of atrioventricular flow with range-gated pulsed Doppler echocardiography, performed on 32 normal neonates, consistently demonstrated the r...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Steinfeld L,Almeida OD,Rothfeld EL

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental data have indicated that baroreflex sensitivity is often depressed in dogs after myocardial infarction and that this depression correlates strongly with subsequent mortality during episodes of acute myocardial ischemia. This finding has several clinical implications. The present study was undertaken with ...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Schwartz PJ,Zaza A,Pala M,Locati E,Beria G,Zanchetti A

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 333 patients arriving within 6 h of the onset of suspected or proven but uncomplicated myocardial infarction were randomized to treatment by either the prophylactic or the selective lidocaine strategy. Patients were monitored for 24 h. The major end points were sustained ventricular tachycardia or fibrillat...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Wyse DG,Kellen J,Rademaker AW

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Left ventricular function during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty was studied in 16 patients undergoing the procedure. All measurements were performed before and during the first episode of balloon coronary occlusion. In 16 patients (Group A), data were recorded before and 30 or 50 s after balloon inflat...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Bertrand ME,Lablanche JM,Fourrier JL,Traisnel G,Mirsky I

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of intracoronary thrombus and the effects of thrombolytic therapy were studied in 41 patients with unstable angina. All patients underwent coronary angiography 2 to 69 h (mean 19) after their last attack of chest pain. Immediately after angiography, 21 patients received intracoronary streptokinase (250,0...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： de Zwaan C,Bar FW,Janssen JH,de Swart HB,Vermeer F,Wellens HJ

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 26 consecutive cases with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) the main cardiac findings were Kaposi's sarcoma in 2 cases, microfocal myocardial abscess in 1, subendocardial infarct necrosis in 2, contraction band necrosis in 13, lymphocytic myocarditis in 9, intramyocardial lymphocytic infiltrates without myo...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Baroldi G,Corallo S,Moroni M,Repossini A,Mutinelli MR,Lazzarin A,Antonacci CM,Cristina S,Negri C

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty patients with anteroapical left ventricular aneurysm secondary to prior myocardial infarction underwent aneurysmectomy, at which time endocardial sinus rhythm mapping was performed. Forty patients had a history of recurrent sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia, and 10 had an aneurysm but no history of s...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Miller JM,Vassallo JA,Kussmaul WG 3rd,Cassidy DM,Hargrove WC 3rd,Josephson ME

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iodine-123 phenylpentadecanoic acid (IPPA) is a synthetic long chain fatty acid with myocardial kinetics similar to palmitate. Two hypotheses were tested in this study. The first hypothesis was that IPPA imaging with single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is useful in the identification of patients with co...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Hansen CL,Corbett JR,Pippin JJ,Jansen DE,Kulkarni PV,Ugolini V,Henderson E,Akers M,Buja LM,Parkey RW

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a Veterans Administration Cooperative Study involving 13 medical centers, 575 patients undergoing single valve replacement were prospectively randomized to receive either the standard Björk-Shiley prosthesis or the Hancock porcine heterograft (with a modified orifice for sizes 23 and smaller). The hemodynamic data ...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Khuri SF,Folland ED,Sethi GK,Souchek J,Oprian C,Wong M,Burchfiel C,Henderson WG,Hammermeister KE

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo plaque recognition may be important for safe and precise intra-arterial atheroma ablation during laser coronary angioplasty. This study examined the feasibility and sensitivity of utilizing quantitative fluorescence spectroscopy and video-enhanced fluorescence imaging for plaque identification in atherosclerot...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Leon MB,Lu DY,Prevosti LG,Macy WW Jr,Smith PD,Granovsky M,Bonner RF,Balaban RS

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiologic studies were performed at 12.7 +/- 4 months postoperatively in 20 patients who had the arterial switch repair at 1 to 120 days (mean 13 +/- 26 [SD]) for d-transposition of the great arteries. Preoperative electrocardiograms (ECGs) at rest revealed an ectopic atrial rhythm in one patient. Postoperati...

journal_title：Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors： Vetter VL,Tanner CS

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00