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3,400 | 9,129 | Deep femoral to anterior tibial bypass after failed femoropopliteal reconstructions.
Deep femoral to anterior tibial artery bypass is a reconstructive technique occasionally applicable when more conventional attempts at revascularization of the distal portion of the leg have failed.
Three such patients, in whom the a... | C14 |
3,401 | 246 | Myocarditis simulating acute transmural myocardial infarction.
A patient with cardiogenic shock had typical electrocardiographic findings of acute anterior transmural myocardial infarction.
Cardiac catheterization revealed normal coronary arteries and severe biventricular failure.
Postmortem examination confirmed no... | C14 |
3,402 | 3,522 | Splenic septic emboli in endocarditis.
The significance of septic emboli to the spleen is inferred by the frequency of septic emboli in general seen in patients with left-sided infective endocarditis who are referred for valve replacement.
To determine the proper management of splenic infarcts and abscess due to sept... | C14 |
3,403 | 3,036 | Treatment of traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta. A 15-year experience.
Traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta is increasing in incidence and remains a highly lethal injury.
The morbidity associated with this injury also remains high.
We retrospectively reviewed the records of all patients admitted to our emerg... | C14 |
3,404 | 5,189 | Mild ischemia predisposes the S3 segment to gentamicin toxicity.
The purpose of these studies was to determine if a functionally insignificant ischemic insult, occurring prior to gentamicin administration, enhanced gentamicin nephrotoxicity.
Bilateral renal pedicle clamp studies demonstrated that 15 minutes of ischem... | C14 |
3,405 | 6,234 | Videodensitometry versus digital calipers for quantitative coronary angiography.
Single-plane left coronary angiograms in 18 patients were prospectively analyzed using videodensitometry (XR-70 system) and handheld digital calipers to compare arterial dimensions, stenosis dimensions, intraobserver variability and inter... | C14 |
3,406 | 8,300 | Studies of myocardial protection in the immature heart. II. Evidence for importance of amino acid metabolism in tolerance to ischemia.
This study tests the importance of amino acid transamination in determining the tolerance of immature hearts to ischemic damage.
Amino acid transamination was inhibited metabolically ... | C14 |
3,407 | 2,519 | Cardiorespiratory effects of endoscopic esophageal variceal sclerotherapy.
Endoscopic variceal sclerotherapy (EVS) is an effective means of controlling variceal hemorrhage, which develops as a consequence of portal hypertension.
While esophageal perforation, ulceration, strictures, and mediastinitis are potential com... | C14 |
3,408 | 3,510 | Iliofemoral arterial complications of balloon angioplasty for systemic obstructions in infants and children
The medical and radiological records of 64 consecutive infants and children who underwent transfemoral balloon dilation of the aorta or aortic valve were reviewed to determine the incidence, nature, and post-tr... | C14 |
3,409 | 2,702 | Cardioprotective effects of carnitine in extensive aortocoronary bypass grafting: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial.
The cardioprotective effects of carnitine were tested in patients undergoing multiple aortocoronary bypass grafting.
Intermittent aortic cross-clamping at 28 degrees C was u... | C14 |
3,410 | 3,201 | Transoesophageal echocardiography in the longitudinal axis: correlation between anatomy and images and its clinical implications.
Transoesophageal echocardiographic imaging in the longitudinal axis is a recent addition to the non-invasive evaluation of congenital and acquired heart disease.
The technique provides uni... | C14 |
3,411 | 6,676 | Early detection of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with chest pain and nondiagnostic ECGs: serial CK-MB sampling in the emergency department [published erratum appears in Ann Emerg Med 1991 Apr;20(4):420]
STUDY OBJECTIVES: Patients presenting to the emergency department with chest discomfort are a d... | C14 |
3,412 | 2,347 | Technetium-99m sestamibi in chronic coronary artery disease: the European experience.
Since the introduction of technetium-99m methoxy-isobutyl isonitrile (Tc-99m sestamibi) in Europe, there has been a growing interest in its use.
Several European multicenter trials have been conducted to evaluate this new agent in r... | C14 |
3,413 | 918 | Coronary angioplasty after coronary bypass surgery: initial results and late outcome in 422 patients.
From 1978 to 1988, coronary angioplasty was performed in 422 patients with prior coronary artery bypass surgery (264 patients with native coronary artery angioplasty and 158 patients with graft angioplasty).
Angiopla... | C14 |
3,414 | 5,469 | Pharmacological reversibility of experimental cerebral vasospasm.
Using a morphometric technique, the pharmacological reversibility of luminal narrowing after experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) was investigated.
For vasodilation, a "cocktail" consisting of 10(-4) M papaverine, 2 x 10(-4) M sodium nitroprussid... | C14 |
3,415 | 6,934 | Lovastatin. Warfarin interaction.
Two patients who developed hypoprothrombinemia and bleeding due to lovastatin-warfarin drug interaction are described.
Because of the wider use of lovastatin and warfarin, heightened clinical awareness of this potentially serious interaction must be publicized.
Therefore, prothrombi... | C14 |
3,416 | 3,037 | Angioscopy for intraoperative management of thromboembolectomy.
Our experience with angioscopy suggests that direct visualization of the arterial lumen during thromboembolectomy procedures would provide a more reliable method of assessing luminal morphologic characteristics than angiography alone.
We inspected 32 gra... | C14 |
3,417 | 6,434 | Ultrasonographic diagnosis of a large placental intervillous thrombosis associated with elevated maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein level.
A placental lesion associated with elevated maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein level and a positive Kleihauer-Betke test is reported.
Serial ultrasonograms showed a progressive increa... | C14 |
3,418 | 6,384 | Sudden death in young competitive athletes: clinicopathologic correlations in 22 cases.
PURPOSE: To investigate the pathologic substrates of sudden death in young competitive athletes.
PATIENTS AND METHODS: Twenty-two cases of sudden death in young competitive athletes occurring in the Veneto region (northern Italy) ... | C14 |
3,419 | 6,184 | Angiography, angioscopy, and ultrasound imaging before and after percutaneous balloon angioplasty.
We report two patients undergoing peripheral percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in whom angiography, angioscopy, and ultrasound imaging were performed before and after balloon angioplasty.
The first case with smooth ... | C14 |
3,420 | 6,580 | Admissions to the intensive care unit after complications of anaesthetic techniques over 10 years. 2. The second 5 years
Compared with the first 5 years there was a 19% increase in general anaesthetics, a 171% increase in local and (or) sedation techniques and a 9% increase in obstetric epidurals with no increase in ... | C14 |
3,421 | 2,535 | Effects of hypertension on pregnancy monitoring and results.
The effect of severity of hypertension on fetal heart rate tracing changes and neonatal outcomes was evaluated on all patients with hypertension seen in 1980 and 1981 (666 cases, 10% of the pregnant population) in the Chicago-Lying In Hospital.
The patients... | C14 |
3,422 | 2,278 | Reduction in infarct size by the phospholipase inhibitor quinacrine in dogs with coronary artery occlusion.
It has been suggested that activation of tissue phospholipases may contribute to the development of ischemic cell injury.
In the present study we sought to assess whether administration of the phospholipase inh... | C14 |
3,423 | 2,023 | Irrigation device for neuroangiographic procedures.
A simple irrigation device for use in diagnostic and interventional neuroangiographic procedures is described.
The device is used to flush bubbles and blood clots from catheter hubs.
The authors also describe a technique in which this device can be used to prevent ... | C14 |
3,424 | 3,559 | Deferoxamine fails to improve postischemic cardiac function in hypertrophied hearts.
Myocardial hypertrophy is a well-recognized risk factor in congenital cardiac surgery.
Hypertrophied hearts have been demonstrated to have an increased vulnerability to ischemia/reperfusion injury.
We studied the effects of the iron... | C14 |
3,425 | 291 | Species-dependent effects of adenosine on heart rate and atrioventricular nodal conduction. Mechanism and physiological implications.
This study 1) compares the negative chronotropic and dromotropic actions of adenosine in guinea pig, rat, and rabbit hearts; 2) investigates the mechanism(s) for the different responses... | C14 |
3,426 | 3,034 | Popliteal vascular trauma. A community experience.
Preventing amputation continues to be a significant challenge when popliteal vascular injuries occur.
A retrospective review of cases from the San Diego County (California) Trauma System identified 108 patients with 76 blunt and 32 penetrating arterial injuries.
The... | C14 |
3,427 | 3,344 | Recent changes in the treatment of aortoiliac occlusive disease by the Oxford Regional Vascular Service.
Over the four years from 1 January 1985 to 31 December 1988, 192 patients were treated for aortoiliac occlusive disease by the Oxford Regional Vascular Service.
The number of patients treated by percutaneous trans... | C14 |
3,428 | 930 | Effects of benazepril and metoprolol OROS alone and in combination on myocardial ischemia in patients with chronic stable angina
The efficacy of benazepril, metoprolol OROS and their combination was evaluated in 29 patients (42 to 74 years of age) with chronic stable angina and documented coronary artery disease in a... | C14 |
3,429 | 6,100 | Progress report of the Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation Study.
The Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation Study recently found and reported (SPAF Investigators, N Engl J Med, 1990;322:863-868) a beneficial effect of both warfarin and aspirin compared with placebo in the primary prevention of ischemic stroke ... | C14 |
3,430 | 9,036 | Response to diet and cholestyramine in a patient with sitosterolemia.
In this report, an 11-year-old boy with diffuse tendinous and tuberous xanthomatosis and a plasma sterol concentration of 555 mg/dL, consisting primarily of cholesterol, is described.
Three months after changing from an unrestricted diet to a chole... | C14 |
3,431 | 8,670 | Patient profiling: individualization of hypertension therapy.
Although the stepped-care approach remains the cornerstone of antihypertensive therapy, the patient's profile must also be considered.
Important issues include the patient's age, race and activity level, potential for hypertensive complications, presence o... | C14 |
3,432 | 694 | Endothelium-derived relaxing factors. A perspective from in vivo data.
We review below published studies of endothelium-dependent vasodilation in vivo.
Endothelium-dependent vasodilation has been demonstrated in conduit arteries in vivo and in the cerebral, coronary, mesenteric, and femoral vascular beds as well as i... | C14 |
3,433 | 5,140 | Deep vein obstruction and leg swelling caused by femoral ganglion.
We present a case of a rare ganglion cyst originating from the hip joint and compressing the common femoral vein producing signs and symptoms that mimicked a deep vein thrombosis.
Excision of the mass promptly restored normal venous return.
This cond... | C14 |
3,434 | 2,362 | Comparison of intravenous amrinone and dobutamine in congestive heart failure due to idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.
A prospective randomized study was performed in 46 consecutive patients with refractory congestive heart failure (CHF) due to idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy to compare the hemodynamic responses to... | C14 |
3,435 | 5,435 | Acute changes in the dynamics of the cerebrospinal fluid system during experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Early changes in intracranial pressure (ICP), ICP volume index, and resistance to absorption of cerebrospinal fluid induced by experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage were studied in cats.
After SAH, the ICP was ... | C14 |
3,436 | 7,127 | Beta-adrenergic receptors in lymphocyte subsets after exercise. Alterations in normal individuals and patients with congestive heart failure.
Dynamic exercise increases the number of beta-adrenergic receptors in mixed lymphocytes by a mechanism that is incompletely understood.
In a set of in vivo studies, we have inv... | C14 |
3,437 | 8,556 | Epidemiologic aspects of heart failure.
The prevalence of heart failure in Northwest London is 0.4%, a lower figure than that quoted for the United States.
Heart failure is a common reason (5%) for medical admission to the hospital in the London area.
The problem of heart failure is predominantly in persons over 65 ... | C14 |
3,438 | 249 | Percutaneous valvuloplasty in a patient with mitral stenosis following surgical annuloplasty.
A case is described in which a patient with a Carpentier-Edwards annuloplasty ring developed mitral stenosis and was treated with percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty.
Possible mechanisms for the development of mitral stenosis ... | C14 |
3,439 | 9,141 | Cerebrospinal fluid endothelin-1 and endothelin-3 levels in normal and neurosurgical patients: a clinical study and literature review.
Endothelins are a family of structurally related, potent, long-lasting vasoconstrictor peptides.
There are no established normal human levels of endothelin-1 or endothelin-3 in the ce... | C14 |
3,440 | 5,086 | Prostacyclin-to-thromboxane A2 ratio in arteriogenic impotence.
It has been suggested that penile hypercoagulability predisposes to aging penile vascular changes and impotence, and that elevated thromboxane A2 during erection may contribute to hypercoagulability and atherosclerosis.
Since the ratio of the prostacycli... | C14 |
3,441 | 2,940 | Combined internal mammary artery graft for coronary artery revascularization.
Five patients with multiple-vessel coronary artery disease underwent isolated coronary artery bypass grafting with a technique involving both internal mammary arteries and a small piece of interposed saphenous vein.
The combined internal ma... | C14 |
3,442 | 9,515 | Change in sympathetic activity before, during, and after dialysis-induced hypotension.
During the hemodialyses of eight patients with end-stage renal failure, who often had sudden-onset dialysis-induced hypotension, catecholamine (CA) levels were measured in the ultrafiltrate obtained by a mini-filter placed in series... | C14 |
3,443 | 3,450 | Severe mitral insufficiency post-balloon valvuloplasty: the late changes found in a disrupted mitral valve.
The case of a 45-yr-old woman who had balloon valvuloplasty for rheumatic mitral stenosis is presented.
An anterior mitral leaflet tear occurred as a complication of the procedure.
Both partial healing of the ... | C14 |
3,444 | 4,896 | Management of asymptomatic chronic aortic regurgitation with left ventricular dysfunction: a decision analysis
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine the optimal strategy for the timing of aortic valve replacement in patients with chronic, severe aortic regurgitation with left ventricular dysfunction.
DESIGN: Decision analys... | C14 |
3,445 | 9,786 | Clinical association of autoantibodies to fibrillarin with diffuse scleroderma and disseminated telangiectasia.
Circulating autoantibodies against a variety of nuclear and nucleolar antigens are characteristic serologic findings in systemic scleroderma.
Some of these antibodies correlate with clinical subsets of the ... | C14 |
3,446 | 9,475 | Low-dose heparinization can be used with DEAE-cellulose hemodialysis membranes.
The ability of DEAE-cellulose (Hemophan) membranes to bind heparin may reduce bioavailable heparin and predispose to dialyzer clotting, thus preventing use of Hemophan with low-dose heparin.
To examine this possibility, residual blood vol... | C14 |
3,447 | 2,293 | Left ventricular mass regression after aortic valve replacement measured by ultrafast computed tomography.
Left ventricular mass and function were measured using ultrafast computed tomography, and were correlated with clinical status in 17 patients with aortic stenosis and/or insufficiency undergoing aortic valve repl... | C14 |
3,448 | 9,529 | Comparison of right ventricular and biventricular circulatory support in a porcine model of right heart failure.
The effects of right ventricular (RVAD) and biventricular assist devices (BVAD) in an acute porcine model of right heart ischemic failure produced by occluding the right coronary artery for 2 min (RCAO) wer... | C14 |
3,449 | 5,236 | Simulated left ventricular aneurysm and aneurysm repair in swine.
Patch reconstruction of left ventricular aneurysm may be superior to linear closure, but this hypothesis has not been tested experimentally.
Accordingly, six anesthetized domestic pigs were instrumented to measure regional left ventricular wall thicken... | C14 |
3,450 | 6,863 | Pulmonary resection combined with cardiac operations.
Surgical management of patients with concomitant critical cardiac disease and resectable lung lesions is controversial.
During a 7-year period (1982 to 1988), 21 patients underwent combined cardiac and pulmonary operations.
Patients had cardiac symptoms only; the... | C14 |
3,451 | 7,339 | The role of carotid screening before coronary artery bypass.
Five hundred thirty-nine patients with no symptoms of cerebral ischemia undergoing coronary artery bypass were preoperatively evaluated for presence of carotid stenosis by noninvasive methods (duplex scanning and ocular pneumoplethysmography-Gee).
Overall p... | C14 |
3,452 | 7,340 | Carotid endarterectomy: a ten-year analysis of outcome and cost of treatment.
Between 1978 and 1988, 215 patients with an average age of 67 years, underwent 246 carotid endarterectomies.
Two hundred ten (85.4%) patients were symptomatic, and 36 (14.6%) were asymptomatic.
Six patients (2.4%) had a postoperative strok... | C14 |
3,453 | 8,325 | Echocardiographic evaluation of patients with clinically suspected arterial emboli.
153 patients (mean age 42 years, range 16-60) who had arterial embolic events were examined prospectively by transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography.
Patients older than 60 years and those with evidence of extracranial car... | C14 |
3,454 | 7,336 | Transaortic endarterectomy of renal visceral artery lesions in association with infrarenal aortic surgery.
The complexity of infrarenal aortic reconstruction increases when bypass grafts to revascularize associated renal and visceral arteries are needed.
Lesions in these vessels, however, are usually limited to their... | C14 |
3,455 | 45 | The determination of aortic valve area by the Gorlin formula: what the cardiac sonographer should know.
The application of the Gorlin formula in the cardiac catheterization laboratory is the standard of reference for the determination of aortic valve area.
The continuity equation now enables the cardiac sonographer t... | C14 |
3,456 | 3,767 | Labetalol and MRI as initial medical and diagnostic modalities in a marfanoid patient with expanding ascending aortic aneurysm.
Marfan syndrome is a hereditable disorder of connective tissue that causes several distinct cardiovascular abnormalities, including aortic regurgitation, dissection, and aneurysm.
These card... | C14 |
3,457 | 4,083 | Effects of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and of hydralazine on endothelial function in hypertensive rats
The function of the endothelium is impaired in hypertension.
In spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), acetylcholine-induced relaxation is decreased and serotonin-induced constriction is increased.
Th... | C14 |
3,458 | 3,540 | Clinical evaluation of single versus multiple mammary artery bypass.
The superior patency and clinical advantages of internal mammary artery (IMA) grafting are well established.
However, the relative benefits of routine multiple IMA grafting remain uncertain.
To determine whether routine multiple compared with singl... | C14 |
3,459 | 2,719 | Endogenous vasopressin supports blood pressure and prevents severe hypotension during epidural anesthesia in conscious dogs.
To evaluate whether, and to what extent, release of endogenous vasopressin supports blood pressure when efferent sympathetic drive is blocked by epidural anesthesia, the authors studied the effe... | C14 |
3,460 | 3,197 | Use of computed tomographic scanning and aortography in the diagnosis of acute dissection of the thoracic aorta.
Before the introduction of computed tomographic (CT) scanning, aortography was the investigation of choice for acute aortic dissection.
Between 1978 and 1982, 24 patients were referred to the Brompton Hosp... | C14 |
3,461 | 4,848 | Angiographic demonstration of acute phase of intracranial arterial spasm following aneurysm rupture. Case report.
A case documenting the acute phase of intracranial arterial spasm following rupture of an aneurysm arising from the left internal carotid artery is reported.
The patient deteriorated due to recurrent hemo... | C14 |
3,462 | 7,900 | Acute myocardial infarction resulting from the migration of a Greenfield filter.
A paraplegic patient who underwent the placement of Greenfield filters to prevent pulmonary emboli had one of the filters migrate proximally to the junction of the inferior vena cava and right atrium, then into the right atrium a few mont... | C14 |
3,463 | 3,535 | Early diagnosis and surgical intervention of acute aortic dissection by transesophageal color flow mapping.
To determine whether transesophageal color Doppler echocardiography (TEE) is useful for the early diagnosis and surgical intervention in acute aortic dissection, 57 serial patients with acute aortic dissection w... | C14 |
3,464 | 2,478 | Diet, smoking, and alcohol: influence on coronary heart disease risk.
The Framingham study on coronary heart disease (CHD) has shown that life-style, particularly diet, smoking, and alcohol consumption, has a great impact on the incidence of CHD.
Blood lipoproteins, rather than total blood cholesterol, have been foun... | C14 |
3,465 | 6,230 | Transient left ventricular cavitary dilation during dipyridamole-thallium imaging as an indicator of severe coronary artery disease.
Transient left ventricular (LV) cavitary dilation during dipyridamole-thallium imaging was reported in 45 of 510 (9%) consecutive patients referred for dipyridamole-thallium imaging.
Cl... | C14 |
3,466 | 6,055 | An overview of intimal hyperplasia.
Many hypotheses have been postulated for the development of intimal hyperplasia in vein and prosthetic grafts.
In these hypotheses, the central theme seems to be endothelial injury, but not always denuding injury.
As we progress into the biologic era with more sophisticated resear... | C14 |
3,467 | 244 | Experience with the use of coronary autoperfusion catheter during complicated angioplasty.
Between February and July of 1989, 22 patients underwent the use of the Stack autoperfusion catheter following acute occlusion or obstructive dissection during coronary angioplasty; in 20 cases conventional balloon was used in a... | C14 |
3,468 | 4,053 | Characteristics of biliary lipid metabolism after liver transplantation.
Biliary lipid metabolism was studied after 10 liver transplantations with continuous drainage of bile.
Within 3 wk after transplantation, the new liver produced bile with concentrations of biliary lipids in agreement with those reported for T-tu... | C14 |
3,469 | 3,502 | Sex differences in control of cutaneous blood flow.
Women are far more likely than men to suffer from Raynaud's disease.
The purpose of this study was to determine whether there are gender differences in local or central control of cutaneous blood flow that could account for the increased incidence of Raynaud's disea... | C14 |
3,470 | 2,510 | Treatment of Wegener's granulomatosis with intermittent high-dose intravenous cyclophosphamide
PURPOSE: Concerns regarding the long-term toxicity of daily cyclophosphamide (CP) therapy for the systemic vasculitides have led us to evaluate alternative approaches to treatment in an attempt to achieve comparable efficac... | C14 |
3,471 | 3,521 | Left ventricular ejection fraction may not be useful as an end point of thrombolytic therapy comparative trials.
In the era of comparative and adjunctive trials in reperfusion therapy, the need to develop alternative end points for mortality reduction is clear.
Left ventricular ejection fraction, which has been commo... | C14 |
3,472 | 9,879 | Reliability of death certificate diagnoses.
Consistency between death certificates and clinical records from 5 general hospitals in Kuwait was studied for 470 deaths with the following underlying or associated causes: hypertensive (HYP), ischaemic heart diseases (IHD), cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) and diabetes melli... | C14 |
3,473 | 8,303 | Long-term cardiopulmonary bypass by peripheral cannulation in a model of total heart failure. The decompression of the left heart through a percutaneous helical spring positioned within the lumen of the tricuspid and pulmonary artery valves.
We performed long-term closed-chest cardiopulmonary bypass in an animal model... | C14 |
3,474 | 783 | Primary repair for complete atrioventricular canal: recommendation for early primary repair.
Forty patients with complete atrioventricular canal (CAVC) underwent primary repair at Fukuoka Children's Hospital in Fukuoka, Japan, between August 1, 1981 and July 31, 1989.
The age at repair ranged from 2 months to 6 years... | C14 |
3,475 | 6,076 | Portal vein resection with a new antithrombogenic catheter.
Curative resection of pancreatic and hepatobiliary tumors is rarely possible because of local invasion, especially into the portal vein.
We developed a new antithrombogenic catheter using a heparinized hydrophilic polymer to allow portal vein bypass during r... | C14 |
3,476 | 8,044 | Segmental vascular resistance in postobstructive pulmonary vasculopathy.
Chronic unilateral pulmonary arterial ligation has been touted as a model of arteriopathy resulting in a tremendous increase in anastomotic bronchial flow (Qbr) via collaterals.
To investigate its effects on the pulmonary vasculature, we ligated... | C14 |
3,477 | 716 | Torsade de pointes: a critical care nurse's dilemma.
Torsade de pointes is a polymorphous ventricular tachycardia characterized by a gradual change in the direction of the QRS complex.
Because critical care nurses are the first to recognize arrhythmias, they require the knowledge and skill to intervene appropriately.... | C14 |
3,478 | 2,276 | Time delays in the diagnosis and treatment of acute myocardial infarction: a tale of eight cities. Report from the Pre-hospital Study Group and the Cincinnati Heart Project.
To establish the magnitude of prehospital and hospital delays in initiating thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction, the time from t... | C14 |
3,479 | 7,987 | Should family doctors screen asymptomatic children for high blood pressure?
Whereas the United States Task Forces on Blood Pressure Control in Children have recommended annual blood pressure screening in all children, a working party of the British Hypertension Society has formed the opposite opinion.
Relevant litera... | C14 |
3,480 | 779 | Spontaneous rupture of an aortic aneurysm into the left renal vein. A diagnostic challenge.
Rupture of an aortic aneurysm into a renal vein presents a rare and difficult diagnostic problem.
Often, therapy is delayed because the patient is thought to have a urologic problem.
In this instance, CT scan provided useful ... | C14 |
3,481 | 7,671 | Estrogen replacement and coronary artery disease. Effect on survival in postmenopausal women.
The relationship among postmenopausal estrogen use, coronary stenosis, and survival was examined retrospectively in 2268 women undergoing coronary angiography.
The patients were selected for study if their age was 55 years o... | C14 |
3,482 | 2,560 | Hypoxic acidemia, hyperviscosity, and maternal hypertension do not affect the umbilical arterial velocity waveform in fetal sheep.
The effect of hypoxic acidemia, hyperviscosity, and maternal hypertension on the umbilical arterial velocity waveform was studied in 23 chronically catheterized fetal sheep.
Fetal hypoxic... | C14 |
3,483 | 2,191 | Pharmacologic irreversible narrowing in chronic cerebrovasospasm in rabbits is associated with functional damage.
We studied isolated basilar artery segments from a rabbit model of chronic cerebrovasospasm.
Autologous blood placed around the basilar artery of rabbits killed 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 9 days later caused... | C14 |
3,484 | 2,369 | Efficacy of acebutolol after acute myocardial infarction (the APSI trial). The APSI Investigators.
A randomized, placebo-controlled trial was carried out to determine the effectiveness of acebutolol in preventing late death in high-risk patients surviving an acute myocardial infarction (MI).
The average 1-year mortal... | C14 |
3,485 | 8,554 | Peripheral arterial occlusive disease of the extremities in the United States: hospitalization and mortality.
PAODE is an important cause of morbidity and health care expenditures among the elderly.
Data from the NHDS and National Vital Statistics System were used to assess its impact in the U.S.
In 1985 to 1987, an... | C14 |
3,486 | 2,741 | The effect of local temperature versus sympathetic tone on digital perfusion in Raynaud's phenomenon.
Matched groups of 7 to 8 patients with primary Raynaud's phenomenon, systemic sclerosis, and undifferentiated connective tissue disease and cold-tolerant normal control subjects were studied by simultaneous digital st... | C14 |
3,487 | 8,432 | Lovastatin decreases coenzyme Q levels in humans.
Lovastatin is clinically used to treat patients with hypercholesterolemia and successfully lowers cholesterol levels.
The mechanism of action of lovastatin is inhibition of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase, an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of chol... | C14 |
3,488 | 7,126 | Abnormal blood pressure response during exercise in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
To investigate the incidence of abnormal exercise blood pressure responses in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and the potential role of hemodynamic instability as a mechanism of sudden death, 129 consecutive patients with HCM underwent ... | C14 |
3,489 | 2,018 | Fate of patients undergoing transluminal angioplasty for lower-limb ischemia.
A prospective study of 370 patients who underwent 500 percutaneous transluminal angioplasties (PTAs) for lower-limb ischemia over a 7-year period was performed.
A 97% follow-up rate was achieved.
The first PTA was successful in 188 patient... | C14 |
3,490 | 6,650 | Effects of ketamine on the cardiac papillary muscle of normal hamsters and those with cardiomyopathy.
The effect of ketamine (10(-5) and 10(-4) M) on the intrinsic contractility of left ventricular papillary muscle from normal hamsters and those with cardiomyopathy (BIO 82.62, 6-month old) was investigated.
At these ... | C14 |
3,491 | 8,037 | Silent cerebrovascular disease in the elderly. Correlation with ambulatory pressure.
Does the average daily blood pressure correlate with hypertensive cerebrovascular disease better than the casual pressure, as has been reported in other target organ involvement? We investigated the associations of two abnormal findin... | C14 |
3,492 | 8,725 | Anaesthetic hazards of aortocaval fistula.
A 66-yr-old man was anaesthetized for repair of a suspected ruptured aortic aneurysm.
He became deeply cyanosed and suffered two episodes of asystole as the surgeons entered the abdomen.
After the aorta was cross-clamped his condition improved markedly and no further proble... | C14 |
3,493 | 2,974 | Morbidity, mortality, and quality of life for patients treated with levothyroxine
In a population study of 1462 middle-aged women initiated in 1968 and 1969 we identified 29 women treated with levothyroxine from 1 to 28 years.
In a 12-year follow-up in 1980 and 1981 we investigated the subjects for end-point myocard... | C14 |
3,494 | 2,356 | Response of angiographically normal and atherosclerotic left anterior descending coronary arteries to acetylcholine.
Acetylcholine-induced constriction of human coronary arteries in vivo is commonly attributed to endothelial dysfunction.
To examine the effects of 2 other important determinants of vascular responses--... | C14 |
3,495 | 8,545 | The role of beta-blockade therapy for ventricular tachycardia induced with isoproterenol: a prospective analysis.
Isoproterenol is sometimes required for ventricular tachycardia (VT) induction.
However, the role of beta-blockade for treatment of such VT has not been critically assessed.
The use of beta-blockade was ... | C14 |
3,496 | 6,515 | A note on the measurement of hypertension in HHANES
Using data from the HHANES, we found the rates of elevated blood pressure readings on clinical examination to be extremely low for a sample of Mexican American and Puerto Rican women.
The prevalence rates were one-fourth to one-fifth the rates found for a comparabl... | C14 |
3,497 | 8,261 | Rigid spine syndrome with respiratory failure.
The pathogenesis and therapy of respiratory failure in the rigid spine syndrome are discussed in two cases who improved with respiratory assistance.
In both cases, the partial pressures of oxygen and carbon dioxide were reversed in arterial blood gas analysis and %VC was... | C14 |
3,498 | 3,520 | Optimizing the exercise test for pharmacological investigations
Exercise trials in cardiology are often hindered by inconsistent approaches to exercise testing.
These inconsistencies include the choice of exercise protocol, exercise end points, points of analysis, and absence or misuse of gas exchange data.
Gas exc... | C14 |
3,499 | 5,388 | Clinical and pathological features of bacillary peliosis hepatis in association with human immunodeficiency virus infection
BACKGROUND.
Peliosis hepatis is characterized by cystic, blood-filled spaces in the liver and is seen in patients with chronic infections or advanced cancer and as a consequence of therapy with... | C14 |
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