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3,500 | 7,137 | Body surface mapping of high-frequency components in the terminal portion during QRS complex for the prediction of ventricular tachycardia in patients with previous myocardial infarction.
To study the clinical significance of terminal QRS high-frequency components for the prediction of ventricular tachycardia, an 87-l... | C14 |
3,501 | 44 | Evolution of the continuity equation in the Doppler echocardiographic assessment of the severity of valvular aortic stenosis.
The use of Doppler techniques has greatly enhanced the noninvasive ultrasound technique for evaluation of valvular aortic stenosis.
M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiography could not reliab... | C14 |
3,502 | 5,510 | Cavernous hemangioma of the spinal cord: report of 2 unusual cases.
We present 2 cases of spinal cord intramedullary cavernous hemangioma; 1 patient is the 1st reported case of multiple spinal cord lesions.
Diagnosis is greatly enhanced by the use of MRI. | C14 |
3,503 | 3,545 | Surgical repair of postinfarction ventricular septal defect.
Thirty-one patients underwent repair of postinfarction ventricular septal defect (VSD) from 1980 to 1989.
All patients were in New York Heart Association functional class IV, and 15 of them were in cardiogenic shock when operated on.
Coronary arteriography... | C14 |
3,504 | 7,615 | Sudden death from acute cocaine intoxication in Virginia in 1988.
A review of medical examiners' autopsy records revealed that in 1988, 33 residents of Virginia died of acute cocaine intoxication.
The subjects were 19 to 45 years old; most were men, used cocaine intravenously, and used other toxic substances with the... | C14 |
3,505 | 9,269 | Embolism during caesarean section.
We investigated the occurrence of gas embolism during Caesarean section using a Doppler ultrasound probe and found that it occurs between uterine incision and delivery.
Embolism is less common during general anaesthesia than has been reported during regional anaesthesia.
Both ruptu... | C14 |
3,506 | 3,679 | Quality of life among hypertensive patients with a diuretic background who are taking atenolol and enalapril.
The cardioselective beta-blocker atenolol and the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor enalapril were compared for efficacy, safety, and quality-of-life factors in 30 patients with hypertension whose hypert... | C14 |
3,507 | 9,820 | Effects of dipyridamole and aminophylline on hemodynamics, regional myocardial blood flow and thallium-201 washout in the setting of a critical coronary stenosis.
Experiments were performed to characterize the interaction of intravenous dipyridamole and aminophylline on thallium-201 transport kinetics, regional myocar... | C14 |
3,508 | 3,730 | Respiratory muscle strength in congestive heart failure.
In experimental animals, conditions which drastically decrease cardiac output may reduce the strength and endurance of respiratory muscles leading to hypercapnic respiratory failure.
Because patients with chronic CHF have reduced cardiac output and vital capaci... | C14 |
3,509 | 9,661 | Post-cannulation radial artery aneurysm--a rare complication.
The following case report describes an expanding aneurysmal dilatation of the radial artery which developed 17 days following cannulation.
Possible causes of this complication are: abnormal state of the vessel wall, multiple attempts at cannulation, and ha... | C14 |
3,510 | 3,804 | Short-term effect of hepatic arterial versus portal venous reperfusion on energy levels of liver tissue.
The hepatic artery and the portal vein blood vary in flow, oxygenation, and hormonal content.
It was uncertain which blood supply has a greater effect on the recuperative process of the hepatocytes in the ischemic... | C14 |
3,511 | 4,431 | Dissociation of changes in cardiovascular mass and performance with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in Wistar-Kyoto and spontaneously hypertensive rats.
The effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors on cardiovascular mass and function were measured in three groups of 22 week old male Wistar-Kyoto no... | C14 |
3,512 | 3,573 | Reappraisal of the mechanism for cerebrospinal fluid hypertension during aortic surgery.
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) hypertension during aortic surgery is a poorly understood, multifactorial event that may increase the risk of spinal cord injury.
To assess the factors that may contribute to changes in CSF pressure duri... | C14 |
3,513 | 3,513 | Hormones regulating cardiovascular function in patients with severe congestive heart failure and their relation to mortality. CONSENSUS Trial Study Group.
There is a varying hormonal activation in heart failure.
To be able to evaluate this activation and relate it to prognosis, we took blood samples at baseline and a... | C14 |
3,514 | 536 | Effect of cyclosporin on generalized Shwartzman reaction in diabetic rats.
The effect of cyclosporin (CsA) on the endotoxin-induced generalized Shwartzman reaction (GSR) was studied in diabetic and nondiabetic rats.
After 4.5 wk of diabetes, CsA (20 mg/kg) or intralipid as a control substance was given intraperitonea... | C14 |
3,515 | 2,119 | Results of vein graft reconstruction of the lower extremity in diabetic and nondiabetic patients.
The results of 171 vein grafts of the lower extremity were evaluated.
These were placed between January 1981 and December 1987 in 150 patients, 75 diabetic and 75 nondiabetic, to determine the influence of diabetes on th... | C14 |
3,516 | 3,495 | Time course of cellular enzyme release in dog heart injury.
The transport time of enzyme from heart to plasma was studied in two experimental models.
First, the enzyme alanine aminotransferase was slowly infused into the left ventricular wall in open-chest dogs.
The half-life for the washout of alanine aminotransfer... | C14 |
3,517 | 8,029 | Psychosomatic factors in borderline hypertensive subjects and offspring of hypertensive parents.
Psychosomatic factors, sympathoneural and sympathoadrenal as well as cardiovascular mechanisms, were studied in 24 patients 18-24 years of age with borderline hypertension, 50 age-matched normotensive offspring of hyperten... | C14 |
3,518 | 4,849 | Subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by a fungal aneurysm of the vertebral artery as a complication of intracranial aneurysm clipping. Case report.
Intracranial aneurysms are an uncommon manifestation of fungal infection.
A case is described in which the formation of an aneurysm followed an intracranial intraoperative Aspe... | C14 |
3,519 | 8,573 | Bone mineral density in spontaneous hypertension: differential effects of dietary calcium and sodium.
Dietary calcium and sodium have been postulated to modify both bone mineral status and blood pressure regulation in humans and animals.
The spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) manifests several defects in calcium me... | C14 |
3,520 | 6,871 | Circumflex artery ventricular fistula and pseudoaneurysm after mitral reoperation.
Prosthetic mitral valve reoperation complicated by atrioventricular groove pseudoaneurysm and circumflex ventricular fistula is presented.
Ligation of the circumflex artery during mitral valve replacement is implicated after review of ... | C14 |
3,521 | 7,885 | Clinical antecedents to in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest.
While the outcome of in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest has been studied extensively, the clinical antecedents of arrest are less well defined.
We studied a group of consecutive general hospital ward patients developing cardiopulmonary arrest.
Prospectively... | C14 |
3,522 | 7,131 | Differentiation of ventricular tachyarrhythmias.
Implantable devices capable of several modes of therapy will require differentiation of various ventricular tachyarrhythmias.
Three methods of arrhythmia analysis, magnitude-squared coherence, ventricular rate, and irregularity of cycle length were performed for 45 epi... | C14 |
3,523 | 394 | Pathologic involvement of the left ventricle in chronic cor pulmonale.
To determine whether or not the left ventricle is pathologically involved in patients with chronic cor pulmonale, right and left ventricular weights, wall thickness, myocyte diameters, and percentage of fibrosis in 18 autopsied hearts were examined... | C14 |
3,524 | 9,163 | Coronary arteries in truncus arteriosus.
The origin and distribution of the coronary arteries was described in 39 autopsy specimens of truncus arteriosus (TA).
The specimens were classified according to the number and the patterns of the truncal cusps.
The position of the truncal cusps was defined in relation to int... | C14 |
3,525 | 6,850 | Influence of prosthetic design on durability of the Liotta porcine valve in the mitral position.
From March 1979 to December 1984, the Liotta low-profile porcine bioprosthesis was employed for mitral valve replacement in 71 patients to avoid potential left ventricle-prosthesis mismatch occasionally observed with the s... | C14 |
3,526 | 8,539 | Follow-up results of balloon angioplasty of native coarctation in neonates and infants.
The purpose of this study is to present intermediate-term results of balloon angioplasty of native aortic coarctation in neonates and infants less than 1 year of age.
During a 60-month-period that ended in January 1990, 19 infants... | C14 |
3,527 | 9,164 | Spectrum of hemodynamic changes in cardiac tamponade.
To investigate the pathophysiology of cardiac tamponade, the hemodynamics of 77 consecutive patients with greater than 150 ml of pericardial effusion were studied.
Patients were classified into 3 groups based on the equilibration of intrapericardial with right atr... | C14 |
3,528 | 56 | Discrepancies in the measurement of isovolumic relaxation time: a study comparing M mode and Doppler echocardiography.
Mitral valve cusp separation on M mode echogram, the mitral valve opening artefact, and the onset of forward transmitral flow recorded by Doppler echocardiography have all been taken to mark the end o... | C14 |
3,529 | 7,120 | Intermittent claudication, heart disease risk factors, and mortality. The Whitehall Study
In the Whitehall study, 18,388 subjects aged 40-64 years completed a questionnaire on intermittent claudication.
Of these subjects, 0.8% (147) and 1% (175) were deemed to have probable intermittent claudication and possible int... | C14 |
3,530 | 2,291 | Contribution of transesophageal echocardiography to patient diagnosis and treatment: a prospective analysis.
The capability of transesophageal (TEE) versus transthoracic (TTE) echocardiography as a diagnostic tool in clinical practice was prospectively examined in 86 consecutive cases.
A conclusive diagnosis was poss... | C14 |
3,531 | 268 | Epidural anaesthesia for labour and caesarean section in a parturient with a single ventricle and transposition of the great arteries.
We describe a case of a 29-year-old parturient with a single ventricle and transposition of the great arteries who had lumbar epidural analgesia/anaesthesia with a local anaesthetic fo... | C14 |
3,532 | 7,745 | Balloon dilatation of the mitral valve by a single bifoil (2 x 19 mm) or trefoil (3 x 15 mm) catheter.
The efficacy of balloon dilatation of the mitral valve by a bifoil (2 x 19 mm) or trefoil (3 x 15 mm) catheter (single catheter technique) was assessed in 53 patients (mean age 28) with mitral stenosis, most of whom ... | C14 |
3,533 | 384 | Transient mitral regurgitation due to mitral valve prolapse accompanied by systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve.
A grade 4/6 systolic murmur, systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve (SAM), and severe mitral regurgitation (MR) documented by two-dimensional Doppler echocardiography developed suddenly on the... | C14 |
3,534 | 3,614 | Amniotic and thromboembolism.
Embolic phenomena in pregnancy demand rapid investigation and treatment.
Regardless, some patients will not survive due to the enormity of the insult.
Optimally, such patients should be treated in tertiary care centers, but this is not always possible. | C14 |
3,535 | 2,079 | Relationship between duration of spinal cord ischemia and postoperative neurologic deficits in animals.
Twenty hogs were administered the following procedures before, during, and after overdistraction of the spinal column at T5-T6: somatosensory (SEP) and neurogenic-motor evoked potentials (NMEPs), hydrogen clearance ... | C14 |
3,536 | 2,360 | Electrocardiographic signal-averaging during atrial pacing and effect of cycle length on the terminal QRS in patients with and without inducible ventricular tachycardia.
Electrocardiographic signal-averaging during sinus rhythm (61 to 99 beats/min) and atrial pacing (100 to 171 beats/min) were performed to determine t... | C14 |
3,537 | 257 | Nitrous oxide does not exacerbate pulmonary hypertension or ventricular dysfunction in patients with mitral valvular disease
Using the rapid-response thermistor pulmonary artery catheter and transoesophageal echocardiography, this study examined the effects of 100 per cent oxygen, 70 per cent nitrous oxide/30 per cen... | C14 |
3,538 | 3,527 | Coronary artery pattern and outcome of arterial switch operation for transposition of the great arteries.
A successful outcome of an arterial switch operation (ASO) for dextro-transposition of the great arteries (D-TGA) depends in large part on the transfer of the coronary arteries to the neoaorta without distortion o... | C14 |
3,539 | 3,544 | Dissection of the aorta and dissecting aortic aneurysms. Improving early and long-term surgical results.
We report the improving surgical results in a consecutive series of 690 patients referred to one of us (E.S.C.) for aortic dissection between December 1956 and September 1989, a substantial portion of whom had diss... | C14 |
3,540 | 35 | Ultrasonic integrated backscatter two-dimensional imaging: evaluation of M-mode guided acquisition and immediate analysis in 55 consecutive patients.
We have shown previously that cardiac cycle-dependent integrated backscatter characterizes the physical state of myocardium in patients with ischemic heart disease and c... | C14 |
3,541 | 6,104 | Modification of stroke susceptibility by genotype-dependent maternal influences.
The influence of the prenatal and postnatal maternal environment on stroke susceptibility was evaluated by reciprocally crossing the spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) and the Dahl salt-sensitive (SS/Jr) inbred rat strains to produce recipr... | C14 |
3,542 | 774 | Femoral noninfected anastomotic aneurysms. A report of 56 cases.
Fifty-six femoral non infected anastomotic false aneurysms (FAAs) were observed in 49 patients admitted to the Institute of Vascular Surgery, University of Milan, from 1975 to 1988; in 6 patients they were bilateral.
These aneurysms developed after prim... | C14 |
3,543 | 3,148 | Calcium, parathyroid hormone, and vitamin D in the "prehypertensive" Dahl salt-sensitive rat.
The purpose of this study was to determine if alterations of calcium and calcium regulating hormones precede the onset of NaCl-induced hypertension in the Dahl salt-sensitive (S) rat.
After a 5-day balance study, serum ioniz... | C14 |
3,544 | 8,827 | Pineal hyperactivity in spontaneously hypertensive rats: muscarinic regulation of indole metabolism.
1.
Choline acetyltransferase activity and [3H]quinuclidinyl benzylate-binding sites were detected in the pineal gland of normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats and of spontaneously hypertensive rats.
2.
In vitro, muscarinic... | C14 |
3,545 | 9,800 | Coronary angioplasty in young adults: initial results and late outcome.
The initial and late outcome of coronary angioplasty was studied in 148 patients less than 40 years of age (mean 36.4 +/- 3).
Angioplasty was performed on a single vessel in 70% of patients and on multiple vessels in 30%; it was performed on a to... | C14 |
3,546 | 4,196 | Valvular and coronary surgery in renal transplant patients.
The Authors report aortic valvular replacement (AVR) and coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) successfully performed in two renal transplant patients.
The postoperative blood urea and creatinine levels were comparable to the preoperative values.
The ... | C14 |
3,547 | 9,421 | Cumulative AIDS incidence and altered mortality from bacterial infections.
To determine whether populations with high cumulative incidence of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) experienced increased deaths from sepsis, central nervous system abscess, or endocarditis, New Jersey AIDS patients were grouped accord... | C14 |
3,548 | 3,733 | The effects of phenylephrine on right ventricular performance in patients with pulmonary hypertension
Pulmonary hypertension causes right ventricular ischemia and failure as a result of increased afterload combined with reduced coronary blood flow.
Increasing coronary driving pressure by raising aortic pressure with... | C14 |
3,549 | 6,847 | Prognostic determinants in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for respiratory failure in newborns.
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is becoming an accepted therapeutic modality for newborn respiratory failure, but there is little information available regarding the prognostic determinants with this techniqu... | C14 |
3,550 | 8,955 | Symptomatic pericardial effusion in breast cancer patients: the role of fluid cytology.
Clinical and cytologic findings in 21 breast cancer patients with symptomatic pericardial effusion are presented.
The etiology of the pericardial effusion was definitely malignant, by cytology/histology in 13 patients (62%), and s... | C14 |
3,551 | 2,739 | Hemodynamic effects of nebivolol at rest and on exertion in patients with heart failure.
Nebivolol is a novel B-1-adrenoceptor-blocking drug with an unusual hemodynamic profile unlike classical B-blockers.
In dogs and in healthy volunteers it decreases blood pressure and heart rate but improves left ventricular funct... | C14 |
3,552 | 8,546 | Rapid control of refractory atrial tachyarrhythmias with high-dose oral amiodarone.
To shorten the delay in the onset of antiarrhythmic effect when using amiodarone for the conversion of refractory atrial tachyarrhythmias to sinus rhythm, 19 patients were given oral amiodarone according to a high-dose loading protocol... | C14 |
3,553 | 5,136 | Disseminated histoplasmosis with embolic endovascular complications: a case report.
A 57-year-old man had subacute embolic ischemia of his right foot and subsequent acute embolic ischemia of his left foot after angiography.
Thrombus removed at the time of the left femoral thromboembolectomy grew Histoplasma capsulatu... | C14 |
3,554 | 7,136 | Left ventricular regional wall stress in dilated cardiomyopathy.
Left ventriculography with simultaneous pressure micromanometry was performed in 11 normal control subjects and 17 patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM).
Left ventricular silhouettes in the right anterior oblique projection were divided into eight ... | C14 |
3,555 | 5,667 | Peripheral vascular disorders. Assessment and intervention.
Peripheral vascular diseases are being seen with increased frequency in the health care setting today.
It is imperative that nurses have a clear understanding of arterial, venous, and lymphatic circulatory mechanisms as well as the pathophysiologic changes t... | C14 |
3,556 | 6,213 | Epidemiologic studies demonstrating increased morning incidence of sudden cardiac death.
To determine if sudden cardiac death shows a circadian variation, the mortality records of the Massachusetts population and the Framingham Heart Study were analyzed.
The Massachusetts mortality data analysis revealed an increased... | C14 |
3,557 | 4,199 | Acute dissection of the internal mammary artery: a fatal complication of coronary artery bypass grafting.
A case of acute traumatic dissection of the right internal mammary artery is presented in a patient who had both IMAs grafted for recurrent angina 10 years after initial vein coronary revascularisation.
The event... | C14 |
3,558 | 2,725 | Experimental and clinical percutaneous angioscopy experience with dynamic angioplasty.
The authors have used ultrathin angioscopes with high optical resolution to assess the effects of dynamic angioplasty in vitro and in vivo.
Experimentally, angioscopy was used to study the effects of the 5F "Kensey" catheter in "no... | C14 |
3,559 | 369 | Effect of hemodilution on capillary and arteriolovenous shunt flow in organs after cardiac arrest in dogs.
The purpose of this study was to observe the changes in capillary and arteriolovenous shunting blood flow after cardiac arrest and subsequent resuscitation by venous return occlusion produced by inflation of an i... | C14 |
3,560 | 5,163 | Glomerular hyperfiltration indicates early target organ damage in essential hypertension
In 111 patients with essential hypertension (World Health Organization stage I or II), we examined the relationship between renal hemodynamics and left ventricular hypertrophy.
Left ventricular structure was determined by two-di... | C14 |
3,561 | 8,565 | Cardioprotective effects of amlodipine on ischemia and reperfusion in two experimental models.
The cardioprotective effect of amlodipine, a long-acting dihydropyridine derivative, was studied in 2 experimental models of ischemia and reperfusion.
Isolated and blood-perfused feline hearts were made globally ischemic fo... | C14 |
3,562 | 3,115 | Atrial fibrillation with cardiac tamponade as the initial manifestation of malignant pericarditis
This article describes the case of a 72-year-old woman with cardiac tamponade and atrial fibrillation as the initial manifestation of a lymphoid malignancy.
The pathogenesis of cardiac tamponade, various diagnostic moda... | C14 |
3,563 | 6,047 | Deleterious effects of testicular venous occlusion in young rats.
To determine the differences between testicular arterial and venous obstruction, the spermatic artery or vein, or both, were occluded for varying periods of time in young rats.
Two months later, at the conclusion of the study, the testes were examined.... | C14 |
3,564 | 3,254 | The effect of abdominal surgery on the serum concentration of the tumour-associated antigen CA 125.
The CA 125 assay is used to monitor the course of disease in women with adenocarcinoma of the genital tract.
We measured serum CA 125 levels longitudinally in three different groups of patients who had normal serum CA ... | C14 |
3,565 | 6,900 | Management of aortobronchial fistula with graft replacement and omentopexy.
Massive hemoptysis due to a recurrent aortobronchial fistula after repair of a thoracic aortic aneurysm developed in a 64-year-old woman.
The infected aortic tissue was resected and replaced with an in situ Dacron graft covered by omentum.
T... | C14 |
3,566 | 9,610 | Socioeconomic conditions in childhood and ischaemic heart disease during middle age
OBJECTIVE--To examine the association between socioeconomic conditions in childhood and ischaemic heart disease in middle aged men, including the role of physiological and behavioural risk factors.
DESIGN--Prevalence study with exten... | C14 |
3,567 | 768 | Ligation of the superficial femoral vein in prevention of pulmonary embolism: an old fashion procedure?
From 1974 to 1988, interruption of the superficial femoral vein (SFV) was performed to prevent pulmonary embolism (PE) in 73 patients.
The mean age of the patients was 62 years.
Phlebography showed thrombi in the ... | C14 |
3,568 | 9,523 | Bioenergetic recovery processes of injured myocardium.
We employed cervically transplanted nonworking myocardium to simulate the condition of a heart supported by a ventricular assist device, and to investigate the bioenergetic recovery processes of injured myocardium with 31P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniqu... | C14 |
3,569 | 6,892 | Repair of flail anterior leaflets of tricuspid and mitral valves by cusp remodeling.
We present an alternative approach to extensive rupture of the chordae tendineae leading to flail anterior leaflets.
Resection of the affected cusp segment, suture of the cut edges, and extensive plication of the segment of annulus d... | C14 |
3,570 | 8,299 | Studies of myocardial protection in the immature heart. I. Enhanced tolerance of immature versus adult myocardium to global ischemia with reference to metabolic differences.
This study compares the metabolism and functional responses of adult and immature hearts to a standard ischemic insult.
Ten adult dogs (25 to 27... | C14 |
3,571 | 7,618 | Circumferential quantitative analysis of planar 201T1 myocardial scintigraphy in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease.
Methodology for the computer analysis of 201T1 myocardial perfusion images has been developed by several laboratories.
Substantial evidence of the advantage of this approach over visual inspectio... | C14 |
3,572 | 4,202 | Intraoperative assessment of cerebral ischemia during carotid surgery.
One of the problems in carotid surgery is the intraoperative detection of brain ischemia.
None of the methods (EEG; stump pressure) applied so far have been successful.
Branston et al.
(1974) found a threshold relationship between cortical cereb... | C14 |
3,573 | 2,315 | Neuroendocrine activity in congestive heart failure.
The increased neuroendocrine activity in patients with congestive heart failure appears to be a generalized attempt to maintain blood pressure at the expense of reduced cardiac performance and salt and water retention.
It is likely that baroreceptor dysfunction con... | C14 |
3,574 | 2,183 | Risk factors for white matter changes detected by magnetic resonance imaging in the elderly.
We found increased age (p = 0.001) and history or evidence of stroke (p = 0.016) to be significant independent multivariate predictors of the presence and severity of leukoencephalopathy on magnetic resonance imaging brain sca... | C14 |
3,575 | 6,227 | Subgroups of patients with atypical circadian patterns of symptom onset in acute myocardial infarction.
Circadian variation of onset of acute myocardial infarction has been noted in many studies and may carry important implications.
However, only a few previous studies have attempted subgroup analysis.
In 4,796 pati... | C14 |
3,576 | 9,538 | Prognosis of hospital survivors after salvage from cardiopulmonary bypass with centrifugal cardiac assist.
Since October 1986, 6 hospital survivors who were salvaged from cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) with the Sarns centrifugal pump were observed.
Centrifugal assist was employed only after failure to wean with usual r... | C14 |
3,577 | 9,206 | Admission and mid-stay MedisGroups scores as predictors of death within 30 days of hospital admission.
We examined the ability of MedisGroups, a severity measure based on clinical data abstracted from the medical record, to predict mortality 30 days following admission.
MedisGroups measures severity both on admission... | C14 |
3,578 | 2,957 | Cystic medionecrosis of the coronary arteries and fatal coronary vasospasm.
The histopathological basis of coronary vasospasm is not well defined.
We report a patient with directly observed coronary artery spasm in whom cystic medionecrosis of the coronary arteries and great vessels and myxomatous degeneration of the... | C14 |
3,579 | 6,776 | Cardiovascular effects of the somatostatin analog octreotide in acromegaly.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the cardiovascular effects of the somatostatin analog octreotide in patients with acromegaly.
DESIGN: Prospective nonrandomized study.
SETTING: Referral-based endocrinology clinic.
PATIENTS: Seven patients with activ... | C14 |
3,580 | 8,529 | The relation of serum cholesterol to risk of coronary heart disease: implications for the elderly.
Elevated cholesterol is a known risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD) in young and middle-aged persons.
Because of the high prevalence of CHD in a growing elderly population, physicians must decide whether to dev... | C14 |
3,581 | 4,012 | Fulminant hepatitis after lisinopril administration.
A case of fulminant hepatitis in a patient taking lisinopril for 5 weeks for arterial hypertension is reported.
Jaundice, fever, myalgia, and marked increase in serum aminotransferase activities occurred after 2 weeks of treatment.
Continuation of lisinopril admin... | C14 |
3,582 | 2,944 | Long-term amiodarone administration protects against global myocardial ischemia.
Reports on the effects of amiodarone on cardiac function have been variable.
This study addresses the effect of long-term amiodarone administration on recovery of cardiac function after a period of global ischemia.
Normotensive and spon... | C14 |
3,583 | 3,705 | Depression and recovery of right ventricular function after cardiopulmonary bypass.
Transient left ventricular dysfunction is commonly described in association with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB).
We evaluated changes in right ventricular (RV) function after elective cardiac surgery in 24 patients with normal preoperat... | C14 |
3,584 | 2,964 | Improved cannulation method for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation has been shown to be useful for patients in reversible cardiogenic shock.
Effective arterial cannulation techniques for infants have been developed that are simple to use and require minimal subsequent vascular re... | C14 |
3,585 | 7,623 | Patency rate of implantable devices during long-term intraarterial chemotherapy.
Intraarterial implantable drug delivery systems have been considered as an alternative method for treating patients with unresectable liver malignancies.
However, catheter problems with external implanted devices have resulted in limited... | C14 |
3,586 | 3,774 | Septic pulmonary emboli. A rare cause of bilateral pneumothorax in drug abusers.
An intravenous drug abuser presented with bilateral pneumothorax.
This is a previously unreported (to our knowledge) complication of septic pulmonary emboli secondary to right-sided endocarditis.
This possibility must be considered in t... | C14 |
3,587 | 4,851 | Quantification of the reversibility of stress-induced thallium-201 myocardial perfusion defects: a multicenter trial using bull's-eye polar maps and standard normal limits
A multicenter trial was performed on 140 patients from four centers to determine the accuracy of quantitative analysis of stress/delayed thallium-... | C14 |
3,588 | 6,232 | Predictive value of lipoprotein (a) and other serum lipoproteins in the angiographic diagnosis of coronary artery disease.
To determine the relation among lipids in predicting coronary artery disease (CAD), 213 patients undergoing diagnostic angiography for suspected CAD were prospectively studied.
Twenty-one patient... | C14 |
3,589 | 4,537 | Portal venous gas in a patient with Crohn's disease.
Portal venous gas usually occurs in the setting of an acute abdomen.
Several causes for benign portal venous gas (PVG) have been reported.
We describe the finding of PVG by computed tomography in a febrile patient with Crohn's disease and discuss the clinical impl... | C14 |
3,590 | 6,286 | Effects of fish-oil ingestion on cardiovascular risk factors in hyperlipidemic subjects in Israel: a randomized, double-blind crossover study.
Effects of a daily fish-oil supplement on serum lipids, apolipoproteins, and some platelet functions and hemorheologic variables were examined in 27 hyperlipidemic subjects in ... | C14 |
3,591 | 2,134 | Value of magnetic resonance imaging in spontaneous extradural spinal hematoma due to vascular malformation: case report.
A case of spinal cord compression due to spontaneous extradural spinal hematoma is reported.
A spinal arteriovenous malformation was suspected on the basis of magnetic resonance imaging.
Early sur... | C14 |
3,592 | 3,563 | Efficacy of recombinant-derived human superoxide dismutase on porcine left ventricular contractility after normothermic global myocardial ischemia and hypothermic cardioplegic arrest.
A porcine model of normothermic global ischemia (40 minutes) followed by systemic cooling to 25 degrees C with 4 degrees C crystalloid ... | C14 |
3,593 | 48 | Ischaemic left ventricular failure: evidence of sustained benefit after 18 months' treatment with xamoterol.
The long term effects of treatment with xamoterol in 14 patients aged 44-73 with mild to moderate heart failure as a result of ischaemic heart disease are reported.
After 18 months' treatment with xamoterol, p... | C14 |
3,594 | 3,755 | Diagnosis of tracheal injury in mechanically ventilated premature infants by flexible bronchoscopy. A pilot study.
Flexible bronchoscopy (FB) is uniquely suited for the study of large airway lesions in the ventilated premature infant.
However, no standardized clinical scoring system of distal tracheal injury exists a... | C14 |
3,595 | 9,832 | Sudden death associated with undiagnosed Graves' disease.
Hyperthyroidism may result in multiple symptoms attributable to an excess of thyroid hormone.
We report a case of Graves' disease in association with sudden death in a previously healthy, undiagnosed young female.
This case illustrates an unusual initial pres... | C14 |
3,596 | 9,924 | Restricted dose and duration of corticosteroid treatment in patients with polymyalgia rheumatica and temporal arteritis.
To analyze whether corticosteroids in low doses during limited time periods could be safely used in the treatment of patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) or temporal arteritis (TA) the records... | C14 |
3,597 | 6,357 | Tubulointerstitial changes in systemic vasculitic disorders: a quantitative study of 18 biopsy cases.
Tubulointerstitial alterations were studied in 18 biopsy cases of systemic vasculitis.
To evaluate the changes more objectively, two indexes, the number of interstitial inflammatory cells and tubulitis percentage, we... | C14 |
3,598 | 5,330 | The health belief model: predicting compliance and dropout in cardiac rehabilitation.
We investigated the health belief model and the health locus of control constructs as predictors of group membership (compliers or dropouts) with cardiac rehabilitation and whether they added predictive utility to routinely assessed ... | C14 |
3,599 | 8,536 | Effects of exercise on myocardial catecholamine content and ischemic injury in dogs with gradual coronary occlusion.
The effects of exercise on catecholamine content and the extent of myocardial damage in dogs with Ameroid constrictor occlusion of the left circumflex coronary artery were determined.
Tissue samples fr... | C14 |
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