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3,600 | 9,816 | Effect of antiarrhythmic therapy on mortality in survivors of myocardial infarction with asymptomatic complex ventricular arrhythmias: Basel Antiarrhythmic Study of Infarct Survival (BASIS)
In view of the high risk of sudden cardiac death and the prognostic importance of complex ventricular ectopic activity, the effe... | C14 |
3,601 | 6,245 | Subnormal parasympathetic activity after cardiac transplantation.
Heart period variability (standard deviation of 120 consecutive RR or PP intervals) was used to assess baseline parasympathetic activity in 18 patients with congestive heart failure before and after orthotopic cardiac transplantation, and was compared t... | C14 |
3,602 | 7,231 | Adverse mortality experience of a southwestern American Indian community: overall death rates and underlying causes of death in Pima Indians.
As part of an ongoing epidemiologic study, the death rate and causes of death during 1975 through 1984 were determined in Pima Indians who resided in the Gila River Indian Commu... | C14 |
3,603 | 6,842 | Does carotid restenosis predict an increased risk of late symptoms, stroke, or death?
The identification of carotid restenosis as an unexpected late complication of carotid endarterectomy has prompted concerns regarding its importance as a source of new cerebral symptoms, stroke, and death.
To investigate these conce... | C14 |
3,604 | 2,735 | A forme fruste of Marfan's syndrome: case history.
A thirty nine year old woman presented with multiple aneurysms and dissections of the arterial system secondary to cystic medial necrosis is presented.
After assessment of the family history a diagnosis of a forme fruste of Marfan's syndrome was made.
Preoperative c... | C14 |
3,605 | 4,534 | Chylous ascites should suggest constrictive pericarditis even in a patient with cirrhosis.
Chylous ascites, a milky, high triglyceride fluid is usually found in patients with lymphatic obstruction from malignancy.
We describe a patient with cirrhosis who developed constrictive pericarditis and chylous ascites.
Long-... | C14 |
3,606 | 3,145 | Sodium-calcium interactions and salt-sensitive hypertension.
In humans with essential hypertension, salt-induced increases in blood pressure have been reported to correlate directly with salt-induced increases in intracellular free calcium [( Ca2+]i) in circulating mononuclear cells.
These findings are consistent wit... | C14 |
3,607 | 2,316 | Effects of enalapril and neuroendocrine activation on prognosis in severe congestive heart failure (follow-up of the CONSENSUS trial). CONSENSUS Trial Study Group.
This study enrolled 253 patients with severe heart failure (New York Heart Association functional class IV) from 35 centers in Scandinavia, randomly assign... | C14 |
3,608 | 3,169 | Age-related changes in membrane fluidity of erythrocytes in essential hypertension.
In the present study, age- and calcium-related changes in the membrane fluidity of erythrocytes were examined in patients with essential hypertension by use of electron spin resonance method (ESR).
The erythrocytes were obtained from ... | C14 |
3,609 | 7,695 | Venous hemodynamics in a chronic venous valvular insufficiency model.
To develop a large-animal model of chronic venous valve incompetence, 13 greyhound dogs underwent unilateral hindlimb venous valve lysis with a valve cutter apparatus pulled retrograde through the iliac, femoral, and lateral saphenous veins.
Bilate... | C14 |
3,610 | 9,592 | The dynamics of platelet thrombus formation rate, thrombus retention time, and rate of embolization on a control and heparin bonded polyurethane angio-catheter.
The dynamics of platelet deposition and embolization from control and heparin bonded polyurethane catheters (CPC and HBPC) was evaluated with In-111 labeled a... | C14 |
3,611 | 7,566 | Coronary artery disease in the octogenarian: angiographic spectrum and suitability for revascularization.
The angiographic findings of 84 consecutive octogenarians presenting with symptoms of coronary artery disease (CAD) were examined to determine the extent of CAD as well as suitability for both coronary artery bypa... | C14 |
3,612 | 6,210 | Role of magnetic resonance contrast agents in cardiac imaging.
Improvements in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology allow adequate spatial and temporal resolution to capture cardiac anatomy and contractile function in exceptional detail and with little risk.
However, tissue characterization of the pathophysiol... | C14 |
3,613 | 4,388 | Prolonged anginal perceptual threshold in diabetes: effects on exercise capacity and myocardial ischemia.
Anginal perceptual threshold (the time from onset of 0.1 mV of ST segment depression to onset of angina during treadmill exercise) is prolonged in diabetic patients with coronary artery disease.
In the present st... | C14 |
3,614 | 7,585 | Angiocentric lymphoma with histologic features of neoplastic angioendotheliomatosis presenting with predominant respiratory and hematologic manifestations. Report of a case and review of the literature
Neoplastic angioendotheliomatosis (NAE) is a rare fatal disease characterized by widespread intravascular proliferat... | C14 |
3,615 | 2,526 | The natural history of thrombocytopenia associated with preeclampsia.
Sixty-one of 375 women with hypertension and preeclampsia in a 48-month period had thrombocytopenia.
By postpartum day 3, 90% of these women had rising platelet counts, and by day 4, 59 of 61 women had counts greater than 100,000/mm3.
The two exce... | C14 |
3,616 | 2,729 | Hindbrain ischemia produced by bilateral vertebral artery occlusion and moderate hypotension in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
Hindbrain ischemia was induced by bilateral vertebral artery occlusion and moderate hypotension in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs).
Mean arterial blood pressure was lowered to 80 mmH... | C14 |
3,617 | 6,235 | Frequency of myocardial indium-111 antimyosin uptake after uncomplicated coronary artery bypass grafting.
The reported incidence of myocardial damage after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is highly related to the methods used.
Since indium-111 monoclonal antimyosin antibody scintigraphy has been shown to be hi... | C14 |
3,618 | 290 | Increased ischemic injury but decreased hypoxic injury in hypertrophied rat hearts.
The purpose of this study was to compare the degree of ischemic and hypoxic injury in normal versus hypertrophied rat hearts to investigate basic mechanisms responsible for irreversible myocardial ischemic injury.
Hearts from rats wit... | C14 |
3,619 | 8,562 | How to select a drug for the long-term treatment of chronic heart failure.
First-line drugs for the treatment of chronic congestive heart failure should produce immediate symptomatic benefit, improve exercise tolerance, and thereby improve the quality of life.
They should preferentially be active as monotherapy or at... | C14 |
3,620 | 9,567 | A blood-liquid interface for prolonged extracorporeal oxygenation with excellent antithrombogenicity.
The authors verified the excellent antithrombogenicity of a blood-liquid interface (BLI) and introduced an oxygenator based on the principle of gas exchange across direct BLI.
In a newly developed oxygenator, three l... | C14 |
3,621 | 3,345 | Conservative management of asymptomatic popliteal aneurysm.
Historical review shows that the treatment of popliteal aneurysm has developed by trial and error and there is disagreement about the proper management of the symptomless patient.
In 1981 a policy of conservative management for asymptomatic popliteal aneurys... | C14 |
3,622 | 9,348 | An analysis of outcome following percutaneous transluminal coronary artery angioplasty. An autopsy series.
We analyzed autopsy findings on 26 patients who died following percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA).
Twenty-one patients died within 3 weeks of undergoing PTCA; demonstrable cardiac complication... | C14 |
3,623 | 38 | Left and right ventricular flows by Doppler echocardiography: serial measurements in patients with aortic regurgitation during exercise, cold pressor stimulation, and vasodilation.
To test the practicality of Doppler echocardiography to measure serial change, biventricular outputs were measured in 15 patients with aor... | C14 |
3,624 | 3,444 | Regression of infundibular pulmonary stenosis after successful balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty in adults.
Between July 1985 and March 1988, 22 adult patients with congenital pulmonary stenosis underwent balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty.
There were 10 males and 12 females aged 16-45 (average 25 +/- 9.9) years.
All pat... | C14 |
3,625 | 2,298 | Frequency of low-grade residual coronary stenosis after thrombolysis during acute myocardial infarction.
The clinical, angiographic and demographic characteristics of 42 patients with low-grade (less than 50%) residual stenosis at the infarct lesion after thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction (MI) were assessed... | C14 |
3,626 | 4,684 | Deposits of crystalline material containing silicon in surgically excised human valves.
Ninety-seven surgically excised natural cardiac valves were examined by scanning electron microscopy and x-ray energy spectroscopy to assess the occurrence of crystalline deposits that contain the element silicon.
Valves examined ... | C14 |
3,627 | 7,466 | Renal artery stenosis: evaluation with color Doppler flow imaging.
Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is the most common correctable cause of hypertension.
The current study was undertaken to evaluate the usefulness of color Doppler flow imaging as a screening examination in the detection of significant RAS.
Fifty-five kid... | C14 |
3,628 | 5,139 | Popliteal artery occlusion caused by cystic adventitial disease: successful treatment by urokinase followed by nonresectional cystotomy.
Preoperative diagnosis of an occluded popliteal artery caused by cystic adventitial disease allowed use of urokinase to successfully dissolve secondary thrombosis.
Subsequent non-re... | C14 |
3,629 | 2,718 | Nitrous oxide does not alter infarct volume in rats undergoing reversible middle cerebral artery occlusion.
This experiment was designed to determine if nitrous oxide alters neurologic and pathologic outcome from temporary focal cerebral ischemia in spontaneously hypertensive rats deeply anesthetized with a barbiturat... | C14 |
3,630 | 390 | Orthostatic hypotension following right ventricular myocardial infarction corrected with mineralocorticoid therapy.
Severe hypotension while standing became a problem in a patient after discharge from the hospital following right ventricular myocardial infarction.
Hemodynamic studies showed that right ventricular sys... | C14 |
3,631 | 7,565 | Usefulness of tomographic thallium-201 imaging for detection of restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
The role of tomographic thallium-201 exercise and redistribution imaging in the detection of restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) was evaluated in 116 patie... | C14 |
3,632 | 5,925 | Endocarditis due to ampicillin-resistant nontyphoid Salmonella: cure with a third-generation cephalosporin.
A case of ampicillin-resistant salmonella bacteremia complicated by endocarditis in a 78-year-old man is presented.
Previous rheumatic valvular heart disease and the lack of response to initial treatment with c... | C14 |
3,633 | 6,978 | Evaluation of methods for detecting venous reflux. Perspectives in venous insufficiency.
Using 793 limbs with nonobstructive venous reflux, we evaluated a number of techniques used for the assessment of venous reflux.
The venous Doppler examination was found to be a reliable screening tool with excellent sensitivity ... | C14 |
3,634 | 9,263 | Life-threatening complications during anaesthesia in a patient with a ventriculo-atrial shunt and pulmonary hypertension [published erratum appears in Anaesthesia 1991 Mar;46(3):241]
A 6-year-old patient with hydrocephalus who underwent revision of a ventriculo-atrial shunt is described.
Anaesthesia was complicated b... | C14 |
3,635 | 3,598 | Disappearance of renin-induced proteinuria by an ACE-inhibitor: a case report.
A 55-year-old man developed renovascular hypertension that was characterized by high plasma renin activity.
This was accompanied by nephrotic range proteinuria.
Treatment with nifedipine and furosemide lowered the blood pressure to normal... | C14 |
3,636 | 7,138 | Long-term results of catheter ablation of idiopathic right ventricular tachycardia
Ten consecutive patients with recurrent episodes of symptomatic, idiopathic, sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (VT) originating in the right ventricle underwent an attempt at catheter ablation of the ventricular tachycardia... | C14 |
3,637 | 9,492 | Pulmonary artery counterpulsation with a skeletal muscle power source.
We evaluated the feasibility of using skeletal muscle (SM) to provide pulmonary artery (PA) counterpulsation in an acute pulmonary hypertension (PHT) model.
PA counterpulsation was achieved in six dogs with a dual chambered pump powered by the lat... | C14 |
3,638 | 5,894 | The management of atypical non-cardiac chest pain.
Atypical, non-cardiac chest pain is common and disabling, and often persists despite negative medical investigations.
Aetiology is disputed and management is difficult.
A multi-causal model in which both psychological and physical factors play a part is helpful; a f... | C14 |
3,639 | 3,146 | Putative mechanism of blood pressure reduction induced by increases in dietary calcium intake.
An increase in dietary calcium intake lowers blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats and in some patients with arterial hypertension.
The mechanisms by which this decrease come about are not clear.
A membrane-sta... | C14 |
3,640 | 2,955 | Swan-Ganz catheter-induced massive hemoptysis and pulmonary artery false aneurysm.
Swan-Ganz catheter-induced massive hemoptysis and later pulmonary artery false aneurysm occurred in a patient with prosthetic mitral regurgitation.
This patient was successfully managed by double-lumen endotracheal intubation, control ... | C14 |
3,641 | 237 | Multi-Hospital Eastern Atlantic Restenosis Trial: design, recruitment, and feasibility. M-HEART Investigators.
A randomized control trial was set up to examine factors that influence restenosis and determine the effects of corticosteroids on restenosis following successful PTCA.
The rationale for the study agent chos... | C14 |
3,642 | 2,913 | Plasma prolactin and clinical outcome in preterm infants.
Plasma prolactin was measured weekly in 280 preterm infants.
The complex gestational age dependent pattern of postnatal prolactin release has been defined and reference standards provided.
Plasma prolactin was higher in girls, with increasing divergence betwe... | C14 |
3,643 | 3,622 | Total knee arthroplasty in diabetes mellitus.
A retrospective study was done of 59 total knee arthroplasties (TKAs) in 40 patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus.
The overall infection rate was 7%, with an overall revision rate of 10% and an average follow-up period of 4.3 years.
Wound complications were present i... | C14 |
3,644 | 275 | Regulation of fibrillar collagen types I and III and basement membrane type IV collagen gene expression in pressure overloaded rat myocardium.
Left ventricular hypertrophy is based on cardiac myocyte growth.
The hypertrophic process can be considered heterogeneous based on whether it also includes a remodeling and ac... | C14 |
3,645 | 6,340 | Hepatic portal venous gas: an unusual presentation of Crohn's disease.
Hepatic portal venous gas is associated with numerous conditions and traditionally has been regarded as an ominous prognostic sign.
There are several reports of hepatic portal venous gas occurring in patients with inflammatory bowel disease after ... | C14 |
3,646 | 8,542 | Clinical and electrophysiological characteristics of ventricular tachycardia in children with normal hearts.
Characteristics of 18 patients with clinical ventricular tachycardia (VT) and normal hearts documented by physical examination, echocardiography, and angiocardiography were analyzed.
There were 13 males and 5 ... | C14 |
3,647 | 6,179 | Coronary perfusion catheter: its effectiveness in an experimental model of acute coronary occlusion.
The effectiveness of a coronary perfusion catheter was studied in an animal model of acute coronary occlusion.
Systemic hemodynamic variables, regional myocardial blood flow (RMBF) in the subepicardium and subendocard... | C14 |
3,648 | 2,734 | Coronary artery dissection--a case report.
Coronary artery dissection, both spontaneous and catheter-induced, is associated with a significant morbidity and mortality.
The authors present a case of a middle-aged woman with spontaneous right coronary artery dissection causing inferior wall myocardial infarction and le... | C14 |
3,649 | 3,501 | Effects of adenosine on human coronary arterial circulation
Adenosine is a potent vasodilator used extensively to study the coronary circulation of animals.
Its use in humans, however, has been hampered by lack of knowledge about its effects on the human coronary circulation and by concern about its safety.
We inve... | C14 |
3,650 | 9,894 | Alcohol consumption and blood pressure: a comparison of native Japanese to American men.
We compared the cross-sectional association of alcohol consumption with blood pressure in 810 Japanese men (JM) living in Tokyo and 946 white men (WM) living in New York.
Mean systolic (JM and WM, p less than 0.001) and diastolic... | C14 |
3,651 | 6,219 | Cause of thrombosis in human atherosclerotic arteries.
Although it has been known for a long time that thrombosis nearly always develops in atherosclerotic arteries--and almost never in normal vessels--the mechanism through which atherosclerosis promotes thrombosis was unknown until this problem was explored through h... | C14 |
3,652 | 3,734 | Single lung transplantation for primary pulmonary hypertension.
Single lung transplantation has become a therapeutic option for end-stage interstitial lung disease and obstructive lung disease.
Our group recently extended this treatment to three patients with primary pulmonary hypertension.
All patients had marked d... | C14 |
3,653 | 6,189 | ACE inhibition improves vagal reactivity in patients with heart failure.
The deranged autonomic control of heart rate was studied in 34 patients with heart failure (New York Heart Association [NYHA] functional class II to III) by examining the carotid sinus baroreflex.
The carotid sinus baroreceptors were stimulated ... | C14 |
3,654 | 772 | Combined epidural and general anesthesia in aortic surgery.
The perioperative course of 144 consecutive patients undergoing aortic reconstructive surgery was studied to assess the potential benefit of employing a combined epidural and light general anesthesia technique.
A group of 67 patients had general anesthesia a... | C14 |
3,655 | 2,135 | Spinal extradural cavernous hemangioma.
Three cases of isolated spinal extradural cavernous hemangiomas are reported, two in the thoracic and one in the lumbar region.
One of them manifested as acute cord compression, the other two as chronic progressive myelopathy or radiculopathy.
A total excision or subtotal exci... | C14 |
3,656 | 8,473 | Evaluation of metastatic cardiac calcification in a model of chronic primary hyperparathyroidism.
Recent reports have fueled an interest in the prevalence and significance of metastatic calcium deposition in patients with chronic hyperparathyroidism.
Experimental data are limited by the lack of suitable in vivo anima... | C14 |
3,657 | 6,624 | Pulmonary hypertension after heparin-protamine: roles of left-sided infusion, histamine, and platelet-activating factor.
Severe pulmonary hypertension after protamine neutralization of heparin is an infrequent but life-threatening event following cardiopulmonary bypass.
The effect of left ventricular infusion of prot... | C14 |
3,658 | 8,997 | Central retinal vein obstruction and axial length.
The axial lengths of 24 consecutive adult eyes with unilateral central retinal vein obstruction (CRVO) were compared with those of contralateral unaffected eyes and those of a control population.
The lengths of the two eyes of persons with a unilateral CRVO were not ... | C14 |
3,659 | 7,871 | Cardiac involvement in AIDS.
Cardiac involvement in AIDS may occur at any stage of HIV disease and may manifest as congestive cardiomyopathy, potentially lethal arrhythmia, or pericardial effusion and tamponade.
The heart may be affected by nearly all of the opportunistic infections and many of the malignancies assoc... | C14 |
3,660 | 3,121 | Ventricular arrhythmias in hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy. Relationship to coronary artery disease, left ventricular dysfunction, and myocardial fibrosis.
Ventricular arrhythmias occur with increased frequency in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH).
The relationships, however, bet... | C14 |
3,661 | 2,364 | Value of carvedilol in congestive heart failure secondary to coronary artery disease.
Despite considerable interest in the use of beta-blocking agents in congestive heart failure (CHF), their clinical application is limited because of their negative inotropic effects.
Beta blockers with vasodilating properties may ha... | C14 |
3,662 | 9,153 | Acute myocardial infarction and chest pain syndromes after cocaine use.
Seventy patients hospitalized with chest pain after cocaine use were retrospectively evaluated to define the risk and clinical course of acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
AMI developed in 22 patients (31%) and transient myocardial ischemia was s... | C14 |
3,663 | 6,178 | Persistent uptake of indium-111-antimyosin monoclonal antibody in patients with myocardial infarction.
Indium-111(111In)-antimyosin scintigraphy was investigated in 27 patients with myocardial infarction.
111In-antimyosin Fab was administered intravenously, and planar and single photon emission computed tomographic i... | C14 |
3,664 | 4,204 | Inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysms.
In a series of 517 operations for abdominal aortic aneurysm from 1971 to 1988 there were 45 cases (8.7%) with an inflammatory aneurysm with a typical thick glistening whitish fibrous layer.
Almost two-third of the patients had rather severe chronic or acute progressive pain in... | C14 |
3,665 | 787 | Cardiac echinococcosis: the diagnostic value of computed tomography scanning.
The diagnosis of cardiac hydatid disease is a difficult one.
Conventional and specific cardiac investigations are not pathognomonic of this disease.
In this report, the diagnostic value of computed tomography (CT) scanning was prospectivel... | C14 |
3,666 | 5,106 | A giant renal artery aneurysm diagnosed post partum.
We report a case of a 5.8 cm.
right renal artery aneurysm diagnosed intact 8 weeks post partum.
Rupture of a renal arterial aneurysm during pregnancy is a rare but well described catastrophic event.
There are no previous reports of an intact renal artery aneurysm... | C14 |
3,667 | 6,187 | Clinical significance of simple heart rate-adjusted ST segment depression in supine leg exercise in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease.
To evaluate the clinical significance of simple heart rate-adjusted ST segment depression (delta ST/delta HR) in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease, 42 patients with stabl... | C14 |
3,668 | 6,932 | Thyrotoxicosis induced by topical iodine application.
We describe an elderly man who was admitted with congestive cardiac failure and found to have thyrotoxicosis.
He did not have goiter, and he had normal radioiodine uptake in his neck.
Serum iodine levels were elevated, explaining the lack of increase in radioiodi... | C14 |
3,669 | 238 | Fractured and retained guide-wire fragment during coronary angioplasty--unforeseen late sequelae.
During a difficult coronary angioplasty, the tip of the guide wire became inadvertently wedged in a distal vessel, fractured, and retained in situ.
Because of the otherwise successful nature of the angioplasty and the pa... | C14 |
3,670 | 9,161 | Left ventricular filling impairment in asymptomatic chronic alcoholics.
Systolic left ventricular dysfunction is relatively common in even asymptomatic alcoholics, but whether diastolic function is also altered is much less well-studied.
We used M-mode and Doppler echocardiography to study left ventricular size, mass... | C14 |
3,671 | 3,452 | Inflation pressure requirements during coronary angioplasty.
To examine the balloon inflation pressures required for successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), the maximal inflation pressure required for 477 coronary lesions in 200 consecutive patients was determined retrospectively.
When grade... | C14 |
3,672 | 5,536 | Whither electronic fetal monitoring?
Largely based on promising animal studies, continuous electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) was introduced into clinical practice in the early 1970s.
After almost 20 years of experience, it is now apparent that the anticipated benefits of this technology have not materialized.
Undesi... | C14 |
3,673 | 4,023 | The role of endoscopic injection sclerotherapy in the management of bleeding peristomal varices.
Peristomal varices usually occur in patients with enterostomies who develop portal hypertension, and represent a cause of recurrent or intractable gastrointestinal bleeding.
Treatment options for such bleeding include sur... | C14 |
3,674 | 2,748 | Intraoperative coronary excimer laser angioplasty: preliminary clinical experience.
Diffuse coronary artery atherosclerosis is generally recognized as a deterrent to successful revascularization if it cannot be adequately treated.
Mechanical endarterectomy can be useful, but it is not the optimal solution owing to th... | C14 |
3,675 | 9,802 | Apical segmental dysfunction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: subgroup with unique clinical features.
A segmental wall motion abnormality is an unusual finding in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
To clarify its clinical significance, 48 patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy were analyzed.
Eight patients... | C14 |
3,676 | 769 | The relationship of intraluminal shunting to technical results after carotid endarterectomy.
This study evaluates the incidence of defects on the intraoperative angiograms of 160 carotid endarterectomies performed in 146 patients, 81 of 160 (50.6%) with a shunt and 79 of 160 operations (49.4%) performed without a shun... | C14 |
3,677 | 6,636 | Electroencephalographic changes during brief cardiac arrest in humans.
Slowing and attenuation of the dominant frequency of the electroencephalogram (EEG) are changes commonly used to detect cerebral ischemia.
To assess the validity of this method, the EEGs recorded during 93 episodes of circulatory arrest in ten nor... | C14 |
3,678 | 770 | Long term follow-up of descending thoracic aorto-iliac/femoral bypass.
A prospective study of 26 patients undergoing descending thoracic aorto-iliac/femoral (DTAI/F) bypass was conducted over a 13-year period with an average follow up of 53 months.
Reasons for selecting the procedure were occluded aortic bifurcation ... | C14 |
3,679 | 393 | Florid pulmonary veno-occlusive disease.
A young woman presented with rapidly progressive dyspnea and clinical findings strongly suggestive of primary pulmonary hypertension or possible pulmonary embolism (or both).
She died of acute right-sided heart failure.
A diagnosis of pulmonary veno-occlusive disease was made... | C14 |
3,680 | 3,472 | The prophylactic use of octreotide in a patient with ovarian carcinoid and valvular heart disease.
This case report describes the use of octreotide, a long-acting somatostatin analogue, in the management of a patient with an ovarian carcinoid tumour and severe cardiac valvular disease.
This patient underwent laparoto... | C14 |
3,681 | 9,803 | Contrast echocardiographic mapping of collateralized myocardium in humans before and after coronary angioplasty
Conventional coronary arteriography is able to demonstrate the presence of coronary collateral vessels but cannot delineate the specific region of myocardium to which they supply blood.
To test the hypothe... | C14 |
3,682 | 6,410 | Prevalence and determinants of estrogen replacement therapy in elderly women.
To better understand which women use estrogen replacement therapy, we examined the prevalence and determinants of estrogen replacement therapy in 9704 nonblack women, age greater than or equal to 65 years, who participated in the multicenter... | C14 |
3,683 | 6,237 | Prognostic value of predischarge low-level exercise thallium testing after thrombolytic treatment of acute myocardial infarction.
Low-level exercise thallium testing is useful in identifying the high-risk patient after acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
To determine whether this use also applies to patients after thr... | C14 |
3,684 | 5,252 | Coagulation factor abnormalities as possible thrombotic risk factors after Fontan operations.
Severe thromboembolism occurred in 3 of 37 patients who had undergone Fontan-type operations for correction of congenital heart defects several months to years after the operation.
The patients were screened for coagulation ... | C14 |
3,685 | 9,132 | Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a non-Oriental man.
Japanese investigators first described apical HCM in 2.9% of patients who had diagnostic left ventricular catheterization for suspected ischemic heart disease or cardiomyopathy.
This entity was initially thought to be limited to individuals of Asian origin and... | C14 |
3,686 | 5,450 | Vagal schwannoma associated with syncopal attacks and postural hypotension: a case report.
A case of vagal schwannoma in the cerebellomedullary angle is reported.
Preoperatively, the patient had paroxysmal episodes of postural hypotension with syncope.
After total removal of the vagal tumor, her systemic blood press... | C14 |
3,687 | 7,007 | The post-occlusive hyperemic response in patients with systemic sclerosis.
We investigated post-ischemic hyperreactive cutaneous blood flow in patients with primary Raynaud's phenomenon and Raynaud's phenomenon secondary to systemic sclerosis (SSc).
Reactive hyperemia was measured over a locally warmed area of skin, ... | C14 |
3,688 | 2,323 | Patient-related variables and restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty--a report from the M-HEART Group.
As part of a randomized prospective study designed to investigate the restenosis process after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), the relation between patient-related vari... | C14 |
3,689 | 6,879 | New technique for the arterial switch operation in difficult situations.
The technique described here, a modification of the Aubert operation, avoids coronary reimplantation and also eliminates the need to use artificial material to transfer coronary circulation. | C14 |
3,690 | 3,120 | Critical care transportation medicine: new concepts in pretransport stabilization of the critically ill patient.
Regionalization of health care for trauma has become commonplace, and the same concept for critically ill medical/surgical patients is developing.
Recent evidence suggests that current stabilization measur... | C14 |
3,691 | 3,567 | Comparison of medical and surgical therapy for uncomplicated descending aortic dissection.
To guide the choice of medical versus surgical therapy for patients with descending (type B) aortic dissection (tear in the descending aorta without involvement of the ascending aorta), multivariate survival analysis was applied... | C14 |
3,692 | 6,233 | Voltage criteria of left ventricular hypertrophy in sudden and nonsudden coronary artery disease mortality: the Italian section of the Seven Countries Study.
It is unclear whether sudden or nonsudden death can be predicted independently from other risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD).
Therefore, this invest... | C14 |
3,693 | 7,411 | Emergent signs of cancer. Recognizing them early in the office or ER.
Primary care physicians have a crucial role in recognition of potentially emergent conditions in patients with known or suspected cancer.
This task presents a significant challenge because the initial manifestations of these conditions are usually ... | C14 |
3,694 | 6,217 | Mental stress as an acute trigger of ischemic left ventricular dysfunction and blood pressure elevation in coronary artery disease.
Acute mental stress may be a frequent trigger of transient myocardial ischemia, myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death.
In an experimental setting, the effect of mental stress on... | C14 |
3,695 | 7,068 | Prediction of pregnancy-induced hypertensive disorders by angiotensin II sensitivity and supine pressor test.
An angiotensin II sensitivity test and a supine pressor test were done consecutively at 28 weeks gestation in 90 healthy, normotensive nulliparous women.
None of the supine pressor tests was positive, applyin... | C14 |
3,696 | 7,976 | Nephropathy in model combining genetic hypertension with experimental diabetes. Enalapril versus hydralazine and metoprolol therapy.
We compared the effects of the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor enalapril and a conventional antihypertensive regimen (hydralazine and metoprolol) on kidney function, albuminuria,... | C14 |
3,697 | 9,935 | Severe cerebral and systemic necrotizing vasculitis developing during pregnancy in a case of systemic lupus erythematosus.
We describe a fatal case of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) developing cerebral and systemic necrotizing vasculitis during pregnancy.
The patient was discovered to have SLE at 14 weeks' gestat... | C14 |
3,698 | 9,435 | Complement activation and use of a cell saver in cardiopulmonary bypass.
Complement activation was evaluated in ten patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and intraoperative blood salvage with a cell saver (CS) to assess the inflammatory response related to the CS.
The washed red blood cell concentrate was ... | C14 |
3,699 | 9,135 | Pheochromocytoma and acute myocardial infarction.
When a pheochromocytoma is manifested as an acute myocardial illness, diagnosis may be difficult to make.
If the tumor is suspected early enough, a workup can be done while the complications of the myocardial illness are being controlled (as in our case).
The tumor c... | C14 |
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