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3,900 | 2,508 | Further mapping of an ataxia-telangiectasia locus to the chromosome 11q23 region.
We recently mapped the gene for ataxia-telangiectasia group A (ATA) to chromosome 11q22-23 by linkage analysis, using the genetic markers THY1 and pYNB3.12 (D11S144).
The most likely order was cent-AT-S144-THY1.
The present paper descr... | C14 |
3,901 | 3,195 | Prospective evaluation of a protocol for induction of sustained ventricular tachycardia in patients referred to a tertiary centre.
All eight stages of a stimulation protocol that used one then two extrastimuli from the right ventricular apex in sinus rhythm and three ventricular drive rates (100, 120, and 140 beats/mi... | C14 |
3,902 | 9,735 | The effect of intravenous fixed-dose heparin during total hip arthroplasty on the incidence of deep-vein thrombosis. A randomized, double-blind trial in patients operated on with epidural anesthesia and controlled hypotension.
Heparin was given in fixed doses intravenously during unilateral primary total hip-replaceme... | C14 |
3,903 | 2,714 | The "natural history" of segmental wall motion abnormalities in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. S.P.I. Research Group.
Intraoperative segmental wall motion abnormalities (SWMA) detected by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) are sensitive, but not always specific, markers of myocardial ischemia.
To determi... | C14 |
3,904 | 2,260 | Stress and hypertension
In susceptible persons emotional stress results in immediate sympathetic stimulation, with a vasomotor response that results in a high-output state and elevated blood pressure; the vasopressor response seems to be transient.
There seems to be no longitudinal epidemiologic validation of the at... | C14 |
3,905 | 7,843 | The fat embolism syndrome. A review.
While fat embolism occurs in most (more than 90%) patients with traumatic injury, the fat embolism syndrome (FES) occurs in only 3%-4% of patients with long-bone fractures.
FES involves multiple organ systems and can cause a devastating clinical deterioration within hours.
The ma... | C14 |
3,906 | 2,376 | Advantages of beta blockers versus antiarrhythmic agents and calcium antagonists in secondary prevention after myocardial infarction.
Patients who have sustained greater than or equal to 1 myocardial infarcts are at high risk for sudden death or reinfarction; the risk is highest for those with lowest ventricular eject... | C14 |
3,907 | 963 | Dietary preference for sweet foods in patients with dementia
Using a telephone survey, patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (n = 31) and vascular dementia (n = 14) were compared with elderly normal controls (n = 43) in preferences for different foods.
Patients with Alzheimer's disease had a greater preference ... | C14 |
3,908 | 9,818 | Hemodynamic efficacy of rapid saline infusion and dobutamine versus saline infusion alone in a model of cardiac rupture.
Despite recent reports describing survival after cardiac rupture, the effectiveness of circulatory support while awaiting definitive surgical treatment is controversial.
To assess the efficacy of v... | C14 |
3,909 | 6,345 | Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease--more than a renal disease.
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common genetic disease, affecting a half million Americans.
The clinical phenotype can result from at least two different gene defects.
One gene that can cause ADPKD has been loca... | C14 |
3,910 | 9,809 | Noninvasive detection of patients with ischemic and nonischemic heart disease prone to ventricular fibrillation.
Abnormalities in the fast Fourier transforms of signal-averaged electrocardiograms (ECGs) obtained during sinus rhythm appear to distinguish patients with ischemic heart disease and sustained monomorphic ve... | C14 |
3,911 | 4,081 | Calcitropic hormones, platelet calcium, and blood pressure in essential hypertension.
Plasma ionized calcium, platelet cytosolic calcium (using the fura-2 method in gel-filtered platelets), parathyroid hormone (both the intact hormone and a midmolecule portion), calcitriol, and calcidiol were measured in 19 untreated ... | C14 |
3,912 | 717 | Role of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in congestive heart failure.
Conventional therapy for congestive heart failure (CHF) includes sodium-restricted diet, diuretics, digitalis, vasodilators, and short-term intravenous administration of beta-adrenergic agonists during episodes of decompensation.
A specific... | C14 |
3,913 | 7,727 | Transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of left atrial appendage aneurysm.
Intrapericardial left atrial appendage aneurysm is rare.
We describe the transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiographic findings in a 42-year-old man with atrial arrhythmia and an abnormal left atrial appendage on chest roentgen... | C14 |
3,914 | 3,740 | Cardiopulmonary assessment in beta-thalassemia major.
Thalassemia patients succumb at a young age to congestive heart failure.
Hitherto, attention has been focused on left ventricular function.
This report emphasizes right ventricular dysfunction and abnormal pulmonary function.
We performed cardiopulmonary evaluat... | C14 |
3,915 | 8,654 | Severe hypertension after liver transplantation in alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency.
Five children with alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency and terminal liver disease received liver grafts; all five became hypertensive and four developed hypertensive encephalopathy.
There was evidence of renal disease preoperatively and ren... | C14 |
3,916 | 4,640 | Pneumococcal anticapsular antibodies in patients with chronic cardiovascular and obstructive lung disease in The Netherlands.
Differences in pneumococcal anticapsular antibody concentrations were assessed among patients with various chronic disorders and among young (25-35 years of age) and older adults (55-65 years).... | C14 |
3,917 | 2,945 | Subaortic obstruction: intraoperative echocardiography as an adjunct to operation.
Fourteen patients undergoing operation for subaortic obstruction (membranous obstruction in 11 patients, tunnel obstruction in 2 patients, obstruction due to reduplicated mitral valve tissue in 1 patient) were evaluated by intraoperativ... | C14 |
3,918 | 2,788 | Doppler assessment of pulmonary hypertension induced by hypoxic breathing in subjects susceptible to high altitude pulmonary edema.
To verify the abnormal pulmonary vascular response implicated in the pathogenesis of high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE), we examined the hemodynamic responses to hypoxia in HAPE-suscept... | C14 |
3,919 | 7,629 | Large arteries involvement in scleroderma--a case report.
The authors describe a thirty-nine-year-old woman patient presenting with progressive systemic sclerosis and an unusual angiographic picture of an impairment of large arteries, which in their opinion is due to the primary disease.
The review literature reports... | C14 |
3,920 | 3,547 | Latissimus dorsi cardiomyoplasty in the treatment of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy.
Stimulated skeletal muscle grafts have been proposed as a means to reinforce ventricular wall in the treatment of severe myocardial failure.
Latissimus dorsi cardiomyoplasty was performed in 11 patients with advanced heart fail... | C14 |
3,921 | 9,490 | In vitro and in vivo evaluation of a right ventricular assist device.
A simple right ventricular assist device (RVAD) has been developed.
This device will be useful in situations where biventricular failure has been partially treated by placement of a left ventricular assist device, or when right ventricular failure ... | C14 |
3,922 | 3,125 | Effect of captopril injection in patients with moderate to severe hypertension.
The effect of intravenous captopril was studied in 24 white patients who had moderate to severe hypertension.
Patients received incremental doses of 1 to 10 mg delivered at 10 min intervals over 50 to 80 min.
Blood pressure (BP) was lowe... | C14 |
3,923 | 6,567 | Fish oil supplementation in patients with stable claudication.
Increased blood viscosity occurs in patients with claudication.
This increase in viscosity, which is mainly due to elevated fibrinogen levels and a decreased red cell deformability, adversely influences blood flow.
In addition to a positive effect on blo... | C14 |
3,924 | 2,368 | Relevance of intrinsic sympathomimetic activity for beta blockers.
Intrinsic sympathomimetic activity (ISA) characterizes a group of beta blockers that are able to stimulate beta-adrenergic receptors (agonist effect) and to oppose the stimulating effects of catecholamines (antagonist effect) in a competitive way.
Par... | C14 |
3,925 | 2,355 | Comparison of direct and indirect measures of systemic arterial pressure during weightlifting in coronary artery disease.
Based on auscultation measurements after exercise, circuit weight training in cardiac patients has been reported to provoke minimal increases in systolic pressure.
Direct (brachial artery catheter... | C14 |
3,926 | 3,155 | Increase of calmodulin activator in hypertension. Modulation by dietary sodium and calcium.
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of dietary calcium and sodium on blood pressure (BP) in normotensive rats (Wistar, WKY), spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Dahl rats and on calmodulin (CaM) activator... | C14 |
3,927 | 2,568 | Oral contraceptives, lipoproteins, and atherosclerosis.
A nonhuman primate model was developed to study the effects of oral contraceptives on lipoproteins and atherosclerosis.
Cynomolgus macaques were selected because of their susceptibility to diet-induced atherosclerosis and because their reproductive physiology, m... | C14 |
3,928 | 935 | Echocardiographic definition of the left ventricular centroid. II. Determination of the optimal centroid during systole in normal and infarcted hearts.
Although two-dimensional echocardiography is widely used in both clinical and experimental evaluations of regional cardiac wall motion, there is no established clinica... | C14 |
3,929 | 4,642 | Neisseria mucosa endocarditis.
A case of Neisseria mucosa tricuspid valve endocarditis in an intravenous drug abuser is described.
The patient was treated initially with intravenous penicillin G followed by oral penicillin VK but relapsed.
He was cured after 4 weeks of combined therapy with penicillin G and gentamic... | C14 |
3,930 | 6,389 | Developing improved observational methods for evaluating therapeutic effectiveness.
Therapeutic efficacy is often studied with observational surveys of patients whose treatments were selected nonexperimentally.
The results of these surveys are distrusted because of the fear that biased results occur in the absence of... | C14 |
3,931 | 6,349 | Body fluid spaces and blood pressure in hemodialysis patients during amelioration of anemia with erythropoietin.
Blood pressure (BP) may increase in hemodialysis patients during treatment of anemia with recombinant human erythropoietin (r-HuEPO).
Since fluid volume is a determinant of BP in dialysis patients, changes... | C14 |
3,932 | 6,090 | Moderate hypothermia after cardiac arrest of 17 minutes in dogs. Effect on cerebral and cardiac outcome.
Moderate hypothermia (30 degrees C) induced before circulatory arrest is known to improve neurologic outcome.
We explored, for the first time in a reproducible dog outcome model, moderate hypothermia induced durin... | C14 |
3,933 | 2,511 | Digitalis-like activity in human plasma: relation to blood pressure and sodium balance.
PURPOSE: On the assumption that renal tubular cells are more important as the target cells for a natriuretic factor than blood cells, we used a well-characterized cultured renal tubular cell line, Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK), ... | C14 |
3,934 | 703 | Comparison of converting enzyme inhibitor and calcium channel blocker in hypertensive glomerular injury.
The protective effect of converting enzyme inhibitors in experimental hypertensive glomerular injury is associated with decreased systemic arterial and glomerular capillary pressure.
Although calcium channel block... | C14 |
3,935 | 4,265 | Alterations in aldosterone secretion and metabolism in low renin hypertension.
Low renin essential hypertensives (LRH) have normal plasma aldosterone levels which are inappropriately high in relation to their PRA.
Posture is the major determinant for plasma aldosterone and PRA levels, but it is not known whether post... | C14 |
3,936 | 2,338 | Planar imaging techniques used with technetium-99m sestamibi to evaluate chronic myocardial ischemia.
The results of published and some unpublished studies comparing planar imaging performed with 2 radionuclides, thallium-201 (T1-201) and technetium-99m (Tc-99m) sestamibi, are reviewed.
The average sensitivity for th... | C14 |
3,937 | 9,361 | Disseminated Conidiobolus infection with endocarditis in a cocaine abuser.
A crack cocaine abuser developed disseminated infection caused by a species of Conidiobolus not known to cause disease in vertebrates.
The fungus gained entry via skin abrasions on the lower extremities, spread through the hematogenous route, ... | C14 |
3,938 | 5,188 | Role of enhanced glomerular synthesis of thromboxane A2 in progressive kidney disease.
Normotensive rats of the Milan strain (MNS) spontaneously develop focal glomerulosclerosis.
In order to explore the contribution of glomerular thromboxane (TX) A2 synthesis to the development of the disease, we have characterized t... | C14 |
3,939 | 6,569 | An outpatient anticoagulation protocol managed by a vascular nurse-clinician.
Lifetime anticoagulation has become a therapeutic option for surgical patients with hypercoagulable states or prosthetic arterial bypass grafts.
However, physicians may not achieve optimal anticoagulation or may attempt to limit the length ... | C14 |
3,940 | 6,769 | Serum and tissue magnesium concentrations in patients with heart failure and serious ventricular arrhythmias.
OBJECTIVE: To compare magnesium concentrations in serum and tissue from patients with heart failure.
Two groups of patients were compared, those with or without serious ventricular arrhythmias.
DESIGN: Conse... | C14 |
3,941 | 250 | Salvage from cardiogenic shock by atherectomy after failed emergency coronary artery angioplasty.
In this case report of a patient undergoing angioplasty for cardiogenic shock during acute myocardial infarction, recurrent occlusion resulted in recurrence of shock.
Atherectomy reestablished lasting patency and reverse... | C14 |
3,942 | 2,181 | Age-related spontaneous intracerebral hematoma in a German community.
We investigated incidence, age distribution in relation to etiology, and localization of spontaneous intracerebral hematoma in 100 consecutive cases.
Incidence in the total population of the Giessen area was estimated to be greater than 11/100,000 ... | C14 |
3,943 | 4,434 | Plasma dehydroepiandrosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate in patients undergoing diagnostic coronary angiography [corrected and republished with original paging, article originally printed in J Am Coll Cardiol 1990 Oct;16(4):862-70]
Serum levels of DHEA sulfate are inversely associated with cardiovascular death... | C14 |
3,944 | 4,087 | Effects of salt, race, and hypertension on reactivity to stressors.
Blood pressure and heart rate reactivity to a psychological stressor and to a cold pressor test were examined in a group of 51 normotensive and 37 unmedicated hypertensive men.
All were studied twice, once while the participants were maintained on a ... | C14 |
3,945 | 9,227 | Edgar J Poth lecture. Pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of thrombosis.
Thrombosis and its major sequela, embolism, continue to contribute significantly to morbidity and mortality, both as primary disorders and as complications of other systemic systems.
The understanding of the etiology of thromboembolism and th... | C14 |
3,946 | 6,182 | Detection and quantitation of ischemic left ventricular dysfunction using a new video intensity technique for regional wall motion evaluation.
Eighty patients with ischemic heart disease and 17 normal subjects were evaluated for left ventricular regional wall motion by means of a new method.
The wall motion analysis ... | C14 |
3,947 | 3,151 | Vascular and calcemic effects of plasma of spontaneously hypertensive rats.
Circulating substances that increase intracellular calcium, and other circulating substances that increase blood pressure, have been described in hypertensive animals and humans.
In this study, we report the existence of a factor of the plasm... | C14 |
3,948 | 4,419 | Single photon emission computed tomography with thallium-201 during adenosine-induced coronary hyperemia: correlation with coronary arteriography, exercise thallium imaging and two-dimensional echocardiography
The feasibility, safety and diagnostic accuracy of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with t... | C14 |
3,949 | 7,738 | Tetralogy of Fallot with anomalous pulmonary venous connections: a rare but clinically important association.
Anomalous pulmonary venous connections were found in seven (0.6%) of 1183 patients with tetralogy of Fallot.
Three patients had totally anomalous connections (one supracardiac, one direct to coronary sinus, a... | C14 |
3,950 | 6,492 | Clustering of atherogenic behaviors in coffee drinkers.
We studied the clustering of coffee consumption and selected atherogenic behaviors in older adults living in a southern California community.
Men were somewhat more likely to drink caffeinated coffee while women were more likely to drink decaffeinated coffee.
I... | C14 |
3,951 | 8,040 | Similar frequencies of renin gene restriction fragment length polymorphisms in hypertensive and normotensive subjects.
A prospective study was conducted to compare the frequency of renin gene polymorphisms in normotensive and hypertensive subjects.
Hypertensive (n = 102, blood pressure 168 +/- 17/103 +/- 9 mm Hg) and... | C14 |
3,952 | 8,078 | Human dose-response relationship for decompression and endogenous bubble formation.
The dose-response relationship for decompression magnitude and venous gas emboli (VGE) formation in humans was examined.
Pressure exposures of 138, 150, and 164 kPa (12, 16, and 20.5 ft of seawater gauge pressure) were conducted in an... | C14 |
3,953 | 3,514 | Excretion of thromboxane A2 and prostacyclin metabolites before and after exercise testing in patients with and without signs of ischemic heart disease.
We addressed the hypothesis that platelets are not activated in association with effort-induced myocardial ischemia in stable coronary disease.
Seventy-two patients ... | C14 |
3,954 | 2,476 | Cardiac contractility and conduction: a comparison of antihypertensives.
The four classes of first-line antihypertensive agents recommended in the 1988 report of the Joint National Committee on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure are reviewed here.
Particular consideration is given to the effe... | C14 |
3,955 | 3,140 | Alarm reaction and serum K+ in hypertensive patients.
The effect of serum K+ of the alarm reaction induced by the participation to an experimental noninvasive study was evaluated in 35 subjects with borderline hypertension and in 18 essential hypertensives.
A group of 44 inpatients undergoing routine blood sampling s... | C14 |
3,956 | 773 | Synchronous reconstruction for combined aortoiliac and femoropopliteal occlusive lesions. The role of proximal bypass.
Between January 1984 and December 1986, 31 patients underwent synchronous revascularization (SR) because of the serious clinical condition of a lower limb and presence of arteriographically visible le... | C14 |
3,957 | 4,011 | Omeprazole in the management of intractable esophageal ulceration following injection sclerotherapy.
Transient esophageal ulceration is a common finding after sclerotherapy of varices.
A small proportion of these ulcers become chronic and resistant to conventional therapy.
Such chronic ulcers have been associated wi... | C14 |
3,958 | 2,147 | Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in patients who undergo open heart surgery.
To determine whether heparin-dependent antiplatelet antibodies (HAAb) have an effect on morbidity and/or mortality rates, we reviewed the cases of 3438 patients who underwent open heart surgery from 1981 to 1989.
Forty-six patients (1.3%) ha... | C14 |
3,959 | 4,399 | Supraventricular tachycardia due to Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome in children: early disappearance and late recurrence
The clinical course of 140 patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome who had their initial episode of supraventricular tachycardia before 18 years of age was reviewed.
Among those whose tachycar... | C14 |
3,960 | 771 | Current results of elective aortic reconstruction for aneurysmal and occlusive disease.
Decisions to resect small aortic aneurysms or employ non-operative treatment for aorto-iliac occlusive disease must depend on current rather than historical surgical results.
To assess current morbidity and mortality, we reviewed ... | C14 |
3,961 | 6,231 | Effects of two types of fish oil supplements on serum lipids and plasma phospholipid fatty acids in coronary artery disease.
Fish oil has consistently been shown to lower triglyceride levels, but its effects on low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol remain controversial.
The current study compares the long-term ef... | C14 |
3,962 | 4,194 | The effect of enoximone and dobutamine on hemodynamic performance after open heart surgery. A clinical comparison.
In a prospective, randomized study the phosphodiesterase inhibitor enoximone was compared to dobutamine after open heart surgery.
In either group 25 patients were treated with enoximone and dobutamine, r... | C14 |
3,963 | 4,401 | Efficacy of propafenone in preventing ventricular tachycardia: inverse correlation with rate-related prolongation of conduction time
The efficacy of propafenone in preventing induction of ventricular tachycardia was evaluated in 25 consecutive patients (mean age 62 +/- 8 years) with remote myocardial infarction who u... | C14 |
3,964 | 736 | The incidence of deep vein thrombosis after cementless and cemented knee replacement.
The incidence of deep vein thrombosis in 244 patients who had total knee replacement has been studied.
In 120 the prosthesis was cemented and in 124 it was cementless.
In all cases the replacement was primary and a porous-coated pr... | C14 |
3,965 | 2,297 | Parental history is an independent risk factor for coronary artery disease: the Framingham Study.
Family history of CAD, defined as parental death by CAD, was found to be a significant independent predictor of CAD in a logistic regression model controlling for standard risk factors and length of follow-up among the 52... | C14 |
3,966 | 2,197 | Two cases of spontaneous internal carotid artery occlusion due to giant intracranial carotid artery aneurysm.
Although spontaneous thrombosis of a giant intracranial aneurysm is relatively common, occlusion of its parent artery is rare.
We describe two recent patients in whom the parent artery spontaneously occluded.... | C14 |
3,967 | 933 | Heart rate variability before and after myocardial infarction in conscious dogs at high and low risk of sudden death.
Heart rate variability has been demonstrated both experimentally and clinically to be of prognostic importance in determining mortality after myocardial infarction.
However, no paired studies have bee... | C14 |
3,968 | 6,891 | Ultrasonic debridement during mitral valve reconstruction for calcified mitral stenosis.
An ultrasonic device in conjunction with open mitral commissurotomy was applied in 8 patients with heavily calcified, stenosed mitral valves.
In 6 patients, reconstruction of the mitral valve by debridement of the leaflet calcifi... | C14 |
3,969 | 7,086 | Development of antibodies to thrombin and factor V with recurrent bleeding in a patient exposed to topical bovine thrombin.
A 65 year old patient who was exposed to topical bovine thrombin during cardiac surgery developed markedly prolonged clotting times and a severe bleeding diathesis.
Mixing studies with normal pl... | C14 |
3,970 | 400 | Differential therapy with calcium antagonists in pulmonary hypertension secondary to COPD. Hemodynamic effects of nifedipine, diltiazem, and verapamil.
In 53 patients with COPD and precapillary pulmonary hypertension, we investigated the effect of three typical calcium antagonists on hemodynamics at rest and during bi... | C14 |
3,971 | 6,199 | Is obesity-related hypertension less of a cardiovascular risk? The Framingham Study.
The hypothesis that obesity-related hypertension is relatively innocuous was explored by an examination of cardiovascular events over 34 years of follow-up when related to biennially measured weights and blood pressures using time-dep... | C14 |
3,972 | 9,152 | Prehospital thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarction.
The benefit and risk of prehospital thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) were evaluated in a double-blind randomized trial.
Patients presenting less than 4 hours after symptom onset received 2 million units of urokinase as an intravenous bolus eit... | C14 |
3,973 | 6,078 | Gastric outlet obstruction caused by traumatic pseudoaneurysm of superior mesenteric artery.
Traumatic pseudoaneurysms of the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) are extremely rare.
We describe two cases of posttraumatic proximal SMA pseudoaneurysms with symptoms of gastric outlet obstruction.
Repair was accomplished b... | C14 |
3,974 | 5,000 | Acute aortic valvular incompetence following blunt thoracic deceleration injury: case report.
Blunt trauma leading to aortic valvular incompetence is rarely encountered, with 27 cases reported to date.
All cusps and commissures are involved to a similar degree.
Treatment includes either reattachment of cusps to the ... | C14 |
3,975 | 2,279 | Intracoronary adenosine administration during reperfusion following 3 hours of ischemia: effects on infarct size, ventricular function, and regional myocardial blood flow.
Previous studies have demonstrated that adenosine significantly enhances myocardial salvage after 90 minutes of regional ischemia.
To determine it... | C14 |
3,976 | 7,858 | Femoral artery cannulation for monitoring in critically ill children: prospective study.
Seventy-seven attempted percutaneous femoral artery cannulations were prospectively evaluated in 74 children.
Artery cannulation was successfully accomplished in 73 (95%) cases and lasted for a mean of 6 days.
Sixty percent of t... | C14 |
3,977 | 3,465 | Hyperkalaemia during rapid blood transfusion and hypovolaemic cardiac arrest in children.
A morbidity and mortality review documented a high occurrence of hyperkalaemia in cardiac arrests associated with rapid blood transfusion, which resulted in further study.
In order to stimulate events during rapid blood transfus... | C14 |
3,978 | 5,431 | Thickness of carotid artery atherosclerotic plaque and ischemic risk.
Noninvasive duplex scanning of carotid artery atherosclerotic plaque was performed in 286 consecutive patients referred to a cerebrovascular diagnostic laboratory.
The presence and thickness of such plaque in the region of the carotid bifurcation w... | C14 |
3,979 | 9,805 | Ventricular stroke work loss: validation of a method of quantifying the severity of aortic stenosis and derivation of an orifice formula
Because aortic stenosis results in the loss of left ventricular stroke work (due to resistance to flow through the valve and turbulence in the aorta), the percentage of stroke work ... | C14 |
3,980 | 8,028 | "White coat" versus "sustained" borderline hypertension in Tecumseh, Michigan
During a survey of young subjects not receiving treatment for hypertension in Tecumseh, Michigan, clinic and self-monitored blood pressures taken at home (14 readings in 7 days) were obtained in 737 subjects (387 men, 350 women, average age... | C14 |
3,981 | 6,111 | Neurogenic control of the cerebral circulation during global ischemia.
The influence of the trigeminal nerve on the cerebral circulation was investigated in chronically denervated cats during and after reversible four-vessel occlusion for 10 minutes combined with controlled hypotension (50 mm Hg).
Postocclusive hyper... | C14 |
3,982 | 9,477 | In vivo rheologic effects of lipid apheresis techniques: comparison of dextran sulfate LDL adsorption and heparin induced LDL precipitation.
The effects of two different LDL apheresis techniques, heparin-induced LDL precipitation (HELP) and dextran sulfate LDL adsorption (DSA), were compared in six patients with famil... | C14 |
3,983 | 712 | Effects of differential touch on nervous system arousal of patients recovering from cardiac disease.
Previous research suggests that the neural properties of certain types of touch as well as their perceived significance to the disease state may be related to heightened activation of the nervous system.
In this study... | C14 |
3,984 | 4,213 | Aneurysmal dilatation in saphenous vein bypass grafts.
Three patients are reported who developed aneurysmal degeneration of a saphenous vein arterial bypass graft.
All three had hypercholesterolemia and two had marked elevation of triglycerides.
One bypass was for occlusive disease and two for popliteal aneurysm.
T... | C14 |
3,985 | 9,524 | Additional salutary hemodynamic effects of the combined use of the paraaortic counterpulsation device and intraaortic balloon pump versus a paraaortic counterpulsation device alone.
The hemodynamic effects of the combined use of the paraaortic counterpulsation device (PACD) (stroke volume 65 ml) implanted on the ascen... | C14 |
3,986 | 9,869 | Ischaemic heart disease among men in Norway during the period 1966-1985: two counties with different mortality time trends.
We have examined regional differences in mortality from ischaemic heart disease, including sudden, unexpected death (IHD/SUD), among Norwegian men aged 30-69 years, during the period 1966-1985.
... | C14 |
3,987 | 4,422 | Termination of acute atrial fibrillation in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome by procainamide and propafenone: importance of atrial fibrillatory cycle length.
The effects of intravenous procainamide (n = 30) or propafenone (n = 25) were evaluated in 55 patients with acute atrial fibrillation and the Wolff-Parkinson-W... | C14 |
3,988 | 2,352 | Circadian rhythm of heart rate variability after acute myocardial infarction and its influence on the prognostic value of heart rate variability.
This study examined heart rate (HR) variability in patients surviving acute myocardial infarction (AMI) to find the optimum time and duration of recording of the ambulatory ... | C14 |
3,989 | 6,361 | The future of nephrology.
The Cellular and Molecular Age of Nephrology has dawned and the future is remarkably exciting.
The successful attack on the major causes of renal disease, including genetic diseases, glomerulonephritis, diabetes, vasculitis, acute renal failure, and hypertension, will necessitate improved kn... | C14 |
3,990 | 256 | Acquired Lutembacher syndrome or mitral stenosis and acquired atrial septal defect after transseptal mitral valvuloplasty.
Critical mitral stenosis in selected patients may be treated successfully with percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty.
Complications of this procedure, particularly an atrial septal defect following t... | C14 |
3,991 | 7,625 | Bronchiolar morphology after systemic arterial interruption.
To assess ischemic lesions as a factor in obliterative bronchiolitis after lung transplantation, the authors severed the left bronchial arteries of 15 dogs, together with the left stem bronchus, the latter being immediately reanostomosed.
They examined the ... | C14 |
3,992 | 3,459 | Usefulness of digital angiography in the assessment of left ventricular ejection fraction.
With modern digital cardiac systems the image data are digitized on-line and in real-time, allowing the replay and subsequent interpretation and analysis during or directly after the cardiac catheterization procedure.
In this s... | C14 |
3,993 | 3,255 | Haemostatic changes during continuous oestradiol-progestogen treatment of postmenopausal women.
To identify changes in haemostatic balance during continuous oestradiol-progestogen treatment, 60 postmenopausal women with climacteric complaints, mean age 55.4 years (range 44-68) were randomly allocated to receive one of... | C14 |
3,994 | 2,282 | Comparison of coronary angiography and early oral dipyridamole thallium-201 scintigraphy in patients receiving thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction.
We evaluated 50 consecutive patients who received thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction using thallium-201 single photon emission computed ... | C14 |
3,995 | 2,727 | Optimizing heparin utilization in angiographic flush solutions.
Various concentrations of heparin in angiographic flush solutions are employed during angiography.
In an effort to determine whether differences in outcome are seen when either high or low concentrations of heparin in angiographic flush solutions are uti... | C14 |
3,996 | 5,692 | Arrhythmias in patients with CHF. Should they be treated?
Ventricular arrhythmias are a major cause of death in patients with congestive heart failure.
Dr Ellenbogen and his associates discuss the current thinking, based on recent studies, concerning use of antiarrhythmic agents to prevent sudden cardiac death in the... | C14 |
3,997 | 6,841 | Surgical management of pheochromocytoma with the use of metyrosine.
Despite recommended preoperative preparation with alpha-adrenergic blockers, severe hemodynamic instability may occur during operations to resect pheochromocytoma.
We combined the alpha-blocker phenoxybenzamine with the tyrosine hydroxylase inhibitor... | C14 |
3,998 | 7,721 | Biplane transesophageal echocardiography: technique, image orientation, and preliminary experience in 131 patients.
Transesophageal echocardiography with use of a uniplane phased-array transducer with a transverse or horizontal scanning plane has become a well-established tool for evaluating cardiovascular diseases.
... | C14 |
3,999 | 3,445 | Diagnosis of left atrial thrombi in mitral valve disease by coronary arteriography.
Arteriographic findings of neovascularity and fistula formation between coronary arteries and left atrium have occasionally been described in association with left atrial thrombosis in patients with mitral valve disease.
The validity ... | C14 |
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