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4,100 | 3,106 | Bretylium tosylate versus lidocaine in experimental cardiac arrest
Bretylium tosylate has been shown effective in the treatment of ventricular fibrillation and in the prevention of its recurrence.
However, lidocaine is generally preferred because bretylium could have adverse hemodynamic effects related to its antiad... | C14 |
4,101 | 9,561 | Clinical experience with the Nimbus pump.
The Nimbus pump is an indwelling, electromagnetic powered left ventricular (LV) assist device inserted transfemorally.
The inflow cannula (7 mm) is positioned across the aortic valve and the pump in the descending aorta.
Indications for insertion include cardiogenic shock de... | C14 |
4,102 | 2,959 | Liver transplantation with atrioatrial anastomosis for Budd-Chiari syndrome.
We report the case of a young woman with Budd-Chiari syndrome in whom mesentericoval shunt was first performed, followed by transcaval liver resection and hepatoatrial anatomosis 3 years later.
Liver transplantation became necessary 5 years ... | C14 |
4,103 | 4,426 | Intracardiac shunting in children with ventricular septal defect: evaluation with Doppler color flow mapping
In children with a ventricular septal defect, transseptal blood flow has been demonstrated angiographically to be bidirectional in all but the smallest defects.
To investigate this phenomenon noninvasively, t... | C14 |
4,104 | 7,135 | Coronary atherosclerosis is associated with left ventricular dysfunction and dilatation in aortic stenosis.
Patients with aortic stenosis develop widely variable patterns of left ventricular hypertrophy and dysfunction.
We postulated that coronary atherosclerosis (CAD) may be associated with impaired left ventricular... | C14 |
4,105 | 2,973 | The association of blood pressure levels and change in renal function in hypertensive and nonhypertensive subjects.
We compared the changes in serum creatinine levels over time after a mean follow-up of 9.8 years in essential hypertensive (EH, n = 56) and control (n = 59) male veteran subjects.
All subjects had norma... | C14 |
4,106 | 2,336 | Detection and location of myocardial infarction using technetium-99m sestamibi imaging at rest.
Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) sestamibi imaging at rest has been used to detect and localize myocardial infarction.
The largest study to date is a cooperative study of 146 patients in 17 institutions.
There were 24 normal subje... | C14 |
4,107 | 239 | Klinefelter's syndrome with anomalous origin of left main coronary artery
Klinefelter's syndrome is a rare entity.
Even rarer is an anomalous origin of the Left Main Coronary Artery.
For both conditions to occur in the same patient is hence exceedingly rare.
Reported here is a never previously reported case of a c... | C14 |
4,108 | 8,534 | Development and prospective application of quantitative 2-day stress-rest Tc-99m methoxy isobutyl isonitrile SPECT for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease.
The clinical diagnostic accuracy of 2-day stress/rest quantitative Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) methoxy-isobutyl-isonitrile (Tc-sestamibi) single photon emission c... | C14 |
4,109 | 8,826 | Elevated plasma noradrenaline concentrations in patients with low-output cardiac failure: dependence on increased noradrenaline secretion rates.
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Plasma noradrenaline concentrations are elevated in patients with congestive heart failure; however, the pathogenesis of these elevated noradrenaline levels is controvers... | C14 |
4,110 | 6,218 | Triggers of transient myocardial ischemia: circadian variation and relation to plaque rupture and coronary thrombosis in stable coronary artery disease.
The phenomenon of transient myocardial ischemia is common in patients with stable coronary disease and appears to be due both to increases in myocardial demand and to... | C14 |
4,111 | 2,330 | Comparison of the antihypertensive efficiency of nitrendipine, metoprolol, mepindolol and enalapril using ambulatory 24-hour blood pressure monitoring.
In a randomized 6-month study of 201 patients, the antihypertensive efficiency of the calcium antagonist nitrendipine, the beta 1-selective blocker metoprolol, mepindo... | C14 |
4,112 | 9,339 | Alpha 1-antichymotrypsin as a possible biochemical marker for Alzheimer-type dementia.
We measured serum alpha 1-antichymotrypsin levels in 38 patients with Alzheimer-type dementia, 89 control subjects, 2 subjects with Down's syndrome, 20 with vascular dementia, 18 with Parkinson's disease, 14 with spinocerebellar deg... | C14 |
4,113 | 7,561 | Usefulness of antithrombotic therapy in resting angina pectoris or non-Q-wave myocardial infarction in preventing death and myocardial infarction (a pilot study from the Antithrombotic Therapy in Acute Coronary Syndromes Study Group).
In a prospective pilot trial of antithrombotic therapy in the acute coronary syndrom... | C14 |
4,114 | 398 | Ventilatory and diffusion abnormalities in potential heart transplant recipients.
Few data are available concerning pulmonary function in patients with severe chronic congestive heart failure.
Of 315 patients evaluated for potential cardiac transplantation at UCLA, 132 underwent pulmonary function tests.
The latter ... | C14 |
4,115 | 7,883 | Optimal interpretation of the supine exercise electrocardiogram in patients with right bundle branch block.
A detailed analysis of the exercise ECG was performed in 82 patients with right bundle branch block who underwent supine exercise equilibrium radionuclide angiography.
The sensitivity and specificity of each in... | C14 |
4,116 | 9,806 | Reduced atrial contribution to left ventricular filling in patients with severe tricuspid regurgitation after tricuspid valvulectomy: a Doppler echocardiographic study.
Patients undergoing valvulectomy for isolated tricuspid valve endocarditis offer the unique opportunity to study the effects of acquired right ventric... | C14 |
4,117 | 4,189 | Recent advance in treatment of Stanford type A aortic dissection.
During the period between November 1986 and November 1988, 13 consecutive patients with Stanford type A aortic dissection (8 acute and 5 chronic) were treated as follows: (1) urgent operation for cases with pericardial tamponade or severe heart failure,... | C14 |
4,118 | 2,069 | Medicinal leeches: once again at the forefront of medicine.
Medical grade leeches have recently been used in the management of acute problems relative to venous congestion in patients with traumatic injuries and surgical problems.
Specific cases, especially in the realm of reconstructive microsurgery, have demonstrat... | C14 |
4,119 | 4,801 | Epirubicin cardiotoxicity: a study of 135 patients with advanced breast cancer.
The cardiotoxicity of epirubicin (EPI) was evaluated clinically, radiologically, with ECG, and with multiple ECG-gated radionuclide determination of the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) during rest in 135 patients with advanced br... | C14 |
4,120 | 9,889 | An inconsistent relationship between insulin and blood pressure in three Pacific island populations.
The evidence linking insulin to blood pressure is controversial, and results for groups similarly categorized by body mass, glucose tolerance and hypertensive status are often contradictory.
We have investigated the r... | C14 |
4,121 | 9,874 | Components of delay time in suspected acute myocardial infarction with particular emphasis on patient delay.
Two hundred and thirty-four patients admitted to a coronary care unit (CCU) were interviewed a few days after arrival in hospital to determine reasons for patient delay and the various components of total delay... | C14 |
4,122 | 2,736 | Underestimation of treatment effect in crossover trials.
In crossover trials each subject serves as his own control.
For the study of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and angina pectoria, properly designed crossover studies are preferred to parallel studies.
There is a considerable between-subject variab... | C14 |
4,123 | 2,835 | Branch retinal vein occlusion: the pathogenetic role of blood viscosity.
The pathogenesis of branch retinal vein occlusion has not been completely clarified.
The role of abnormal blood viscosity in the appearance and evolution of the disease has recently been advocated.
We studied 54 patients with long-standing bran... | C14 |
4,124 | 7,627 | Steroid anabolic drugs and arterial complications in an athlete--a case history.
Serious side effects and complications have been attributed to anabolic and androgenic steroids when used for medical reasons or when taken in sports in hopes of increasing strength and, hence, performance.
The author presents a case of ... | C14 |
4,125 | 3,150 | Dietary Ca2+ prevents NaCl-sensitive hypertension in spontaneously hypertensive rats by a sympatholytic mechanism.
The current study tested the hypothesis that dietary Ca2+ supplementation reverses the NaCl-sensitive component of hypertension and the associated neurochemical abnormalities in the NaCl-sensitive spontan... | C14 |
4,126 | 4,405 | Intraoperative assessment of regional myocardial perfusion using quantitative myocardial contrast echocardiography: an experimental evaluation.
To test the hypothesis that myocardial contrast echocardiography can be used to quantitate regional myocardial flow in the arrested heart at the time of delivery of cardiopleg... | C14 |
4,127 | 8,823 | Combined alpha/beta-blockade versus beta 1-selective blockade in essential hypertension in black and white patients.
The purpose of this multicenter investigation was to determine the efficacy and safety of the alpha/beta-blocker labetalol versus the beta 1-selective beta-blocker atenolol in white and black patients w... | C14 |
4,128 | 4,413 | Relation between beta-adrenergic blocker use, various correlates of left ventricular function and the chance of developing congestive heart failure. The Multicenter Diltiazem Post-Infarction Research Group.
This study examined the relations among beta-adrenergic blocker use, various correlates of left ventricular func... | C14 |
4,129 | 718 | Mechanical cardiopulmonary support for refractory cardiogenic shock.
From February 1982 to February 1990, 38 patients (30 male patients and 8 female patients) ranging in age from 10 to 78 years (mean 49.4 years) have been supported with arteriovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) at St.
Louis University ... | C14 |
4,130 | 2,154 | Results of infrainguinal bypass for limb salvage in patients with end-stage renal disease.
Limb salvage in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is complicated by the diffuse, obstructive, calcific arteriopathy that makes anastomotic technique especially critical.
Furthermore, decreased resistance to infection... | C14 |
4,131 | 8,839 | Vascular hypertrophy, renin and blood pressure in the young spontaneously hypertensive rat.
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Cardiovascular reactivity, blood vessel morphology, blood pressure and the activity of the renin-angiotensin system were determined in the 3-week-old spontaneously hypertensive (SHR), Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and outbred Wistar (... | C14 |
4,132 | 6,924 | Medical comorbidity of major depressive disorder in a primary medical practice.
Despite much speculation about the relationship between depression and medical comorbidity in primary care settings, few investigators have examined this issue empirically.
Using a two-stage screening procedure, we assessed 618 patients a... | C14 |
4,133 | 7,969 | Influence of obesity, impaired glucose tolerance, and NIDDM on LDL structure and composition. Possible link between hyperinsulinemia and atherosclerosis.
The possible causes of the enhanced risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) were examined in morbidly obese women with normoglycemia, impaired glucose tolerance (IGT),... | C14 |
4,134 | 2,266 | Therapeutic cardiac catheterization in children
Cardiac catheterization, once the mainstay of diagnosis in children with congenital heart disease, has become a therapeutic modality for many conditions.
Balloon dilatation can now open stenotic valves and vessels, coils and umbrellas can now close unwanted communicati... | C14 |
4,135 | 6,224 | Beta-blocker duration of action and implications for therapy.
Two studies were conducted to measure the effect of serum half-life on beta-blocker-related heart rate reduction throughout the 24-hour period.
In the first study, nadolol, atenolol and pindolol were associated with significant (p less than 0.01) heart rat... | C14 |
4,136 | 47 | Multivariate analysis in the prediction of death in hospital after acute myocardial infarction.
Prognostic factors in patients with acute myocardial infarction based on clinical and investigative data on admission were evaluated prospectively in 111 consecutive patients.
Seventeen patients (15.3%) died during hospita... | C14 |
4,137 | 9,441 | Effects of retrovenous myocardial drug delivery after coronary artery occlusion in sheep.
Retrovenous (RV) myocardial delivery of blood and drugs into the coronary sinus (CS) through a 3 lumen balloon catheter was evaluated in sheep (no coronary collaterals) for protection from ventricular fibrillation (VF) during cor... | C14 |
4,138 | 4,088 | Pressor systems in hypertension and congestive heart failure. Role of vasopressin [clinical conference]
Elevated peripheral vascular resistance, which characterizes hypertension and congestive heart failure (the latter regardless of absolute blood pressure level) is maintained to a large extent by the combined effects... | C14 |
4,139 | 8,547 | Double-peaking circadian variation in the occurrence of sustained supraventricular tachyarrhythmias.
We studied 251 patients less than or equal to 65 years of age admitted for treatment of symptomatic supraventricular tachyarrhythmia to assess whether these arrhythmias begin evenly throughout the day or manifest circa... | C14 |
4,140 | 9,810 | Restenosis after directional coronary atherectomy: differences between primary atheromatous and restenosis lesions and influence of subintimal tissue resection.
Rates of restenosis were evaluated in 70 patients (74 lesions) after successful directional coronary atherectomy.
The extent of vascular tissue resection was... | C14 |
4,141 | 4,425 | Coronary morphology after percutaneous directional coronary atherectomy in humans: autopsy analysis of three patients.
The morphologic basis of angiographically successful percutaneous directional atherectomy and subsequent restenosis in human coronary arteries is unknown.
The clinical and pathologic features of thre... | C14 |
4,142 | 6,779 | Selection of patients with acute myocardial infarction for thrombolytic therapy
PURPOSE: To critically review the current recommendations regarding the eligibility of patients with myocardial infarction for thrombolytic therapy.
DATA IDENTIFICATION: Relevant studies published from January 1980 to January 1990 were i... | C14 |
4,143 | 4,793 | Electrocardiographic ambulatory monitoring with a real-time analysis system.
The analysis of records collected during long-term ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring has traditionally involved the review of massive data, either manually or with the aid of interactive scanning computers.
Many factors complicate t... | C14 |
4,144 | 5,056 | Embolization of a giant renal arterial aneurysm.
A 49-year-old man presented with right flank pain.
Angiography revealed a giant right renal arterial aneurysm.
Giant renal arterial aneurysms are typically treated by nephrectomy.
In this patient the aneurysm was embolized successfully with multiple Gianturco-Wallace... | C14 |
4,145 | 8,620 | Intravenous nicardipine: an effective new agent for the treatment of severe hypertension.
Fifty-six patients with severe hypertension were treated with intravenous nicardipine for infusion periods of eight to twenty-four hours.
Each patient achieved satisfactory blood pressure control during the infusion period with ... | C14 |
4,146 | 2,371 | Characteristics of participants at baseline in the Treatment of Mild Hypertension Study (TOMHS).
The Treatment of Mild Hypertension Study (TOMHS) is a randomized, double-blind clinical trial currently being conducted to compare the effects of nonpharmacologic therapy alone with those of 1 of 5 active drug regimens com... | C14 |
4,147 | 243 | Simplified method for estimating true aortic valve mean gradient from simultaneous left ventricular and peripheral arterial pressure recordings.
Estimation of the aortic valve gradient by simultaneous recording of left ventricular and peripheral arterial pressures is subject to error due to delay and modulation of the... | C14 |
4,148 | 2,411 | Cardiac conducting tissue. A simplified technique for examination of the SA and AV nodes.
We describe a modified method for examination of the atrioventricular and sinoatrial nodes that displays the major elements of the cardiac conducting system, yet is not time-consuming for the technician.
We examined 31 cases in ... | C14 |
4,149 | 9,560 | Hemopump support for the failing heart.
Under fluoroscopy, the hemopump is passed through the aortic valve into the left ventricle through a Gortex (WF Gore, Denver, CO) chimney sewn to a surgically exposed femoral artery.
The system aspirates the left ventricular blood and actively pumps it into the aorta.
Five pat... | C14 |
4,150 | 3,035 | Utility of computed tomography for surveillance of small abdominal aortic aneurysms. Preliminary report.
To assess the ability of computed tomography to predict the potential for expansion of small abdominal aortic aneurysms, we analyzed the computed tomographic scans of 30 patients who had two or more abdominal compu... | C14 |
4,151 | 7,810 | Enhanced chemiluminescence as a measure of oxygen-derived free radical generation during ischemia and reperfusion.
It has been suggested that oxygen-derived free radicals may contribute to the myocardial injury associated with ischemia and reperfusion.
As the presence of enhanced free radical generation is a prerequi... | C14 |
4,152 | 2,358 | Clinical and electrophysiologic characteristics of patients with antidromic circus movement tachycardia in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
Antidromic circus movement tachycardia was documented in 36 of 345 consecutive patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome undergoing detailed electrophysiologic evaluation.
... | C14 |
4,153 | 2,927 | Experience with cardiopulmonary bypass and deep hypothermic circulatory arrest in the management of retroperitoneal tumors with large vena caval thrombi.
From June 1984 to September 1989, 43 patients with large vena caval tumor thrombi from retroperitoneal malignancies underwent surgical treatment with cardiopulmonary... | C14 |
4,154 | 6,243 | Atenolol therapy for exercise-induced hypertension after aortic coarctation repair.
After successful repair of coarctation of the aorta in childhood, exercise-induced upper body systolic hypertension is well documented.
Beta blockade has been shown to reduce the arm/leg gradient in untreated coarctation of the aorta;... | C14 |
4,155 | 248 | Use of a guiding catheter for contralateral femoral artery angioplasty.
We describe a unique method employing a transseptal sheath as a "guiding catheter" that allows contralateral retrograde femoral artery access to perform balloon angioplasty of proximal superficial femoral artery lesions.
This technique simplifies... | C14 |
4,156 | 4,028 | Arterial blood oxygen desaturation in infants and children during upper gastrointestinal endoscopy.
Arterial blood oxygen desaturation and abnormal electrocardiographic changes have been reported in adults undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy.
We studied 32 infants and children less than 12 years of age using ... | C14 |
4,157 | 931 | Does intracoronary infusion of Fluosol-DA 20% prevent left ventricular diastolic dysfunction during coronary balloon angioplasty?
Distal intracoronary infusion of the perfluorochemical Fluosol-DA 20% has been shown to prevent systolic dysfunction during coronary artery balloon occlusion in coronary angioplasty.
To as... | C14 |
4,158 | 3,516 | Effect of long-term exercise on regional myocardial function and coronary collateral development after gradual coronary artery occlusion in pigs.
The effect of myocardial ischemia, induced by long-term exercise, on regional myocardial function and coronary collateral development was examined in pigs after gradual occl... | C14 |
4,159 | 2,732 | Comparison of standard one-minute treadmill exercise and strandness test (absolute walking distance) in relation to site of lesion, walking distance, and diastolic blood flow velocity (Doppler curves).
In 215 outpatients suffering from occlusive arterial disease of the lower limbs the authors compared the decrease in ... | C14 |
4,160 | 6,197 | Cardiac fluoroscopy for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease: a meta analytic review.
To evaluate variability in the reported accuracy of fluoroscopically detected coronary calcific deposits for predicting angiographic coronary disease, we applied meta analysis to 13 consecutively published reports comparing the r... | C14 |
4,161 | 5,229 | Repair of transposition of the great arteries with intact ventricular septum and left ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
Repair of transposition of the great arteries in patients with intact ventricular septum and fixed left ventricular outflow tract obstruction has been restricted to atrial baffle procedures, wit... | C14 |
4,162 | 775 | The management of aneurysms and arterio-venous fistulae of the popliteal artery arising from war trauma. Emphasis on sigmoid operative approach.
Between 1986-1988, 600 vascular cases arising from the Iran-Iraq conflict were dealt with within an 18 month period and 60 cases of popliteal artery and/or venous disruption ... | C14 |
4,163 | 9,483 | Events following implantation of an intraluminal ringed prosthesis in the ascending, transverse, and descending thoracic aorta.
From March 1978 through July 1985, 23 patients underwent implantation of 24 intraluminal ringed prostheses (IRP).
There were 18 men and 5 women, with a mean age of 54.7 years, range 15-74 ye... | C14 |
4,164 | 3,533 | Morphological findings contributing to a failed Fontan procedure. Twelve-year experience.
A group of 37 patients (age range, 3 months to 29 years) who died after the modified Fontan procedure (within 2 months), representing 15% of the 245 patients undergoing this procedure from 1976 through 1988, was reviewed to deter... | C14 |
4,165 | 6,858 | Myocardial preservation using lidocaine blood cardioplegia.
Prevention of ventricular fibrillation after aortic unclamping using lidocaine hydrochloride as an additive to cold potassium blood cardioplegia was studied prospectively in 46 patients undergoing elective myocardial revascularization.
Patients were similar ... | C14 |
4,166 | 3,200 | Primary balloon dilatation of coarctation of the aorta in neonates.
Primary balloon dilatation of coarctation of the aorta was attempted in 10 consecutive neonates (age range 2-23 days).
The coarctation site was crossed and the balloon inflated in all but one patient.
In two patients with associated severe isthmal h... | C14 |
4,167 | 6,244 | Risk of cardiovascular mortality in alcohol drinkers, ex-drinkers and nondrinkers.
Lower cardiovascular mortality rates in lighter drinkers (versus abstainers or heavier drinkers) in population studies have been substantially due to lower coronary artery disease (CAD) mortality.
Controversy about this U-shaped curve ... | C14 |
4,168 | 9,165 | Transesophageal echocardiography in critically ill patients.
The feasibility, safety and clinical impact of transesophageal echocardiography were evaluated in 51 critically ill intensive care unit patients (28 men and 23 women; mean age 63 years) in whom transthoracic echocardiography was inadequate.
At the time of t... | C14 |
4,169 | 8,265 | Clues to the electrocardiographic diagnosis of subtle Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome in children.
The electrocardiographic diagnosis of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW) may be missed because delta waves can be subtle in children, so we examined 66 electrocardiograms from patients with proven WPW, 24 from those wit... | C14 |
4,170 | 3,763 | Axillosubclavian vein thrombosis produced by retrosternal thyroid.
Several causes of axillosubclavian vein thrombosis have been described.
Trauma to the subclavian vein by pacemaker wires or central venous lines as well as the so-called effort thrombosis have been recognized as frequently diagnosed precipitating fact... | C14 |
4,171 | 9,445 | Cardiac arrest after hypertonic citrate anticoagulation for chronic hemodialysis.
The use of regional citrate anticoagulation as an alternative to standard therapy in hemodialysis patients at risk for bleeding complications has been well described.
Recently, a method using hypertonic citrate has been reported as bein... | C14 |
4,172 | 3,152 | Epithelial abnormalities in intestine and kidney of the spontaneously hypertensive rat.
A variety of perturbations of calcium metabolism are reported to occur in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) compared to its genetic control the Wistar-Kyoto rat (WKY), including significant dysfunction of calcium handling by... | C14 |
4,173 | 4,206 | Assessment of major venous anomalies by computerized tomography.
Congenital anomalies of major venous structures are not common but their identification and relative position, particularly in relation to an abdominal aortic aneurysm, are of significant value in planning and conducting aortic operations.
Computed tomo... | C14 |
4,174 | 7,735 | Relation between intraventricular pressure and volume in diastole.
The pressure-volume curves for 10 patients with various types of heart disease were studied throughout mid to late diastole when both pressure and volume were increasing.
The results were used to test a currently held theory that the form of this rela... | C14 |
4,175 | 6,170 | Venous ulcers: pathophysiology and medical therapy.
Venous ulcers may occur as a result of lower extremity calf pump failure, with ensuing edema, trapping of white blood cells and deposition of pericapillary fibrin.
Acute, smaller lesions are easily treated with adequate compression and occlusive dressings.
Larger, ... | C14 |
4,176 | 8,560 | Medical management of chronic heart failure: inotropic, vasodilator, or inodilator drugs?
On the basis of pathophysiologic mechanisms, the medical therapy of today for chronic heart failure is reviewed.
The advantages and disadvantages of the vasodilator drugs and the inotropic drugs are presented.
Finally, the ther... | C14 |
4,177 | 455 | Lack of cutaneous hyperemia in response to insulin-induced hypoglycemia in IDDM.
Cutaneous blood flow was measured with the laser Doppler technique and by recording cutaneous O2 tension on the forearm and forehead in nine young adult patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) and nine sex- and age-matche... | C14 |
4,178 | 6,450 | Ultrasonographic assessment of placental abnormalities.
Current ultrasonographic techniques offer a novel approach for the identification of a wide variety of placental abnormalities usually described postnatally by the pathologist.
Placental vascular lesions, placental tumors, and abnormal placentation are potential... | C14 |
4,179 | 7,724 | Transesophageal echocardiography during percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty.
To ascertain the value of transesophageal echocardiography during percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty, the present study was undertaken in 26 anesthesized patients (21 women and 5 men; mean age, 47 years) with symptomatic rheumati... | C14 |
4,180 | 51 | Geographical clustering of risk factors and lifestyle for coronary heart disease in the Scottish Heart Health Study.
A large cross sectional study, the Scottish Heart Health Study, of 10,359 men and women from 22 districts of Scotland was undertaken to try to explain the geographical variation of coronary heart diseas... | C14 |
4,181 | 7,542 | Medical management of congestive heart failure.
The syndrome of congestive heart failure can result from a variety of cardiac disorders of which left ventricular dysfunction is the most common.
The clinical presentation is determined by the interaction between cardiac dysfunction and a series of compensatory mechanis... | C14 |
4,182 | 3,052 | Failure of surgery to improve outcome in hypertensive putaminal hemorrhage. A prospective randomized trial.
Hypertensive putaminal hemorrhage remains a major cause of hemorrhagic stroke carrying extremely high morbidity.
Considerable controversy remains regarding the optimal form of therapy.
Between 1983 and 1989 we... | C14 |
4,183 | 7,737 | Operative findings after percutaneous pulmonary balloon dilatation of the right ventricular outflow tract in tetralogy of Fallot.
Since 1983 percutaneous balloon dilatation of the right ventricular outflow tract has been performed as an alternative to surgical palliation in selected cases of tetralogy of Fallot at the... | C14 |
4,184 | 9,581 | Multi-institutional evaluation of the Tokyo University Ventricular Assist System.
A total of 61 VASs developed in Tokyo University were evaluated at 21 institutions in the period 1985-1989 for determination of its reliability and effectiveness.
The system is comprised of a pneumatic sack-type pump (Nippon Zeon Co.), ... | C14 |
4,185 | 781 | Mechanical circulatory support as a bridge to transplantation: current status of total artificial heart in 1989 and determinants of survival.
Since April 1986, 40 total artificial hearts (TAH) were implanted as a bridge to transplantation in our institution.
In an attempt to identify factors affecting survival of TAH... | C14 |
4,186 | 2,939 | Prevention of paraplegia during aortic operations.
Ischemic spinal cord injury after aortic cross-clamping may be produced by a steal phenomenon.
The present study investigates this possibility by directly measuring the oxygen tension on the spinal cord surface in pigs.
After simple clamping of the aorta, oxygen ten... | C14 |
4,187 | 8,738 | Treatment of severe acne with isotretinoin in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
Four patients with inflammatory bowel disease and severe cystic acne were treated with isotretinoin.
Two patients had a successful course of treatment without any gastrointestinal side-effects.
One patient had two episodes of pro... | C14 |
4,188 | 3,597 | Diffuse proliferative lupus nephritis: long-term observations in patients treated with ancrod.
Twenty-two patients with histologically demonstrated diffuse proliferative lupus nephritis (DPLN) and glomerular thrombosis received a 14-day course of ancrod, followed in most by nitrogen mustard (mechlorethamine hydrochlor... | C14 |
4,189 | 9,150 | Changes in myocardial ischemic threshold during daily activities.
This study assesses the variations in myocardial ischemic threshold (heart rate at the onset of ischemia) during daily activities in patients with ischemic episodes on Holter monitoring.
Eighty patients with known coronary artery disease, positive trea... | C14 |
4,190 | 2,340 | Myocardial perfusion imaging with technetium-99m sestamibi SPECT in the evaluation of coronary artery disease.
Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) sestamibi is a new myocardial perfusion imaging agent that offers significant advantages over thallium-201 (Tl-201) for myocardial perfusion imaging.
The results of the current clinic... | C14 |
4,191 | 8,080 | Experimental cardiac tamponade: correlation of pressure, flow velocity, and echocardiographic changes.
Seven episodes of experimental cardiac tamponade were induced in five anesthetized closed-chest dogs.
Simultaneous pericardial and intracavitary pressures were synchronized with superior vena caval and transvalvular... | C14 |
4,192 | 7,803 | Chronic calcium channel blockade prevents the progression of myocardial contractile and electrical dysfunction in the cardiomyopathic Syrian hamster.
The programmed onset of myocardial dysfunction and its progression to congestive heart failure in the cardiomyopathic Syrian hamster is hallmarked by alterations in myoc... | C14 |
4,193 | 4,687 | Exacerbation of acute platelet thrombus formation in stenosed dog coronary arteries with smoke from a non-tobacco-burning cigarette.
The tobacco industry proposes to release a "new" cigarette with a burning charcoal tip, which heats the tobacco as air is drawn through it and into the lungs of the smoker.
It is claime... | C14 |
4,194 | 3,503 | Mortality after 10 1/2 years for hypertensive participants in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial
The Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) is a randomized primary prevention trial that tested the effect of a multifactor intervention program on coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality in 12,866 high-r... | C14 |
4,195 | 2,349 | Results of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in patients greater than or equal to 65 years of age (from the 1985 to 1986 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Coronary Angioplasty Registry).
The 1985 to 1986 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PT... | C14 |
4,196 | 4,390 | Serial Doppler echocardiographic follow-up of left ventricular diastolic function in cardiac amyloidosis.
A spectrum of left ventricular diastolic filling abnormalities noted on Doppler echocardiography has been demonstrated in patients with cardiac amyloidosis.
To determine how these filling abnormalities evolve ove... | C14 |
4,197 | 245 | Does percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty accelerate atherosclerotic lesions?
Recent reports have suggested that angioplasty may cause or accelerate coronary arterial stenoses secondary to traumatic injury.
Ninety-four coronary angiograms performed in a 1 yr period were reviewed in patients who had successf... | C14 |
4,198 | 9,872 | Nisoldipine--effects on the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and catecholamines. Studies in normotensive and hypertensive subjects.
We have studied the effects of nisoldipine, a new calcium channel antagonist, on the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and on plasma catecholamines in 10 healthy volunteers and in ... | C14 |
4,199 | 49 | Transoesophageal echocardiography improves the diagnostic value of cardiac ultrasound in patients with carcinoid heart disease.
Transthoracic and transoesophageal cardiac echocardiography and Doppler investigations were performed in 31 consecutive patients with malignant midgut carcinoid tumours.
The transoesophageal... | C14 |
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