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4,200 | 9,272 | Isolated lung transplantation for pulmonary fibrosis.
The peri-operative anaesthetic management of 11 patients with pulmonary fibrosis undergoing single-lung transplantation is presented.
Intra-operative problems, the early postoperative phase of recovery and intensive care, and other incidents in which general anaes... | C14 |
4,201 | 7,700 | Cardiac risk in vascular surgery. The oral dipyridamole-thallium stress test.
The value of the oral dipyridamole-thallium stress test in identifying patients at high risk of myocardial infarction after vascular procedures has not been documented.
We studied prospectively 46 patients who underwent an oral dipyridamole... | C14 |
4,202 | 5,600 | Nitrendipine-induced gingival hyperplasia. First case report.
Drug-induced gingival hyperplasia is well documented within the literature.
It has been associated with phenytoin, cyclosporine, and calcium channel blocking agents.
Nitrendipine is an experimental calcium channel blocking agent that also appears to cause... | C14 |
4,203 | 9,238 | Current status of duplex Doppler ultrasound in the examination of the abdominal vasculature.
Duplex Doppler ultrasound has come to play a central role in the diagnosis of a broad spectrum of vascular diseases such as carotid artery occlusive disease and deep vein thrombosis.
The role of duplex Doppler in the evaluati... | C14 |
4,204 | 2,288 | Noninvasive discrimination of right atrial ectopic tachycardia from sinus tachycardia in "dilated cardiomyopathy".
Right atrial ectopic tachycardia (RAET) with secondary cardiac dysfunction can be difficult to differentiate from primary dilated cardiomyopathy (CMP) with sinus tachycardia.
In an attempt to separate RA... | C14 |
4,205 | 6,904 | Management of mycotic rupture of the ascending aorta after heart-lung transplantation.
A 19-year-old woman underwent heart-lung transplantation for obstructive bronchiolitis.
Eleven days later mycotic rupture of the ascending aorta occurred.
Emergency cardiopulmonary bypass was instituted via the femoral vessels and... | C14 |
4,206 | 2,287 | Results of repeat percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty for pulmonary valvar restenosis.
Follow-up cardiac catheterization studies were used to evaluate 105 patients who had undergone percutaneous balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty.
Fifteen of those patients who had peak systolic pulmonary valve gradients greater than = 40... | C14 |
4,207 | 3,443 | Influence of catheter technology and adjuvant medication on acute complications in percutaneous coronary angioplasty.
We report on the complication rates in 660 consecutive coronary angioplasties (725 lesions) performed using four procedures that differed with respect to catheter technology and adjuvant medication.
A... | C14 |
4,208 | 6,229 | Effects of theophylline, atenolol and their combination on myocardial ischemia in stable angina pectoris.
The effects of theophylline (400 mg twice a day), atenolol (50 mg twice a day) and their combination on myocardial ischemia were studied in 9 patients with stable angina pectoris in a randomized, single-blind, tri... | C14 |
4,209 | 4,385 | Results of primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease.
The influence of multivessel coronary artery disease on the outcome of reperfusion therapy for myocardial infarction has not been fully characterized.
Direct coronary angioplasty without antecedent thr... | C14 |
4,210 | 7,570 | Effects of renin inhibition in systemic hypertension.
The effect of the direct renin inhibitor enalkiren (Abbott Laboratories) was examined in 8 healthy patients with essential hypertension.
With an unrestricted sodium diet, plasma renin concentration was inhibited within 10 minutes by intravenous enalkiren and remai... | C14 |
4,211 | 3,202 | Rash after treatment with anistreplase.
A palpable purpura developed on the legs and lower abdomen of a woman of 54 five days after she was treated with anistreplase anisoylated plasminogen streptokinase activator complex (APSAC) for an acute myocardial infarction.
Histological examination of a skin biopsy specimen t... | C14 |
4,212 | 7,813 | Regeneration of myocardial phosphocreatine in pigs despite continued moderate ischemia.
The effects of 1 hour of mild and moderate reductions in coronary blood flow on myocardial high-energy phosphate levels were evaluated.
Thirty anesthetized pigs were instrumented with left anterior descending arterial and venous c... | C14 |
4,213 | 2,827 | Exercise thallium-201 scintigraphy in the diagnosis and prognosis of coronary artery disease.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the discriminant accuracy of exercise thallium-201 myocardial perfusion scintigraphy for the diagnosis and prognosis of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease.
DATA IDENTIFICATION: A... | C14 |
4,214 | 53 | Hyponatraemia secondary to an inappropriately high release of antidiuretic hormone in cardiac tamponade.
A spontaneous intrapericardial haemorrhage caused cardiac tamponade in a 29 year old paraplegic man who was being treated with warfarin.
The associated persistent hyponatraemia, which was believed to be caused by ... | C14 |
4,215 | 2,922 | Changing arteriosclerotic disease patterns and management strategies in lower-limb-threatening ischemia.
From January 1, 1974 to December 31, 1989, we treated 2829 patients with critical lower-extremity ischemia.
In the last 5 years, 13% of patients had therapeutically significant stenoses or occlusions above and bel... | C14 |
4,216 | 2,938 | Intraoperative ultrasonic imaging of the ascending aorta in ischemic heart disease.
In an attempt to locate any atherosclerotic lesion in the ascending aorta and to prevent embolization, intraoperative B-mode ultrasonography was performed in 100 patients with ischemic heart disease (31 women and 69 men).
Ultrasonogra... | C14 |
4,217 | 7,863 | Platelet-activating factor: evidence against a role in hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction.
The mechanism of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) remains unknown.
The platelet-activating factor (PAF) antagonist WEB 2086 attenuated HPV in the isolated lung model of the rat.
We evaluated the effect of WEB 2086 on H... | C14 |
4,218 | 2,314 | Potential role of the tissue renin-angiotensin system in the pathophysiology of congestive heart failure.
The circulating renin-angiotensin system (RAS) plays an important role in the maintenance of cardiovascular homeostasis.
It has recently been demonstrated that endogenous RAS exist in target tissues that are impo... | C14 |
4,219 | 9,229 | In vitro and in vivo evaluation of intraluminal ultrasound in normal and atherosclerotic arteries.
This study evaluated the dimensional and morphologic precision of arterial images obtained using intraluminal rotating A-scan ultrasound catheters [5.0F (30 mHz) and 8.0F (20 mHz)].
Dimensions of in vitro ultrasound ima... | C14 |
4,220 | 2,129 | Intractable complex partial seizures associated with occult temporal lobe encephalocele and meningoangiomatosis: a case report.
Occult congenital temporal lobe encephalocele has rarely been reported in association with medically intractable complex partial seizures.
The four previously reported cases were unsuspected... | C14 |
4,221 | 7,337 | Combined aortic and visceral arterial reconstruction: risks and results.
The indications, morbidity, and efficacy of combined reconstruction of the abdominal aorta and visceral arteries (renal and superior mesenteric; excluding suprarenal aortic aneurysms) were analyzed retrospectively in 29 consecutive patients who u... | C14 |
4,222 | 3,739 | Hyperresponsiveness of the extrathoracic airway in patients with captopril-induced cough
It has been suggested that cough from captopril may originate from an increased sensitivity of receptors in the extrathoracic airway (EA).
To explore this hypothesis, we assessed the responsiveness of EA and bronchi and the coug... | C14 |
4,223 | 6,092 | Effect of ischemia induced by middle cerebral artery occlusion on superoxide dismutase activity in rat brain.
Acute cerebral ischemia increases the generation of free radicals, causing cell damage, and theoretically may decrease the activity of the scavenging enzyme superoxide dismutase.
To investigate the role of su... | C14 |
4,224 | 9,558 | Hemopump ventricular support for patients undergoing high risk coronary angioplasty.
Prophylactic implantation of a Hemopump (Johnson and Johnson, Skillman, NJ) has been evaluated in nine patients selected for high risk coronary angioplasty.
They were unstable patients, refractory to maximal pharmacology, with indica... | C14 |
4,225 | 5,912 | Brucella endocarditis: the role of combined medical and surgical treatment.
Brucella endocarditis, although a rare complication of brucellosis, is the main cause of death related to this disease.
This report describes a case of aortic endocarditis due to Brucella abortus in an elderly farmer with known aortic stenosi... | C14 |
4,226 | 7,734 | Transient myocardial ischaemia after acute myocardial infarction.
The prevalence and characteristics of transient myocardial ischaemia were studied in 203 patients with recent acute myocardial infarction by both early (6.4 days) and late (38 days) ambulatory monitoring of the ST segment.
Transient ST segment depressi... | C14 |
4,227 | 8,292 | A comparison of coarctation resection and subclavian flap angioplasty using ultrasonographically monitored postocclusive reactive hyperemia
The reported relatively high incidence of early restenosis at the coarctation repair site with subclavian flap angioplasty, especially in infants less than 3 months of age, promp... | C14 |
4,228 | 6,439 | Hyperadrenergic orthostatic intolerance as a result of postpartum blood loss.
This article describes a young women in whom orthostatic intolerance developed as a result of protracted postpartum vaginal bleeding.
The cardiovascular abnormalities were unresponsive to usual treatment measures, and she required combinati... | C14 |
4,229 | 3,741 | The entrainment of low frequency breathing periodicity.
It has been predicted by mathematical models of the respiratory control system that the delay between the lung and the respiratory controller may determine the cycle time found in periodic breathing.
We examined cycle time of periodic breathing and circulation t... | C14 |
4,230 | 6,183 | Silent myocardial ischemia and infarction in diabetics with peripheral vascular disease: assessment by dipyridamole thallium-201 scintigraphy.
We investigated the incidence of silent myocardial ischemia and infarction as assessed by dipyridamole thallium scintigraphy in 30 diabetic patients with peripheral vascular di... | C14 |
4,231 | 5,478 | Intradural spinal cord tumor presenting as a subarachnoid hemorrhage: magnetic resonance imaging diagnosis.
Negative findings on four-vessel angiography after a subarachnoid hemorrhage are seen in 5 to 30% of patients.
A previously silent lesion in the spinal canal may be responsible for the ictus in a small percenta... | C14 |
4,232 | 3,440 | Coronary angioplasty of anomalous coronary arteries: notes on technical aspects.
Five patients with significant atherosclerotic lesions of anomalous coronary arteries underwent coronary angioplasty of the anomalous vessel.
Four patients had anomalous circumflex artery and 1 had an anomalous right coronary artery.
An... | C14 |
4,233 | 8,568 | Protecting the vasculature: an eye toward the future.
Although calcium antagonists were originally developed for use in the management of patients with angina pectoris, they are now used in the management of other cardiovascular disorders, including hypertension.
More recently, the calcium antagonists have been under... | C14 |
4,234 | 3,346 | Acute limb ischaemia: the place of intravenous streptokinase.
Intravenous streptokinase infusions (100,000 units/h) have been used to treat 48 patients, with 50 episodes of acute limb ischaemia who were unlikely to benefit from a surgical approach.
These included 17 acute thromboses, 14 late or distal emboli and 19 b... | C14 |
4,235 | 2,341 | Clinical experience with technetium-99m teboroxime, a neutral, lipophilic myocardial perfusion imaging agent.
Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) teboroxime is a new technetium-based myocardial perfusion imaging agent (investigational code = SQ30217 [Cardiotec, Squibb Diagnostics]).
A member of a class of neutral, lipophilic, te... | C14 |
4,236 | 6,226 | Reduction of mortality, sudden death and non-fatal reinfarction with beta-adrenergic blockers in survivors of acute myocardial infarction: a new hypothesis regarding the cardioprotective action of beta-adrenergic blockade.
Beta-adrenergic blockers have been shown definitely to reduce the incidence of total mortality, ... | C14 |
4,237 | 6,844 | Repair of supravalvar aortic stenosis: cardiovascular morphometric and hemodynamic results.
Supravalvar aortic stenosis is associated with normal systolic pressure in the aorta and its branches with the singular exception of the coronary arteries, which are hypertensive.
This uncommon lesion has been treated by patch... | C14 |
4,238 | 7,672 | Impact of a public cholesterol screening program.
The National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) has endorsed physician case finding as the primary method to detect individuals with elevated cholesterol levels.
Despite this recommendation, promotional and for-profit public screening programs have flourished.
We s... | C14 |
4,239 | 7,798 | Regional changes in creatine kinase and myocyte size in hypertensive and nonhypertensive cardiac hypertrophy.
Several intracellular enzymes have been shown to have altered total activity or isoenzyme composition in cardiac hypertrophy.
This study tests the hypothesis that the accumulation of the fetal-type (BB + MB) ... | C14 |
4,240 | 6,894 | Cardioplegia-induced damage to ischemic immature myocardium is independent of oxygen availability.
The known benefits of hypothermic pharmacological cardioplegia in protecting the ischemic adult heart may not extend to children.
Protection of the ischemic immature rabbit heart with hypothermic Krebs-Henseleit bicarbo... | C14 |
4,241 | 9,423 | The real impact of mechanical bridge strategy in patients with severe acute infarction.
Results obtained in the past 3 years in patients referred with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and cardiogenic shock for a mechanical bridge to urgent transplantation permit one to assess the real impact of the present strategy i... | C14 |
4,242 | 913 | Improved morphologic characterization of atrial septal aneurysm by transesophageal echocardiography: relation to cerebrovascular events.
Transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography was performed in 23 consecutive adult patients with an atrial septal aneurysm.
In three patients with a cerebrovascular event the ... | C14 |
4,243 | 9,144 | Multiple arterial fenestrations, multiple aneurysms, and an arteriovenous malformation in a patient with subarachnoid hemorrhage.
We report the case of a 49-year-old, right-handed man with multiple vascular pathologies, including a fenestrated anterior communicating artery and middle cerebral artery, an aneurysm of th... | C14 |
4,244 | 2,118 | Immediate preoperative phlebotomy with autologous blood donation for aortic replacement.
The preferential use of autologous blood provided by phlebotomy can reduce the need for homologous blood transfusion in patients undergoing extensive elective operations.
This blood is usually provided either by intraoperative is... | C14 |
4,245 | 9,842 | The electrocardiogram in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The electrocardiogram is often abnormal in patients who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The most frequent abnormalities are a rightward P-wave axis (greater than or equal to 70 degrees) and a rightward QRS axis (greater than or equal to 90 de... | C14 |
4,246 | 9,151 | Determinants and significance of diltiazem plasma concentrations after acute myocardial infarction. The Multicenter Diltiazem Postinfarction Trial Research Group.
A total of 1,975 plasma diltiazem concentrations were obtained from 1,067 patients enrolled in a multicenter secondary intervention study of diltiazem after... | C14 |
4,247 | 3,457 | Treatment of ventricular tachycardia induced cardiogenic shock by percoronary chemical ablation.
Incessant ventricular arrhythmias pose an especially challenging therapeutic dilemma.
We describe the successful treatment and follow-up of a patient with refractory ventricular tachycardia-induced cardiogenic shock with ... | C14 |
4,248 | 7,133 | Intracoronary urokinase for intracoronary thrombus accumulation complicating percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in acute ischemic syndromes.
Intracoronary urokinase was used to treat flow-limiting intracoronary thrombus accumulation that complicated successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty... | C14 |
4,249 | 4,406 | Pharmacokinetics of indium-111-labeled antimyosin monoclonal antibody in murine experimental viral myocarditis.
The pharmacokinetics of indium-111-labeled antimyosin monoclonal antibody Fab were investigated with use of murine experimental viral myocarditis as a model.
The biodistribution of indium-111-labeled antimy... | C14 |
4,250 | 5,886 | Factors determining success and energy requirements for cardioversion of atrial fibrillation.
Factors thought to affect the success of and energy requirements for cardioversion of atrial fibrillation were studied in 80 (49 male, 31 female) patients aged 21-88 (mean 61.5 years).
Transthoracic impedance was measured in... | C14 |
4,251 | 6,201 | Experimental contrast-associated nephropathy and its clinical implications.
Acute renal failure after contrast media injection has been recognized for at least 35 years but the exact mechanism responsible for the renal injury remains an enigma.
The clinical characteristics of contrast-induced nephropathy (CAN) are we... | C14 |
4,252 | 921 | Cardiac rhythm disturbances early after orthotopic heart transplantation: prevalence and clinical importance of the observed abnormalities.
To precisely define the incidence, type and consequences of cardiac arrhythmias early after heart transplantation, 25 cardiac transplant recipients were monitored continuously for... | C14 |
4,253 | 7,619 | B-mode imaging and histomorphometric evaluation of carotid atherosclerosis.
The quantitative and qualitative evaluation of atherosclerotic lesions by the ultrasonography has presented several problems, above all, the determination of accuracy and reproducibility of this methodology in humans.
The present study aims t... | C14 |
4,254 | 695 | Time course of hemodynamic responses to sodium in elderly hypertensive patients.
Thirty-one patients with essential hypertension (81.6 +/- 6.9 years old) were studied during two different regimens of sodium intake: 120 meq/day for 8 weeks and 344 meq/day for 2 weeks.
Systemic hemodynamic data were measured with Doppl... | C14 |
4,255 | 4,383 | Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS): comparability of 10 year survival in randomized and randomizable patients.
The Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) includes 780 patients with mild or moderate stable angina pectoris or asymptomatic survivors of a myocardial infarction who were randomized to either medical or surg... | C14 |
4,256 | 8,234 | Temporal arteritis presenting as a submandibular swelling.
Temporal arteritis (giant cell arteritis) is a disease of protean manifestation.
A case which presented as a submandibular swelling is reported. | C14 |
4,257 | 6,403 | Molecular biology in cardiology: recent developments and opportunities for clinical applications.
The revolution in molecular biology that has taken place in the last decade has provided powerful research methods that are changing our understanding of cardiovascular physiology and disease.
This editorial commentary w... | C14 |
4,258 | 5,466 | Infectious intracranial aneurysms: comparison of groups with and without endocarditis.
A series of 12 patients with infectious intracranial aneurysms is presented, and a number of unusual features of the disorder are emphasized.
A comparison of characteristics of the aneurysms and clinical course is made between pati... | C14 |
4,259 | 4,404 | Effect of intravenous streptokinase on the relation between initial ST-predicted size and final QRS-estimated size of acute myocardial infarcts.
Thrombolytic therapy has been documented to reduce acute myocardial infarct size.
The previously established relation between initial ST segment elevation and final electroc... | C14 |
4,260 | 5,382 | The effect of low-dose warfarin on the risk of stroke in patients with nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation. The Boston Area Anticoagulation Trial for Atrial Fibrillation Investigators
BACKGROUND.
Nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation increases the risk of stroke, presumably from atrial thromboemboli.
There is uncertainty a... | C14 |
4,261 | 927 | Comparative roles of intraoperative epicardial and early postoperative transthoracic echocardiography in the assessment of surgical repair of congenital heart defects
In 94 consecutive patients undergoing surgical repair of congenital heart defects the results of intraoperative (after cardiopulmonary bypass) epicardi... | C14 |
4,262 | 8,630 | Central retinal artery obstruction in herpes zoster ophthalmicus and cerebral vasculopathy.
We present a case of acute central retinal artery obstruction in association with Herpes zoster ophthalmicus and delayed cerebral vasculopathy.
Retinal vascular obstruction is rare in zoster, and its occurrence during postherp... | C14 |
4,263 | 6,173 | Silent myocardial ischemia: dilemma or blessing?
Developing an optimal strategy for the evaluation and management of patients with silent myocardial ischemia is extremely difficult.
Although otherwise healthy, asymptomatic individuals may be at risk of dying suddenly during exercise, neither exercise testing nor Holt... | C14 |
4,264 | 3,528 | Midterm surgical results of arterial switch operation for transposition of the great arteries with intact septum.
Between April 4, 1984, and December 31, 1987, 156 consecutive neonates with simple transposition of the great arteries underwent an arterial switch operation (ASO) at our institution.
Surgery was performe... | C14 |
4,265 | 6,216 | Transient myocardial ischemia and its relation to determinants of myocardial oxygen demand.
Because of conflicting data and a clear need to establish the relative role of increase in myocardial oxygen demand versus reduction in coronary blood flow in the causation of transient ischemia, the role of heart rate and bloo... | C14 |
4,266 | 4,386 | Multivessel coronary angioplasty from 1980 to 1989: procedural results and long-term outcome
From June 1980 to January 1989, 3,186 patients had coronary angioplasty of two (2,399 patients) or three (787 patients) of the three major epicardial coronary systems.
A mean of 3.6 lesions (range 2 to 14) were dilated per p... | C14 |
4,267 | 9,157 | Temporal relation between left ventricular dysfunction and chest pain in coronary artery disease during activities of daily living.
Forty-three ambulatory patients with angina of increasing frequency underwent continuous monitoring of left ventricular (LV) function for an average of 2.9 +/- 1.9 hours to determine the ... | C14 |
4,268 | 4,215 | Management of deep venous thrombosis in the pregnant female.
Deep venous thrombosis of the lower extremities is an uncommon but dreaded complication of pregnancy which can present diagnostic and therapeutic problems to the treating physician.
From January 1, 1985, to December 31, 1988, 7867 deliveries were performed ... | C14 |
4,269 | 2,749 | Intravascular ultrasound: a new potential modality for angioplasty guidance.
Current angioplasty devices are limited by significant rates of arterial perforation and dissection, due to inadequate techniques of guidance, and by restenosis, which may be partly attributed to inadequate debulking of lesions.
This paper d... | C14 |
4,270 | 4,391 | Simultaneous transesophageal atrial pacing and transesophageal two-dimensional echocardiography: a new method of stress echocardiography
The diagnostic use of exercise echocardiography has been widely reported.
However, transthoracic exercise echocardiography is inadequate in up to 20% of patients because of poor im... | C14 |
4,271 | 2,564 | Fetal and maternal response to intravenous infusion of a thromboxane synthetase inhibitor.
Pharmacologic inhibition of thromboxane synthetase activity has reversed the clinical manifestations of toxemia in the ovine model.
To investigate placental transfer and fetal effects of a selective thromboxane synthetase inhib... | C14 |
4,272 | 6,203 | A hematologist's view of contrast media, clotting in angiography syringes and thrombosis during coronary angiography.
While ionic contrast media (CM) are stronger anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents, both nonionic and ionic CM retard clotting, fibrinopeptide A generation and platelet aggregation (at least by Born-O... | C14 |
4,273 | 8,750 | The population mean predicts the number of deviant individuals
OBJECTIVE--To examine the relation between the prevalence of deviation and the mean for the whole population in characteristics such as blood pressure and consumption of alcohol.
DESIGN--Re-examination of standardised data from the Intersalt study, an in... | C14 |
4,274 | 6,868 | Catastrophic thrombosis of porcine aortic bioprostheses.
Hemodynamically critical thrombotic stenosis of porcine bioprosthetic valves in the aortic position without thrombotic predisposition is rare.
Two patients at our institution abruptly manifested thrombotic stenosis of porcine bioprosthetic valves in the aortic ... | C14 |
4,275 | 7,122 | A controlled clinical trial to assess the effect of a calcium channel blocker on the progression of coronary atherosclerosis
To determine whether calcium channel blockers influence the progression of coronary atherosclerosis, 383 patients age 65 years or less with 5-75% stenoses in at least four coronary artery segme... | C14 |
4,276 | 6,525 | Long-term impact of smoking cessation on the incidence of coronary heart disease.
Using a simulation model of the US male population, we estimated the long-term impact that future smoking cessation programs would have on the distribution and occurrence of coronary heart disease in males ages 35-84.
For interventions ... | C14 |
4,277 | 352 | Sepsis-related cardiogenic shock.
To further define cardiovascular abnormalities in patients with septic shock, serial conventional hemodynamic measurements combined with two-dimensional echocardiographic studies were performed at the bedside in 21 patients admitted for an acute episode of sepsis-related circulatory f... | C14 |
4,278 | 6,557 | Physical activity, opportunity for reinfection, and sibling history of heart disease as risk factors for Chagas' cardiopathy.
A case-control study was conducted to examine whether physical activity, sibling history of heart disease (HHD), and length of residence in an area endemic for Chagas' disease were associated w... | C14 |
4,279 | 6,884 | Treatment of postoperative infection of ascending aorta and transverse aortic arch, including use of viable omentum and muscle flaps.
Postoperative infection of the ascending aorta and aortic arch in 40 patients was treated by antibiotic therapy alone (4 patients) or by operation and lifelong suppressive antibiotic th... | C14 |
4,280 | 2,833 | A case of unilateral posterior ischemic optic neuropathy after radical neck dissection.
We present a case of unilateral posterior ischemic optic neuropathy after bilateral radical neck dissection.
Etiologic factors are discussed. | C14 |
4,281 | 7,307 | Both d-cis- and l-cis-diltiazem have anti-ischemic action in the isolated, perfused working rat heart.
The effect of diltiazem (d-cis-diltiazem) on the ischemic myocardium was compared with that of l-cis-diltiazem, an optical isomer having less potent calcium channel-blocking action, in the isolated, perfused working ... | C14 |
4,282 | 3,550 | Five-year experience with triple-drug immunosuppressive therapy in cardiac transplantation.
Although triple-drug immunosuppression with a combination of cyclosporine, prednisone, and azathioprine has been shown to improve short-term survival after cardiac transplantation, its long-term effects still are unknown.
From... | C14 |
4,283 | 383 | Traumatic rupture of aorta. Diagnosis by Doppler echocardiography.
Traumatic rupture of aorta is a serious complication in accidents, mainly road accidents, with a high mortality unless an immediate diagnosis and surgical correction is made.
A case of traumatic rupture of the aorta shown in the acute phase by Doppler... | C14 |
4,284 | 2,019 | Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of crural arteries.
The authors dilated 103 stenosed crural arteries in 71 patients.
Primary success was defined as traversing and reducing the lesion to a residual stenosis of less than 30%.
This was achieved in 96% of cases.
Complications included one vessel rupture and one o... | C14 |
4,285 | 6,190 | Are ioxaglate and iopamidol equally safe and well tolerated in cardiac angiography? A randomized, double-blind clinical study.
A randomized, double-blind, parallel-group study was performed in 50 patients undergoing left ventriculography and coronary arteriography to evaluate ECG changes and the effects on left ventri... | C14 |
4,286 | 3,515 | Thromboxane receptor blockade prevents pulmonary hypertension induced by heparin-protamine reactions in awake sheep
We used competitive thromboxane A2-prostaglandin endoperoxide receptor blockade (SQ 30,741) as a probe to evaluate the role of thromboxane in ovine pulmonary vasoconstriction associated with protamine r... | C14 |
4,287 | 595 | Caliber-persistent artery of the stomach (Dieulafoy's vascular malformation).
Caliber-persistent artery of the stomach (also known as cirsoid aneurysm, Dieulafoy's lesion, and submucosal arterial malformation) is clinically manifested as recurrent, massive, often fatal hematemesis.
The lesion often is not seen endosc... | C14 |
4,288 | 4,437 | Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy (AHEI)--a variant of Henoch-Schonlein purpura or a distinct clinical entity?
Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy (AHEI) is an acute cutaneous leukocytoclastic vasculitis (LCV) of infants.
The clinical picture has a violent onset with a short benign course followed by spontaneous comp... | C14 |
4,289 | 5,650 | Dexamethasone effects on the hospital course of infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia who are dependent on artificial ventilation.
A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial was conducted to evaluate the effects of enterally administered dexamethasone on the hospital course of infants with bronchopulmonary d... | C14 |
4,290 | 837 | Multiple breakpoint method for measuring effect of antibiotics on endocarditis strains of streptococci.
The activity of penicillin alone and combined with aminoglycoside on endocarditis strains of streptococci was examined.
Good assay reproducibility was obtained by the use of logarithmic phase cultures standardised ... | C14 |
4,291 | 7,106 | Prevalence of symptoms of Raynaud's phenomenon in general practice.
OBJECTIVE--To investigate the prevalence of Raynaud's phenomenon in the populations of five general practices.
DESIGN--Two populations studied.
A questionnaire was given to all new patients attending five general practices over four weeks, and the s... | C14 |
4,292 | 4,417 | Abnormal cardiac sensitivity in patients with chest pain and normal coronary arteries.
The causes of chest pain in patients found to have angiographically normal coronary arteries during cardiac catheterization remain controversial.
Cardiac sensitivity to catheter manipulation, pacing at various stimulus intensities ... | C14 |
4,293 | 6,901 | Aortobronchial fistula after an aortic operation.
A 71-year-old man with a postoperative aortobronchial fistula was successfully treated.
The fistula occurred between the left lower lobe and the descending thoracic aorta, to which a distal anastomosis of a temporary bypass graft had been placed during thoracic aortic... | C14 |
4,294 | 2,935 | Relief of tracheal compression by aortopexy.
We have performed aortopexy in 12 children with tracheal compression.
Six infants had compression secondary to a vascular anomaly (group 1), and the other 6 had previous repair of esophageal atresia (group 2).
Eleven of the 12 children are alive after a mean follow-up of ... | C14 |
4,295 | 8,548 | The incidence of myocarditis in endomyocardial biopsy samples from patients with congestive heart failure.
We present the combined experience of three Yugoslavian cardiovascular centers in the application of endomyocardial biopsy for the diagnosis of myocarditis in patients who present clinically with congestive heart... | C14 |
4,296 | 5,468 | Hypertension as a risk factor for epilepsy after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and surgery.
A prospective, consecutive series of 307 patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage ranging from Grades 1 to V according to the classification of Hunt and Hess on admission were evaluated to determine the incidence o... | C14 |
4,297 | 4,167 | Muscle oxidative capacity and work performance after training under local leg ischemia.
Healthy young men executed supine one-legged cycle training four times per week for 4 wk with legs and the cycle ergometer inside a pressure chamber, the opening of which was sealed by a rubber membrane at the level of the crotch.
... | C14 |
4,298 | 2,919 | Congenital diaphragmatic hernia: impact of prostanoids in the perioperative period.
A prospective study of 10 neonates with congenital diaphragmatic hernia and five controls to determine the importance of prostanoid concentrations perioperatively and the relation with persistent pulmonary hypertension (PPH) is reporte... | C14 |
4,299 | 8,531 | Penetration of the pericardium by a gastric ulcer--survival after pericardiocentesis.
Elderly patients often have unusual manifestations of common illnesses.
We describe a geriatric patient having a pneumopericardium from pericardial penetration by a gastric ulcer.
Benign gastric ulceration causing perforation of th... | C14 |
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