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4,400 | 7,910 | Management of Brucella endocarditis with aortic root abscess.
Three cases of Brucella endocarditis with aortic root abscess are reported.
Two patients were successfully managed by a combination of medical therapy and surgery.
The third patient died suddenly 36 hours after admission to hospital. | C14 |
4,401 | 2,697 | Hemodynamic effects of diltiazem during vasoconstrictor pulmonary hypertension in sheep.
Calcium channel blockers have been effective as pulmonary vasodilators in patients with pulmonary hypertension.
The current study therefore compared the effects of prostaglandin E1, an effective pulmonary vasodilator, with the ef... | C14 |
4,402 | 3,447 | Balloon rupture due to lesion morphology during coronary angioplasty.
We report a case of coronary angioplasty of a left anterior descending artery lesion that was complicated by the rupture of three successive balloon catheters.
Each rupture occurred as a pinhole jet of contrast into a diagonal side branch, causing ... | C14 |
4,403 | 9,530 | Thromboembolytic complications during circulatory assistance with a centrifugal pump in patients with valvular prostheses.
This article describes two patients with artificial heart valves who suffered thromboembolytic complications during circulatory assistance using a Biomedicus centrifugal pump.
The first case invo... | C14 |
4,404 | 5,825 | A 47-kDa human nuclear protein recognized by antikinetochore autoimmune sera is homologous with the protein encoded by RCC1, a gene implicated in onset of chromosome condensation.
Several autoimmune sera from patients with Raynaud phenomenon decorated mammalian kinetochores and bound to a 47-kDa protein on immunoblots... | C14 |
4,405 | 2,370 | Secondary prevention of acute myocardial infarction with beta-blocking agents and calcium antagonists.
The discovery that beta blockers possess clinically useful hypotensive, antianginal and antiarrhythmic properties has attracted the interest of clinicians, researchers and the pharmaceutical community alike.
In addi... | C14 |
4,406 | 43 | Two-dimensional echocardiographic features of double outlet left ventricle.
In a cyanotic newborn infant, the diagnosis of double outlet left ventricle was made from the two-dimensional echocardiographic examination.
The diagnosis was later confirmed at cardiac catheterization and surgery.
The parasternal and subcos... | C14 |
4,407 | 2,281 | Clinical significance of plasminogen activator inhibitor activity in patients with exercise-induced ischemia.
To assess the fibrinolytic system in patients with exercise-induced ischemia and its relation to ischemia and severity of coronary artery disease (CAD), 47 patients with CAD confirmed by results of coronary an... | C14 |
4,408 | 6,920 | Epidemiologic features of asymptomatic cerebral infarction in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.
We performed unenhanced computed tomographic scans on 141 asymptomatic patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.
Thirty-six patients (26%) had hypodense areas consistent with cerebral infarction.
The maj... | C14 |
4,409 | 5,133 | Intraabdominal hemorrhage as a result of segmental mediolytic arteritis of an omental artery: case report.
This article describes the fifth reported case of segmental mediolytic arteritis and the second in a survivor.
The patient had intraabdominal bleeding as a result of a ruptured omental artery.
The pathologic an... | C14 |
4,410 | 6,239 | Usefulness of labetalol in chronic atrial fibrillation.
Beta-adrenergic blocking agents are useful in controlling excessive ventricular rate in chronic atrial fibrillation (AF) but often reduce exercise capacity.
To investigate the advantage of labetalol--a unique beta blocker with alpha-blocking property--in chronic... | C14 |
4,411 | 9,653 | Plasma therapy for severe hemolytic-uremic syndrome in children in Atlantic Canada.
Clinical reports have suggested that therapy with fresh frozen plasma is a useful adjunct in the management of the hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS).
We reviewed the charts of 36 children with severe HUS who were treated at the Izaac Wa... | C14 |
4,412 | 9,870 | Elevation of skeletal muscle isoform of serum creatine kinase in heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia.
Serum creatine kinase (CK) is an important adjunct in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction or in monitoring for the side-effects of drugs.
We report elevation of CK in patients with untreated heterozygous f... | C14 |
4,413 | 2,325 | Quantitative angiographic comparison of the immediate success of coronary angioplasty, coronary atherectomy and endoluminal stenting.
Coronary atherectomy and coronary stenting effectively reduce the severity of coronary artery stenoses, but direct comparisons of these interventions with conventional balloon angioplas... | C14 |
4,414 | 3,541 | Use of single internal mammary artery grafts in older patients.
The indications for use of the internal mammary artery as a coronary bypass conduit in older patients are not clearly established.
Between January 1985 and December 1988, 786 patients received single internal mammary artery grafts alone (717) or in conju... | C14 |
4,415 | 9,247 | Stunned myocardium during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
The "stunned myocardium" is a syndrome of reversible myocardial dysfunction that may be mediated by oxygen-derived free radicals.
This phenomenon has been seen in some neonates undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
We performed echocardiograms ... | C14 |
4,416 | 9,349 | Overestimation of myocardial infarct size by histologic measurement in a model of occlusion followed by reperfusion.
We studied 32 transverse left ventricular slices of myocardium from 16 pigs after 45 to 100 minutes of coronary artery occlusion followed by 180 minutes of reperfusion.
Infarct area for each slice was ... | C14 |
4,417 | 4,198 | An unusual late complication following surgical repair of tetralogy of Fallot.
A case is presented of extrusion of right ventricular outflow tract patch material through a mediastino-cutaneous fistula occurring five years after repair of tetralogy of Fallot.
The focus of the mediastinal infection was an infected epic... | C14 |
4,418 | 6,180 | Dose-dependent reduction of myocardial infarct size with the perfluorochemical Fluosol-DA.
The perfluorochemical Fluosol-DA has been shown to reduce infarct size.
However, the dose-response relationship of the agent is unknown.
Because perfluorochemicals (PFC) can potentially saturate the reticuloendothelial system ... | C14 |
4,419 | 2,017 | Renal artery stenosis in patients with aortic dissection: increased prevalence
The authors retrospectively analyzed the prevalence of renal artery stenosis in 63 consecutive patients with aortic dissection who underwent thoracic and abdominal aortography.
Ten patients (16%) had renal artery stenosis, five with ather... | C14 |
4,420 | 4,403 | Surgical treatment of endomyocardial fibrosis: a new approach.
Endomyocardial fibrosis has been treated surgically for many years.
For complete removal of fibrosis from both ventricles by the classic technique, each atrioventricular (AV) valve was removed and replaced with a prosthesis.
Relapse of endomyocardial fib... | C14 |
4,421 | 9,190 | Major depression, panic disorder, and mitral valve prolapse in patients who complain of chest pain.
PURPOSE: Patients with chest pain but without angiographic evidence of significant atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (CAD) are often found to have other medical or psychiatric disorders, including mitral valve pro... | C14 |
4,422 | 4,078 | Early 24-hour blood pressure elevation in normotensive subjects with parental hypertension
Subjects with a family history of parental hypertension are reported to have a slightly higher office blood pressure in the prehypertensive stage.
Whether this reflects a hyperreactivity to blood pressure measurement or a more... | C14 |
4,423 | 9,585 | Effect of a leukocyte-platelet removal filter on ischemia induced reperfusion injury.
The effect of leukocyte and platelet depletion on reperfusion injury using a leukocyte-platelet removal filter (LRF) in intracoronary thrombolysis is reported.
To better define the usefulness of LRF in evaluating the effectiveness o... | C14 |
4,424 | 3,512 | Prognostic value of electrophysiology testing in asymptomatic patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White pattern [published erratum appears in Circulation 1991 Mar;83(3):1124]
The prognostic value of electrophysiology testing was studied in 75 asymptomatic patients with the Wolff-Parkinson-White electrocardiographic pattern... | C14 |
4,425 | 4,894 | Impact of the availability of a prior electrocardiogram on the triage of the patient with acute chest pain
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine whether information from a prior electrocardiogram (ECG) improves diagnostic accuracy in the emergency department (ED) evaluation of patients with acute chest pain.
DESIGN: Analysi... | C14 |
4,426 | 7,413 | Hormone replacement therapy. How to select the best preparation and regimen.
Hormone replacement therapy is a mainstay of preventive healthcare for the maturing female population.
Estrogen deficiency that comes with menopause can have serious effects and is especially important in light of the increasing life expecta... | C14 |
4,427 | 5,434 | The frequency-dependent behavior of cerebral autoregulation.
Cerebral autoregulation is a complex physiological process composed of both fast and slow components that may respond differently to different rates and patterns of blood pressure variation.
To assess the temporal nature of autoregulation, transcranial Dopp... | C14 |
4,428 | 3,135 | Effects of felodipine on urinary albumin excretion and metabolic control in hypertensive non-insulin-dependent diabetics.
The effect of a blood pressure reduction by 10 mg extended release felodipine once daily on urinary albumin excretion (UAE) as well as the possible diabetogenic effect of felodipine was studied.
A... | C14 |
4,429 | 7,132 | Adaptation to ischemia during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Clinical, hemodynamic, and metabolic features
The clinical, electrocardiographic, and coronary hemodynamic responses to sequential 90-second occlusions of the left anterior descending coronary artery in 12 patients undergoing elective percu... | C14 |
4,430 | 575 | Role of leukotriene B4 in granulocyte infiltration into the postischemic feline intestine.
Several studies have demonstrated that granulocytes accumulate in the intestinal mucosa following ischemia/reperfusion.
It has been suggested that leukotriene B4 may be released during ischemia/reperfusion and consequently may ... | C14 |
4,431 | 5,577 | Acquired retinal arteriovenous communications in occlusive disease of the carotid artery.
Retinal arteriovenous communications proximal to extensive areas of complete vascular closure developed in three patients with occlusive disease of the carotid arteries.
In one case, the authors document the development of the a... | C14 |
4,432 | 2,915 | The iris in Williams syndrome.
Forty three children with Williams syndrome and 124 control subjects had their eyes photographed.
The photographs were examined by three ophthalmologists and four geneticists of varying experience.
A stellate pattern was noted more often in the irides of patients with Williams syndrome... | C14 |
4,433 | 743 | Reduction of post-traumatic swelling and compartment pressure by impulse compression of the foot.
Following the discovery of a powerful venous pump in the foot that is activated by weight-bearing independently of muscular action, a pneumatic impulse device was developed to actuate this pump artificially.
In a multice... | C14 |
4,434 | 2,777 | Transcranial Doppler determination of cerebral perfusion in patients undergoing CPR: methodology and preliminary findings.
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To correlate cerebral arterial blood velocity measurements as determined by transcranial Doppler ultrasound with various resuscitation maneuvers performed in an uncontrolled mann... | C14 |
4,435 | 8,039 | Insulin resistance and blood pressure in young black men.
Insulin resistance, independent of obesity or non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, has been demonstrated to be associated with high blood pressure.
To determine if insulin resistance could be an antecedent to hypertension in a high-risk population, we stud... | C14 |
4,436 | 4,110 | Role of angioplasty in myocardial infarction management strategies: a review.
The role of angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction has been extensively studied in the past few years.
Although angioplasty in some circumstances can be the primary reperfusion intervention, logistic problems and the excellent results o... | C14 |
4,437 | 4,176 | Hypertension after operative correction of club-foot deformity.
Severe hypertension occurred as a postoperative complication after correction of a club-foot deformity in four children (seven feet) who were between the ages of two and three years and had no history of hypertension.
The hypertension subsided slowly aft... | C14 |
4,438 | 9,557 | Experience with the Sarns centrifugal pump as a ventricular assist device.
The authors used the Sarns centrifugal pump (Sarns 3M, Ann Arbor, MI) as a ventricular assist device (VAD) in 30 patients between May 1985 and February 1990.
Sixteen patients were unweanable from cardiopulmonary bypass at the time of surgery; ... | C14 |
4,439 | 240 | Entrapment of a folded-over introducer sheath in the iliofemoral artery: an unusual complication of PTCA guiding catheter exchange
An arterial introducer sheath became folded over in the iliac artery during PTCA.
This probably resulted from withdrawal of a doubled over Judkins left coronary guiding catheter through ... | C14 |
4,440 | 4,375 | Tongue ischemia from a soft-drink can: report of case.
A young girl was brought to the emergency department because her tongue became entrapped while she was drinking from an aluminum soft-drink can.
A dental drill was used to remove the can.
The tongue was observed for 48 hours, during which an ischemic area recove... | C14 |
4,441 | 6,082 | Regression of intracardiac thrombus after embolic stroke.
Using two-dimensional echocardiography, we studied the pathophysiology of intracardiac thrombus regression accompanied by anticoagulant therapy in 82 consecutive patients with acute cardiogenic cerebral embolism.
We noted intracardiac thrombus in 15 patients; ... | C14 |
4,442 | 4,389 | Clinical and hemodynamic correlates of sympathetic nerve activity in normal humans and patients with heart failure: evidence from direct microneurographic recordings.
To characterize the neural excitatory state of heart failure, simultaneous measurements of efferent sympathetic nerve activity to muscle (by microneurog... | C14 |
4,443 | 3,451 | Physical examination and echo Doppler study in the assessment of femoral arterial complications following cardiac catheterization.
Femoral arterial complications following cardiac catheterization have been well recognized.
The development of an inguinal mass in these patients can represent a simple hematoma, a pseudo... | C14 |
4,444 | 4,384 | Coronary lesion morphology in acute myocardial infarction: demonstration of early remodeling after streptokinase treatment
Coronary lesion morphology was analyzed in 72 patients 1 to 8 days after streptokinase treatment for acute myocardial infarction and compared with lesion morphology in a control group of 24 patie... | C14 |
4,445 | 480 | Oral contraceptives in women with diabetes.
We evaluated the association of oral contraceptive use with the presence and severity of diabetic retinopathy, hypertension, and glycosylated hemoglobin in women of childbearing age who have diabetes.
Neither current or past use nor number of years of use of oral contracept... | C14 |
4,446 | 699 | Diurnal cardiovascular patterns in spontaneously hypertensive and Wistar-Kyoto rats.
This study was designed to determine whether diurnal patterns of blood pressure, heart rate, or locomotor activity differed among two substrains of Wistar-Kyoto rats, derived originally from Charles River or Taconic Farms stock, or th... | C14 |
4,447 | 8,836 | Stimulation of active renin release in normal and hypertensive pregnancy.
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Active plasma renin concentration but not total renin concentration is reduced in women with pregnancy-induced hypertension compared with normotensive pregnant women.
This study was conducted to determine whether women with pregnancy-induce... | C14 |
4,448 | 7,744 | Eustachian valve endocarditis.
M mode and cross sectional echocardiography showed a highly mobile globular pedunculated mass(3.0 cm long with a maximum diameter of i.5 cm) attached to the eustachian valve in a heroin addict with staphylococcal endocarditis. | C14 |
4,449 | 2,182 | Leukoaraiosis, intracerebral hemorrhage, and arterial hypertension.
To investigate whether the observed association of leukoaraiosis with intracerebral hemorrhage is direct or mediated by risk factors, we compared 116 patients with intracerebral hemorrhage confirmed by computed tomography and 155 controls without intr... | C14 |
4,450 | 6,849 | Correction of truncus arteriosus with truncal valvar stenosis or insufficiency using two homografts.
Surgical correction of truncus arteriosus requires the creation of right ventricular to pulmonary artery continuity and closure of the ventricular septal defect.
A variety of conduits have been used including valved a... | C14 |
4,451 | 4,415 | Results of coronary surgery after failed elective coronary angioplasty in patients with prior coronary surgery
The results of coronary artery bypass surgery after failed elective coronary angioplasty in patients who have undergone prior coronary surgery are unknown.
Coronary angioplasty may be performed to relieve a... | C14 |
4,452 | 6,834 | Intraoperative blood pressure. What patterns identify patients at risk for postoperative complications?
While monitoring blood pressure is a routine part of intraoperative management, several methods have been proposed to characterize intraoperative hemodynamic patterns as predictors of postoperative complications.
... | C14 |
4,453 | 8,332 | Association of perioperative myocardial ischemia with cardiac morbidity and mortality in men undergoing noncardiac surgery. The Study of Perioperative Ischemia Research Group
BACKGROUND.
Adverse cardiac events are a major cause of morbidity and mortality after noncardiac surgery.
It is necessary to determine the pr... | C14 |
4,454 | 5,228 | Options for surgical repair in hearts with univentricular atrioventricular connection and subaortic stenosis.
Thirteen patients have undergone surgical treatment because of subaortic obstruction in hearts with a univentricular atrioventricular connection.
Nine patients underwent surgical enlargement of the ventricula... | C14 |
4,455 | 9,437 | Differential light scattering cuvettes for the measurement of thromboemboli in high shear blood flow systems.
Newly developed optical scattering cuvettes were constructed as a modification of our existing 1.0 mm and 3.0 mm internal diameter (ID) cuvettes to facilitate the measurement of platelet microemboli ranging fr... | C14 |
4,456 | 8,575 | Possible triggering of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in normal hearts by psychological stressors: a report of two cases.
Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation was triggered by psychological stress in two patients, both of whom had normal echocardiograms and coronary angiography.
Neither patient was alcoholic or had ingeste... | C14 |
4,457 | 4,190 | Surgical treatment of aneurysm or dissection involving the ascending aorta and aortic arch, utilizing circulatory arrest and retrograde cerebral perfusion.
Recently we replaced the ascending aorta and aortic arch in 8 patients with aneurysm or dissection, using profound hypothermic circulatory arrest with retrograde c... | C14 |
4,458 | 7,722 | Transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of ostial left coronary artery stenosis.
The diagnosis of ostial stenosis of the left main coronary artery is usually made by use of coronary angiography.
However, positioning of the catheter across the obstruction may obscure this diagnosis during contrast injection.... | C14 |
4,459 | 4,735 | Cardiac pathology in 470 consecutive forensic autopsies.
Cardiovascular disease continues to be the single most common generic cause of sudden and unexpected deaths.
Atherosclerotic coronary heart disease and acute myocardial infarction are the most prevalent forms of fatal cardiac disease observed at autopsy.
Other... | C14 |
4,460 | 5,467 | Distribution of angiographic vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage: implications for diagnosis by transcranial Doppler ultrasonography.
A study was undertaken to determine how frequently angiographic vasospasm occurs outside the normal access range of transcranial Doppler ultrasound in patients who have suffered a s... | C14 |
4,461 | 8,557 | Can heart failure be prevented, delayed, or reversed?
A review of the clinical course of chronic heart failure demonstrates that current outcomes remain highly unsatisfactory both in mortality and perhaps more important in morbidity.
The extraordinary satisfactory functional responses seen in patients who undergo car... | C14 |
4,462 | 3,199 | Doppler echocardiographic evaluation of pulmonary artery flow after modified Fontan operation: importance of atrial contraction.
Doppler echocardiography was used to evaluate blood flow in the pulmonary artery in 14 patients 2 to 42 months (mean (SD) 17 (12) months) after a modified Fontan operation incorporating a di... | C14 |
4,463 | 40 | Influence of Doppler sample volume location on the assessment of changes in mitral inflow velocity profiles.
Previous studies that have validated Doppler indexes of mitral inflow have used pulsed wave sample volume locations either at the level of the mitral valve anulus or at the tips of the mitral valve leaflets.
A... | C14 |
4,464 | 8,559 | Compensation and overcompensation in congestive heart failure.
The compensatory mechanisms that develop in response to heart failure have been well defined.
In this review, it is argued that each compensatory mechanism leads to overcompensation and that there is no way to distinguish between the beneficial aspects of... | C14 |
4,465 | 2,693 | Does isoflurane lead to a higher incidence of myocardial infarction and perioperative death than enflurane in coronary artery surgery? A clinical study of 1178 patients
To examine if the choice of volatile agents influences cardiac outcome in coronary artery surgery, 1178 patients undergoing elective coronary artery ... | C14 |
4,466 | 6,010 | Postural hypotension: pressor effect of octreotide not mediated by norepinephrine.
Orthostatic hypotension of the Shy-Drager syndrome is a chronic incapacitating condition characterized by lack of an appropriate increase in the plasma norepinephrine level in response to standing.
Recently, the somatostatin analogue o... | C14 |
4,467 | 7,181 | Role of cytochrome P-450 in reperfusion injury of the rabbit lung.
Reactive oxygen species are a major cause of damage occurring in ischemic tissue after reperfusion.
During reperfusion transitional metals such as iron are required for reactive oxygen species to mediate their major toxic effects.
Xanthine oxidase is... | C14 |
4,468 | 8,561 | Physiology and pharmacology of cardiovascular catecholamine receptors: implications for treatment of chronic heart failure.
In the sympathetic nervous system the physiologic effects of the endogenous catecholamines noradrenaline (NA) and adrenaline (A) are mediated by alpha- and beta-adrenoreceptors (ARs).
Both AR-ty... | C14 |
4,469 | 9,525 | A composite driving system for LVAS and IABP: practical and effective driving and weaning.
We have devised a new method, termed alternate synchronous driving (ASD), to wean patients from a left ventricular assist system (LVAS) to a pressure assist intraaortic balloon pump (IABP).
We have built a new drive unit, VCT20... | C14 |
4,470 | 8,549 | Effect of delayed captopril therapy on left ventricular mass and myonecrosis during acute coxsackievirus murine myocarditis.
The effect of captopril on coxsackievirus B3 murine myocarditis was investigated.
Thirty-two, 3-week-old mice were infected with coxsackievirus B3 on day 0 of the study, then randomized into a ... | C14 |
4,471 | 2,277 | Assay of serum cardiac myosin heavy chain fragments in patients with acute myocardial infarction: determination of infarct size and long-term follow-up.
To evaluate the correlation between myosin heavy chain release and the necrosis mass, serum levels of myosin heavy chain fragments were determined serially in 55 pati... | C14 |
4,472 | 4,898 | Expert testimony based on decision analysis: a malpractice case report.
OBJECTIVE: Expert testimony in malpractice cases is often subjective and biased.
Decision-analytic techniques might provide an objective basis for such testimony.
DESIGN: Case report.
This article reports the case of a patient with chest pain t... | C14 |
4,473 | 7,878 | Diagnostic value of maximal exercise tidal volume.
Though breathing pattern is frequently analyzed during clinical exercise testing, there is little information regarding its usefulness in the differential diagnosis of impaired exercise tolerance.
This study tested the hypothesis that differences in peak tidal volume... | C14 |
4,474 | 7,344 | Regression of coronary atherosclerosis during treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia with combined drug regimens.
We conducted a randomized, controlled trial in 72 patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia to test whether reducing plasma low-density lipoprotein levels by diet and combined drug regim... | C14 |
4,475 | 5,102 | Renal autotransplantation in children: a successful treatment for renovascular hypertension.
Renovascular hypertension in children is not a common disease.
With improved surgical technique the incidence of nephrectomy has decreased and renovascular reconstruction is currently the preferred method to manage this entit... | C14 |
4,476 | 7,345 | Beneficial effects of colestipol-niacin on coronary atherosclerosis. A 4-year follow-up.
The Cholesterol Lowering Atherosclerosis Study (CLAS) was a randomized, placebo-controlled, angiographic trial testing combined colestipol-niacin therapy in 162 subjects.
Two-year results (CLAS-I) showed decreased atherosclerosis... | C14 |
4,477 | 6,225 | Effect of beta-adrenergic blocking agents on the circadian occurrence of ischemic cardiovascular events.
Clinical observations suggest that beta-adrenergic blocking agents can modify the circadian occurrence of a variety of ischemic events.
Morning awakening is associated with a rapid increase in blood pressure and p... | C14 |
4,478 | 3,132 | Effect of captopril on renal function in hypertensive dogs with unilateral renal artery stenosis, studied with radionuclide dynamic scintigraphy.
The kidneys of five hypertensive dogs with experimental unilateral renal artery stenosis were examined by 99mTc-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) and 131I-hippuran r... | C14 |
4,479 | 7,508 | The role of preoperative radionuclide ventriculography in defining outcome after revascularization of the extremity.
Revascularization of the extremity was performed upon 110 patients after preoperative radionuclide ventriculography (RNVG).
Mean ejection fraction (EF) was 50 +/- 13 per cent.
Ventricular wall motion ... | C14 |
4,480 | 2,772 | Improved survival and reduced myocardial necrosis with cardiopulmonary bypass reperfusion in a canine model of coronary occlusion and cardiac arrest.
STUDY QUESTION: Does cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) improve resuscitation rates and limit infarct size after cardiac arrest and acute myocardial infarction? DESIGN: Contro... | C14 |
4,481 | 784 | Perioperative myocardial injury in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement.
In cases of myocardial hypertrophy myocardial protection may be insufficient.
In order to determine the factors responsible for myocardial injury we assessed myocardial injury in 54 patients undergoing isolated aortic valve replacement.
... | C14 |
4,482 | 365 | Role of prostaglandin E1 in reducing pulmonary vascular resistance in an experimental model of acute lung injury.
To determine the role and efficacy of prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) on the cardiopulmonary derangements induced by glass bead embolism, two studies were performed.
In the first study, a dose response of PGE1 wa... | C14 |
4,483 | 9,570 | Increase of intraplatelet free calcium ion during extracorporeal circulation with a hollow fiber oxygenator: arterial filter and dynamics of platelet thrombosis on oxygenator and filter in a pig model.
Intraplatelet free calcium (IPFC) ions provide a common pathway for platelet activation leading to thrombosis and emb... | C14 |
4,484 | 5,559 | Experience with photocoagulation in Behcet's disease.
Between 1973 and 1987 we examined both eyes of 300 patients with the uveoretinitis-type lesions characteristic of Behcet's disease.
Of the 556 eyes whose fundus could be examined, 38 eyes (6.8%) in 33 patients (11%) had developed retinal capillary nonperfusion, br... | C14 |
4,485 | 3,488 | Enhanced alpha 1-adrenergic responsiveness in cardiomyopathic hamster cardiac myocytes. Relation to the expression of pertussis toxin-sensitive G protein and alpha 1-adrenergic receptors.
The pathogenesis of the myopathy occurring in the heart of the cardiomyopathic strain of the Syrian hamster is not well understood ... | C14 |
4,486 | 8,624 | Postoperative hypertension: a prospective, placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind trial, with intravenous nicardipine hydrochloride.
Nicardipine hydrochloride, a new calcium channel blocker for intravenous use, has been compared with placebo in a prospective, randomized, double-blind trial on postoperative hyper... | C14 |
4,487 | 4,861 | Myocardial uptake of indium-111-labeled antimyosin in acute subendocardial infarction: clinical, histochemical, and autoradiographic correlation of myocardial necrosis.
Indium-111-labeled antimyosin has been utilized in the diagnosis and localization of acute transmural myocardial infarction.
The present report descr... | C14 |
4,488 | 6,220 | Rupture of coronary vasa vasorum as a trigger of acute myocardial infarction.
Some controversy has always existed regarding the presence and extent of the vasa vasorum--the nutrient vessels in the wall of the human aorta--in the coronary arteries.
Now, cinemicrographic studies using silicone polymer injections in cle... | C14 |
4,489 | 7,331 | Interruption of critical aortoiliac collateral circulation during nonvascular operations: a cause of acute limb-threatening ischemia.
In patients with aortoiliac occlusive disease interruption of critical collaterals during another nonvascular or cardiac operation may threaten limb viability.
This occurred in four pa... | C14 |
4,490 | 3,441 | Angioplasty of occluded coronary arteries: use of thin shaft balloon over-the-wire system without pre-dilatation.
A retrospective review was done on 13 consecutive patients who underwent PTCA of totally occluded coronary arteries using a recently released thin shaft balloon over-the-wire angioplasty system.
Balloon s... | C14 |
4,491 | 3,565 | Effects of low perfusate Ca2+ concentration on newborn myocardial function after ischemia.
A greater dependence on transsarcolemmal Ca2+ flux and immaturity of Ca2+ sequestration capacity may potentiate Ca2(+)-mediated reperfusion injury in the newborn myocardium.
The effect of serum ionized Ca2+ concentration on lef... | C14 |
4,492 | 9,497 | Limitation of myocardial infarct size by a right ventricular assist device.
To evaluate the effects of an RVAD on myocardial ischemic injury during right coronary artery (RCA) ligation, a pneumatically driven pusher plate pump was inserted between the right atrium and pulmonary artery, and the RCA was ligated at its o... | C14 |
4,493 | 9,593 | Recombinant human erythropoietin does not increase clotting in vascular accesses.
The incidence of vascular access clotting was evaluated over 5.25 years.
The first 32 months served as a control period.
During the second period of 31 months, recombinant human erythropoietin (epoetin) was used for an average duration... | C14 |
4,494 | 52 | Replacement of an aortic valve cusp after neonatal endocarditis.
Septic arthritis developed in a neonate after an infection of her hand.
Despite medical and surgical treatment endocarditis of her aortic valve developed and the resultant regurgitation required emergency surgery.
At operation a new valve cusp was fash... | C14 |
4,495 | 2,343 | Comparison of SPECT using technetium-99m agents and thallium-201 and PET for the assessment of myocardial perfusion and viability.
This report reviews the applications of tomographic imaging with current and new tracers in assessing myocardial perfusion and viability.
Multiple studies with thallium-201 (TI-201) singl... | C14 |
4,496 | 7,892 | Pulmonary vascular steal in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.
After pulmonary thromboendarterectomy, performed for relief of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, perfusion lung scans have frequently disclosed new perfusion defects in segments served by undissected pulmonary arteries.
Our hypoth... | C14 |
4,497 | 9,867 | Coronary artery disease in Chinese males without hypercholesterolaemia
The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of various metabolic risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) in 246 male patients studied over a 2-year period.
CAD was diagnosed on the basis of a history indicative of angina pectoris,... | C14 |
4,498 | 7,154 | Neurologic complications in chronic renal failure: a retrospective study.
We have retrospectively examined 324 patients with chronic renal failure and evaluated the probable underlying causes of neurologic complications, laboratory data and therapeutic interventions.
The common neurologic problems in our patients wer... | C14 |
4,499 | 5,132 | Femur fracture with limb shortening causing occlusion of a polytetrafluoroethylene femoral popliteal graft.
Traumatic occlusion of lower extremity polytetrafluoroethylene arterial grafts is exceedingly rare.
We report a patient who suffered a supracondylar femur fracture resulting in shortening of her right lower ext... | C14 |
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