Is intravascular ultrasound ben ...
Background Coronary bifurcations remain a challenging lesion subset for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). It is unclear whether intravascula ...
Prognostic value of electrocard ...
Unrecognized myocardial infarction (MI) carries a poor prognosis in the general population, but its prognostic value is less clear in high-risk pati ...
Daytime baroreflex sensitivity ...
Insomnia has been linked to cardiovascular disease and among these especially hypertension and changes in autonomic function. One marker for cardiov ...
Acute and chronic effects of ex ...
Background Few studies have prospectively addressed the effects of exercise in the inflammatory activity of patients with coronary artery disease (C ...
Time course of right ventricula ...
Aim To evaluate changes of right ventricular (RV) parameters in follow-up examinations after corrected tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) by cardiac magnetic ...
Comparison between on-label ver ...
Background Observational studies from the USA have demonstrated that off-label use of drug-eluting stents (DES) is common. Data on off-label use in ...
Tricuspid annular plane systoli ...
Aims To determine whether TAPSE is an accurate marker of right ventricular (RV) systolic function in patients with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) and pat ...
Incidence and distribution of o ...
Background It is assumed that patients with non-STelevation myocardial infarctions (NSTEMI) showing an infero- or posterolateral occluded culprit ar ...
Influence of abciximab on evolu ...
Background Abciximab reduced the combined endpoint of death, myocardial infarction (MI) and target vessel revascularization in patients with non-ST- ...
Endothelial dysfunction in hype ...
Background Endothelial damage/dysfunction has been related to hypertension in pregnancy, with implications in pregnancy outcomes. We hypothesised ab ...
Successful treatment of thrombo ...
Background No established therapy is available for patients with thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO) and critical limb ischemia. Since abnormalities of ...
Effects of immunoadsorption on ...
Background Immunoadsorption (IA) is used in patients with chronic inflammatory dilative cardiomyopathy (iDCM) to remove cardiotoxic autoantibodies, ...
Anxiety trait in patients with ...
Background Stress-induced Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC) is an acute cardiac syndrome, mimics ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), largely c ...
Optimized guidance of percutane ...
Background Percutaneous edge-to-edge repair with the MitraClip device has been shown to allow effective treatment of mitral regurgitation. It is mai ...
Comparison of inhaled nitric ox ...
Objectives Pilot study to compare the effect of inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) and aerosolized iloprost in preventing perioperative pulmonary hypertensi ...
Clinical correlates of endothel ...
Objective There is a close link between heart failure and endothelial dysfunction. Brachial flow-mediated dilation (FMD) is a validated non-invasive ...
Occurrence of acute myocardial ...
Background Every year millions of tourists spend their vacation in Tyrol, Austria during the winter season. They often perform sports at high altitu ...
Serum soluble E-selectin and NT ...
Background Neuroendocrine activation with endothelial dysfunction is a key pathophysiological process in chronic heart failure (CHF). Although incre ...
Lipoprotein phospholipase A2 in ...
Objective Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2) is among the multiple cardiovascular biomarkers that have been associated with increased ...
Septic cardiomyopathy: hemodyna ...
Introduction In sepsis, severe reduction of afterload may often mask cardiac impairment. By establishing the parameter ‘‘afterload-related cardiac p ...
Statin effect on thrombin inhib ...
Objective To determine whether statin therapy influences the efficacy of thrombin inhibitor bivalirudin or unfractionated heparin (UFH) during PCI. ...
Impact of hyperglycemia at admi ...
Background Blood glucose level at admission in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is a predictor of heart failure and mortality. Thi ...
Effect of levosimendan and pred ...
Background Levosimendan is a promising new inodilator agent but its effectiveness in peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) has not been tested in a clini ...
The Arg389Gly b1-adrenoceptor g ...
Background The b1-adrenoceptor (b1AR) mediates cardiostimulatory effects of catecholamines in the heart. The Arg389Gly polymorphism of the b1AR gene ...
Long-term outcome after sirolim ...
Background Although it is widely believed that patients with diabetes mellitus obtain the greatest benefit from drug-eluting stents, convincing evid ...