Adherence of hospital-based car ...
Objectives According to various national and international guidelines, the target LDL-C level is\100 mg/dl for patients with established coronary he ...
Early outgrowth EPCs generation ...
Background Buerger’s disease often shows poor collateral artery generation (i.e. neovascularization) in the ischemic limbs. However, the etiology ha ...
Influence of small caliber coro ...
Background and aims Positive predictive value (PPV) of adenosine stress cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) for coronary artery disease (CAD) is unsati ...
Time between first symptoms and ...
Background Early diagnosis can be life-saving in acute pulmonary embolism (PE). It is unknown, whether patients with recurrent PE are diagnosed earl ...
Blood pressure management in a ...
Background In Germany, an estimated 20–25 million patients suffer from hypertension. Blood pressure control rates are, however, lower than in many o ...
Music in the cath lab: who shou ...
Objectives The ALMUT study wants to evaluate the anxiolytic effects of different music styles and no music in 200 patients undergoing cardiac cathet ...
Transcatheter aortic valve impl ...
Objectives Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) promises effective treatment for high-risk elderly patients with symptomatic severe aortic ...
Long-term outcome after drug-el ...
Background The aim of our study was to evaluate the effect of drug-eluting stents (DES) compared with baremetal stents (BMS) on all-cause mortality ...
Heart rate reduction in cardiov ...
Heart rate influences myocardial oxygen demand, coronary blood flow, and myocardial function. Clinical and experimental studies support an associati ...
Adaptive servoventilation impro ...
Cheyne–Stokes respiration (CSR) in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) is of major prognostic impact and expresses respiratory instability. Ot ...
Assessment of left atrial volum ...
Left atrial enlargement is an important predictor of cardiovascular events such as atrial fibrillation, stroke, heart failure and mortality. A numbe ...
Late-breaking clinical trials p ...
This article gives an overview on the latebreaking clinical trials in the field of cardiovascular medicine which were presented during the hotline s ...
Oxidative stress and cytotoxici ...
Dental composites are a source of residual monomers that are released into the oral environment. Since monomers act on cultured cells through reacti ...
Spatial relation between a rigi ...
The purpose of this study was to quantify the existing (inevitable) angle which in intraoral radiology appears between tooth length axis and recepto ...
Diagnostic efficiency of differ ...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of oral brush biopsy to identify early malignancy. One hundred and eighty-six brush bi ...
Sealing proximal surfaces with ...
The purpose of this investigation was to test the safety and clinical effect of a new material for the treatment of proximal caries. In 50 patients ...
Nafamostat mesilate, a potent t ...
Previous reports have demonstrated increased tryptase-like proteolytic activity in the crevicular fluid of patients with periodontal disease. In the ...
Oral health of Chinese people w ...
The aim was to study oral health status, salivary function, and oral features of Chinese people with Systemic Sclerosis (SSc). Chinese people with S ...
Histologic and histomorphometri ...
The aim of this study was to compare the histological behavior of three bone graft materials placed in human. The comparison was made among Bio-Oss® ...
The German version of the Child ...
The aims of this study were to develop a German version of the Child Perceptions Questionnaire (CPQ11-14, a measure of oral health-related quality o ...
Human saliva exposure modulates ...
Various situations encountered by a clinician during the daily routine including surgical periodontitis therapy, dental implant insertion, or tooth ...
Effects of surface conditioning ...
This study evaluates effects of aging on repair bond strengths of microhybrid, nanohybrid, and nanofilled composite resins and characterizes the int ...
Inhibition of the activity of m ...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of different concentrations of triethylene glycol dimethacrylate (TEGDMA) on the inhibition of matr ...
PTH(1-34)-induced changes in RA ...
Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is widely accepted as an anabolic agent when administered intermittently. Here, we explored the influence of intermittent ...
Potential of shock waves to rem ...
Effective calculus and biofilm removal is essential to treat periodontitis. Sonic and ultrasonic technologies are used in several scaler application ...