Flavanol-rich cocoa ameliorates ...
Consumption of flavanols improves chronic endothelial dysfunction. We investigated whether it can also improve acute lipemia-induced endothelial dys ...
Successful coronary interventio ...
A conus artery is sometimes a good collateral source for the left anterior descending coronary artery and the right coronary artery (RCA). In some c ...
Arrhythmias after transcatheter ...
With the development of interventional techniques and devices, transcatheter closure of perimembranous ventricular septal defect has been widely per ...
Advanced glycation end products ...
Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are associated with cardiovascular diseases. Whether the AGE levels change during myocardial reperfusion inju ...
Relationship between cardio-ank ...
Early detection of atherosclerosis is important for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus because cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a main cause of d ...
Relation of cardiovascular risk ...
Coronary artery calcium(CAC) is associatedwith the presence of coronary artery disease (CAD) and cardiovascular risk factors. However, the relation ...
Nitric oxide effects depend on ...
The important role of nitric oxide (NO) in regulating cardiac functions has been investigated in prior research. However, NO-induced signaling mecha ...
Influence of fastigial nucleus ...
Electrical stimulation of the rostal cerebellar fastigial nucleus (FNS) has been proved to have neuroprotective effects, but it is not known whether ...
Reversible course of pulmonary ...
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is considered to be a rare but serious complication of bone marrow transplantation (BMT). The majority of the ...
Association between deteriorate ...
Acute renal insufficiency after percutaneous coronary artery intervention (PCI) is a strong predictor of adverse events. However, the effect of chro ...
Intravenous glutathione prevent ...
This study proposes the intravenous administration of glutathione (GSH) as a novel strategy to prevent contrast medium-induced renal oxidative stres ...
Dilatation of the ascending aor ...
Predictors of aortic dilatation are not well described in patients with bicuspid aortic valves (BAV). This study sought to examine the relationship ...
Prospective, randomized, single ...
Leptin has been reported to exert an atherosclerotic effect by regulating expression of angiogenic factors that have been implicated in the pathogen ...
Prognostic value of hemoglobin ...
In this work, we analyzed the prognostic significance of changes in hemoglobin during intensive care unit (ICU) stay in patients with acute coronary ...
Titanium-nitride-oxIde-coated s ...
We sought to explore the immediate clinical and angiographic results of the Titan stent implantation in diabetic patients, as well as the major adv ...
Platelet and monocyte activity ...
Patients with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) often present with symptoms similar to those of myocardial infarction (MI). We analyzed blood concentrat ...
A case of giant cell arteritis ...
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the medium and large blood vessels. The early symptoms of this disease are nonspecif ...
Combined effects of irbesartan ...
The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of irbesartan, carvedilol, and irbesartan plus carvedilol on the expression of tissue fac ...
Clinical analysis of the risk f ...
Slow coronary flow (SCF) phenomenon is a coronary microvascular disorder characterized by the delayed passage of contrast in the absence of obstruct ...
Agonist-like autoantibodies aga ...
The calcium channel may be an important target in the autoimmune pathogenesis of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). The presence and function of serum a ...
A slightly elevated level of N- ...
The prognostic and diagnostic values of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-pro-BNP) in ischemic heart disease have already been investigat ...
A novel method of augmenting ge ...
This study presents a novel method that direct intramyocardial injection of low-dose plasmid DNA and microbubbles combined with insonation could fur ...
Transcatheter closure of perime ...
Results of perimembranous ventricular septal defects (pmVSD) transcatheter closure have been reported in the literature, mostly with the Amplatzer V ...
Impact of obesity on plasma B-t ...
The plasma B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) concentration was recently shown to be inversely correlated with body mass index (BMI). However, very fe ...
Endothelin-1 prolongs intracell ...
Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is involved in the development of cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure. We investigated the effects of ET-1 on intracellular ca ...