The Clinical Significance of An ...
Autoimmune response against myocardial antigens is evident in numerous heart diseases. Both the induction of an autoimmune response and the pathogen ...
Role of Autoimmunity and Autoin ...
Idiopathic recurrent pericarditis is the most common and troublesome complication of acute pericarditis affecting about one third of such patients. ...
Transforming growth factor beta ...
Purpose Atrial fibrillation (AF) and acute congestive heart failure (aCHF) are characterized by an adverse cardiac remodeling. Arrhythmogenic or str ...
New-onset versus chronic atrial ...
Aims Atrial fibrillation (AF) occurs commonly in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and has been established as a marker of adverse pro ...
Influence of acute and chronic ...
Background We compared the effect of different loading conditions, parameters of structural heart disease and extracardiac confounders on NT-proBNP ...
Vascular remodeling in adults a ...
Background Patients after successful repair of coarctation of aorta (CoAo) are at risk of hypertension at rest and associated end-organ damage. The ...
Impact of therapy with statins, ...
Purpose The present study investigated whether therapy with statins, beta-blockers and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors on admission a ...
Heart rate variability and biom ...
Background Chronic low-grade systemic inflammation is a key component in atherogenesis. Decreased heart rate variability (HRV), a strong predictor o ...
Impact of oxygen uptake efficie ...
Background Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is limited by the high numbers of nonresponders. This study analyzed the impact of the cardioresp ...
Cardiac memory in humans: vecto ...
Background ‘‘Cardiac memory’’ (CM) refers to a change in repolarization induced by an altered pathway of activation. The effects of biventricular pa ...
Clinical outcome and quality of ...
Introduction The aim of this study was to prospectively assess the clinical outcome and quality of life of elderly patients who underwent either cor ...
Effects of intracoronary inject ...
Background Intracoronary administration of autologous bone marrow stem cells (BMC) has been shown to result in a subtle improvement of global left v ...
Characteristics and clinical ou ...
Background Information about the clinical course of patients with acute myocardial infarction requiring mechanical ventilation is scarce. We sought ...
Rosuvastatin induces apoptosis ...
Aims CD4?CD28null cells represent an aggressive and long-living T cell subpopulation, capable of infiltrating atheromatous plaque, leading to destab ...
Combined cardiological and neur ...
Background Cardiac defects can be the presenting symptom in patients with mutations in the X-linked gene FLNA. Dysfunction of this gene is associate ...
Intracoronary pyruvate in cardi ...
Aims Pyruvate was shown to increase cardiac performance in isolated human and animal myocardium and in patients with chronic heart failure. We sough ...
First experience with transcath ...
Objectives We investigated our experience with combined transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) ...
Drug-eluting versus bare-metal ...
Aim To assess the patterns of drug-eluting stent (DES) and bare-metal stent (BMS) implantation and associated real-life outcomes in patients with ST ...
Intracoronary versus intravenou ...
Background Administration of abciximab during primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) reduces major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in patien ...
Feasibility and safety of trans ...
Background The feasibility and safety of the transradial approach for catheter ablation of idiopathic left ventricular tachycardia (ILVT) have not b ...
Impact of minimising door-to-ba ...
Background Guidelines recommend door-to-balloon times (DBTs) below 60 min for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing pr ...
Direct admission versus transfe ...
Background Guidelines for the treatment of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) recommend primary PCI as first choice therapy. T ...
Functional effects of b1-adreno ...
Background The relevance of the Arg389Gly- and Ser49Gly-b1-adrenoceptor (AR) polymorphisms for cardiovascular function and pharmacotherapy is contro ...
Poor coronary collateral vessel ...
Background The development of coronary collaterals is crucial to survival through acute ischemia. Mild to moderate loss of renal function has been s ...
Impact of smoking on the outcom ...
Background Cigarette smoking strongly increases morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular causes, but the relevance of smoking in patients treated ...