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 ...
Lack of evidence for pleiotropi ...
Background Recently we have demonstrated a dosedependent improvement of endothelial function after administration of a single loading dose of clopid ...
Right ventricular function in g ...
Aims We investigated whether a correlation exists between biomarkers of the neurohumoral system and clinical markers in grown-up patients with conge ...
Comparison of the new high sens ...
Background We sought to determine the performance of the new high sensitivity cardiac troponin T assay (TnThs) for early diagnosis of myocardial inf ...
Ivabradine for the treatment of ...
Purpose In patients [80 years (octogenarians), there is an increased incidence of bradycardia due to age-related alteration of the sinus node, AV no ...
Assessment of left ventricular ...
The purpose of the study was an assessment of left ventricular diastolic function in children after the successful repair of aortic coarctation (CoA ...
Appraising the impact of left v ...
Background Despite the well-known prognostic impact of systolic dysfunction in unselected patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PC ...
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 ...