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 ...
Intracoronary versus intravenou ...
Background Administration of abciximab during primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) reduces major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in patien ...
Lipoprotein phospholipase A2 in ...
Objective Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2) is among the multiple cardiovascular biomarkers that have been associated with increased ...
Serum soluble E-selectin and NT ...
Background Neuroendocrine activation with endothelial dysfunction is a key pathophysiological process in chronic heart failure (CHF). Although incre ...
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 ...
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 ...
First experience with transcath ...
Objectives We investigated our experience with combined transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rosuvastatin induces apoptosis ...
Aims CD4?CD28null cells represent an aggressive and long-living T cell subpopulation, capable of infiltrating atheromatous plaque, leading to destab ...
Characteristics and clinical ou ...
Background Information about the clinical course of patients with acute myocardial infarction requiring mechanical ventilation is scarce. We sought ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Effects of immunoadsorption on ...
Background Immunoadsorption (IA) is used in patients with chronic inflammatory dilative cardiomyopathy (iDCM) to remove cardiotoxic autoantibodies, ...
Successful treatment of thrombo ...
Background No established therapy is available for patients with thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO) and critical limb ischemia. Since abnormalities of ...
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 ...
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 therapy with statins, ...
Purpose The present study investigated whether therapy with statins, beta-blockers and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors on admission a ...
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 ...
Endothelial dysfunction in hype ...
Background Endothelial damage/dysfunction has been related to hypertension in pregnancy, with implications in pregnancy outcomes. We hypothesised ab ...