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 ...
Influence of abciximab on evolu ...
Background Abciximab reduced the combined endpoint of death, myocardial infarction (MI) and target vessel revascularization in patients with non-ST- ...
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 ...
Transforming growth factor beta ...
Purpose Atrial fibrillation (AF) and acute congestive heart failure (aCHF) are characterized by an adverse cardiac remodeling. Arrhythmogenic or str ...
Incidence and distribution of o ...
Background It is assumed that patients with non-STelevation myocardial infarctions (NSTEMI) showing an infero- or posterolateral occluded culprit ar ...
Tricuspid annular plane systoli ...
Aims To determine whether TAPSE is an accurate marker of right ventricular (RV) systolic function in patients with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) and pat ...
Comparison between on-label ver ...
Background Observational studies from the USA have demonstrated that off-label use of drug-eluting stents (DES) is common. Data on off-label use in ...
Time course of right ventricula ...
Aim To evaluate changes of right ventricular (RV) parameters in follow-up examinations after corrected tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) by cardiac magnetic ...
Acute and chronic effects of ex ...
Background Few studies have prospectively addressed the effects of exercise in the inflammatory activity of patients with coronary artery disease (C ...
Daytime baroreflex sensitivity ...
Insomnia has been linked to cardiovascular disease and among these especially hypertension and changes in autonomic function. One marker for cardiov ...
Prognostic value of electrocard ...
Unrecognized myocardial infarction (MI) carries a poor prognosis in the general population, but its prognostic value is less clear in high-risk pati ...
Is intravascular ultrasound ben ...
Background Coronary bifurcations remain a challenging lesion subset for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). It is unclear whether intravascula ...
Biomarkers: optimizing treatmen ...
Heart failure is a frequent and life-threatening syndrome which is not only the result of myocardial injury or hemodynamic overload as commonly perc ...
Clinical experience with a nove ...
Background Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) reduce mortality in both primary and secondary prevention, but are associated with substan ...
Comparison of the temporal rele ...
Background Early detection of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) using cardiac biomarkers of myocardial necrosis remains limited since these biomarke ...
Optimizing of thienopyridine th ...
Aims One possible cause of stent thrombosis is an insufficient effect of clopidogrel. In a prospective study, we aimed to optimize the platelet inhi ...
Permutation criteria to evaluat ...
Background Clinically relevant endpoints cannot be routinely targeted with reasonable power in a small study. Hence, proof-of-concept studies are of ...
Coronary angiography and interv ...
Purpose Mild therapeutic hypothermia is a neuroprotective procedure after cardiac arrest. Therefore, it is increasingly used. Likewise, there is a g ...
Age-related differences in anti ...
Introduction This analysis examines the influence of age on antithrombotic therapy, success rate of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and in- ...
Contribution of comorbidities t ...
Background Comorbidities negatively affect prognosis more strongly in heart failure with preserved (HFpEF) than with reduced (HFrEF) ejection fracti ...
Sympatho-renal axis in chronic ...
Essential hypertension, insulin resistance, heart failure, congestion, diuretic resistance, and functional renal disease are all characterized by ex ...
N-terminal pro-brain natriureti ...
Background Serum concentrations of N-terminal natriuretic pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) correlate well with the severity of cardiac dise ...
Biomarkers of structural remode ...
Introduction Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated not only with inflammation but also with structural remodelling and altered endothelial activati ...
Maladaptive hypertrophy after a ...
Objective In the aftermath of myocardial infarction, increased loading conditions will trigger hypertrophy of viable myocardium. This in turn causes ...
The frequency of vascular compl ...
Objective This study aimed at exploring access siterelated vascular complication rates associated with the use of the vascular closure device (VCD) ...