Showing papers in "International Journal of Cardiology in 2005"

TL;DR: An overview of the recent insights concerning pathogenesis and therapeutic possibilities to prevent ischemia/reperfusion injury is given.

TL;DR: Aerobic exercise training in CAD patients is an effective mean in inducing reduction in CRP, IL-1,IL-6, INF-gamma levels, and increase in IL-10, thus, possibly improving coronary risk profile.

TL;DR: This is the first large-scale study finding DM as a strong, independent risk for the occurrence of atrial fibrillation and flutter and other cardiovascular disease.

TL;DR: It was determined that reliability coefficients for HRV measures were highly varied, and although no single HRV measurement appeared less reliable than another, there was evidence that optimal data collection conditions for specific frequency domain measures exist.

TL;DR: Children who are exposure to passive smoking are exposed to oxidative stress, which has been implicated in the etiopathogenesis of over 100 disorders including atherosclerosis.

TL;DR: Interaction between herbal medicine and cardiovascular drugs is a potentially important safety issue and patients taking anticoagulants are at the highest risk.

TL;DR: Radial artery diameter was larger than the outer diameter of 5Fr sheath in 82.7% for transradial coronary procedure and tortuosity of the radial artery was associated with old age and prolonged procedure time.

TL;DR: The results with some drug-eluting stents are promising, but further evidence on long-term efficacy and safety, also in high-risk subgroups, is needed.

TL;DR: In this cohort of patients with heart failure of different etiologies, Chagas' heart disease was the main prognostic factor for mortality.

TL;DR: Observed reduced plasma levels of both NGF and BDNF in patients with ACS supports the hypothesis that one or both of these neurotrophins may be implicated in the pathogenesis of human coronary atherosclerosis.

TL;DR: Eyeballing ejection fraction correlated closely with all formal methods and the correlation coefficient improved with the reliability of the formal method, indicating that eyeballing ejections fraction may be the most accurate echocardiographic method for the assessment of left ventricular systolic function.

TL;DR: Iiopathic SCAD is a rare cause of acute coronary syndrome in premenopausal women and in case of single vessel dissection and normal blood flow of the dissected vessel, medical treatment with aspirin, clopidogrel and beta-blockade leads to complete angiographic resolution within a few months.

TL;DR: It is suggested that vitamin C reduces the early recurrence rates after cardioversion of persistent AF and attenuates the associated low-level inflammation, indicating that therapeutic approaches targeting at inflammation and oxidative stress may exert favourable effects on atrial electrical remodeling.

TL;DR: Cardiovascular complications are frequent and require indefinite follow-up, with particular reference to late hypertension, and concern falls chiefly in seven categories: recoarctation, aortic aneurysm formation or aortsic dissection, coexisting bicuspid aortIC valve, endocarditis, premature coronary atherosclerosis, cerebrovascular accidents and systemic hypertension.

TL;DR: Sildenafil use in children appears to be safe and may be beneficial in the management of pulmonary arterial hypertension and exercise tolerance in children with pulmonary hypertension without any side effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide health care professionals involved in initiating and monitoring oral anticoagulation therapy with guidelines for the provision of safe and effective patient self-testing/patient self-management of oral anticaagulation.

TL;DR: In patients with acute myocardial infarction overall obesity as assessed by body mass index is inversely related to mortality, however, abdominal obesity appears to be an independent predictor of all-cause mortality in men and perhaps also in women.

TL;DR: It is likely that the improvement in responses to DOX was related to training-induced increases in GSH and HSP60, and neither DOX nor training induced significant variations in HSP70.

TL;DR: Spectrum of IE in this country is different from the west, but quite similar as reported from developed countries about 40 years ago, as it occurs in relatively younger population with RHD as the commonest underlying heart disease.

TL;DR: Patients with severe congestive heart failure undergoing an exercise training program improve in some measures of cognitive functions that are limited to general attention and psychomotor speed.

TL;DR: Finite element method (FEM) was used to simulate the stent implantation under the balloon inflation and deflation, and simulated results show that the distal end of stent, which tilts after expansion, may injure the artery wall.

TL;DR: A new formula derived from multiple linear regression analysis appears to be more accurate than Friedewald formula in Indian population.

TL;DR: To calculate threshold values of weather discomfort which increase the risk of hospital admissions for myocardial infarction in winter and summer, the biometeorological approach might be useful for the development of an operative weather watch/warning system for population and for hospital professional care.

TL;DR: The present meta-analysis defines the occurrence of possible external triggers before the onset of myocardial infarction in general population, but their actual contribution to the very onset is somewhat less frequent.

TL;DR: Bosentan was safe and well tolerated in adults with Eisenmenger physiology both at initiation and after 3 months of oral therapy, and clinical status of patients and pulmonary haemodynamics appeared to improve.

TL;DR: In subjects with chronic CHF, the mitral E/E'-ratio is a stronger predictor of future cardiac events than conventional parameters of systolic, diastolic or overall LV performance.

TL;DR: Physicians working in an adult and pediatric cardiological environment of excellence are largely unaware of environmental impact, biorisks and dose exposure of the ionising exams they prescribe and/or perform daily.

TL;DR: The incidence of right heart thrombus is low in patients admitted for acute PE and intravenous thrombolysis with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) appears to be rapidly effective in most patients with MRHT.

TL;DR: These caffeine effects reveal an unfavourable effect on wave reflections and therefore on left ventricular (LV) pulsatile afterload and a significant acute effect of caffeine consumption on central hemodynamics which is not observed at peripheral pressures.

TL;DR: Two distinct cases of cannabis use precipitated a malignant arrhythmia in a patient with critical ischaemia from longstanding coronary artery disease and a young patient presented with an acute myocardial infarction that had started whilst smoking marijuana are described.