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Diffuse multi-vessel coronary artery spasm: Incidence and clinical prognosis
27 January 2012
Yae Min Park, Seung Hwan Han, Kwang-Pil Ko, Kwang Kon Koh, Woong Chol Kang, Kyounghoon Lee, Kwen-Chul Shin, Soon Yong Suh, Tae Hoon Ahn, In Suk Choi, Eak Kyun Shin
Abstract: Background: The incidence and clinical prognosis of diffuse and multivessel coronary spasm has not been reported. Methods: Patients with suspected vasospastic angina were prospectively enrol...
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The functional right ventricle and tricuspid regurgitation in Ebstein's anomaly
27 January 2012
Sohrab Fratz, Christine Janello, Dorothea Müller, Manuel Seligmann, Christian Meierhofer, Tibor Schuster, Christian Schreiber, Stefan Martinoff, John Hess, Andreas Kühn, Manfred Vogt, Heiko Stern
Abstract: Background: The size of the functional right ventricle of patients with Ebstein's anomaly is, according to contemporary opinion, small. However, the in vivo size of the functional right vent...
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A meta-analytic overview of thrombectomy during primary angioplasty
27 January 2012
Giuseppe De Luca, Eliano Navarase, Harry Suryapranata
Abstract: Introduction: Even though primary angioplasty restores TIMI 3 flow in more than 90% of STEMI patients, the results in terms of myocardial perfusion are still unsatisfactory in a relatively l...
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The peri-operative management of anti-platelet therapy in elective, non-cardiac surgery
25 January 2012
Richard F. Alcock, Chris Naoum, Bernadette Aliprandi-Costa, Graham S. Hillis, David B. Brieger
Abstract: Background: Cardiovascular complications are important causes of morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing elective non-cardiac surgery, with adverse cardiac outcomes estimated to occur...
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Pioglitazone ameliorates systolic and diastolic cardiac dysfunction in rat model of angiotensin II-induced hypertension
25 January 2012
Aiko Sakamoto, Makiko Hongo, Kyoko Furuta, Kan Saito, Ryozo Nagai, Nobukazu Ishizaka
Abstract: We previously showed that administration of angiotensin II to rats causes fibrosis and lipid accumulation in the heart. In the current study, we examined the effect of pioglitazone, an agoni...
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