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Emergency Polytetrafluoroethylene-Covered Stent Implantation To Treat Right Coronary Artery Perforation During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
(Via Medica, 2012)
Coronary artery perforations are life-threatening complications with a poor outcome. Historically, if the perforation was not controlled using conservative methods such as prolonged balloon inflation and protamine ...
Heart Rate Turbulence: Standards Of Measurement, Physiological Interpretation, And Clinical Use International Society For Holter And Noninvasive Electrophysiology Consensus
(Elsevier Science Inc, 2008)
This consensus statement has been compiled on behalf of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrophysiology. It reviews the topic of heart rate turbulence (HRT) and concentrates on technologies for ...
Guideline Implementation In A Multicenter Study With An Estimated 44% Relative Cardiovascular Event Risk Reduction
(Clinical Cardiology Publ Co, 2003)
Background: The extent of cardiovascular risk reduction by implementing coronary prevention guidelines needs to be documented in various population samples. Hypothesis: This is a multicenter study to assess the impact of ...
Impact Of Lipids On Cardiovascular Health Jacc Health Promotion Series
(Elsevier Science Inc, 2018)
People who maintain ideal cardiovascular heath have a low lifetime risk of cardiovascular disease. Therefore, encouraging people to achieve ideal cardiovascular health represents an important opportunity to improve the ...
Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Lowering with Evolocumab and Outcomes in Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease: Insights from the Fourier Trial (Further Cardiovascular Outcomes Research with Pcsk9 Inhibition in Subjects with Elevated Risk)
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2018)
Background: The PCSK9 (proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9) inhibitor evolocumab reduced low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and cardiovascular events in the FOURIER trial (Further Cardiovascular Outcomes Research ...
Is Ventricular Repolarization Heterogeneity a Cause of Serious Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias in Aortic Valve Stenosis?
(Clinical Cardiology Publ Co, 2000)
Background: It is well known that there is a close relation between sudden cardiac death and serious Ventricular tachyarrhythmias in patients with aortic valve stenosis (AS). QT dispersion (QTd) reflects the ventricular ...
Plant Sterols and Plant Stanols in The Management of Dyslipidaemia and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
(Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2014)
Objective: This EAS Consensus Panel critically appraised evidence relevant to the benefit to risk relationship of functional foods with added plant sterols and/or plant stanols, as components of a healthy lifestyle, to ...
Practical Approaches for the Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure: Frequently Asked Questions, Overlooked Points and Controversial Issues in Current Clinical Practice
(Turkish Soc Cardiology, 2015)
Heart failure (HF) is a progressive disorder associated with impaired quality of life, high morbidity, mortality and frequent hospitalization and affects millions of people from all around the world. Despite further ...
Permanent Pacemaker and Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Infections: Seven Years of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Experience of a Single Center
(Wiley, 2010)
Background: Increasing evidence-based indications for the implantation of permanent pacemakers (PMs) and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) have led to an increase in the rate of device infections. The aim of ...
Platelet and Leukocyte Deactivation after Intracoronary Stent Placement in Patients Receiving Combined Antiplatelet Therapy
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001)
Activated platelets and leukocytes have been demonstrated to play a role in the development of stent thrombosis, and coronary angioplasty has been shown to result in activation of platelets, leukocytes, and endothelial ...