The role of cardiac troponins as indicators of irreversible cell injury is well established. 8 Although in myocardial infarction circulating troponins result from continuous degradation of the ...

Hemodynamic changes associated with diastolic hypertension were investigated using 50° head-up for 52 untreated hypertensive patients not in cardiac failure, and for 17 normotensive subjects. Normals ...

We assessed the nutritional status of patients with acute stroke and evaluated it in relation to the patients' dependence on assistance with feeding. Fifty patients aged 70 years or older, admitted ...

Assessment of the clinical potential of a novel biomarker 5 may be structured around 3 fundamental questions (Figure): (1) Can the clinician measure it? (2) Does it add new information? (3) Does it ...

A long-term follow-up study on 46 patients with pulmonary stenosis and intact ventricular septum who survived transventricular pulmonary valvulotomy performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital between ...

Casts were made of the vascular lumen of 20 successive extremities amputated for gangrene. Half of the patients were diabetic. All nondiabetics had arteriosclerotic vascular disease plus acute ...

Investigation of the members of the White Mountain Apache Tribe has confirmed our clinical experience that coronary artery disease is extremely rare in these people. The Apaches eat a diet low in ...

To determine mechanisms of myocardial toxicity of radiopaque media and to correlate specifically induced changes in the composition of coronary artery blood with changes in the surface ...

A patient who reports arrhythmia symptoms or a perceived shock should be promptly evaluated with an ICD interrogation to determine whether the event was truly a ventricular arrhythmia, rather than an ...

Cx40 (connexin 40) was reported to be a molecular modulator of the renal baroreflex. 6 Connexins are transmembrane gap junction proteins involved in cell-to-cell communication. Renin cell-specific ...

Hypertension is one of the main risk factors for the development of many cardiovascular diseases. Despite significant progress in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension, approximately only half ...

With the advancements of molecular genetics and the identification of mutations in the genes encoding the cardiac ryanodine receptor and cardiac calsequestrin 2 in patients with CPVT, the central role ...