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Acute Adenoviral Infection Elicits an Arrhythmogenic Substrate Prior to Myocarditis
Graduate Program in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health (R.L.P., G.A.B., K.E.S., D.R.K.), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at ...
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Risk Factors Associated With Myocardial Infarction in Africa
From the Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle Unit, Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, South Africa (K. Steyn); Department of Cardiology, Chris-Hani-Baragwanath Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, ...
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Reciprocal In Vivo Regulation of Myocardial G Protein–Coupled Receptor Kinase Expression by β-Adrenergic Receptor Stimulation and Blockade
From the Departments of Medicine (G.I., R.J.L.), Surgery (E.D.T, W.J.K.), and Biochemistry (R.J.L.) and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical ...
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Novel Single-Chain Antibody-Targeted Microbubbles for Molecular Ultrasound Imaging of Thrombosis
Validation of a Unique Noninvasive Method for Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Thrombi and Monitoring of Success or Failure of Thrombolysis in Mice ...
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Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Originally published10 Apr 2007https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.592345Circulation. 2007;115:1933–1947 It has variably been estimated that between 800 000 ...
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Trajectories of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation Over a 25-Year Follow-Up
Background:Timing and trajectories of cardiovascular risk factor (CVRF) development in relation to atrial fibrillation (AF) have not been described previously. We assessed trajectories of CVRF and in ...
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Association of Leukocyte Telomere Length With Echocardiographic Left Ventricular Mass
From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study (R.S.V., S.D., L.A.C., D.L., E.J.B.), Framingham, Mass; Sections of Preventive Medicine ...
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Self‐Performed Dietary Sodium Reduction and Blood Pressure in Patients With Essential Hypertension: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Hypertension is the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease worldwide. Patients with blood pressure (BP) response to dietary sodium reduction are referred to as “salt sensitive.” Salt ...
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Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Is ventilation necessary?
Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson. Prompt initiation of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) improves survival. Basic life support with ...
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Human Adult Vena Saphena Contains Perivascular Progenitor Cells Endowed With Clonogenic and Proangiogenic Potential
Background— Clinical trials in ischemic patients showed the safety and benefit of autologous bone marrow progenitor cell transplantation. Non–bone marrow progenitor cells with proangiogenic capacitie ...
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Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 as a Predictor of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiopulmonary Bypass
From the Departments of Anesthesiology (M.P., B.S.D.), Biostatistics (C.Y.), and Cardiac Surgery (J.P.G.), and the Division of Clinical Pharmacology (M.P., D.M.R., N ...
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Abnormalities of Hemorheological, Endothelial, and Platelet Function in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure in Sinus Rhythm
From the Haemostasis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology Unit, University Department of Medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK. Background—To investigate the hypothesis that abnormalities of ...