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Intended Use Practice guidelines provide recommendations applicable to patients with or at risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The focus is on medical practice in the United States, but ...
Background and Purpose—Despite technical advances in endovascular and microsurgical treatment, patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage still have a high mortality and morbidity rate. To impr ...
Background and Purpose—The purpose of this study was to identify significant morphological and hemodynamic parameters that discriminate intracranial aneurysm rupture status using 3-dimensional angiog ...
Background— Genetic factors have an important role in the pathogenesis of intracranial aneurysm (IA). The results of previous studies have suggested several loci. Methods and Results— From 29 IA fami ...
Background— Contrast agents can cause a reduction in renal function that may be due to the generation of reactive oxygen species. Conflicting evidence suggests that administration of the antioxidant ...
Analysis of cardiovascular status in adult relatives of 116 kindred affected with familial hyperbetalipoproteinemia (type II hyperlipoproteinemia) was carried out to assess coronary artery disease (C ...
Although human atherosclerosis is associated with aging, direct evidence of cellular senescence and the mechanism of senescence in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) in atherosclerotic plaques is l ...
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Background— We describe the first human experience with a permanently implantable, direct left atrial pressure (LAP) monitoring system in ambulatory patients with chronic heart failure. Methods and R ...
Background— Although implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy reduces mortality in moderately symptomatic heart failure patients with an ejection fraction ≤35%, many such patients do not ...
Diabetes mellitus is not only a critical risk factor for coronary artery disease 1 but also an important predictor of prognosis in patients undergoing percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty ...
Background— Mutations in the KCNJ2 gene, which codes cardiac and skeletal inward rectifying K+ channels (Kir2.1), produce Andersen’s syndrome, which is characterized by periodic paralysis, cardiac ar ...
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