Clinical Investigations

Outpatient Cardioversion of Atrial Arrhythmias Outpatient cardioversion is a low risk, effective, and economical procedure.
Journal Article, February 01, 2003
Platelet Inhibition by Clopidogrel Loading in Coronary Stenting A 300 mg clopidogrel load given 3-24 hours before stenting inhibits platelets at the time of the procedure and reduces poststent activity more than a 75 mg dose given at the time of the procedure
Journal Article, February 01, 2003
Increased C-Reactive Protein Level After Coronary Stent Implant Mechanical disruption of an atherosclerotic coronary plaque during stent implantation in stable CAD patients causes a systemic inflammatory response expressed by elevated CRP levels.
Journal Article, February 01, 2003
Residual Plaque Burden After Coronary Stenting The amount of residual plaque burden after coronary stenting plays an independent role on the late angiographic outcome of these patients.
Journal Article, February 01, 2003
Angiographic Changes in Saphenous Vein Grafts as Predictors Study finds that there is evidence that patients who had substantial progression of atherosclerosis in vein grafts are at an increased risk for subsequent coronary events.
Journal Article, February 01, 2003
Is Specialty Care Associated With Improved Survival of Patients? Improved survival is associated with cardiologist care and a mixture of general practitioner and cardiologist care compared with general practitioner care alone.
Journal Article, February 01, 2003
Clinical and Economic Outcomes of Multivessel Coronary Stenting Mutlivessel stenting and CABG result in comparable risks of death and myocardial infarction. Multivessel stenting was significantly less costly.
Journal Article, February 01, 2003
Tricuspid Regurgitation After Percutaneous Mitral Valvuloplasty Significant functional TR was associated with more severe MS, and it could be diminished when transmitral pressure gradient was sufficiently relieved with PMV.
Journal Article, February 01, 2003
Adherence to Practice and Specialty Society Guidelines Practice guidelines have been widely advocated as a means of both improving quality and reducing costs.
Journal Article, January 01, 2003
No-Reflow After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention A reduction in antegrade epicardial blood flow may occur during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), despite the absence of mechanical obstruction, such as dissection or apparent distal embolization.
Journal Article, January 01, 2003
Primary Coronary Angioplasty vs Intravenous Thrombolytic Therapy When it is available, primary percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) is often the initial reperfusion strategy for patients with myocardial infarction (MI).
Journal Article, January 01, 2003
Heart Failure Complicating ST-Segment Elevation AMI Heart failure is a common complication of ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction (MI).
Journal Article, January 01, 2003
Results of the SMILE-2 Study Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are well-established agents for the treatment of hypertension and congestive heart failure.
Journal Article, January 01, 2003
Myocardial Infarction-3 Flow After Streptokinase A high initial white blood cell count commonly occurs in patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and is associated with poorer early outcomes.
Journal Article, January 01, 2003
Risk of Ischemic Heart Disease In the Copenhagen Male Study (CMS), presence of a high fasting plasma triglyceride (TG) concentration and a low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) concentration, the characteristic dyslipidemia in the metabolic syndrome, was associated with a 2-fold-higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and a 2-fold-higher incidence of ischemic heart disease (IHD) in men without symptoms of C
Journal Article, January 01, 2003
TIMI 9 Trial and TIMI 9 Registry Reported mortality rates in patients enrolled in clinical trials are lower than in patients enrolled in registries of clinical practice.
Journal Article, January 01, 2003
Value of QT Interval and Dispersion With Systolic Dysfunction Prolongation of QT interval is associated with an increased mortality rate in population-based studies, and a variety of cardiac disorders, including heart failure.
Journal Article, January 01, 2003
Prevalence and Prognostic Value of Exercise Arrhythmias Recent exercise testing consensus documents confirm that exercise testing is an important prognostic tool.
Journal Article, January 01, 2003
Importance of Systolic and Diastolic Function After AMI Left ventricular (LV) function is traditionally divided into systole and diastole, describing ventricular emptying and filling.
Journal Article, January 01, 2003
Does Chlamydia pneumoniae Increase the Risk of Myocardial Injury Chlamydia pneumoniae (Cpn) is an obligate, intracellular pathogen and a common cause of community-acquired respiratory infections.
Journal Article, December 01, 2002

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