{"title":"A look back at 'the management of heart failure 5 years hence'.","authors":"Carl V Leier, Garrie J Haas","doi":"10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.2.78","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.2.78","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87149,"journal":{"name":"The American heart hospital journal","volume":"9 2","pages":"78-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32350185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anouska Moynagh, Philippe Garot, Thierry Lefévre, Yves Louvard
{"title":"Angiographic success and successful stent delivery for complex lesions using the GuideLiner™ five-in-six system- a case report.","authors":"Anouska Moynagh, Philippe Garot, Thierry Lefévre, Yves Louvard","doi":"10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.1.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.1.44","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this report, we describe two cases of transradial intervention of chronic total occlusions assisted by the GuideLiner catheter when the guide catheter support was suboptimal. This novel coaxial system can provide additional support for more complex lesions and, in our cases, allowed the procedure to be completed via the transradial approach rather than having to change to transfemoral access.</p>","PeriodicalId":87149,"journal":{"name":"The American heart hospital journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"E44-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30060744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cell therapy-a 21st century hope for treating cardiovascular disease-a five-year retrospective and predictive view.","authors":"Doris A Taylor","doi":"10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.1.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.1.24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87149,"journal":{"name":"The American heart hospital journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"E24-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4354701/pdf/nihms-458070.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30061818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acute pericarditis superimposed on right bundle branch block, posterior fascicular block, and interatrial block.","authors":"David H Spodick","doi":"10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.2.112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.2.112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87149,"journal":{"name":"The American heart hospital journal","volume":"9 2","pages":"112-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32351583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The future was here and now, and has passed you by.","authors":"Thomas J Fogarty","doi":"10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87149,"journal":{"name":"The American heart hospital journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"E7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30060751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biomarkers associated with cardiometabolic risk in obesity.","authors":"Sidra Younus, George Rodgers","doi":"10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.1.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.1.28","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The US is facing an obesity epidemic. Recognizing the biomarkers associated with adipose tissue may impact physicians' management of cardiometabolic disease greatly. EVIDENCE OF ACQUISITION: We searched PubMed for keywords 'obesity', 'leptin', and 'adiponectin', reviewed national surveys, and searched reference articles used in review articles retrieved via the PubMed search. We included articles with multiple relevant citations. Observational data acquired from two sources, not previously published, were also used to support our conclusion.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Literature review and analysis of observational data showed that the level of leptin increases with the increase in weight gain, while adiponectin decreases. The roles of these adipokines in the body have been defined. With the increase in leptin levels, the incidence and prevalence of the components of the metabolic syndrome were seen to be higher, resulting in higher cardiovascular disease, while adiponectin was seen to play a more protective role in the body against developing such disease.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Measuring circulating levels of leptin and adiponectin as a screening tool may help recognize those individuals who do not only have obesity as a major risk factor toward developing cardiometabolic disease but also may have an unfavorable 'biomarker profile', putting them at highest risk. This may encourage the mobilization of resources to help these individuals lose weight rapidly with possibly aggressive measures such as bariatric surgery.</p>","PeriodicalId":87149,"journal":{"name":"The American heart hospital journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"E28-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30061819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scott W Murray, Mohammed Andron, Raphael A Perry, Nick D Palmer
{"title":"A peculiar case of very late restenosis in a drug-eluting stent.","authors":"Scott W Murray, Mohammed Andron, Raphael A Perry, Nick D Palmer","doi":"10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.1.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.1.63","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87149,"journal":{"name":"The American heart hospital journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"E63-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30060750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cardiac resynchronization therapy for non-ischemic cardiomyopathy-immediate changes in QRS duration, with left bundle branch block pattern on electrocardiogram.","authors":"Saurav Chatterjee, Gunjan Guha, Joydeep Ghosh","doi":"10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.1.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.1.41","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>We evaluated mean QRS duration improvement immediately after cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in patients with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy (NICM), with a left bundle branch block (LBBB) pattern on electrocardiogram (ECG), owing to obligatory right ventricular pacing or as a new finding; and to what extent.</p><p><strong>Methods and results: </strong>We tabulated ECGs of 18 subjects, 24 hours before and after receiving CRT, for both groups. The percentage decreases of QRS duration in all groups were statistically similar (p<0.05). There was a significant negative correlation (p<0.05) between age and the percentage of the QRS decrease.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The study showed a greater reduction in QRS duration with CRT for younger subjects.</p>","PeriodicalId":87149,"journal":{"name":"The American heart hospital journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"E41-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30061822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The negative effect of obamacare on health care in ohio.","authors":"Sylvan Lee Weinberg","doi":"10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.2.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.2.71","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87149,"journal":{"name":"The American heart hospital journal","volume":"9 2","pages":"71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32350183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cardiology Fellowship Education in the Era of High-density Training, Data Tracking, and Quality Measures.","authors":"Alex J Auseon, Albert J Kolibash","doi":"10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.2.99","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15420/ahhj.2011.9.2.99","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87149,"journal":{"name":"The American heart hospital journal","volume":"9 2","pages":"99-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32351581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}