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"Doc, This Wall Stress Is Killing Me!": Another Way to Consider the Relation Between Stress and the Heart

scientific article published on 26 September 2018

6-Minute walk test predicts prolonged hospitalization in patients undergoing transcatheter mitral valve repair by MitraClip.

scientific article published on 15 April 2018

A functionally significant polymorphism in ID3 is associated with human coronary pathology

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ACCF/ASE/AHA/ASNC/HFSA/HRS/SCAI/SCCM/SCCT/SCMR 2011 Appropriate Use Criteria for Echocardiography. A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, American Society of Echocardiography, American Heart As

scientific article published on March 2011

ACCF/SCAI/STS/AATS/AHA/ASNC 2009 Appropriateness Criteria for Coronary Revascularization : a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriateness Criteria Task Force, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Socie

scientific article published on February 2009

ACCF/SCAI/STS/AATS/AHA/ASNC/HFSA/SCCT 2012 appropriate use criteria for coronary revascularization focused update: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography

scientific article published on 01 April 2012

Adenosine as Adjunctive Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction: Is It Time for Another Clinical Trial?

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Adenosine stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance with variable-density spiral pulse sequences accurately detects coronary artery disease: initial clinical evaluation.

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Adjunctive intracardiac echocardiography imaging from the left ventricle to guide percutaneous mitral valve repair with the MitraClip in patients with failed prior surgical rings

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All-trans-retinoic acid limits restenosis after balloon angioplasty in the focally atherosclerotic rabbit : a favorable effect on vessel remodeling

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

An association between collateral blood flow and myocardial viability in patients with recent myocardial infarction

scientific article published on December 24, 1992

Anastomotic leak after cabrol composite graft procedure: diagnosis by computed tomographic angiography and treatment by covered stent.

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Angiographic findings in patients undergoing catheterization for recurrent symptoms within 30 days of successful coronary intervention.

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Angioscopic evaluation of incompletely obstructing coronary intraluminal filling defects: comparison to angiography

scientific article published on 01 December 1994

Anterior Mitral Leaflet Perforation During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in a Patient With Mitral Annular Calcification

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Aortocaval fistula complicating abdominal aortic aneurysm: case report and literature review

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Arterial injury increases expression of inflammatory adhesion molecules in the carotid arteries of apolipoprotein-E-deficient mice

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Bare metal stents are obsolete and no longer have a role in PCI. Stop using them!

scientific article published on 28 November 2020

Bleeding Versus Clotting? Both Are Equally Bad After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

scientific article published in July 2016

Cardiac disease evaluation and management among kidney and liver transplantation candidates: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology Foundation

scientific article published on 02 July 2012

Cardiac disease evaluation and management among kidney and liver transplantation candidates: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology Foundation: endorsed by the American Society of Transplant

scientific article published on 02 July 2012

Comparison between angiography and fractional flow reserve versus single-photon emission computed tomographic myocardial perfusion imaging for determining lesion significance in patients with multivessel coronary disease

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Comparison between visual assessment and quantitative angiography versus fractional flow reserve for native coronary narrowings of moderate severity

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Concurrence of angiographic coronary artery disease in patients with apical ballooning syndrome (tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy).

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Coronary CTA Demonstrates High Burden of Coronary Artery Disease Despite Low Risk Nuclear Studies in Pre-Liver Transplant Evaluation

scientific article published on 09 August 2020

Coronary angiography is a better predictor of mortality than noninvasive testing in patients evaluated for renal transplantation

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Coronary collaterals, stenoses, and stents: is a new era of physiologic-guided percutaneous revascularization emerging?

scientific article published on 01 November 2002

Coronary flow reserve abnormalities in patients with diabetes mellitus who have end-stage renal disease and normal epicardial coronary arteries

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Decision making in multivessel coronary disease: the need for physiological lesion assessment

scientific article published in March 2010

Detection of coronary stenoses at rest with myocardial contrast echocardiography

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Detection of myocardial viability by contrast echocardiography in acute infarction predicts recovery of resting function and contractile reserve

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Determination of the source and severity of a transvalvular left ventricular outflow tract gradient in patients with a prosthetic aortic valve

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Early plus delayed hirudin reduces restenosis in the atherosclerotic rabbit more than early administration alone: potential implications for dosing of antithrombin agents

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Effect of acute myocardial infarction on the utility of fractional flow reserve for the physiologic assessment of the severity of coronary artery narrowing

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Effect of chronic subcutaneous or intramural administration of heparin on femoral artery restenosis after balloon angioplasty in hypercholesterolemic rabbits. A quantitative angiographic and histopathological study

scientific article published on November 1, 1992

Effect of midinfrared holmium: YAG laser angioplasty with and without balloon angioplasty on acute outcome and restenosis in atherosclerotic femoral arteries in rabbits

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Effect of thrombin inhibition with desulfatohirudin on early kinetics of cellular proliferation after balloon angioplasty in atherosclerotic rabbits

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Effectiveness of heparin in preventing thrombin generation and thrombin activity in patients undergoing coronary intervention

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Effectiveness of hirulog in reducing restenosis after balloon angioplasty of atherosclerotic femoral arteries in rabbits

scientific article published in July 1996

Effects of late (1 to 30 days) reperfusion after acute myocardial infarction on the signal-averaged electrocardiogram

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Efficacy and Safety of Intensive Antiplatelet Therapy With Prasugrel from TRITON-TIMI 38 in a Core Clinical Cohort Defined by Worldwide Regulatory Agencies ⬇️

scientific article published on August 2, 2011

Efficacy and safety of ventricular tachycardia ablation with mechanical circulatory support compared with substrate-based ablation techniques

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Electromechanical mapping for detecting myocardial viability and ischemia in patients with severe ischemic cardiomyopathy

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Electromechanical mapping identifies improvement in function and retention of contractile reserve after revascularization in ischemic cardiomyopathy

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Extent and severity of coronary disease and mortality in patients with end-stage renal failure evaluated for renal transplantation

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Extent of myocardial viability in regions of left ventricular dysfunction by rest-redistribution thallium-201 imaging: A powerful predictor of outcome ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 July 1998

Focused in vivo delivery of plasmid DNA to the porcine vascular wall via intravascular ultrasound destruction of microbubbles

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Fractional flow reserve compared with intravascular ultrasound guidance for optimizing stent deployment.

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Fractional flow reserve of infarct-related arteries identifies reversible defects on noninvasive myocardial perfusion imaging early after myocardial infarction

scientific article published in June 2006

Functional significance of collateral blood flow in patients with recent acute myocardial infarction. A study using myocardial contrast echocardiography

scientific article published on June 1, 1992

Geometric remodeling is not the principal pathogenetic process in restenosis after balloon angioplasty. Evidence from correlative angiographic-histomorphometric studies of atherosclerotic arteries in rabbits

scientific article published on December 1994

High left ventricular mass index does not limit the utility of fractional flow reserve for the physiologic assessment of lesion severity

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Hybrid Coronary Revascularization for the Treatment of Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease: A Multicenter Observational Study

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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy complicated by atrial septal defect and pulmonary hypertension

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Identification of viable myocardium with contrast echocardiography in patients with poor left ventricular systolic function caused by recent or remote myocardial infarction

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Improved Outcome After Coronary Bypass Surgery in Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy and Residual Myocardial Viability ⬇️

scientific article published on August 5, 1997

Incremental value of combined perfusion and function over perfusion alone by gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging for detection of severe three-vessel coronary artery disease

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Intentional removal of erroneously deployed coronary stents: A case series and review of the literature

scientific article published on 31 August 2020

Invasive assessment of coronary flow reserve

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Left Main Revascularization With PCI or CABG in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: EXCEL Trial

Left main coronary artery disease: importance, diagnosis, assessment, and management

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Local adenovirus-mediated delivery of hirudin in a rabbit arterial injury model

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Loss of short-term symptomatic benefit in patients with an occluded infarct artery is unrelated to non-protocol revascularization: results from the Occluded Artery Trial (OAT).

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Microbubble-mediated intravascular ultrasound imaging and drug delivery

scientific article published on September 2015

Microvascular integrity indicates myocellular viability in patients with recent myocardial infarction. New insights using myocardial contrast echocardiography

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Mortality After Repeat Revascularization Following PCI or CABG for Left Main Disease: The EXCEL Trial

scientific article published on 15 January 2020

Multi-modality imaging of the aortic valve in the era of transcatheter aortic valve replacement: a guide for patient selection, valve selection, and valve delivery

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Myocardial contrast echocardiography demonstrates that collateral flow can preserve myocardial function beyond a chronically occluded coronary artery

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Myocardial thallium-201 scintigraphy for assessment of viability in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction

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Myocardial viability in patients with chronic coronary artery disease and previous myocardial infarction: Comparison of myocardial contrast echocardiography and myocardial perfusion scintigraphy ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 1997

Noninvasive quantification of coronary blood flow reserve in humans using myocardial contrast echocardiography

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Optical Coherence Tomography: Future Applications in Cerebrovascular Imaging

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

Outcome of patients with acute coronary syndromes and moderate coronary lesions undergoing deferral of revascularization based on fractional flow reserve assessment

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Outcomes of left main revascularization in patients with acute coronary syndromes and stable ischemic heart disease: Analysis from the EXCEL trial

scientific article published on 04 May 2019

Outcomes of patients with cardiogenic shock treated with TandemHeart percutaneous ventricular assist device: Importance of support indication and definitive therapies as determinants of prognosis

scientific article published on 10 May 2018

Percutaneous Transjugular Implantation of MELODY® Valve into Tricuspid Bioprosthesis ⬇️

scientific article published on June 17, 2013

Percutaneous coronary intervention in octogenarians and the safety of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors

scientific article published on 01 August 2003

Percutaneous transthoracic ventricular puncture for diagnostic and interventional catheterization

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Percutaneous treatment of focal vs. diffuse in-stent restenosis: a prospective randomized comparison of conventional therapies

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Percutaneous ventricular assist device to rescue a patient with profound shock from a thrombosed prosthetic mitral valve.

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Plasma chemokine levels are associated with the presence and extent of angiographic coronary collaterals in chronic ischemic heart disease

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Pre-Procedural 6-Min Walk Test as a Mortality Predictor in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair

scientific article published on 01 May 2016

Predictive Value of Age-Adjusted Charlson Co-Morbidity Index for 1-, 3-, and 5-Year Mortality in Patients Requiring Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair

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Predictors of luminal narrowing by neointima after angioplasty in atherosclerotic rabbits ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 1997

Predisposing risk factors and natural history of acute neurologic complications of left-sided cardiac catheterization

scientific article published on 01 May 1995

Prevalence of unfavorable angiographic characteristics for percutaneous intervention in patients with unprotected left main coronary artery disease

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Progressive Mitral Stenosis After MitraClip Implantation in a Patient With Systemic Inflammatory Disease

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Quantitative planar rest-redistribution 201Tl imaging in detection of myocardial viability and prediction of improvement in left ventricular function after coronary bypass surgery in patients with severely depressed left ventricular function

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Relation between myocardial viability and abnormalities on the signal-averaged electrocardiogram in patients with low (<40%) ejection fraction and coronary artery disease

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Relationship between extent of residual myocardial viability and coronary flow reserve in patients with recent myocardial infarction

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Renal impairment and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction early post-myocardial infarction

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Response of femoral arteries of cholesterol-fed rabbits to balloon angioplasty with or without laser: emphasis on the distribution of foam cells

scientific article published on December 1993

Retrieval of Embolized Transcatheter Aortic Valves in Left Ventricle Through Apical Ventriculotomy

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Revascularization in Shock: Leave No Lesion Behind, But You Might Want Some Support

scientific article published on 26 April 2020

Robotic-Assisted Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Rationale, Implementation, Case Selection and Limitations of Current Technology

scientific article published on 30 January 2018

Role of quantitative planar thallium-201 imaging for determining viability in patients with acute myocardial infarction and a totally occluded infarct-related artery

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Rust in the pipes: The importance of oxidative stress in the pathophysiology of coronary artery disease and the valuable contribution of translational research ⬇️

scientific article published on August 12, 2011

Should glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors be used during all percutaneous coronary interventions? No.

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Specific factor Xa inhibition reduces restenosis after balloon angioplasty of atherosclerotic femoral arteries in rabbits

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Stenting long coronary lesions: Can one stent do the job of two?

scientific article published on 02 July 2020

Techniques for Phenotyping Coronary Artery Disease in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory for Applications in Translational Research ⬇️

scientific article published on March 29, 2011

The Bounce Back: Should Hospital Readmission Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Be the Next Focus of Our Quality Efforts?

scientific article published on 27 March 2019

The Complexity Involved in Assessment of Left Main Coronary Artery Disease ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 October 2012

The Heart or the Brain?: Which Takes Priority After Cardiac Arrest and Can We Identify Patients in Whom Aggressive Cardiac Care Is Futile?

scientific article published in February 2018

The Table of Truth: Value of Coronary Angiography in the Evaluation of Patients with Heart Failure Syndromes

scientific article published on 05 April 2019

The assessment of patients with congestive heart failure as a manifestation of coronary artery disease.

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The clinical assessment of coronary flow reserve in patients with coronary artery disease

scientific article published in November 2004

The influence of a percutaneous mitral repair program on surgical mitral valve volume

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The long arm of interventional cardiology: the promise and perils of coronary stenting over the internet using a robotic interface

scientific article published on 09 August 2019

The noninvasive assessment of myocardial viability

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Thrombin and vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation: implications for atherosclerosis and restenosis

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Thrombus formation following transcatheter aortic valve replacement

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Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in a Young Adult Patient with a Failed Homograft

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Transcaval Aortic Access for Percutaneous Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Repair: Initial Human Experience

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Typical angina in a patient with Takayasu arteritis

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

Tyrosine kinase inhibitor toxicity manifesting as comorbid Moyamoya syndrome and obstructive coronary artery disease: A case report and review of the literature

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Understanding Left Main Disease: Will the Right SYNTAX Help Us EXCEL in (PRE)COMBAT?

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Use of intracardiac echocardiography to guide percutaneous transluminal mitral commissurotomy: A 20-patient case series

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Usefulness of Psoas Muscle Area to Predict Mortality in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

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What to do about ischemic mitral regurgitation?

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