Heart Function Tests

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2014 ACC/AHA/AATS/PCNA/SCAI/STS focused update of the guideline for the diagnosis and management of patients with stable ischemic heart disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines, and the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • A QRS scoring system for assessing left ventricular function after myocardial infarction. 
  • A computer based index for the prediction of operative survival in patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension. 
  • A seven-month survival of a calf with an artificial heart designed for human use. 
  • 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 and Interventions, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American Heart Association, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, and the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. 
  • After myocardial infarction. How to determine future risk and what to do then. 
  • Age-Related Differences in the Noninvasive Evaluation for Possible Coronary Artery Disease: Insights From the Prospective Multicenter Imaging Study for Evaluation of Chest Pain (PROMISE) Trial. 
  • An assessment of two different methods of left ventricular ejection time measurement by transesophageal echocardiography. 
  • Aorto-coronary bypass graft surgery in a patient on home hemodialysis. 
  • Assessing flow during minimally invasive coronary artery bypass: an Allen's test equivalent. 
  • Assessment of left ventricular pressure-volume relations using gated radionuclide angiography, echocardiography, and micromanometer pressure recordings. A new method for serial measurements of systolic and diastolic function in man. 
  • Assessment of ventricular function in coronary artery disease by means of atrial pacing and exercise. 
  • Cardiac evaluation of mitoxantrone. 
  • Cardiac safety of non-anthracycline trastuzumab-based therapy for HER2-positive breast cancer. 
  • Cardiologist concordance with the American College of Cardiology appropriate use criteria for cardiac testing in patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Cardiovascular imaging utilization: boom or bust? 
  • Case 6-2011: Aortic valve replacement in a patient with aortic stenosis, dilated cardiomyopathy, and renal dysfunction. 
  • Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Evaluation and Management of Adult Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Acute Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. 
  • Clinical and genetic characterization of manifesting carriers of DMD mutations. 
  • Clinical implications of isopotential surface maps. 
  • Comparison of nifedipine alone with propranolol alone for stable angina pectoris including hemodynamics at rest and during exercise. 
  • Coronary artery disease in women: diagnosis and prevention. 
  • Defective beta-adrenergic receptor signaling precedes the development of dilated cardiomyopathy in transgenic mice with calsequestrin overexpression. 
  • Deletion of MLIP (muscle-enriched A-type lamin-interacting protein) leads to cardiac hyperactivation of Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and impaired cardiac adaptation. 
  • Differential effects of exercise training in men and women with chronic heart failure. 
  • Early changes in left ventricular size and function after correction of left ventricular volume overload. 
  • Echocardiography in the Risk Assessment of Acute Pulmonary Embolism. 
  • Economic Outcomes With Anatomical Versus Functional Diagnostic Testing for Coronary Artery Disease. 
  • Effect of verapamil on left ventricular function at rest and during exercise in normal men. 
  • Effects of exercise and stress management training on markers of cardiovascular risk in patients with ischemic heart disease: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effects of exercise training on cardiovascular function and plasma lipid, lipoprotein, and apolipoprotein concentrations in premenopausal and postmenopausal women. 
  • Enhancement of cardiac function after adenoviral-mediated in vivo intracoronary beta2-adrenergic receptor gene delivery. 
  • Evaluating loss of consciousness in the elderly. 
  • Is noninvasive testing for coronary artery disease accurate? 
  • Klotho and phosphate are modulators of pathologic uremic cardiac remodeling. 
  • MADIT-II: clinical implications. 
  • Magnesium deficiency prolongs myocardial stunning in an open-chest swine model. 
  • Management of acute decompensated heart failure. 
  • Moderate heart dysfunction in mice with inducible cardiomyocyte-specific excision of the Serca2 gene. 
  • New diagnostic devices in heart failure. 
  • PKM1 Exerts Critical Roles in Cardiac Remodeling Under Pressure Overload in the Heart. 
  • Patterns and predictors of stress testing modality after percutaneous coronary stenting: data from the NCDR(®). 
  • Pharmacokinetics of methamphetamine self-administered to human subjects by smoking S-(+)-methamphetamine hydrochloride. 
  • Photon-counting cine-cardiac CT in the mouse. 
  • Preferences for cardiac tests and procedures may partially explain sex but not race disparities. 
  • Preoperative Determinants of Quality of Life and Functional Capacity Response to Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy. 
  • Preoperative assessment of left ventricular function in patients selected for direct myocardial revascularization. 
  • Preoperative noninvasive cardiac testing: which test and why? 
  • Preserved heart function and maintained response to cardiac stresses in a genetic model of cardiomyocyte-targeted deficiency of cyclooxygenase-2. 
  • Pressure-flow studies in man. An evaluation of the duration of the phases of systole. 
  • Rapid ventricular pacing of dogs to heart failure: biochemical and physiological studies. 
  • Relation of frequency and severity of mitral regurgitation to survival among patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction and heart failure. 
  • Relationship between repolarization heterogeneity and abnormal myocardial mechanics. 
  • Rethinking sensitivity and specificity. 
  • Right ventricular hypertrophy with early dysfunction: A proteomics study in a neonatal model. 
  • Role of cardiac evaluation before thoracic endovascular aortic repair. 
  • Serial evaluation of ventricular function after percutaneous aortic balloon valvuloplasty. 
  • Sex Differences in Demographics, Risk Factors, Presentation, and Noninvasive Testing in Stable Outpatients With Suspected Coronary Artery Disease: Insights From the PROMISE Trial. 
  • Sex bias in cardiovascular care: should women be treated more like men? 
  • Sinus node disease. 
  • TRM Forum on Computer Simulation and Experimental Assessment of Cardiac Function. 
  • Temporal Trends in Prevalence and Prognostic Implications of Comorbidities Among Patients With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: The ARIC Study Community Surveillance. 
  • The PROMISE trial: An inside perspective. 
  • The effects of a contrast medium (sodium iothalamate, 80 percent) on left ventricular function. 
  • The pathophysiology of acute heart failure--is it all about fluid accumulation? 
  • The preexcitation syndromes. 
  • Tnni3k modifies disease progression in murine models of cardiomyopathy. 
  • Towards a better characterization of cirrhosis-associated cardiomyopathy? 
  • Trends in Use of Biomarker Protocols for the Evaluation of Possible Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Use of Cardiac Noninvasive Testing After Emergency Department Discharge: Association of Hospital Network Testing Intensity and Outcomes in Ontario, Canada. 
  • Working Toward an Improved Understanding of Chronic Cardiorenal Syndrome Type 4. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Joseph W. and Dorothy W. Beard Distinguished Professor of Experimental Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology