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. 
  • After myocardial infarction. How to determine future risk and what to do then. 
  • An adaptive method for testing for change in digitized cardiotachometer data. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Association between Resting Heart Rate, Chronotropic Index and Long-term Outcomes in Patients with Heart Failure Receiving Beta-blocker Therapy. Data from the HF-ACTION Trial 
  • Bayesian analysis of data from radionuclide angiocardiograms for diagnosis of coronary artery disease. 
  • Cardiac safety of non-anthracycline trastuzumab-based therapy for HER2-positive breast cancer. 
  • 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. 
  • Complement factor 1 inhibitor improves cardiopulmonary function in neonatal cardiopulmonary bypass. 
  • Defective beta-adrenergic receptor signaling precedes the development of dilated cardiomyopathy in transgenic mice with calsequestrin overexpression. 
  • Detecting abnormalities in left ventricular function during exercise before angina and ST-segment depression. 
  • Device therapy in the management of congestive heart failure. 
  • Differential effects of exercise training in men and women with chronic heart failure. 
  • Discussion. 
  • Early assessment of rest and exercise left ventricular function following coronary artery surgery. 
  • 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. 
  • GIANT PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS. 
  • Intraoperative identification of cardiac patients at risk to develop postoperative atrial fibrillation. 
  • 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. 
  • Magnetocardiogram recordings in a nonshielded environment--reproducibility and ischemia detection. 
  • Management of acute decompensated heart failure. 
  • New diagnostic devices in heart failure. 
  • Patterns and predictors of stress testing modality after percutaneous coronary stenting: data from the NCDR(®). 
  • 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? 
  • Pressure-flow studies in man. An evaluation of the duration of the phases of systole. 
  • Quantitative radionuclide angiocardiography for determination of chamber to chamber cardiac transit times. 
  • Quantitative radionuclide angiocardiography. 
  • Radionuclide measurements of left ventricular function. Their use in patients with aortic insufficiency. 
  • 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. 
  • 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? 
  • The PROMISE trial: An inside perspective. 
  • The doctor and the computer. 
  • 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? 
  • Tnni3k modifies disease progression in murine models of cardiomyopathy. 
  • Trends in Use of Biomarker Protocols for the Evaluation of Possible Myocardial Infarction. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. / Guidant Foundation Professor of Cardiology, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology