Cardiovascular - General

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Cardiovascular - General

Diagnosis, Imaging, and Screening

NEWS:

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in heart failure: a systematic review. (Eur J Heart Fail. 2005)

Blood test may predict heart disease risk

C-reactive Protein: How Can We Use It in Clinical Practice?

Determining prognosis in patients with chest pain now easier and more accurate

Exercise stress testing helps identify people at risk of developing coronary heart disease

Exercise Testing May Help Predict Mortality in Asymptomatic Individuals

Mayo Clinic researchers measuring C-reactive protein is early indicator of stiffened arteries

Mouse Study Casts Doubt On CRP Heart Disease Test

ARTICLES:

AHRQ - Screening for Peripheral Arterial Disease (2005)

Cardiac Imaging Is Underused in Women to Diagnose Disease

CRP Helps Define Heart Risk in Elderly

Heart Attack, Stroke & Cardiac Arrest Warning Signs

NGC - Coronary angiography and indications for CABG or angioplasty. (2004)

NGC - Deep venous thrombosis. (2004)

NGC - Differential diagnosis of chest pain. (2004)

NGC - Recommendations for blood pressure measurement in humans and experimental animals: Part 1: blood pressure measurement in humans: a statement for professionals from the Subcommittee of Professional and Public Education of the American Heart Association Council on High Blood Pressure Research. (2005)

NGC - Role of noninvasive testing in the clinical evaluation of women with suspected coronary artery disease. (2005)

NGC - Screening for peripheral arterial disease. (2005)

Wrong Diagnosis - Symptoms of Heart attack

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

[Acute chest pain.] (Med Klin (Munich). 2005)

Acute myocardial infarction following a negative evaluation of chest pain. (J Healthc Qual. 2005)

Brief review and critical examination of the use of hs-CRP for cardiac risk assessment with the conclusion that it is premature to use this test. (Clin Chim Acta. 2005)

Bringing MRI to the cardiologist: can we learn from echocardiography? (Curr Cardiol Rep. 2005)

Clinical applications of cardiovascular magnetic resonance. (Curr Pharm Des. 2005)

Clinical study: knowledge of cholesterol levels and targets in patients with coronary artery disease. (Prev Cardiol. 2005)

Computed tomography coronary calcium screening and myocardial perfusion imaging. (J Nucl Cardiol. 2005)

Coronary Artery Calcium: Associations with Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Abnormalities and Cognitive Status (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2005)

CT of the heart: principles, advances, clinical uses. (Cleve Clin J Med. 2005)

C-reactive protein: a new risk assessment tool for cardiovascular disease. (J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2005)

Diagnostic Issues in Thrombophilia: A Laboratory Scientist's View. (Semin Thromb Hemost. 2005)

Distinguishing between ischemic and non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy based on non-invasive ultrasonic evaluation of peripheral arteries. (Eur J Intern Med. 2005)

How to use the C-reactive protein in cardiac disease? (Minerva Cardioangiol. 2005)

[Inflammatory and anti-inflammatory markers in acute coronary syndromes. Ready for use in the clinical setting?] (Rev Esp Cardiol. 2005)

[Metabolic syndrome: diagnosis and dietary intervention.] (Internist (Berl). 2005)

[More efficient investigation in suspected acute coronary syndrome possible. New diagnostic methods can improve the quality of care and save resources] (Lakartidningen. 2005)

MRI in guiding and assessing intramyocardial therapy. (Eur Radiol. 2005)

Multi-Detector Row CT Angiography in the Assessment of Carotid Artery Disease in Symptomatic Patients: Comparison with Rotational Angiography and Digital Subtraction Angiography (American Journal of Neuroradiology 2005)

Noninvasive Assessment of Coronary Plaque Burden Using Multislice Computed Tomography (The American Journal of Cardiology 2005)

Noninvasive assessment of coronary vasodilation using magnetic resonance angiography. (J Am Coll Cardiol. 2005)

Noninvasive evaluation of the coronary arteries with multislice computed tomography in hypertensive patients. (Hypertension. 2005)

Noninvasive Coronary Angiography With Multislice Computed Tomography (JAMA. 2005)

PET in cardiology. (Radiol Clin North Am. 2005)

Point: uses of carotid plaque measurement as a predictor of cardiovascular events. (Prev Cardiol. 2005)

Quantitative measurement of infarct size by contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging early after acute myocardial infarction: comparison with single-photon emission tomography using Tc99m-sestamibi. (J Am Coll Cardiol. 2005)

Rapid Heart Rate Increase at Onset of Exercise Predicts Adverse Cardiac Events in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease (Circulation 2005)

Safety and accuracy of multidetector row computed tomography for early assessment of residual stenosis of the infarct-related artery and the number of diseased vessels after acute myocardial infarction (American Heart Journal 2005)

Should we screen for occult coronary artery disease among asymptomatic patients with diabetes? (J Am Coll Cardiol. 2005)

[The DISEHTAC II study: diagnosis and follow-up of hypertension in catalonia. comparison with 1996 data] (Aten Primaria. 2005)

The role of 16-slice computed tomography angiography in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease: large sample analysis. (Isr Med Assoc J. 2005)

The role of myocardial perfusion imaging in special populations: women, diabetics, and heart failure. (Semin Nucl Med. 2005)

Vascular Imaging in 2005: Getting Better Fast (Decisions in Imaging Economics)

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