BACKGROUND Gender differences in management and outcomes have been reported in acute coronary syndrome (ACS). OBJECTIVES To assess such gender differences in a Swiss national registry. METHODS 20 290 patients with ACS enrolled in the AMIS Plus Registry from January 1997 to March 2006 by 68 hospitals were included in a prospective observational study. Data on patients' characteristics, diagn...

BACKGROUND Common carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT), a measure of subclinical cardiovascular disease, changes during the cardiac cycle. The magnitude of this effect and its implications have not been well studied. METHODS AND RESULTS Far-wall IMT measurements of the right common carotid artery were measured at end diastole and peak systole in 5633 individuals from the Multi-Ethnic S...

Steer, P. 2003. Lipids and Endothelium-Dependent Vasodilation. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1263.78 pp. Uppsala ISBN 91554-5633-2. Impaired endothelium-dependent vasodilation (EDV) is associated with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease as well as several of its risk factors. The aim of the present thesis was to ...

OBJECTIVE Approximately 10% to 15% of Kawasaki disease (KD) is refractory to treatment with initial intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG). However, there is no consensus on pharmacologic treatment of refractory KD (rKD). Demographic characteristics of patients with rKD and regional variability in their treatment in the United States have not been reported on a large scale. The goal of this study wa...

OBJECTIVE Published success rates of dextranomer/hyaluronic acid (Dx/HA) injection for pediatric vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) vary widely. Our objective of this study was to assess whether underlying patient or study factors could explain the heterogeneity in reported Dx/HA success rates. METHODS We searched the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register and Medline, Embase, and Scopus databases from...

The kinetics of reactions of the OH radical with ethene, ethyne (acetylene), propyne (methyl acetylene) and t-butyl-hydroperoxide were studied at temperatures of 69 and 86 K using laser flash-photolysis combined with laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy. A new pulsed Laval nozzle apparatus is used to provide the low-temperature thermalised environment at a single density of approximately 4x1...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) within chronically occluded coronary arteries remain challenging procedures with a lower success rate compared to classic PCI. However, over the last years we have witnessed many technological advances in the treatment of chronic total occlusion (CTO) including new wires, retrograde approach, subintimal tracking and re-entry technique...