Isolated left ventricular apical hypoplasiaThomas E Vanhecke
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, USA
Congenit Heart Dis 6:646-9. 2011
..In this report, we demonstrate these characteristic features with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and summarize the existing information on isolated LV apical hypoplasia...
- Awareness, knowledge, and perception of heart disease among adolescents
Thomas E Vanhecke
Department of Medicine, Divisions of Cardiology, Nutrition, and Preventive Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan 48073, USA
Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 13:718-23. 2006
..Perceptions of cardiovascular risk among adolescents have not been studied recently. The rise in unattended risk factors and the obesity pandemic have created calculable cardiovascular disease risk in the adolescent population...
- Development and validation of a predictive screening tool for uninterpretable coronary CT angiography results
Thomas E Vanhecke
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Genesys Regional Medical Center Ascension Health, Grand Blanc, MI 48430, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Imaging 4:490-7. 2011
..However, the accuracy of CCTA heavily depends on image quality. Our objective was to develop and validate a tool to predict pre-CCTA risk of obtaining an uninterpretable result in symptomatic patients...
- Myocardial ischemia in patients with diastolic dysfunction and heart failure
Thomas E Vanhecke
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Division of Nutrition and Preventive Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Third Floor West Tower, 3601 West 13 Mile Road, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA
Curr Cardiol Rep 12:216-22. 2010
..In this article, we review the role of ischemia and development of fibrosis in the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and evaluation of patients with diastolic dysfunction and diastolic heart failure...
- Cardiorespiratory fitness and sedentary lifestyle in the morbidly obese
Thomas E Vanhecke
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan 48073, USA
Clin Cardiol 32:121-4. 2009
..Sedentary lifestyles and poor physical fitness are major contributors to the current obesity and cardiovascular disease pandemic...
- Cardiorespiratory fitness and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in morbidly obese patients
Thomas E Vanhecke
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, 3601 W 13 Mile Road, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA
Chest 134:539-45. 2008
..Conflicting data exist regarding the effects of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) on cardiorespiratory fitness in morbidly obese individuals with normal resting left ventricular function...
- Body weight limitations of United States cardiac catheterization laboratories including restricted access for the morbidly obese
Thomas E Vanhecke
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
Am J Cardiol 102:285-6. 2008
..In this population, 5.2 +/- 3.4 patients/hospital/year were rejected for being over the weight limit. In conclusion, these results provide useful information for the future management of this growing population...
- Cardiorespiratory fitness and sleep-related breathing disorders
Thomas E Vanhecke
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, 3601 W 13 Mile Road, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA
Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther 6:745-58. 2008
..A brief description of each sleep disorder, the pathophysiology, its epidemiology and its implications for cardiorespiratory fitness are provided. Finally, we discuss therapy for each disorder and its effect on the cardiovascular system...
- Outcomes of patients considered for, but not admitted to, the intensive care unit
Thomas E Vanhecke
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, USA
Crit Care Med 36:812-7. 2008
..The purpose of this study is to evaluate factors associated with decisions to reject patients from medical intensive care unit (MICU) admission and assess the outcome of these patients...
- Caloric expenditure in the morbidly obese using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry
Thomas E Vanhecke
Department of Medicine, Divisions of Cardiology, Nutrition and Preventive Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA
J Clin Densitom 9:438-44. 2006
..These data suggest that more aggressive energy expenditure and caloric restriction targets for long periods of time are needed to result in significant weight loss in this population...
- PubMed vs. HighWire Press: a head-to-head comparison of two medical literature search engines
Thomas E Vanhecke
Department of Internal Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, 3061 W 13 Mile Rd, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA
Comput Biol Med 37:1252-8. 2007
..PubMed was faster than HighWire Press in delivering search results regardless of search settings. There are considerable differences in search features between these two search engines...
- Albuminuria and renal function in obese adults evaluated for obstructive sleep apnea
Varun Agrawal
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA
Nephron Clin Pract 113:c140-7. 2009
..Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with hypertension, obesity and metabolic syndrome that are risk factors for cardiovascular and chronic kidney disease. Few data are available regarding renal parameters in patients with OSA...
- Galectin-3: a novel blood test for the evaluation and management of patients with heart failure
Peter A McCullough
St John Providence Health System, Providence Hospital and Medical Center, Providence Park Heart Institute, Novi, MI, USA
Rev Cardiovasc Med 12:200-10. 2011
..In addition, a doubling in galectin-3 level over the course of 6 months, irrespective of baseline value, identifies a high-risk patient in whom additional care management efforts and advanced therapies could be warranted...
- Lipoproteins, inflammatory biomarkers, and cardiovascular imaging in the assessment of atherosclerotic disease activity
Thomas E Vanhecke
Department of Cardiology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
Rev Cardiovasc Med 10:51-8. 2009
..This case review highlights use of advanced biomarkers and imaging to assess atherosclerotic disease activity in a 49-year-old asymptomatic woman who presents for evaluation after the death of her father from MI...
- Subclinical coronary atherosclerosis identified by coronary computed tomographic angiography in asymptomatic morbidly obese patients
Martin S Lubanski
Department of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Division of Nutrition and Preventive Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, USA
Heart Int 5:e15. 2010
..Univariate predictors of CAD included older age, dyslipidemia, and diabetes. In this preliminary study of young morbidly obese patients, CCTA detected a high prevalence of calcified and non-calcified CAD, although the later predominated...
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage with neurocardiogenic stunning
Jason J Rose
Department of Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Rev Cardiovasc Med 11:254-63. 2010
..We also review conventional surgical and medical treatment and present new therapeutic options for this problem...
- New insights in preventive cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation
Barry A Franklin
Division of Cardiology, Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise Laboratories, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan 48073, USA
Curr Opin Cardiol 23:477-86. 2008
..To summarize changing paradigms and perceptions in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease...
- Counseling patients to make cardioprotective lifestyle changes: strategies for success
Barry A Franklin
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Laboratories, and Internal Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, 4949 Coolidge Highway, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA
Prev Cardiol 11:50-5. 2008
