Oliver Schlager

..Aim of the present study was to assess the impact of SET on inflammation and platelet activation as surrogates for cardiovascular risk...

..We hypothesized that high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) and the presence of renal artery stenosis (RAS) might conjointly predict future major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD)...

..We investigated whether progressive carotid stenosis determined by duplex ultrasonography predicts adverse outcomes in cardiovascular high-risk patients...

..We now investigated whether baseline levels of hs-CRP predict midterm clinical outcome in these patients...

..We evaluated whether primary implantation of a self-expanding nitinol (nickel-titanium) stent yielded anatomical and clinical benefits superior to those afforded by percutaneous transluminal angioplasty with optional secondary stenting...

..To investigate whether primary nitinol stenting in the superficial femoral artery (SFA) is beneficial to patients' quality of life (QoL)...

..We now report 2-year data on restenosis and clinical outcomes of these patients...

..Ongoing inflammation is associated with elevated levels of beta 2 microglobulin (B2M). We investigated B2M levels in a large cohort of patients with carotid atherosclerosis for the occurrence of major adverse cardiovascular events...

..To investigate the incidence of complications after peripheral vascular interventions in patients aged 80 years and older compared to patients below the age of 80...

....

..To prospectively determine whether cutting balloon angioplasty, when compared with conventional balloon angioplasty (CBA), improves morphologic and clinical outcome in patients with femoropopliteal in-stent restenosis...

..To evaluate the agreement of duplex ultrasound (DUS) versus digital subtraction angiography (DSA) for assessment of femoropopliteal arterial disease in a real-world clinical setting...

..8 G/L) indicate a substantially increased risk for major adverse cardiovascular events, adding to the prognostic information of traditional atherothrombotic risk factors and other parameters of inflammation...

..This suggests that impaired renal function exerts an unfavorable effect on patient's outcome, independently of these cardiovascular and renal risk factors...

..The authors performed this study to determine whether decreasing gray-scale median (GSM) levels at repeat carotid US examinations are associated with future MACEs...

..Stent fractures may be lower with Dynalink/Absolute stents, but randomized head-to-head comparisons are needed to validate these data...

....

..However, in the majority of patients, this technique yields no sustained hemodynamic or clinical benefit. Due to a high rate of late failures, it should be reserved for limb salvage in patients without a surgical alternative...

....

....

..Acupuncture has been shown to influence skin perfusion and the subjective cold perception threshold. Therefore, we hypothesized that auricular electroacupuncture (EA) might reduce symptoms in primary Raynaud's phenomenon (PRP)...

..We investigated whether the risk allele (A) of PALLD rs7439293 (G>A) is associated with the occurrence of future major cardiovascular events (MACE) in a cohort of patients with prevalent carotid atherosclerosis...

..Thus, we designed a prospective randomized controlled trial to study the impact of SET on markers of angiogenesis and endothelial function in PAD...

..This likely may be due to a variety of causes, including lower doses of contrast medium, shorter duration of fluoroscopy, and smaller device diameters...

..CONCLUSIONS: Low Mg serum levels indicate an increased risk for neurological events in patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease, favoring Mg substitution therapy in those patients with advanced atherosclerosis...

..Carotid duplex ultrasonography is the prime investigation used to grade carotid artery stenosis in clinical routine. We compared the carotid ultrasound (US) scans performed externally with our results...

..08 seconds, p < 0.001). In conclusion, higher peak perfusion and prolonged recovery time in children with morbid obesity seem to reflect microvascular dysfunction due to an impaired vasoconstrictive ability of precapillary sphincters...

..We aimed to investigate the correlation of infrared thermography (IT) with laser Doppler perfusion imager (LDPI) among patients with primary Raynaud's phenomenon and healthy controls...

..We reviewed the evidence regarding the effectiveness of perioperative beta-blockers for improving patient outcomes after cardiac and noncardiac surgery...