Bodo Eckehard Strauer

..For this reason, we analyzed 10 patients who were treated by intracoronary transplantation of autologous, mononuclear bone marrow cells (BMCs) in addition to standard therapy after MI...

..In several studies the intestinal bleedings have been attributed to angiodysplasia. Cessations of the intestinal bleedings following replacement of the aortic valve have been described by numerous reports...

..However, there are no data on the course of coronary stenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with obstructive sleep apnea...

..This has prognostic implications and helps for the decision of a specific immunosuppressive, immunomodulatory and antiviral therapy...

..The therapeutic effect may be attributed to bone marrow cell-associated myocardial regeneration and neovascularization...

..Stem cell therapy may be useful in chronic myocardial infarction (MI); this is conceivable, but not yet demonstrated in humans...

..Further indications are non-ischemic cardiomyopathy (dilative cardiomyopathy) and heart failure due to hypertensive heart disease...

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..The influence of concentric remodeling on the coronary microcirculation is not known...

..We tested the hypothesis that patients with biopsy-proven inflammatory infiltrates have an impaired vasodilator capacity of the coronary microvasculation...

..In these cases the regenerative potential of adult autologous mononuclear stem cells could serve as causal therapy...

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..Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) have the ability to restore endothelial integrity. The aim of this study was to determine whether the number and function of EPCs are altered in SLE...

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..We analyzed the clinical benefit of combined intraarterial and intramuscular transplantation of adult autologous mononuclear bone marrow stem cells in patients with lower-limb peripheral occlusive arterial disease...

..We hypothesized that OSA syndrome (OSAS) might be accompanied by an increased coronary collateral vessel (CCV) development in patients with total coronary occlusion...

..The present study investigated, whether mutations of the hemochromatosis (HFE) gene might be etiologic and disease-modifying factors in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy..

..To determine the short-term hemodynamic and clinical effects of levosimendan, a calcium-sensitizing agent, in patients with decompensated heart failure...

..In this study, the influence of physical training on the mobilization and the migratory activity of the BM-CPCs as well as on the left ventricular function (LVEF) after AMI was examined...

..Systematic studies or investigations concerning the epidemiology of the cardiovascular complications are still lacking, so that an overview about the published data is given...

..After univariate and multivariate analysis the SOFA score discriminated survivors and non-survivors of the ICU stay. We conclude that the SOFA score is predictive for survival when applied on the day of ICU admission...

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..Beside lowering blood pressure primary therapeutic target is to reverse cardiac manifestations of arterial hypertension using specific therapeutic algorithms...

..Chemoreflexes are important mechanisms for regulating ventilatory and cardiovascular function, which are supposed to be influenced in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)...

..Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) may be a useful adjunct in patients with congestive heart failure...

..Thus, the main therapeutic principle should be antihypertensive therapy with the goal of regression of hypertrophy and, as a consequence, a decreased mortality risk...

..This relation shows the benefits of causal antihypertensive therapy for the treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation...

..We sought to determine the incidence of arteriovenous fistulas (AVF), identify risk factors for AVF, and follow up the clinical outcome of femoral AVF...

..The aim of this study was to find out whether physiologic left ventricular hypertrophy induced by endurance training causes disturbances in left ventricular systolic and diastolic filling...

..The purpose of this study was to examine which hemodynamic parameters change under the natural volume overload of pregnancy...

..Since nocturnal hypoxemia could influence parameters of blood rheology, we hypothesized that OSA alters blood rheology independent of other cardiovascular risk factors...

..In the secondary prevention of sudden cardiac death, ICD should be the first choice of antiarrhythmic therapy...

..In the present study, serological markers of collagen metabolism were investigated...

..This study was designed to determine whether stenting leads to greater changes in measures of diastolic dysfunction than plain angioplasty alone...

..These therapeutic desiderates are also pertinent for hypertensive heart disease in the prehypertrophic state, as in juvenile hypertension...

..This prospective study should evaluate the positive predictive accuracy of this new method in patients at risk for ventricular arrhythmias...

..To evaluate whether ibutilide can convert atrial fibrillation or flutter in patients in whom amiodarone has failed...

..These results show that functional and metabolic regeneration of infarcted and chronically avital tissue can be achieved in humans using transplantation of bone-marrow-derived cells...

..The aim of the present study was to investigate the duration of the surface QRS complex at short coupling intervals of extrastimuli as a new indicator for major arrhythmic events...

..Precise knowledge of possible factors predisposing for acquisition of iatrogenic AV-fistulae could enable cardiologists to perform a risk stratification for cardiac patients prior to catheterization...

..In summary, these findings raise the possibility that enteroviruses, such as poliovirus types 1 and 3, may be involved in the pathogenesis of ventricular tachycardia and sudden cardiac death...

..Treatment of microvascular disease may be followed-up by these new noninvasive diagnostic approaches in future and also, at present, by monitoring ST-segment depression...

..It is concluded that paradoxical platelet activation by abciximab is a rare (<2%) phenomenon. HPA-1 b/b genotype might be a contributing factor but clearly does not predict platelet activation by GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors...

..Repeated nonsustained polymorphic ventricular tachycardias followed and after about 90 seconds sinus rhythm was restored...

..We report the case of a young female patient with inappropriate sinus tachycardia where a sustained therapeutic success was achieved with ivabradine medication as an alternative therapeutic trial after various ineffective medications...

..CONCLUSIONS: In essential hypertension a reduced FR contributes to the endothelial dysfunction of upstream conduit arteries. These findings may have therapeutic and prognostic implications in patients with arterial hypertension...

..Thus, the present study does not provide evidence for an effect of HPA-1 polymorphism on the inter-individual variability in the platelet inhibitory effects of the three GPIIb/IIIa inhibitors approved for clinical use...

..We aimed to perform a meta-analysis of clinical trials on intracoronary cell therapy after acute myocardial infarction (AMI)...