Myocardial Contractile Function Recovery, Systemic Inflammation, and Prognosis in Takotsubo Syndrome

Metabolic Syndrome and Myocardial Contractile Reserve

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a clustering of cardiovascular risk factors including hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, and hy-pertension, which have been shown to increase cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality. In addition, it is well known that the association between the presence of MetS and adverse CV outcomes is independent of diabetes mellitus (DM) and arterial hypertension. 3)4) Since the ...

Glibenclamide improves postischemic recovery of myocardial contractile function in trained and sedentary rats.

In this study, we sought to determine whether there was any evidence for the idea that cardiac ATP-sensitive K+ (K(ATP)) channels play a role in the training-induced increase in the resistance of the heart to ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury. To do so, the effects of training and an K(ATP) channel blocker, glibenclamide (Glib), on the recovery of left ventricular (LV) contractile function afte...

Systemic inflammation after myocardial infarction.

Usefulness of myocardial circunferential strain in acute myocardial infarction for prediction of contractile function recovery: a MRI myocardial tagging study

Background In patients (p) with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), quantitation of myocardial regional function may be useful to differentiate between stunned and necrotic myocardium and to predict ventricular function recovery during follow-up. Different parameters exist to evaluate regional myocardial function such as circunferential /radial strain and displacement. The purpose of this study ...

Impaired contractile recovery after low-flow myocardial ischemia in a porcine model of metabolic syndrome.

Clinical metabolic syndrome conveys a poor prognosis in patients with acute coronary syndrome, not fully accounted for by the extent of coronary atherosclerosis. To explain this observation, we determined whether postischemic myocardial contractile and metabolic function are impaired in a porcine dietary model of metabolic syndrome without atherosclerosis. Micropigs (n = 28) were assigned to a ...