2015
Autonomic dysfunction independently predicts poor cardiovascular outcomes in asymptomatic individuals with type 2 diabetes in the DIAD study
Chyun DA, Wackers FJ, Inzucchi SE, Jose P, Weiss C, Davey JA, Heller GV, Iskandrian AE, Young LH, Investigators F. Autonomic dysfunction independently predicts poor cardiovascular outcomes in asymptomatic individuals with type 2 diabetes in the DIAD study. SAGE Open Medicine 2015, 3: 2050312114568476. PMID: 26770763, PMCID: PMC4679226, DOI: 10.1177/2050312114568476.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCardiac autonomic neuropathyHeart rate ratioAdverse cardiac outcomesHigher pulse pressureAutonomic neuropathyType 2 diabetesCardiac outcomesNon-Black ethnicityHeart rate variabilityInsulin useAsymptomatic individualsPulse pressureCardiac diseaseHeart rateRate ratioGreater systolic blood pressure decreasePower spectral analysisSystolic blood pressure decreaseRate variabilityAsymptomatic Diabetics (DIAD) studyAsymptomatic type 2Composite clinical outcomeHigher glycated hemoglobinPoor cardiac outcomesPoor cardiovascular outcomes
1996
Preoperative Dipyridamole Thallium Imaging and Ambulatory Electrocardiographic Monitoring as a Predictor of Perioperative Cardiac Events and Long-Term Outcome
FLEISHER L, ROSENBAUM S, NELSON A, JAIN D, WACKERS F, ZARET B. Preoperative Dipyridamole Thallium Imaging and Ambulatory Electrocardiographic Monitoring as a Predictor of Perioperative Cardiac Events and Long-Term Outcome. Survey Of Anesthesiology 1996, 40: 324. DOI: 10.1097/00132586-199610000-00066.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPerioperative cardiac eventsLong-term outcomesCardiac eventsPreoperative dipyridamole thallium imagingDipyridamole thallium scintigraphyDipyridamole-thallium imagingAmbulatory electrocardiographic monitoringChronic cardiac diseaseNoncardiac surgerySurgical stressHolter electrocardiographyPreoperative testsThallium imagingThallium scintigraphyElectrocardiographic monitoringCertain patientsPhysiologic changesNonsurgical studiesCardiac diseasePredictive valueMarginal predictive valueLong-term predictive accuracyVolume shiftsOutcomesNumerous investigators
1980
Current Status of Radionuclide Imaging in the Management and Evaluation of patients with cardiovascular Disease
Wackers F. Current Status of Radionuclide Imaging in the Management and Evaluation of patients with cardiovascular Disease. Advances In Cardiology 1980, 27: 40-50. PMID: 7004129, DOI: 10.1159/000383973.Peer-Reviewed Original Research