Publications by authors named "Er-Peng Liang"
Article Synopsis
- - The study investigates whether catheter ablation as a first-line treatment for ventricular tachycardia (VT) during implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation is more effective than standard medical therapy plus ICD in patients with cardiomyopathy.
- - The trial involved 180 patients and found that those in the ablation group showed lower recurrence rates of VT and required fewer ICD shocks compared to the control group over an average follow-up period of 31 months.
- - Results suggest that early ablation may offer significant benefits in reducing VT recurrence and hospitalizations for patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy, potentially filling a current gap in clinical guidelines.
Background: Endothelial function, as measured by big endothelin-1 (ET-1), has been demonstrated to be useful in predicting adverse long-term events in patients with cardiovascular disease. Nevertheless, there are little data about the association between big ET-1 and thromboembolism risk in atrial fibrillation (AF). We aimed to investigate the relationship between big ET-1 and CHADS/CHADS-VASc scores used for evaluating thromboembolic risk in patients with non-valvular AF.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a rare inflammatory arteriopathy of unknown etiology. The aim of this study was to investigate the genetic susceptibility to TA in a Chinese population.
Methods: Four single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) those locate in the IL12B region (rs56167332), the MLX region (rs665268), the FCGR2A/FCGR3A locus (rs10919543), and the HLA-B/MICA locus (rs12524487), associated with TA in different population, were genotyped in 123 Chinese TA patients and 147 healthy controls from January 2013 to August 2014.