Abstract Background One-third of ischemic strokes are “cryptogenic” without clearly identified etiology. Although coronary artery disease (CAD) is the main cause death after stroke, interest CAD screening in patients with cryptogenic stroke still debated. Purpose The aim study was to assess incremental prognostic value stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) beyond traditional risk facto...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty with stent (CAS) is an alternative method to endarterectomy in the revascularization of carotid artery stenosis. Protected CAS is currently used to prevent distal embolization. Diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) is the most sensitive tool to evaluate silent cerebral ischemia. The purpose of this research was to assess the incidence of cereb...

The primary report of intussusception was made in 1674 by Barbette Amsterdam. It increases the patient's risk intestinal obstruction, parietal ischemia, perforation, and peritonitis. Small submucosal lipomas are an uncommon kind gastrointestinal tumour. is a silent disease that occasionally causes haemorrhage, intussusception, bowel obstruction. Surgery frequently required to confirm diagnosis ...

Goal of the Study is to assess risk coronary disease asymptomatic ischemia in patients with left ventricular moderate dilatation. Methods: The work was based on results investigation 185patients dilatation, aged 35-55 years from “Tbilisi Heart and Vascular Clinic” contingent. Among them, there are 159 men 26 women. Results: Patients who suffer dilatation don’t expose typical symptom possibly ca...

BACKGROUND Most guidelines recommend a systematic screening of asymptomatic high risk patients with diabetes for silent ischemia, but the clinical benefit of this strategy has not been demonstrated compared with the simple control of cardiovascular risk factors. We sought to determine whether referring asymptomatic diabetic patients for screening of silent ischemia decreases the risk of cardiov...

BACKGROUND The clinical significance of exercise-induced chest pain remains controversial, as reflected by sharply discordant clinical results within the medical literature. Thus, we developed a prospective study to compare the functional significance of silent versus symptomatic ischemia and to evaluate whether patient selection biases influence this analysis. METHODS AND RESULTS We evaluate...

The reported prevalence of silent cardiac ischemia as assessed by ambulatory electrocardiographic recording varies widely. The influence of the stringency of the analysis criteria has never been reported. We performed 24-hour, 12-lead ambulatory electrocardiographic recording in patients with hypertension but without proven coronary artery disease. The recordings were analyzed according to stri...

Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death for diabetics, and in many cases its presence is silent due to cardiac autonomic neuropathy. Thus, early diagnosis of coronary disease is essential, permitting proper risk stratification and appropriate therapy. This paper examines the usefulness of several noninvasive imaging techniques to study cardiovascular diseases in individuals with diabe...

BACKGROUND Silent myocardial infarction relates to the absence of symptoms usually associated with myocardial ischemia. It has been estimated that silent myocardial infarction can occur in 2-4 % of young adult asymptomatic men. A majority of patients without an initially apparent cause of sudden death have been found at autopsy to have had significant coronary heart disease, including old, unde...