The acute occlusion of a coronary artery without the evidence of myocardial infarction might immediately affect both the diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease. We present the case with a sudden occlusion of the left main coronary artery without typical chest pain following an exercise tolerance test and rapid spontaneous reperfusion of the left main coronary artery.

cor triatriatum   sinistrum is a rare congenital cardiac malformation, accounting for about 0.1-0.4% of all congenital heart diseases and characterized by the presence of a fibromuscular membrane that subdivides the left atrium into two chambers in the classical form. while classic cor triatriatum in most patients can be observed during the neonatal period or early infancy, it is very rare in a...

abstract background: improving the patients’ quality of life (qol) after coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) is one of the main concerns of the treatment team. educational interventions may affect the aspects of qol in various ways. the present study aimed to investigate the effect of education based on the main concepts of logotherapy approach on the cabg patients’ quality of life. material...

origination of the right coronary artery (rca) from the left anterior descending (lad) artery is a case of single coronary artery. it is an extremely rare coronary artery abnormality and usually an incidental finding during coronary angiography. a 73-year-old man with a medical history of hypertension arrived with chest pain. medical therapy started for st elevated myocardial ischemia. during h...

conclusions the eft, as measured by echocardiography, with a cut off value 2.95 mm has a strong association with premature cad. results among baseline characteristics, waist circumference, triglyceride levels, cigarette smoking and history of statin use were significantly higher in the cad group. the body mass index (bmi) was significantly higher in the non-cad group. according to echocardiogra...

iatrogenic coronary artery dissection during coronary angiography with or without rupture is a rare but feared complication . we herein report a case of iatrogenic left main coronary artery dissection in a 49-year-old female. admitted to our hospital with a recent history of severe hypotension, she develpled apnea during angiography. she was intubated  and resuscitated with an epinephrine infus...

The monorail Guidezilla guide extension catheter was designed to provide additional backup and facilitate device delivery in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for complex coronary anatomy such as chronic total occlusion (CTO), extreme vessel tortuosity, diseased bypass grafts, and anomalous coronary arteries, among others.The present retrospective, single-center study included 188 consec...

RATIONALE High take-off of the coronary arteries is a rare cardiac anatomic anomaly, which may occur independently or with other congenital heart defects. In the clinical setting, it is noteworthy as a cause of sudden cardiac death. Further, it is vital to identify such anomalies to avoid intraoperative catastrophes in surgeries for congenital heart defects. PATIENT CONCERNS A II/6 systolic h...