In a cooperative multicenter study, the Pathobiological Determinants of Atherosclerosis in Youth, we measured atherosclerosis of the aorta and right coronary artery (RCA) in 2403 black and white men and women 15 through 34 years of age who died of external causes and were autopsied in forensic laboratories. We measured the diameter of the opened, flattened, and fixed RCA and the diameter, intim...

OBJECTIVES The basic aim of surgical interventions in patients with coronary artery disease is to complete myocardial revascularization. In such patients, however, complementary revascularization techniques may require in patients with multisegmental left anterior descending disease. Among the different procedures, we performed an alternative option in patients with multisegmental lad disease f...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Autofluorescence and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy have been used separately and combined for tissue diagnostics. Previously, we assessed the value of autofluorescence spectroscopy for the classification of oral (pre-)malignancies. In the present study, we want to determine the contributions of diffuse reflectance and autofluorescence spectroscopy to diagnostic perf...

We compared the acute effects of dobutamine and isoproterenol on cardiac O, balance and regional blood flow (studied with microspheres) in eight male beagles with a narrowed left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD). The two drugs similarly increased cardiac contractility, output, and oxygen consumption. However, unlike isoproterenol, dobutamine did not accelerate heart rate or markedly lo...

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is a rare condition that may have a serious outcome because of acute coronary syndrome. The condition especially affects young women. We evaluated a middle-aged male patient with a non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction caused by multivessel SCAD. The SCAD had occurred in the distal right coronary artery (RCA), the mid left anterior descendi...

A 63-year-old woman with typical chest pain referred to our center. Her risk factors were hypertension (HTN), hyperlipidemia (HLP), diabetic mellitus (DM), and smoking. Coronary angiography (CAG) revealed a tubular lesion (95%) in proximal part, and a diffuse lesion (95%) in the mid part of left anterior descending (LAD) with a good distal flow. Stenting of proximal and mid part lesion was done...

OBJECTIVES To examine by retrospective analysis of data from the FLEXI-CUT monocentre registry whether atherectomy can effectively simplify complex stent implantation in ostial bifurcation lesions by reducing the procedure to stenting of the left anterior descending (LAD) or left circumflex (LCX) artery ostium alone. PATIENTS AND METHODS All patients who had been enrolled in the prospective F...

INTRODUCTION Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) was revaled to have a close relation with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. The relationship between NLR and culprit plaque localization has never been studied. AIM OF THE STUDY To evaluate the association between NLR and unstable plaque localization of left anterior descending artery (LAD) in anterior miyocardial infarction patients. ...

The study aims to determine the age-gender distribution of individuals with and without coronary artery disease (CAD) analyze percentage size CAD detected in different segments by gender, including right (RCA), left main (LMCA), circumflex (Cx), anterior descending (LAD). research was conducted Batman Training Research Hospital's digital subtraction angiography (DSA) unit using data obtained be...

BACKGROUND As the number of patients with diffuse coronary artery disease continues to grow, there is renewed interest in alternative methods of perfusing the ischemic myocardium. We tested the feasibility of myocardial retroperfusion via a direct left ventricle-to-great cardiac vein (LV-GCV) conduit to support regional contractility in this setting. METHODS LV-GCV flow was established using ...