Behcet's disease is a multisystemic disease of unknown etiology. Disease manifestations consist of recurrent oral and genital ulceration, skin lesions, and relapsing ocular inflammation. Arterial involvement is an uncommon complication of Behcet's disease, and it most frequently affects the abdominal aorta followed by femoral artery, and the pulmonary artery. Coronary lesions in Behcet's diseas...

BACKGROUND Recent studies demonstrate that lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2) is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease presumably deriving from generation of proinflammatory and proatherogenic species through its hydrolytic activity on lipoprotein-associated phospholipids. The goal of this study was to assess the relationship of Lp-PLA2 with a set of thrombogenic, lipid, infla...

Multivessel coronary spasm resulting to cardiogenic shock and malignant ventricular arrhythmias though rare has been reported in the literature. The disease seems to be more prevalent in Asians. There have been isolated reports of coronary spasm in patients with reactive airway disease. We report the first case of spontaneous multivessel spasm in a male patient with bronchial asthma of Arab eth...

Bronchopulmonary sequestrations are usually supplied by single or multiple branches from the descending aorta. We report on a rare form of sequestration of a hypoplastic mid-pulmonary lobe with arterial supply from the circumflex coronary artery coincidentally discovered during coronary angiography in a female patient with coronary artery disease and a history of recurrent hemoptysis. The patie...

INTRODUCTION To study the angiographic disease severity of the infarct vessel after thrombolysis in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction and their 90 days outcome. METHODS We conducted a retrospective analysis of a prospectively maintained cardiology database at Shifa International Hospital from February 2011 to August 2011. A total of 57 patients who underwent thrombolysis ...

BACKGROUND Information on the mechanism of recurrent stroke may help physicians treating patients with ischemic stroke. However, the mechanisms of recurrence in each stroke subtype are not well known, especially in Asians. OBJECTIVE To compare the mechanisms of the index and recurrent stroke. DESIGN Analysis of data from a prospective acute stroke registry. SETTING University hospital. ...

non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) is the leading cause of chronic liver disease in the united states and other industrialized countries, and the reported prevalence in the developing countries is also rather high. this disease is associated with a high rate of morbidity and mortality and damage to the other organs. the cardiovascular system is, perhaps, the most vulnerable organ to nafl...

background: data on premature coronary artery disease (cad) are scarce. the tehran heart center's premature coronary atherosclerosis cohort study (thc-pac) is the first study of its kind in the middle east to assess major adverse cardiac events (mace) in young cad patients. methods: the cohort consists of cad patients, males ≤ 45 years old and females ≤ 55 years old. the participants are reside...

Coronary artery aneurysm is an uncommon disease. When it is associated with significantly obstructive coronary artery disease, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty with graft-coated stent implantation usually provides favorable results. Non-coated stents may have the potential risk of thromboembolism. We present a patient with unstable angina who received elective balloon angioplasty ...

introduction in recent decades cardiovascular disease (cvd) is the important leading cause of death in the world. one of its most insidious forms is coronary heart disease (chd). there are a number of factors that may contribute to incidence of chd and physical and psychological side effects of it. but previous research indicates that type d personality, emotional intelligence, stress, coping s...