background: standard methods for the measurement of myocardial perfusion are invasive and require cardiac catheterization or the use of radioisotope dyes. the coronary sinus blood flow (csbf) is an appropriate criterion for the efficacy of myocardial perfusion. this study sought to measure csbf via transthoracic echocardiography (tte) in patients with acute myocardial infarction (ami) and to as...

results mean age of patients was 59.47 (sd = 12.48) years, of which 75 (75.8%) were male and 24 (24.2%) were female. based on univariable analysis, white blood cell (wbc) count, pain duration, lv function, maximal st-change, thrombus grade and eccentricity were identified as predictors of the no-reflow phenomenon. after multivariable logistic regression: wbc count and thrombus grade remained th...

background : kernel smoothing method is a non-parametric or graphical method for statistical estimation. in the present study was used a kernel smoothing method for finding the death hazard rates of patients with acute myocardial infarction. methods : by employing non-parametric regression methods, the curve estimation, may have some complexity.  in this article, four indices of epanechnikov, b...

background: myocardial infarction is a fatal symbol of cardiovascular diseases, which usually occurs in people over 45 years. however, the incidence of factors such as obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes and metabolic syndrome has increased the risk of developing early cardiovascular diseases in the middle-aged people. this study was conducted to compare the clinical manifestation of myocard...

myocardial free wall rupture is a catastrophic complication of acute myocardial infarction, and prognosis will depend on the prompt diagnosis by echocardiography, extension of infarct size, and prompt surgical treatment. free wall rupture concomitant with ventricular septal defect (vsd) may be more complicated for management. a case of a 69-year-old man with myocardial free wall rupture and vsd...

Clinicians have long recognized that acute myocardial infarction (MI) can occur in the absence of atherothrombosis . The Universal Definition MI Global Taskforce introduced a classification system 2007 (and reaffirmed 2012) defined type 2 (following standard diagnostic criteria) as occurring due to an imbalance oxygen supply and/or demand not caused by atherosclerotic plaque disruption. Neverth...

experimental and clinical studies have shown that intracoronary transplantation of autologous bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (bmscs) has resulted in regenerated infarcted myocardium and improved left ventricular (lv) function.the aim of this pilot study was to assess the benefical effectsof intracoronary transplantation of bmsc in patients with oldmyocardial infarction (omi). autologous bms...

Acute myocardial infarction (MI) in the postpartum period is rare. We present a case of a 37-year-old women with acute MI which occurred 15 days after delivery. Coronary angiography revealed multivessel coronary artery disease and she underwent successful surgical revascularisation.

The clinical presentation of ischaemic heart disease includes stable and unstable angina pectoris, silent ischaemia, myocardial infarction, heart failure and sudden death [1]. For many years, unstable angina has been considered an intermediate syndrome between chronic stable angina and acute myocardial infarction. In recent years, its pathophysiology has been clarified and acute coronary syndro...