introduction: nowadays, myocardial infarction is the second factor of the deaths after accidents and cancers in the world. the coronary artery diseases are stressful for patients. this research was performed to determine the influence of discharge planning on anxiety levels in acute myocardial infarction patients.   materials and methods: this quasi-experimental study was performed on 60 patien...

background: the association between methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphism and coronary artery diseases risk has been both confirmed and refuted in a number of published studies. the aim of this study was to investigate whether genetic polymorphisms of mthfr (c677t, a1298c) contributed to the development of myocardial infarction (mi). materials and methods: the present case-control s...

Martin Bienengraeber, Molly Pellitteri-Hahn, Naoyuki Hirata, Tesfaye M. Baye, Zeljko J. Bosnjak, and Michael Olivier Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Depart...

myocardial necrosis can be result from a number of causes including nutritional deficiencies, chemical and plant toxins, ischemia and metabolic disorder. the outcome of myocardial necrosis varies depending on the extent of the damage (donald 2001, jubb 1993, radostits 1994, vanvaleet 1986). myocardial infarction without demonstrable of atherosclerosis were reported in a rhesus macaque (gonder 1...

background: early clinical and retrospective angiographic evaluations indicated that in patients with acute myocardial infarction (mi), vulnerable plaques most often represented a mild luminal stenosis. more recent studies drawing upon prospective angiograms, however, have demonstrated that in majority of patients with acute mi, the underlying stenosis is significant.   methods: twenty-eight pa...

this is a case of severely stunned left ventricle which occurred after a non-st elevation myocardial infarction in a 76-year-old woman who was a known case of three-vessel disease. her symptoms and cardiac function responded well to revascularization.

conclusions inhalation aromatherapy with lavender aroma can reduce anxiety in patients with myocardial infarction. consequently, healthcare providers, particularly nurses, can use this strategy to improve postmyocardial infarction anxiety management. results the study groups did not differ significantly regarding baseline anxiety mean and demographic characteristics. however, after the administ...

background coronary heart disease (chd) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in pakistan. the temporal trends in the risk factors for myocardial infarction (mi) and the impact of socioeconomic status on these risk factors remain ambiguous. objectives the objectives of the present analysis were to investigate the potential association between various risk factors and mi in north punj...

background: butterworth, gaussian, hamming, hanning, and parzen are commonly used spect filters during filtered back-projection (fbp) reconstruction, which greatly affect the quality and size accuracy of image. materials and methods: this study involved a cardiac phantom in which 1.10 cm thick cold defect was inserted into its myocardium wall and filled with 4.0 μci/ml (0.148 mbq/ml) 99mtc conc...