background: primary percutaneous coronary intervention (primary pci) is the method of choice in establishing reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction (ami) patients. the aim of this study was to determine the success rate of primary pci in a university medical center in iran with a view to promoting it as a first-line therapy in patients with ami, especially in centers with established cathet...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The clinical benefits of optical coherence tomography-guided percutaneous coronary intervention are unclear. Therefore, in this study we sought to evaluate the impact of optical coherence tomography guidance on stent strut coverage following drug-eluting stent implantation. METHODS A total of 101 patients in 105 lesions were randomly assigned to receive percutaneou...

NIKOLIC-HEITZLER, V., RABUZIN, F., TATZBER, F., VRKIC, N., BULJ, N., BOROVIC, S., WONISCH, W., SUNKO, B.M. and ZARKOVIC, N. Persistent Oxidative Stress after Myocardial Infarction Treated by Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 2006, 210 (3), 247-255── Acute myocardial infarction causing cardiac ischemia is responsible for the majority of cardiac related deaths. Medical inte...

BACKGROUND The management of patients with angiographically intermediate coronary lesions is a major clinical issue. Fractional flow reserve provides validated functional insights while optical coherence tomography provides high resolution anatomic imaging. Both techniques may be applied to guide management in case of angiographically intermediate coronary lesions. Moreover, these techniques ma...

BACKGROUND Administration of abciximab during primary percutaneous coronary intervention is an effective adjunctive therapy in the treatment of patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Recent small-scaled studies have suggested that intracoronary administration of abciximab during primary percutaneous coronary intervention is superior to conventional intravenous administration....

Background: Cardiovascular diseases are global problems. They are causes of death in about 43% of people worldwide and may become the most widespread reason of death by 2020. The prognosis is directly dependent to immediate diagnosis and on time treatment. Introduction of new biochemical markers as the early diagnosis of complications after coronary revascularization is very important in this p...

We read with great interest the paper by Brayton et al. (1). This paper is nearly identical to our recent publication in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions (2). It is interesting that 2 similar papers using the same data would be published in the JACC family of journals just a few months apart. Although Brayton and colleagues briefly acknowledge our paper in their discussion section, there are ...

Time and time again, randomized clinical trials have demonstrated that what is conceptually logical and should be right is not always right. Randomized large clinical trials are often undertaken on the basis of this logical hypothesis. Very often, small clinical trials also show encouraging results.1,2 However, when large randomized clinical trials are performed, they not infrequently reveal ra...