Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a rare cause of acute coronary syndrome and sudden cardiac death. The incidence, causes, pathogenesis, and treatment have not been defined clearly, but spontaneous coronary artery dissection should be considered in young patients without major cardiovascular risk factors or in patients in the peripartum period who present with acute coronary syndrome. T...

Background: Early diagnosis and proper treatment of patient with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and ischemic heart disease are important in determining prognosis, preventing adverse effects, and may even save lives. In this study, the level of pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A) in ACS patients was compared with the control group, in addition to cardiac Troponin (cTn) and creatine kin...

Patients with metabolic syndrome are at high-risk for development of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular events. The objective of this study was to examine the major determinants of coronary disease severity, including those coronary risk factors associated with metabolic syndrome, during the early period after an acute coronary episode. We tested the hypothesis that inflammatory markers, especi...

Objectives: To report a case of hypereosinophilic syndrome which presented clinically as acute coronary syndrome. Materials and methods: We describe the case of a 69-year-old woman with acute coronary syndrome and peripheral hypereosinophilia. Results: The condition rapidly evolved to severe heart failure. Coronary disease was excluded by cardiac catheterization. Systemic corticosteroid therapy...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES To assess the cardiovascular risk associated with the presence of metabolic syndrome in patients with type 2 diabetes. Patients and method. Prospective cohort study of patients with type 2 diabetes. The baseline presence of components of metabolic syndrome as defined by the World Health Organization was determined. The main dependent variable was a combination of cor...

High blood pressure (hypertension) is a non-communicable disease that can cause death and many complications, especially complications related to the cardiovascular system. According data from Indonesian Basic Health Research (Riskesdas) in 2018, prevalence of hypertension Indonesia was 8.36%. Hypertension controllable risk factor for acute coronary syndrome. One causes rarely doing physical ac...

Anaphylaxis rarely manifests as a vasospastic acute coronary syndrome with or without the presence of underlying coronary artery disease. The variability in the underlying pathogenesis produces a wide clinical spectrum of this syndrome. We present three cases of anaphylactic acute coronary syndrome that display different clinical variants of this phenomenon. The main pathophysiological mechanis...

Kartagener syndrome consists of congenital bronchiectasis, sinusitis, and total situs inversus in half of the patients. A patient diagnosed with Kartagener syndrome was referred to our department due to 3-vessel coronary disease. An off-pump coronary artery bypass operation was performed using both internal thoracic arteries and a saphenous vein graft. We performed a literature review for cases...