The aim of this study was to investigate whether brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) is associated with the severity of coronary artery disease (CAD) assessed by coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA), and to evaluate baPWV as a predictor of obstructive CAD on CCTA. A total of 470 patients who underwent both baPWV and CCTA were included. We evaluated stenosis degree and plaque c...

BACKGROUND Intravascular brachytherapy is being applied more and more in patients with coronary artery disease for the prevention of restenosis subsequent to balloon angioplasty, in particular after stent implantation. Several radiation sources (beta- and gamma-emitters) are available in clinical routine. It was the purpose of this study to compare the radiation doses at the level of the advent...

We report a case of a large calculus-like mineral deposit on the root apex as persistent apical periodontitis. The patient was a 54 years old male who presented with persistent gingival fistula at the maxillary right lateral incisor. An apicoectomy was performed because of post-endodontic gingival fistula and the calculus was excised completely. Then the fistula was closed. The resected calculu...

We studied at necropsy atherosclerotic plaque composition in the four major (right, left main, left anterior descending, and left circumflex) epicardial coronary arteries in 15 patients who died of consequences of an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and in 12 patients with sudden coronary death (SCD) without AMI. The coronary epicardial arteries were sectioned at 5-mm intervals, and a Movat-st...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess morphology and composition of culprit and stable coronary lesions by multidetector computed tomography (MDCT). BACKGROUND Noninvasive identification of culprit lesions has the potential to improve noninvasive risk stratification in patients with acute chest pain. METHODS Thirty-seven patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) or stable ang...

the lower limbs after a trauma that is characterized by the latent formation of a dystrophic calcified mass lesion occurring almost exclusively in the lower extremities after remote traumatic events (1, 2). The formation of calcific myonecrosis is highly associated with compartment syndrome or neurovascular injury. Clinically, it usually presents as an enlarging mass in the anterior compartment...

Atherosclerosis developed in the arterial wall is major cause of cardiovascular events such as stroke and heart failure. Atherosclerosis, also referred to plaque can be classified stable, unstable, vulnerable plaque. In terms features compositions structures, atherosclerosis calcified plaque, with a lipid core, thin fibrous cap. It expected that compositions, mechanical properties plaques inter...

Objectives: To study possible correlation between Endothelin-1, Matrix-metallo-proteinase9, and Myeloperoxidase serum activity and coronary CT angiography findings of atherosclerotic coronary artery disease in intermediate high risk asymptomatic subjects. Methods: 65 consecutive asymptomatic subjects, 53 males and 12 females, mean age 58.8 +/-10.9 s.d., referred by their primary practitioner fo...

BACKGROUND Cardiac tamponade is a rare but severe complication of pericardial effusion with a poor prognosis. Prompt diagnosis using transthoracic echocardiography allows guiding initial therapeutic management. Although etiologies are numerous, cardiac tamponade is more often due to a hemopericardium. Rarely, a coronary injury may result in such a hemopericardium with cardiac tamponade. Coronar...