introduction takotsubo cardiomyopathy (tcmp) is a rare acute cardiomyopathy characterized by acute chest pain syndrome, similar to myocardial infarction, except that no significant stenosis is observed on coronary angiography in patients with this condition; these findings aid the diagnosis of tcmp. case presentation we discuss an unusual case of tcmp in a 45-year-old woman with complete heart ...

background and objective: the aim of this study was to analyze our indications, surgical procedures, and clinical outcomes of patients undergoing reoperation after surgical correction of tetralogy of fallot (tof). methods: thirty seven consecutive patients who underwent reoperation late after intra-cardiac repair of tof within a period of 10 years were assessed. results: the most common indicat...

Stenosis of the subclavian artery, before the left internal mammary artery branch, is an important problem for patients who have undergone coronary artery bypass grafting, with an incidence rate of 0.5-1.1%. In this paper, a case of left subclavian artery stenosis, which developed after coronary artery bypass surgery and led to recurrent anginal attacks in the patient, is presented.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Intracranial atherosclerotic disease is associated with a high risk of stroke recurrence. We aimed to determine accuracy of transcranial Doppler screening at laboratories that share the same standardized scanning protocol. METHODS Patients with symptoms of cerebral ischemia were prospectively studied. Stroke Outcomes and Neuroimaging of Intracranial Atherosclerosis (SON...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Identifying occult coronary artery stenosis may improve secondary prevention of stroke patients. The aim of this study was to derive and validate a simple score to predict severe occult coronary artery stenosis in stroke patients. METHODS We derived a score from a French hospital-based cohort of consecutive patients (n=300) who had an ischemic stroke or a transient isch...

Patients with supravalvular aortic stenosis frequently have higher phasic and mean blood pressures in the innominate artery than in the aorta distal to the stenosis, a finding never fully explained. Theoretically, this phenomenon could result from the impact of a jet upon blood within the innominate artery. Slowing of the jet would convert kinetic into potential energy, thus increasing pressure...

background :in addition to diagnosing the acute myocardial infarction (mi), stratifying high-risk patients and proper treatment strategies are important issues in managing patients complaining of chest pain and suspecting mi. many studies have been conducted to predict the occlusion site by interpreting the st segment deviations in electrocardiogram (ecg).additional posterior and right precordi...

Anne Abbott emphasises our finding that ipsilateral stroke risk is dependent on the degree of asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis.1 states this association was reported previously in ACSRS study, which she an author.2 In fact, only a non-significant correlation towards increased with stenosis found but as we showed systematic review, other much earlier studies had already more convincing corre...

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...

Background Our study compares the effect of acute proximal stenosis of a coronary artery supplying a myocardial perfusion bed with that of stenosis of an adjacent artery resulting in collateral flow diversion supplied by the same perfusion bed. These alterations in coronary physiology were quantified by digital angiographic impulse response analysis of contrast material mean transit time for th...