In general, young men have a greater risk than age-matched women for many types of cardiovascular diseases, including ischemic heart diseases, such as acute or chronic myocardial infarction (MI)-induced heart failure. The effects of estrogen-replacement therapy in men have not been extensively studied. We evaluated the cardioprotective effects of supplemental estrogen against left anterior desc...

Ruptured sinus of Valsalva is a rare lesion in pediatric age group. We are reporting a twelve year old child with hyperdynamic circulation being diagnosed and treated as Rheumatic heart disease.

Myocardial infarction, also known as a heart attack, can strike without warning. A myocardial infarction occurs when blood supply to a part of the myocardium (heart muscle) is interrupted, either by lack of blood flow, obstruction by a clot, or rupture of a plaque (a buildup of fat and other substances in the blood) in a coronary (heart) artery. Many individuals have coronary artery disease and...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to elucidate the mechanisms and underlying biomechanical factors that may play a role in the risk of rupture of vulnerable plaques (VPs) by studying patient-based geometries of coronary arteries reconstructed from intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging utilizing fluid-structure interaction (FSI) numerical simulations. BACKGROUND According to recent estima...

Abstract 86 years-old man was admitted to our ICCU for chest pain with an ECG diagnosis of atrial fibrillation and inferior STEMI. He had a history hypertension ascending aorta aneurysm (48 mm) no other known cardiovascular risk factor. reported few episodes short-duration in the last days. A fast echocardiogram excluded dissection pericardial effusion but showed hypokinesia inferolateral left ...

OBJECTIVES We analyzed the possible relation between the presence of a hospital admission delay (> or =24 h), undue physical effort or recurrence of anginal pain, alone or in combination, with the development of free wall rupture (FWR), septal rupture (SR) or papillary muscle rupture (PMR) in patients with an acute myocardial infarction (AMI). BACKGROUND Physical activity as a trigger of FWR ...

t one time, patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) would have has as poor a prognosis as fatal arrhythmia, cardiac rupture or left ventricular dysfunction. In modern countries, mortality after AMI has been greatly decreased by developments in coronary revascularization, antiarrhythmic agents and the treatment of hypertension and congestive heart failure using angiotensin-converting enz...