Coronary artery ectasia is a rare angiographical finding, and it accounts for less than 5% of all coronary angiograms. We report a case of a 55-year-old male patient who presented with fatigue and exertional chest pain. Paraclinical tests revealed cardiac ischemia and sinus node dysfunction, as well as coronary artery ectasia without significant coronary stenosis. Factors involved in cardiac is...

OBJECTIVE To investigate mean platelet volume (MPV) levels in patients with coronary slow flow (CSF). METHODS 465 stable angina pectoris cases with angiographically normal coronary arteries were recruited [coronary slow flow group (n=76), control group (n=389)] in the observational retrospective cohort study. Clinical, biochemical and demographic variables including MPV were noted and coronar...

DOI: 10.5935/abc.20170071 A 56-year-old Caucasian male, came to our hospital complaining of thoracic oppression at exertion and sometimes occurring at rest, lasting for a few minutes. The patient was an active smoker, with a moderate alcohol consumption habit and had had an episode of unstable angina two months earlier. At that episode, two drug-eluting stents were implanted, one in the distal ...

Background Ghrelin has recently been reported to have beneficial effects on cardiac contractile functions and coronary blood flow. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the role of ghrelin in the pathogenesis of coronary slow flow (CSF) together with endothelial functions. Methods Twenty-five patients having normal coronary arteries with CSF and 25 controls with normal coronary fl...

Coronary revascularization is not synonymous with myocardial reperfusion. DeWood et al. almost three decades ago showed that 90% of patients with transmural myocardial infarction had total coronary occlusion at angiography associated with acute thrombosis. This and other studies have paved the way for the use of fibrinolytics in the treatment of transmural or ST-segment elevation myocardial inf...

A. DEFINITION. The no-reflow phenomenon was originally observed in experimental models of acute myocardial infarction (MI) and was described as a failure to restore normal myocardial blood flow despite removal of the coronary obstruction. Since that time, no-reflow has been shown to complicate thrombolytic therapy and percutaneous revascularization with PTCA and other devices. Defined angiograp...

AMA Figura E, Zaremba M, Rogula S, Rolek B, Gasecka A, Kołtowski Ł. Coronary slow flow and microvascular spasm as an underrecognized cause of chest pain. Advances in Interventional Cardiology/Postępy w Kardiologii Interwencyjnej. 2023;19(3):289-291. doi:10.5114/aic.2023.131484. APA Figura, E., Zaremba, M., Rogula, S., Rolek, B., Gasecka, A., & Kołtowski, (2023). Interwencyjnej, 19(3), 289-291. ...