Introduction: In recent years, the number of complex coronary angiography (CA) is increasing rapidly. These procedures have a significant contribution to medical exposure to the general population. Exposure of patients to high doses of x-rays could cause deterministic effects on the skin. Therefore, the assessment of radiation doses of patients is of great importance. ...

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 ...

In 78 consecutive patients with unstable angina, we performed coronary angiography randomized to either the first day of presentation or later during the hospital admission to assess the frequency of intracoronary thrombus and complex coronary morphology relative to the time of symptomatic presentation and the impact of these angiographic features on outcome. Early angiography (17 +/- 6 hours) ...

Coronary artery aneurysm is an uncommon disease. We present a case of an unusual huge saccular coronary aneurysm of the left anterior descending coronary artery detected by 64-slice multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) coronary angiography, which initially presented as a mediastinal mass on chest X-ray. The true size of the aneurysm would have been underestimated by coronary angiography be...

background non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) is a growing diagnosed condition which causes a wide spectrum of liver disorders. there is a lot of evidence introducing nafld as a risk factor for coronary artery disease (cad) but there is substantial challenge on the independency of this correlation. conclusions according to the results of the current study, the prevalence of nafld among t...

Coronary artery originating from pulmonary is a rare congenital vascular malformation, which generally presents corresponding clinical symptoms with the growth of patients’ age. CTA and angiography are important methods for diagnosis this disease, provide evidence treatment strategies patients. Keywords: bicardiovascular malformations; coronary arteries; cta.

introduction: differentiating between ischemic cardiomyopathy (icm) and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (idcm) is important as coronary revascularization can improve prognosis in the ischemic subgroup. due to inherent problems of coronary angiography in patients with depressed ejection fraction (ef) introducing a noninvasive tool to diagnose those who will benefit from angiography seems to be...

BACKGROUND Patients with unstable angina or myocardial infarction are at risk of acute kidney injury, which may be aggravated by the iodine-containing contrast agent used during coronary angiography; however, the relationship between these two conditions remains unclear. OBJECTIVE The current study investigated the relationship between acute kidney injury and coronary heart disease prior to c...