background: spiritual well-being (swb) of patients with cardiovascular diseases particularly in those admitted in coronary care unit (ccu) is threatened due to disease crisis. therefore, implementing spiritual care is necessary for them. this study aimed to determine the effect of spiritual care program on swb of patients with cardiac ischemia admitted in ccu in al-zahra hospital, isfahan, iran...

Coronary arteries with anomalous origin from the aorta can be a risk factor during aortic root procedures. We report on the successful management of aortic root surgery in a 76-year-old man with a single coronary ostium. Preoperative computed tomography and angiography revealed an anomalous course of the left main coronary artery from the right sinus of Valsalva. A stentless aortic root biopros...

Objective: To assess relationship between BMI and severity of coronary artery disease in female population of Pakistani origin. Design: Cross sectional observational study. Place and Duration of Study: Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology – National Institute of Heart Diseases (AFIC-NIHD), 1st February 2010 to 31st August 2010 Patients and Methods: The study population included 132 female patie...

Objectives: Transposition of great arteries is the most common cyanotic congenital heart disease. It characterized by ventriculoarterial discordance and atrioventricular concordance. The aim present study was to review anatomical embryological basis this anomaly discuss surgical outcomes arterial switch operations. Methods: included a total 61 patients who underwent operation. Demographic, anat...

coronary artery anomalies are rare, with their incidence varying from 1 to 5%. angiography is a commonly used modality for the assessment of coronary artery anomalies. based on previous reports, a majority of coronary artery anomalies are of origin or distribution, with separate ostia of the left anterior descending artery and left circumflex artery. coronary artery anomalies may cause myocardi...

OBJECTIVES The goal of the present study was to develop a strategy for three-dimensional (3D) volume acquisition along the major axes of the coronary arteries. BACKGROUND For high-resolution 3D free-breathing coronary magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), coverage of the coronary artery tree may be limited due to excessive measurement times associated with large volume acquisitions. Planning ...

PURPOSE To retrospectively review the 64-slice computed tomography (CT) appearance of coronary artery anatomic variants and anomalies and determine their incidence in 700 patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS CT data of 700 patients who underwent 64-slice CT angiography (CTA) because of known or suspected coronary artery disease were retrospectively reviewed by two radiologists experienced in cardi...

In some patients, the coronary arteries originate in a single aortic sinus, and this anatomical configuration is regarded as a significant risk factor in the arterial switch operation for transposition of the great arteries. In these cases, the coronary transfer technique has to be individualized to suit the coronary anatomy (i.e., a single ostium or separate ostia). Since 2001, we have operate...

Although ,t-adrenergic blocking agents reduce myocardial oxygen consumption and symptoms of myocardial ischemia in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), propranolol has been reported to exacerbate coronary artery spasm in some patients with variant angina. To determine whether increased coronary vasomotor tone can be induced by 3-adrenergic blockade, we measured the changes in coronary v...