background: coronary artery patients had a much anxiety and distress in the acute situation that this stress leads to more ischemia, re-infarction, tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation. on the other hand heart disease affects person's spirituality. although findings of numerous studies revealed significant relation between spiritual well-being and stress in cardiac patients, but paradoxical...

The myeloperoxidase (MPO) gene 463G/A and 129G/A polymorphisms have been reported to be associated with coronary artery disease (CAD), but the results remain inconclusive. This meta-analysis was designed to clarify these controversies.PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library were used to retrieve the relevant literature up to March 2015 according to keywords. A total of 8 case-control studies, ...

Objective: To evaluate prospectively the influence of an angiotensin I converting enzyme (ACE) gene polymorphism on long term clinical outcome of patients with established coronary artery disease treated by percutaneous coronary intervention. Design and setting: Prospective observational study in a university hospital. Patients: Consecutive series of 1010 patients with symptomatic coronary arte...

large intercoronary communications in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease constitute a very rare coronary artery anomaly in which there is a readily visible connection between the 2 coronary arteries with a unidirectional or bidirectional blood flow; consequently, this anomaly may be misinterpreted as a functioning collateral vessel, indicative of an unrecognized proximal coronar...

Introduction: Nowadays, with the advancement of technology and industrial life, the prevalence of heart diseases including coronary artery diseases has considerably increased. Coronary artery diseases are one of the most common and serious diseases that threaten human life. Methods: The present study is a comparative-descriptive research. The statistical ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the gene polymorphism of metallothionein 2A (MT2A)-838G/C and its correlation to coronary heart disease in the Han population of Jiangsu, China. PATIENTS AND METHODS The MT2A-838G/C was examined in 287 patients with coronary heart disease (CHD group) and 226 healthy controls (control group) by using mono-labeled fluorescent probes. Meanwhile, relevant variables of all...

APART FROM AND IN ADDITION to all established mechanisms and mediators in the regulation of coronary blood flow under normal and pathological circumstances (1), there remains substantial interindividual variability in coronary vasomotor responses, both in the experimental animal and in humans. Such interindividual variability has, among other factors such as age, diet, and environmental factors...