Coronary-cameral fistula is a scarce clinical entity, which is defined as an anomalous communication between any epicardial coronary artery and cardiac chambers or large vessels. We aimed to present a case of multiple coronary-cameral fistulas causing myocardial ischemia.

OBJECTIVE Flow associated dilatation (FAD%) and intimal media thickness are established markers of early atherosclerosis. This study aimed to compare the ability of the non-invasive measurements FAD% and intimal media thickness to predict coronary artery disease. METHODS FAD% and intimal media thickness were determined using high resolution ultrasound in 122 patients with clinically suspected...

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between the total length of the stents and the postoperative life quality of patients with multi-vessel coronary artery disease who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Using the short-form health survey (SF-36) items, we analyzed the data on the postoperative life quality of 166 patients with multi-vessel coronary artery diseas...

Innervation of the coronary vessels is initiated before the 30 mm. stage of development. All the main branches of the coronary arteries are formed and in their definitive positions by the 40 mm. stage. Two plexuses have been shown for all the larger vessels after the 120 mm. stage. There are coarse-fibre and fine-fibre plexuses, situated at different levels in the tunica adventitia. Ganglion ce...

Symptoms, Function, or Anatomy as Criteria of Restenosis? The incidence of late restenosis has remained much the same over the 13 years that angioplasty has been part of clinical practice and there is still no proven intervention that modifies the restenosis process.' Primary success and restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) may be defined by symptomatic criteri...

Due to their relatively small size and central location within the thorax, improvement in signal-to-noise (SNR) is of paramount importance for in vivo coronary vessel wall imaging. Thus, with higher field strengths, coronary vessel wall imaging is likely to benefit from the expected "near linear" proportional gain in SNR. In this study, we demonstrate the feasibility of in vivo human high field...

Presently, sequential aortocoronary bypass grafting is a widely used method for the revascularization of multiple coronary vessel disease. In this study, the internal configurations of the anastomosed portions were investigated by casting models and the following results were obtained: In crossed side-to-side anastomoses with longitudinal incisions, the anastomosed area for the incised length w...

A 12-lead ECG was obtained from a 59-year-old man experiencing chest pain on his first postoperative day following a triple-vessel coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). Is this a single-lead ischaemia? (Fig. 1). The ST-segment elevation in V6 does not represent ischaemia. In fact, lead V6 was inadvertently connected to an epicardial pacing wire, recording a unipolar signal (Fig. 2). www.elsevier...

BACKGROUND With recent advances in therapeutic applications of stem cells, cell engraftment has become a promising therapy for replacing injured myocardium after infarction. The survival and function of injected cells, however, will depend on the efficient vascularization of the new tissue. Here we describe the arteriogenic remodeling of the coronary vessels that supports vascularization of eng...