conclusions psychoeducation resulted in improved mental health in patients with coronary heart disease. therefore, it is recommended that this approach be performed as a complementary, effective, non-invasive, low-cost nursing intervention to reduce psychological problems in these patients. background patients with coronary heart disease are at high risk for mental health disorders, such as dep...

Coronary atherothrombotic diseases such as coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, and heart failure are the serious concerns of the thrombus formed in blood vessels. Anticoagulant and antiplatelet drugs are the cornerstones of the management of these diseases. To prevent the recurrence of these diseases, double antiplatelet drugs such as aspirin and clopi...

Within Europe large differences exist in mortality from coronary heart disease and stroke. These diseases show a clear West-East gradient with high rates in Eastern Europe. In spite the decreasing trend in age-adjusted cardiovascular disease mortality in Western European countries an increase in the number of cardiovascular patients is expected because of the ageing of the population. Consequen...

Purpose – to objectify the results of published clinical studies L-arginine effectson course cardiovascular diseases.Conclusions. The confirm effectiveness incardiovascular diseases, in particular hypertension, coronary heart disease, heartfailure, peripheral artery disease. Correction endothelial dysfunction should bea routine and mandatory part therapeutic prophylactic programs thetreatment p...

AIMS Coronary risk factors raise the risk of other chronic disorders. We therefore tested the hypothesis that the geographic distribution of ischaemic heart disease mortality is associated with that of other chronic diseases with which it shares risk factors. METHODS AND RESULTS For the 50 provinces of Spain, we collected mortality data for the period 1980-1995 from the national vital statist...

Introduction: To realize noninvasive diagnosis and early diagnosis of coronary heart disease, the study proposes a new time-frequency method for analyzing heart sound signals. This method is based on Choi-Williams Distribution (CWD). Methods: CWD distribution is developed and modified from Wigner Ville distribution (WVD). To solve the problem of cross-term interference existing in WVD there is ...

Cardiovascular surgery had great advancement in the twentieth century. In 1929, Werner Forssman performed the first human cardiac catheterization on himself. Then cardiac catheterization gradually became a gold standard in the diagnosis of congenital heart diseases as well as valvular heart diseases. In 1953, Gibbon set a milestone for cardiac surgery by invention of cardiopulmonary bypass. Mas...

Introduction A coronary artery anomaly (CAA) is a congenital defect of one or more coronary arteries of the heart in terms of origin, number, course and termination of the artery. The exact mechanism of CAA development is not elucidated yet. CAA is associated with some other congenital heart diseases like tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of great arteries and pulmonary valve atresia. Most CAA...