Hepatic vein stenosis after liver transplantation is a relatively rare complication that could even result in graft loss. However, it is difficult to arrive at a definite diagnosis at the early stage of postoperation, and there are few researches on ultrasonic shear wave elastography in the diagnosis of hepatic vein stenosis. We report the case of an 11-year-old male patient with cirrhosis due ...

Purpose: To assess the relationship between the severity of coronary arteries involvement and the extent and pattern of myocardial scars in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance of patients with history of remote myocardial infarction. Materials and Methods: The Cardiac Magnetic Resonance images of sixty patients with history of remote ST segment or non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction were ...

Assessment of coronary artery stenosis severity depends on either determination of the anatomic dimensions of the stenosis by angiographic techniques or assessment of the functional significance of the stenosis by measurement of its effect on blood flow. Measurement of myocardial blood flow during maximal pharmacological vasodilation (vasodilator reserve) has been used to examine the functional...

The patient is a 34-year-old woman, para 3, gravida 3, with dyslipidemia and former tobacco use, who 1-week postpartum experienced an acute myocardial infarction. Initial angiography revealed a left main (LM) artery dissection with probable subintimal hematoma extending into the proximal left anterior descending (LAD) and left circumflex (LCX) coronary arteries (Figure 1A). Left ventriculograph...

BACKGROUND An anomalous origin of the right coronary artery is rarely observed, with a reported incidence between 0.026% and 0.25%. This condition is often completely asymptomatic and is found incidentally during angiographic evaluation for other cardiac diseases. However some patients present with exertion angina or sudden death. Surgical treatment in patients with anomalous RCA is still contr...

BACKGROUND The value of single photon emission computed tomography stress myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT-MPI) for detecting graft disease after coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) has not been studied prospectively in an unselected cohort. METHODS Radial Artery Versus Saphenous Vein Graft Study is a Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study to determine graft patency rates after CABG surgery....

PURPOSE We aimed to investigate the coronary venous system and its variations by using dual source computed tomography (CT). MATERIALS AND METHODS Retrospective assessment was carried out on 339 patients who underwent coronary CT angiography using 128-slice dual source CT for suspected coronary artery disease. The examinations were performed according to routine imaging protocols used to eval...

introduction: prevalence of stroke following coronary artery bypass graft surgery (cabg) is % 2.1-5.2 and associated with high mortality. the purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of carotid artery disease in patients undergoing cabg surgery.  methods: this cross-sectional study was performed in the years 2010-2011 on 192 patients who underwent open heart surgery (cabg) in ima...

Background: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) allows us to evaluate not only the qualitative coronary lesion morphology but also the quantitative anatomical severity of coronary stenosis. Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is an established index to evaluate the functional severity of a coronary stenosis. The aim of this study was to determine the OCT parameters for physiological severity of corona...