BACKGROUND Recent studies have shown improving survival after cardiac arrest. However, data regarding sex-based disparities in treatment and outcomes after cardiac arrest are limited. METHODS AND RESULTS We performed a retrospective analysis of all patients suffering cardiac arrest between 2003 and 2012 using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database. Annual rates of cardiac arrest, rates of u...

In response to growing U.S. interest, the Society for Coronary Angiography and Interventions recently formed a Transradial Committee whose purpose is to examine the utility, utilization, and training considerations related to transradial access for percutaneous coronary and peripheral procedures. With international partnership, the committee has composed a comprehensive overview of this subject...

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NIKOLIC-HEITZLER, V., RABUZIN, F., TATZBER, F., VRKIC, N., BULJ, N., BOROVIC, S., WONISCH, W., SUNKO, B.M. and ZARKOVIC, N. Persistent Oxidative Stress after Myocardial Infarction Treated by Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 2006, 210 (3), 247-255── Acute myocardial infarction causing cardiac ischemia is responsible for the majority of cardiac related deaths. Medical inte...

In patients with stable CAD, PCI can be considered a valuable initial mode of revascularization in all patients with objective large ischaemia in the presence of almost every lesion subset, with only one exception: chronic total occlusions that cannot be crossed. In early studies, there was a small survival advantage with CABG surgery compared with PCI without stenting. The addition of stents a...

ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary angioplasty (On-TIME 2): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2008;372:537–546. 37. Coller BS. Potential non-glycoprotein IIb/IIIa effects of abciximab. Am Heart J 1999;138:1–5. 38. Schwarz M, Nordt T, Bode C, Peter K. The GP IIb/IIIa inhibitor abciximab (c7E3) inhibits the binding of various ligands to the leukoc...

background and purpose: ischemic heart diseases (ihd) is getting as the most common and the main causes of heart diseases and mortalities worldwide affecting the quality of life (qol) of the patients. this study was conducted to determine the qol for the patients with ihd referring to medical centers of kashan in 2007. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on all patients (n =500) r...

background: practice of interventional cardiology procedures such as coronary angiography (ca) and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (ptca) has largely increased in recent years and is now changing to a matter of routine in many hospitals. the purpose of this study was to measure skin and organ doses in patients undergoing ca and ptca and to find a probable relation with cardiologi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the short and long-term results of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) in patients aged 80 years or older and to identify predictors of event-free survival. METHODS AND RESULTS Clinical and angiographic data from all patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention in our institution are prospectively collected and stored in a computerized database. The clini...

the coronary arterial tree, derived from analysis of two-dimensional angiographic data. The goal of each angiographic image is to view as much of the coronary tree as possible, while at the same time minimizing vessel overlap and foreshortening of vessel segments in areas of interest. Due to marked individual variation, however, many views provide little or none of the visual information needed...