Randomized clinical trials have demonstrated a reduction in mortality with early revascularization of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) complicated by cardiogenic shock, and recent single-center studies have particularly suggested further benefit for coronary stenting. The purpose of this study was to examine the use of revascularization and coronary stenting for patients with sho...

PURPOSE We aimed to identify factors related to technical and clinical success of percutaneous revascularization for blunt renal arterial trauma. METHODS All cases of percutaneous revascularization for blunt renal arterial trauma were searched in the available literature. We included a case of iatrogenic renal artery occlusion at our institution treated by percutaneous stenting 20 hours after...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the therapeutic impact of combining extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and early coronary revascularization on acute myocardial infarction (AMI)-induced cardiopulmonary collapse. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective study included 35 consecutive patients rescued by ECMO for AMI-induced cardiopulmonary collapse in a single institution between June 2003 and...

is more beneficial for survival. Because patients with diabetes have more diffuse coronary disease with a 2-fold higher rate of total occlusions and a tendency towards more distal disease [5], however, revascularization is often more challenging in patients with diabetes and consequently may be less complete (Supplementary material, Reference [E5]). Independent predic-tors of incomplete-revascu...

Background—The Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation 2 Diabetes (BARI 2D) trial assigned patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus to prompt coronary revascularization plus intensive medical therapy versus intensive medical therapy alone and reported no significant difference in mortality. Among patients selected for coronary artery bypass graft surgery, prompt coronary revascularizat...

BACKGROUND Limited data are available on the clinical outcomes of medical therapy (MT) compared with revascularization in elderly patients with coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO). METHODS AND RESULTS Between March 2003 and February 2012, we retrospectively analyzed 311 patients aged ≥75 years in the Samsung Medical Center CTO registry. Among these, 153 patients were treated with MT and 15...

PURPOSE The benefits of prophylactic coronary revascularization for patients undergoing noncardiac surgery are uncertain. The purpose of this study was to systematically evaluate the effect of coronary revascularization and medical management on short- and long-term outcomes after noncardiac surgery. METHOD Ten electronic databases including MEDLINE and EMBASE (1980 to February 2006), and bib...

Aims To assess whether coronary flow velocity reserve following stent implantation is predictive of the subsequent need of target lesion revascularization. Methods and Results The outcome was examined of 417 patients enrolled in a multicentre prospective randomized study (DESTINI), who received a successful single vessel stent implantation in native coronary arteries and in whom coronary flow v...

OBJECT Revascularization is an important component of treatment for complex aneurysms, skull base tumors, and vertebrobasilar ischemia in the posterior circulation. In this study, the authors examined the microsurgical anatomy related to cerebral revascularization in the posterior circulation and demonstrate various procedures for bypass surgery. METHODS The microsurgical anatomy of cerebral ...

AIMS Differentiation between necrotic and viable myocardium is difficult in the setting of acute myocardial infarction (MI). Post-systolic shortening (PSS) has been proposed as a marker of recovery after revascularization, but has not previously been assessed in patients with NSTEMI prior to revascularization. In this study, we aimed to examine the relation between PSS and improvement of contra...