background: this study sought to access differences in long-term (9 months) outcomes between acute coronary syndrome (acs) patients who undergo early intervention compared to percutaneous coronary intervention (pci) in stable and refractory conditions. methods: data originated from tehran heart center registry- interventional cardiology (thcr-ic) and consisted of 1267 patients divided into two ...

The role of infection in the instability of atherosclerotic plaques has been questioned because of discrepancies in the results of clinical trials that tested antibiotics in acute coronary syndromes. The results of the Randomized Trial of Roxithromycin in Non-Q-Wave Coronary Syndromes (ROXIS) are summarized and contrasted with two other pilot studies of antibiotic therapy of coronary artery dis...