objective: to determine the risk factors, clinical characteristics, surgical management and outcome of pseudoaneurysm secondary to iatrogenic or traumatic vascular injury. m et h o d s : this was a cross-sectional study being performed in department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery skims soura during a 4-year period. we included all the patients referring to our center with primary diagno...

background liver transplantation (lt) is the only treatment option for patients with advanced liver disease. currently, liver donation to these patients, considering priorities, is based on the model for end-stage liver disease (meld). meld score is a tool for predicting the risk of mortality in patients with advanced liver disease. however, few studies have so far been conducted in iran on the...

A retrospective analysis was made of the reproducibility of a treadmill exercise tolerance test performed on patients with angina pectoris to an end point of moderately severe (3+) angina. One hundred and forty tests (70 pairs) in 63 patients were found to meet criteria for inclusion in the study. In 30 patients a comparison of the first test the patient had ever had with a subsequent test reve...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The objective of the OFRECE study was to estimate the prevalence of stable angina in Spain. This prevalence is currently unknown, due to a lack of recent studies and to changes in the epidemiology and treatment of ischemic heart disease. METHODS This cross-sectional study involved a representative sample of the Spanish population aged 40 years or older, obtained vi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the outcomes with use of renin angiotensin system (RAS) blockers compared with other antihypertensive agents in people with diabetes. DESIGN Meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SELECTION PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane central register of controlled trials databases for randomized trials of RAS blockers versus other antihypertensive agents in people with diabetes me...

BACKGROUND There are a growing number of patients with end-stage coronary artery disease (CAD) and refractory angina. Angiogenesis may be induced by intramyocardial injection of autologous bone marrow stem cells, intensified by inflammation around channels performed by laser. AIM To assess the effect of a combined treatment consisting of transmyocardial laser revascularisation (TLMR) and intr...

Of 88 consecutive patients aged 20 to 77 years with severe symptomatic aortic valve disease requiring surgery, 51 patients had angina pectoris; of these 51, 41 had predominant aortic stenosis and 10 had severe aortic regurgitation. All patients with angina pectoris underwent coronary angiography; significant coronary arterial disease was encounted in 24 per cent of those with aortic stenosis an...