Background: The occurrence of adverse cardiac events always disturbs the successful recovery, personal and economic life of patients undergoing major abdominal surgery. This study aimed to gain further insight into potential predicators for adverse cardiac events after major abdominal surgery. Methods: 246 patients who scheduled to undergo selective major abdominal surgery were eligible to ente...

Hans-H. Sievers, MD; Ulrich Stierle, MD; Efstratios I. Charitos, MD; Thorsten Hanke, MD; Martin Misfeld, MD, PhD; J.F. Matthias Bechtel, MD; Armin Gorski, MD; Ulrich F.W. Franke, MD; Bernhard Graf, MD; Derek R. Robinson, MA, MSc, DPhil, CStat; Ad J.J.C. Bogers, MD; Ali Dodge-Khatami, MD; Juergen O. Boehm, MD; Joachim G. Rein, MD; Cornelius A. Botha, MD; Ruediger Lange, MD; Juergen Hoerer, MD; A...

Methods A consecutive series of 93 study subjects undergoing clinical CMR for evaluation of cardiac sarcoidosis from 2002 to 2012 were identified from the CMR reporting database. All studies were performed using a 1.5T CMR system (Philips Achieva). Anatomic, functional and late gadolinium enhanced (LGE) images were acquired and analyzed according to standard clinical protocols. Clinical data we...

When calcification is identified in tibial or coronary arteries, it strongly predicts major ischemic events. Tibial events a manner independent of the degree associated atherosclerotic occlusive disease. We thus worked to uncover relationship between and calcification, influence cardiovascular risk factors on their extent, individual predictive value adverse limb (MALE MACE). retrospectively re...

Background: In patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the preferred reperfusion therapy. Timely primary PCI is essential in improving the clinical outcomes of these patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the factors affecting balloon delay in STEMI treated patients by primary PCI and its relationship with ma...