background: controversy persists over the potential benefits/harms of opium consumption in coronary heart disease. this study investigated the association between 12 months' major adverse cardiac events (mace) and pre-procedural opium consumption among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (pci). methods: retrospectively, 1545 consecutive men who underwent pci between 21 st   j...

introduction: no-reflow phenomenon in coronary vessels, manifested in some patients with reperfused acute myocardial infarction (mi), is associated with poor clinical and functional outcomes. therefore, evaluation of predisposing risk factors can be helpful in risk assessment and identification of patients at higher risk. herein, we aimed to study the predictive factors for the development of n...

Left main coronary artery stenosis is an important cause of symptomatic coronary artery disease, although relatively infrequent. The current guidelines recommend coronary artery bypass grafting as the first line treatment and standard of care, but percutaneous coronary intervention is likely to lead to faster reperfusion of coronary flow, avoiding the delays of a major surgical intervention. Ou...

background: studies have shown controversial effects of obesity on major adverse cardiac events (mace) after percutaneous coronary intervention (pci). we sought to investigate the impact of the body mass index (bmi) on the mid-term outcome following successful pci. methods: between march 2006 and august 2008, 3948 patients underwent successful elective pci in tehran heart center, tehran, iran, ...

regardless of the clinical setting, a good back-up represents one of the most important conditions to ensure guide wire and balloon advancement and stent delivery. as a “mother and child” system, the guideliner catheter (vascular solutions inc., minneapolis, mn, usa) provides an extension to the guide catheter with better coaxial alignment and stability. we report two didactic cases showing the...

background: patients with chronic stable angina often have a state of sympathetic hyperactivity. it is considered associated with myocardial ischemia and disappears after ischemia elimination. the aim of this study was to investigate the changes in heart rate variability parameters, a noninvasive technique for the evaluation of the autonomic nervous system activity, after successful revasculari...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to analyze the prevalence, risk factors, and short- and long-term prognosis of patients with acute coronary syndrome and normal renal function who developed percutaneous coronary intervention-associated nephropathy. METHODS This was an observational, retrospective, single-center study with a prospective follow-up of 470 consecutive patient...

conclusions an adjuvant therapy with tlc diet and supplementation with q10 and lc seems to be required for secondary prevention following mi and pci. tlc diet and q10 plus lc appeared to be effective in inflammatory biomarkers of isr as well as ldl reduction. methods this single-blind randomized controlled trial was conducted on 128 subjects. after randomization for treatment allocation, the su...

published online Mar 31, 2010; J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. Dean J. Kereiakes Score American College of Cardiology/National Cardiovascular Data Registry Risk Cultivating Prognosis Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: The This information is current as of April 1, 2010 http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/full/j.jacc.2010.02.004v1 located on the World Wide Web at: The online version of th...

conclusions preoperative echocardiography, applied before elective and emergency percutaneous coronary interventions, plays a key role in detecting many intervention-related complications in the post-intervention period. case presentation a 65-year-old male patient was admitted to the emergency department and acute inferolateral myocardial infarction was diagnosed. the left atrial hematoma as a...