triggering of acute myocardial infarction   m. salehian [1]     abstract     coronary heart disease (chd) is the leading cause of death in the united states each year about 450.000 people die from chd, and 1.000.000 experience an initial or recurrent coronary event. plaque rupture and it's its subsequent thrombosis at the site of the plaque rupture is the most common underlying pathophysio...

Hyponatremia is a relatively common electrolyte disorder. Although severe acute hyponatremia following coronary angiography is rare, potentially lethal neurologic manifestations may result. We describe a patient with severe, symptomatic hyponatremia, an unusual complication of coronary angiography. Lack of familiarity with contrast media-related hyponatremia caused a delay in diagnosis and ther...

abstract background: acute coronary syndrome is one of the major cardiovascular diseases that leads to a significant amount of morbidity. the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of cardiac rehabilitation on quality of life in patients with acute coronary syndrome. materials and methods: this was a clinical trial study conducted on 50 patients with acute coronary syndrome ...

acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards) is a potential complication of cardiac surgery, given that patients undergoing cabg frequently have hypoxemia and pulmonary dysfunction during initial hours after surgery. thus, ards criteria in these patients are more likely to be positive while these criteria may not match the patient`s clinical picture. we aimed to investigate frequency of rapid ons...

background and objectives: in spite of large number of studies conducted so far, sudden cardiac death remains an enigma and relative importance of acute coronary events as a trigger of sudden death is currently unclear. an autopsy study of heart was therefore planned to observe various histomorphological cardiac changes, and to determine the frequency association of acute coronary events and my...

background for coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) sternotomy should be performed. the pain after surgery is severe and requires medical intervention. use of the analgesics is limited by their side effects and studies suggest that prevention with some medications before surgery is effective in controlling the postoperative pain. objectives we investigated the efficacy of pregabalin administr...

results mean age of patients was 59.47 (sd = 12.48) years, of which 75 (75.8%) were male and 24 (24.2%) were female. based on univariable analysis, white blood cell (wbc) count, pain duration, lv function, maximal st-change, thrombus grade and eccentricity were identified as predictors of the no-reflow phenomenon. after multivariable logistic regression: wbc count and thrombus grade remained th...

background: serum n-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (nt-probnp), a polypeptide secreted by ventricular myocytes in response to stretch, was suggested as a predictor of adverse prognosis of the acute coronary syndrome (acs). we examined the association between nt-probnp level and angiographic findings in acs patients to determine whether it could be used as a predictor of the severity of ...