BACKGROUND In inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) number of thromboembolic events are increased due to hypercoagulupathy and platelet activation. Increases in mean platelet volume (MPV) can lead to platelet activation, this leads to thromboembolic events and can cause acute coronary syndromes. In IBD patients, QT-dispersion and P-wave dispersion are predictors of ventricular arrhythmias and atrial...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Introduction. Rheumatic heart disease is a major health problem in developing countries and remains the leading cause mitral valve stenosis (MS) replacement adults. Left atrial (LA) inflammation due to rheumatic carditis, pressure overload because stenosis, lead fibrosis remodeling progressive lost LA reservoir/compliant capacity ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the changes in expression profile of circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) and the regulatory effect of atrial fibrilation (AF)-related miRNAs on ion channels. METHODS 112 patients with AF were assigned into observation group, and another 112 non-AF people were assigned into control group. Total plasma RNAs were extracted from patients' blood samples. Differentially expresse...

Results During 36 months, 721 patients underwent CABG. Only patients older that 70 years-old with an acute coronary syndrome were included. High risk was defined as Euroscore I greater than 7. Exclusion criterias were Chronic Renal Failure, off-pump surgery and additional procedures. 85(12%) patients were selected for analysis. Mean Age was 75(70-87). 56(65.9%) were male and 29(34.1%) were fema...

INTRODUCTION Reoperations of the mitral valve have a higher rate of complications when compared with the first surgery. With the field of video-assisted techniques for the first surgery of mitral valve became routine, reoperation cases began to arouse interest for this less invasive procedures. OBJECTIVE To assess the results and the technical difficulties in 10 patients undergoing minimally ...