ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, stenting of the infarct-related coronary artery, silent (painless) ischemia, diabetes mellitus, 24-hour electrocardiographic monitoring.
 Introduction. Currently, approximately 422 million people in world have and over 1.3 individuals Ukraine are diagnosed with mellitus. Diabetic neuropathy is known to contribute development atypical painless var...

Retrograde coronary aortic dissection is a rare but dangerous complication of coronary angioplasty. Mostly seen in right coronary artery procedures, especially in chronic total oclussion lesions, and rarely seen in left side procedures. This is a case report of an aortic dissection complicated by coronary angioplasty of the left circumflex artery. Immediate stenting of the left main coronary ar...

BACKGROUND Acute left main coronary artery occlusion is a dramatic condition with very high mortality. The study was aimed to evaluate the effect of primary stenting in patients with left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease in the setting of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). METHODS Between June 1997 and April 2002, primary stenting for left main coronary artery disease was performed in 18 p...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Coronary artery bypass graft surgery is the treatment of choice for severe left main coronary artery stenosis. The results of a number of multicenter trials have suggested angioplasty with stenting as a possible alternative treatment. The aim of the present study was to analyze the immediate and long-term results of angioplasty with stenting of the left main coronary...

Extrinsic compression of the left main coronary artery is a rare and life-threatening complication of endovascular stenting of pulmonary artery conduits. This case report describes fatal myocardial infarction caused by compression of the left main coronary artery due to stent placement in a stenosed right pulmonary artery conduit.

CONTEXT Intracoronary stents are now used for the majority of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary revascularization, and the body of scientific knowledge about stents has expanded rapidly in the last several years. OBJECTIVE To review the evidence supporting the widespread use of intracoronary stents. DATA SOURCES The MEDLINE database was searched for articles from 1990 through Januar...

S everal studies have shown the safety of MRI after coronary stenting; however, few of them included patients soon after stenting. In this report, we describe a case of MRI-induced stent dislodgment from left main coronary artery (LMCA) 2 weeks after stenting. A 56-year-old woman underwent coronary angiography for recurrence of angina 12 months after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Corona...

BACKGROUND Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is a rare cause of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and sudden death. It usually occurs in young women during the peripartum period; however, it had also been reported in older aged males having risk factors for atherosclerotic coronary artery disease. CASE REPORT This case describes a 69-year-old male patient who presented with manifestat...

INTRODUCTION Coronary stenting has previously been considered to be less feasible in children under 12 years old due to the limitation of vascular access. We report the case of a six-year-old boy who successfully underwent stent implantation for his totally occluded right coronary artery. CASE PRESENTATION A Taiwanese boy aged six years and nine months old was found to have giant aneurysms af...