Results EAT thickness was positively correlated with BMI, waist-to-hip ratio, systolic blood pressure, postprandial glucose, fasting/postprandial triglyceride, HbA1c level, and HOMA-IR. A total of 24 patients had significant coronary artery stenosis and 14 patients had silent myocardia ischemia in CMR (3 with silent myocardial infarction, 13 with inducible ischemia, 2 with both). EAT thickness ...

UNLABELLED Silent myocardial ischaemia (SMI), defined as objective evidence of myocardial ischaemia in the absence of symptoms, has important clinical implications for the patient with coronary artery disease. We present a dramatic case of SMI in a diabetes patient who attended annual review clinic with ST elevation myocardial infarction. His troponin was normal on admission but raised to 10.7 ...

The clinical implications of silent myocardial ischemic (SMI) episodes in patients with coronary artery disease were assessed in 253 patients whose angina symptoms were resolved by antianginal drugs. This population included 93 patients without a history of myocardial infarction (angina group) and 160 patients with myocardial infarction (infarction group). These patients were further divided in...

Asymptomatic ("silent") ischaemia has been shown to be of prognostic significance in patients with stable and unstable angina and more recently in patients recovering after myocardial infarction. No therapeutic regimen has yet been shown to improve the prognosis of patients with silent ischaemia after infarction, which can be found in as many as a third of these patients. Attempts to achieve th...

We report a case of silent acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction associated with amphetamine use in a 62 years old diabetic man. The patient was devoid of chest pain and had a normal cardiac enzyme analysis at the initial presentation. A routine electrocardiogram demonstrated acute inferior wall ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Coronary angiography confirmed a total occlusion of the poste...

abstract most pheochromocytomas are not suspected clinically while a high percentage of them are curable with surgery. we present the case of an adult cocaine-addicted male patient with an underlying pheochromocytoma and repeated myocardial infarctions. computed tomography showed a left round adrenal mass, also high 24-hour urine levels of catecholamines and metanephrines were detected from uri...

background: increased estimated body iron stores have been recently suggested to be associated with increased risk of acute myocardial infarction (ami); however the question of whether serum ferritin level as an indicator for estimating body iron is an independent risk factor for cardiac events is still questioned. in the present study, we assessed whether serum ferritin was associated with the...

conclusions supervised in-hospital exercise training was associated with improvements in saecg-measured electrical activity post-mi. results cardiac rehabilitation led to significant improvements in qrs duration (p < 0.001), square root of amplitude in the last 40 ms (p < 0.001) and duration of terminal signal with low amplitude (p < 0.001). cardiac rehabilitation also resulted in amelioration ...

The degree of reduction in heart rate variability (HRV) after myocardial infarction has been shown to have prognostic significance, but HRV has not been studied extensively in patients with unstable angina. We assessed spectral and nonspectral measurements of HRV in 52 patients with unstable angina, 52 patients with acute myocardial infarction, and 41 normal subjects. The spectral bands of 0.04...