Background & Aims: Myocardial infarction is one of the most common life threatening diseases in worldwide. Betaine is a safe and well tolerated compound that shows beneficial antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Previous studies demonstrated, betaine reduce cardiovascular diseases but molecular mechanism of action did not known completely. Cathepsin G play pivotal role in tissue injury...

background: acute myocardial infarction (ami) is one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality. considering immense socioeconomic damages of growing ami in developing countries we estimated prognostic value of major risk factors of ami to predict probable in-hospital ami mortality. methods: in a cohort survey from june 2004 to march 2006, 1798 patients hospitalized with proven ami en...

Intracranial artery stenosis, especially middle cerebral artery stenosis (MCAS), is prevalent in the Chinese population. Currently, few approaches target evaluating MCAS-associated plaque vulnerability. Herein we aimed to explore potential plasma biomarkers for vulnerable plaque in patients with MCAS. A total of 81 subjects who received microembolic signal (MES) detection were enrolled between ...

BACKGROUND The impact of psychological factors in acute coronary events is only now emerging. A growing body of evidence attests to the influence of emotional and stress-related psychosocial factors in the aetiology of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) and morbidity and mortality among individuals with coronary heart disease. The objectives were to look for the frequency of anxiety and psychosocial...

conclusions lithium intoxication should be considered in the differential diagnosis, especially in elderly patients on lithium therapy who are admitted to the emergency department with chest pain. case presentation a 62-year-old woman was admitted to the emergency department due to weakness and acute chest pain. her ecg revealed st elevation in leads di, avl and v5-6, with a ventricular rate of...