Introduction: Heart failure is a major hazard for public health. Despite recent advance in medical therapy, there is not enough information on the outcome of off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) and medical therapy on the patients with severe ventricular dysfunction and triple-vessel (CAD). This study aimed to compare treatment outcomes and mortality rate in patients undergoing off-pump coro...

Introduction: In patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) noninvasive evaluation for detection of ischemia is important to avoid invasive interventions like angiography. Exercise stress test is conventionally the first study used in evaluation of CAD. Considering the noninvasive nature of the myocardial perfusion scan, we decided to compare its accuracy with stress test. Methods: Patie...

conclusions in total, application of therapeutic approaches in patients with cad depends on many factors. in our study not only risk factors such as gender, lifestyle, smoking, alcohol abuse, diabetes and hypertension were associated with the incidence of cad, but also they were highly correlated with the severity of the disease. results the mean age of total patients was 58.3 ± 11.5 years (p =...

Cardiovascular disease (CAD) screening in asymptomatic patients with diabetes mellitus is controversial. An exercise stress test is a safe and effective initial testing for Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) screening. Treadmill stress test is not the best screening method for a particular patient who is not able to exercise, abnormal electrocardiogram (ECG) or positive exercise treadmill test (ETT) ...

conclusions routine predilation of the sb in provisional stenting of true bifurcation lesions seems to be ineffective and might be associated with some undesirable consequences. still, there are some complex ostial lesions of the sb which could benefit from predilation. patients and methods sixty patients with true bifurcation lesions according to the medina classification were included in the ...

the correlation between severity and extent of coronary artery disease (cad) and lipid measurement was assessed in 152 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery (cabg). tfie severity and extent of cad was determined under direct vision of a cardiac surgeon during the cabg. patients were divided into two groups: 1. those with very severe and diffuse cad that all their coronaries w...

introduction: in patients with coronary artery disease (cad) noninvasive evaluation for detection of ischemia is important to avoid invasive interventions like angiography. exercise stress test is conventionally the first study used in evaluation of cad. considering the noninvasive nature of the myocardial perfusion scan, we decided to compare its accuracy with stress test. methods: patients wi...

background: diagnosis of coronary artery disease (cad) in early stages is vital in decreasing mortality by reducing the risk factors. the aim of this study was to investigate the association between erectile dysfunction (ed) and cad. methods: a total of 200 patients were divided into four groups according to their angiography results: group 1 (g1, n = 59): patients with one-vessel disease (1-vd...