background: small side branches, albeit less important than their larger counterparts, have not yet received due attention in the literature. nor has there ever been a comparison between drug-eluting stents and bare metal stents apropos side branch occlusion . the aim of this study was to compare the patency of small (≥0.5 and ≤1.5 mm in diameter) side branches with respect to bare metal vs. dr...

BACKGROUND The main treatment for acute arterial ischemic stroke is intravenous or intra-arterial thrombolysis within a particular time window. Endovascular mechanical embolectomy is another treatment option in the case of major artery occlusion. Endovascular mechanical embolectomy is a useful technique for restoring blood flow in patients with large-vessel occlusion, and especially in those wh...

Exercise and redistribution myocardial scintigraphy using thallium-201 was compared with the left ventricular angiogram and with the presence of stenosis or occlusion of coronary arteries on angiography. Irreversible scintigraphic defects representing areas of myocardial infarction were found in all patients with occlusion of the left anterior descending artery but nearly one-third of patients ...

Cardiac angiography was reviewed in 91 patients with post-infarction ventricular septal rupture. The results were compared with those of 123 stable survivors who had a positive submaximal exercise test early after infarction. Anterior infarction and occlusion of the infarct vessel were more common in those with ventricular septal rupture than in the comparison group. In the group with ventricul...

PURPOSE To determine the prevalence of major vessel occlusion in cases of acute cerebral ischemia of the anterior circulation by using MR angiography and to assess the frequency of spontaneous thrombolysis. METHODS Thirty patients with an initial clinical diagnosis of possible acute stroke of the anterior circulation made within 24 hours of the event were studied with conventional T2-weighted...

In December 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) appeared and caused COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. Of the 329 cases of COVID-19, most common type stroke was large vessel occlusion/LVO (31.7%) compared to small vessels (15.3%). A 73 year old man came with weakness on left side his body since day before after farming. Initially, leg felt limp, so walk limping, then hand ...