background: diagnosis of coronary artery disease (cad) in patients with left bundle branch block (lbbb) is considered as a challenge in cardiology due to the low accuracy of noninvasive methods such as basal and stress electrocardiography (ecg). this diagnostic challenge can be reduced but not eliminated using dipyridamole as a stress method instead of exercise. the aim of this study was to ass...

background and objectives: angiography remains as the gold standard for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases (cvd). the aim of this study was to assess the quality of angiography services in shahid madani hospital, tabriz, iran.   methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted in 2013 in shahid madani hospital. a sample of 203 cvd patients who had received angiography services was surveyed....

Introduction: Coronary angiography is a Diagnostic-Therapeutic method involving ionizing radiation. This method causes to DNA damage with form double stranded breaks which is followed by the phosphorylation of the histone, H2AX. H2AX is a key factor in the repair process of damaged DNA which will accumulate to damage sites. In human cells, H2AX constitutes about 10% of the H2A ...

O ne million patients undergo invasive coronary angiogra-phy (CA) in the United States every year. 1 In view of its invasive nature and related costs, noninvasive imaging of coronary imaging has the theoretical appeal to improve comfort for patients, reduce cost, and refine patient selection to limit invasive procedures to patients requiring treatment for ischemic coronary artery disease (CAD)....

introduction: aortic valve sclerosisis considered as a manifestation of coronary atherosclerosis. recent studies demonstrated an association between aortic valve sclerosis and obstructive coronary artery disease. the purpose of this study was to evaluatethe correlation betweenaortic valve sclerosis andobstructive coronary artery disease and the extent of coronary artery disease in patients hosp...

results prediction of the rca as culprit lesion using tierala's algorithm was 86% sensitive and 50% specific. prediction of lcx occlusion based on st-elevation ≥ 1 mm in v6 was 87% specific (p = 0.005). sum of st elevation in leads v5 and v6 more than 2.5 mm, was a good marker of lcx prediction (p = 0.044). st-elevation in v4r was 48% sensitive and 89% specific for rca prediction (p = 0.004). w...

conclusion superselective tae for lgi bleeding has a high success and low complication rate. there are no statistical correlations between the clinical success rate and several variables, including embolic material, embolization site, and anticoagulant or antiplatelet medication. patients and methods fifty-two patients who underwent superselective tae for lgi bleeding between 2003 and 2011 were...

carotid gamma angiography completes the advantage of paraclinic investiga - tions in field of neuroradiology. since this procedure can easily proceed the regular contrast angiography, it furnishes additional valuable data without being additionally traumatizing to the patient. informations obtained by gamma angiography give important indications on the cerebral circulatory dynamics and in fact ...