OBJECTIVES To identify the STEMI patients at high risk in terms of no-reflow during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with a simple risk score system that can be used before reperfusion. METHODS Total 173 patients who had undergone primary or rescue percutaneous coronary intervention following the diagnosis of STEMI, were classified as "no-reflow" developers and "no-reflow" non-develop...

BACKGROUND We investigated clinical and procedural factors associated with the no-reflow phenomenon following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of the saphenous-vein grafts (SVG). METHODS A cross-sectional study was done on patients who had undergone PCI of the SVG. Patients' medical documents were reviewed for demographic, clinical, laboratory, and procedural data. Slow/no-reflow was ...

While coronary thrombolytic therapy in clinical practice is well established for acute myocardial infarction, the injury associated with reperfusion ("reperfusion injury") is still under intense investigation regarding its nature and the strategy for its prevention. Reperfusion injury has been defined as cell injury caused by reperfusion itself, in contradistinction to cell injury caused by the...

The possible role of leukocytes in the cerebral microcirculation following ischaemia was assessed in the gerbil. The no-reflow phenomenon seen after 30 minutes of severe bilateral hemispheric ischaemia during hypotensive reperfusion was compared in control animals and in a group made leukopenic by pretreatment with cyclophosphamide. Neither the incidence nor the severity of the no-reflow phenom...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of no-reflow phenomenon on ventricular systolic synchrony via myocardial blush grades (MBGs) in patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). PATIENTS AND METHODS All patients were divided into two groups and assessed by MBGs. To observe the parameters of the left ventricular fu...