Results In 4,751 percutaneous coronary intervention-treated DM patients, 8,134 stents were implanted (EES 3,928, PES 2,836, SES 1,370). The EES was associated with significantly lower event rates compared with SES (SES vs. EES hazard ratio [HR]: 1.99; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.19 to 3.08). The same was observed when compared with PES (PES vs. EES HR: 1.33; 95% CI: 0.93 to 1.91) but did no...

to evaluate the clinical results of endoscopic endonasal surgical dacryocystorhinostomy (ees-dcr) as team work by an ophthalmologist and an ear-nose-throat (ent) surgeon and the appropriate selection of the patients this study performed.all candidates for dcr underwent computed tomography (ct) scan of the paranasal sinuses (pns). patients who did not want a scar on the medial canthus skin or wh...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In enlarged endolymphatic duct (EED) and sac (EES) syndrome, deformity of the EED and EES is congenital; however, hearing loss is acquired. To investigate the pathophysiology of progressive sensorineural hearing loss in EED and EES syndrome, we measured the volume of the EED and EES, the diameter of the EED and EES, the area of the cochlear modiolus, and the signal intens...

Chronic thromboembolic disease (CTED) is suboptimally defined by a mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) <25 mmHg at rest in patients that remain symptomatic from chronic pulmonary artery thrombi. To improve identification of right ventricular (RV) pathology in patients with thromboembolic obstruction, we hypothesized that the RV ventriculo-arterial (Ees/Ea) coupling ratio at maximal stroke wor...

BACKGROUND Clinical trials have demonstrated that the second-generation cobalt-chromium everolimus-eluting stent (CoCr-EES) is superior to the first-generation paclitaxel-eluting stent (PES) and is noninferior or superior to the sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) in terms of safety and efficacy. It remains unclear whether vascular responses to CoCr-EES are different from those to SES and PES because...

INTRODUCTION Aim of our study is to evaluate the role of TWA to stratify the risk of sudden cardiac death in athletes (Ath) with complex ventricular arrhythmias (VA), and to document a possible correlation between TWA and electrophysiological testing (EES) results. METHODS We studied 43 Ath with VA (31 M, mean age 34 ± 12 years). In all cases a cardiological evaluation was performed, includin...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to evaluate the safety and efficacy of second-generation drug-eluting stents (DES) for patients with unprotected left main coronary artery (ULMCA) stenosis. BACKGROUND The clinical benefit of second-generation DES for ULMCA stenosis has not been determined. METHODS The authors assessed 334 consecutive patients who received everolimus-eluting stents (EES) for ULM...

BACKGROUND This article reports the 2-year clinical, angiographic, and intravascular ultrasound outcomes of the everolimus-eluting stent (EES) compared with the paclitaxel-eluting stent (PES) in the randomized SPIRIT II trial. METHODS AND RESULTS This was a prospective, single-blind clinical trial in which a total of 300 patients with de novo native coronary artery lesions were randomized to ...

Extraskeletal Ewing sarcoma (EES) is an aggressive malignancy with low incidence that occurs in the soft tissues of the lower extremities, paravertebral tissues, and chest wall. Few EES cases in the head and neck region have been reported. In this paper, we presented a case of EES that occurred in the olfactory sulcus with similar presentation as olfactory neuroblastoma. To our knowledge, this ...