background:  patients  with  ischemic  heart  disease  (ihd)  may  report  difficulties with  sexual  function  and  marital relationship. however, there is a dearth of studies focusing on the association between these aspects in ihd patients. the present study sought to assess the association between sexual function and marital relationship among ihd patients and also test the effect modificat...

abstract background: cardiac self‑efficacy is an essential factor in persistence of healthy behaviors in patients with coronary artery disease (cad). today, telenursing methods have numerous applications in health care. therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of a text message and telephone follow‑up program on cardiac self‑efficacy of patients with cad. materials and methods: this ...

background: the aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of diabetes mellitus (dm) on peripheral vascular disease (pvd) in patients with coronary artery disease (cad). methods: a total of 13702 consecutive patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) at tehran heart center between january 2002 and march 2007 were included in this study. the demographic data, pvd, and outcom...

the use of noninvasive assessment tools such as multi-slice ct coronary angiography (msct-ca-ca) is recently considered mainly because it offers safety, patient convenience, and faster performance. the aim of the present study was to determine the ability of msct-ca-ca for the detection of significant stenoses in the coronary arteries, in comparison to conventional invasive coronary angiography...

this study evaluated the relationship between the location of the most severe coronary artery stenosis and the subsequent acute myocardial infarction (ami). methods: of 1590 patients who were admitted with a diagnosis of ami, we identified 44 patients who had undergone previous myocardial perfusion spect. thirty-one of these patients also had previous coronary angiography. the relationship betw...

spontaneous coronary artery dissection (scad) is a rare and important cause of acute coronary syndrome and sudden cardiac death. various etiologies are thought to be responsible for this condition, among which underlying atherosclerosis seems to be the most common. scad is predominant in women and is usually diagnosed via coronary artery angiography. therapeutic interventions include medical th...

although coronary artery disease (cad) is not common among individuals younger than 40-45 years of age, a small percentage of this age group needs to undergo surgical revascularization because of cad. why some people are at higher risk of developing premature cad is not clearly known. increased number of traditional risk factors or genetic predisposition may play significant roles in this regar...

severe coronary artery disease often coexists with peripheral vascular atherosclerosis. the assessment of the supra-aortic circulation is, therefore, of clinical relevance. we herein describe a case of coronary artery disease treated with surgical revascularization using the internal mammary artery and thereafter the progressive atherosclerotic disease of the native coronary arteries as well as...

background: investigators frequently encounter continuous outcomes with plenty of values clumped at zero called semi-continuous outcomes. the gensini score, one of the most widely used scoring systems for expressing coronary angiographic results, is of this type. the aim of this study was to apply two statistical approaches based on the categorization and original scale of the gensini score to ...