background: significant elevation of cardiac biomarkers after percutaneous coronary intervention (pci) is associated with increased mortality. however, clinical importance of lesser degrees of cardiac enzyme elevation has not been well understood. multiple factors might have an etiologic role, and the incidence of myonecrosis has not changed dramatically despite pharmacological and technologica...

background: myocardial ischemia is one of several causes of prolonged qt dispersion. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect that percutaneous coronary intervention has on the depolarization and repolarization parameters of surface electrocardiography in patients with chronic stable angina. methods: we assessed the effects of full revascularization in patients with chronic stable angin...

conclusions routine predilation of the sb in provisional stenting of true bifurcation lesions seems to be ineffective and might be associated with some undesirable consequences. still, there are some complex ostial lesions of the sb which could benefit from predilation. patients and methods sixty patients with true bifurcation lesions according to the medina classification were included in the ...

conclusions we found that the use of clopidogrel in patients undergoing pci had favorable effects on the suppression of hs-crp. this effect appears to be heightened and more apparent in some group of patients with co-morbidities such as diabetes and hypertension. results six hundred-fifty patients including 386 (59.4%) male and 264 (40.6%) female subjects were enrolled in the study. the mean hs...

conclusions this study shows that pci in symptomatic post cabg patients follows by high successful and low complication rate and positive impression on their cardiac symptoms and could reduce the need for redo cabg. it seems that there is no difference that pci is performing on svg or native vessel, the intervention itself improves the patients’ quality of life. patients and methods in this stu...

background: the aim of the present study was to develop a scoring system for predicting 1-year major adverse cardiac events (mace), including mortality, target vessel or target lesion revascularization, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, and non-fatal myocardial infarction after percutaneous coronary intervention (pci). methods: the data were extracted from a single center pci registry. the ...

conclusions although by current treatments, the prevalence of patients with low tc, ldl-c and non-hdl-c has significantly increased; dyslipidemia persisted in a considerable proportion of patients. these results necessitate further investigations into the relationship between high serum lipids and long-term outcome of patients after pci as well as further evaluations of the dyslipidemia treatme...