Acute ischemic syndromes

Acute Myocardial Ischemic Syndromes

Acute Ischemic Syndromes

Coronary artery disease has a heterogeneous range of clinical presentations that varies from asymptomatic patients with multivessel disease to patients with one-vessel disease with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and even sudden death. Other patients have stable angina that has evolved over many years, even decades, without progressing to unstable angina or myocardial infarction (MI). Even mo...

Iron contributes to endothelial dysfunction in acute ischemic syndromes.

Acute Ischemic Syndromes To the Editor: Congratulations to Duffy et al1 on their well-written article, “Iron Chelation Improves Endothelial Function in Patients With Coronary Disease.” We completely agree that increased body iron stores may be a risk factor for atherosclerosis and may accelerate endothelial dysfunction in acute ischemic syndromes. Hence, deferoxamine, an iron chelator, should p...

Insights into the pathogenesis of acute ischemic syndromes.

OVER THE LAST few years clinical/pathologic observations and experimental investigation have led us to a better understanding of the pathogenetic factors leading to the acute coronary syndromes: unstable angina , myocardial infarction, and ischemic sudden death. The elegant pathologic studies of Falk' and Da-vies and Thomas2 have emphasized that thrombus formation secondary to plaque rupture an...

dysphagia in acute ischemic stroke

Introduction: Swallowing dysfunction complicates acute strokes in 25-32% of cases and directly affects patientschr('39') prognosis and recovery. Dysphagia complicates the course of acute strokes through its potential of the development of chest infection, nutritional problems, and dehydration.  Dysphagia is also an independent predictor of respiratory morbidity and mortality in acute stroke. In...