Intestinal 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...

Neuropsychiatry Syndromes Following Ischemic Stroke

10.4172/Neuropsychiatry.1000110 © 2016 pISSN 1758-2008 eISSN 1758-2016 Neuropsychiatry (London) (2016) 6(1), 08–09 8 1Department of Psychiatry, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China 2School of Psychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia 3University of Notre Dame Australia/Marian Centre, Perth, Australia 4CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute...

I Intestinal Gas - Its Syndromes

Not only the ancient man was tormented by the whirlwinds in his bowel but even today belching, bloating and flatulence remain all too common to the modern man. Although the syndromes related to intestinal gas were recognised since time of Hippocrates, the treatment of these syndromes had been far from satisfactory (I). The advent of space exploration, and with it the recognition, that gaseous d...

Heart-kidney interactions in ischemic syndromes.

To the Editor: In a recent GUSTO-IV substudy of 6809 patients with non– ST-segment–elevation acute coronary syndromes, raised serum N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and creatinine clearance below the 25th percentile (51 mL/min) independently predicted 1-year mortality.1 The combination of creatinine clearance with BNP was the strongest predictor of death, compared with each marker...