Methods Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) flow grade, myocardial blush grade (MBG), and ST-segment resolution were assessed in 60 patients with AMI treated with primary stenting. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance was performed between 2 and 9 days after revascularization to determine early MVO on first-pass perfusion imaging, late MVO on late gadolinium-enhanced imaging, and infarct ...

U p to 30% of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) treated with reperfusion and with an apparently successful result have microvascular dysfunction. Multiple techniques are available for the diagnosis of this condition, but little information is available comparing their ability to predict ventricular recovery after AMI. The objective of our study was to compare the accuracy of myoca...

Cardiac rhabdomyomas are extremely uncommon in the adult patient. We describe a previously healthy man who presented with ventricular arrhythmias resulting from a right ventricular, cardiac rhabdomyoma. Echocardiography, CT scanning, and MRI are recognized as useful diagnostic modalities for intracardiac lesions. Cardiac catheterization in our patient demonstrated the presence of a tumor blush....

one arm. The dry proteins are dissolved in weak caustic soda and a drop placed on the abrasion. The test is complete in half an hour. An urticarial wheal with an erythematous blush around constitutes a positive reaction. Out of nearly 800 cases suffering from asthma or hay fever 200 positive reactions were obtained. Of these 28 reacted positively to some animal emanation. The largest number of ...

Meningeal hemangiopericytomas are rare but aggressive tumors. All eight patients in this series developed recurrences, three with distant metastases. In six patients a lytic destructive lesion of bone was evident. CT scans in three patients demonstrated diffusely enhancing lesions. No tumor calcification was present. In five of six patients angiography was characterized by multiple irregular tu...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact on myocardial perfusion and infarct size as assessed by contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (CE-MRI) of a manual thrombectomy device, Export Medtronic (EM) (Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota), as adjunctive therapy in primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) in a subset of patients with anterior ST-segment el...

BACKGROUND SYNTAX score II (SS-II) has been demonstrated to predict long-term outcomes in unprotected left main or multiple vessels in patients with coronary artery disease. However, its prognostic value for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) remains unknown. The poor myocardial perfusion (myocardial blush grade [MBG] 0/1) after primary percutaneous coronary interv...

The authors present three cases of atypical pancreatic pseudocysts, occurring in the course of chronic pancreatitis: intrasplenic pseudocyst, pseudocyst in the hilus of spleen and bleeding into the pseudocyst of the tail of pancreas. Such cysts are extremely difficult, or even impossible to be recognized by conventional clinical and radiological methods. Located in the parenchyma or in the hilu...