background coronary artery disease is the single most important cause of mortality and morbidity in diabetic patients. electrocardiographic stress test is a non-invasive modality to screen significant coronary involvement in minimally symptomatic diabetics. objectives we investigated the positive predictive value (ppv) of this test in comparison with coronary angiography. materials and methods ...

A 56 year old man was admitted to our center for further evaluation of typical chest pain of ten months' duration. Selective coronary angiography was done and showed a sewing needle-like foreign body which was lying in very close proximity to the anatomic location of the right coronary artery. At operation two pieces of sewing needles were removed, one from the coronary sinus and the other...

background: according to the angiographic findings, 3%-8% of atherosclerotic coronary artery patients suffer from coronary artery ectasia (cae). we conducted this study to estimate the prevalence of cae among patients who underwent angiography and compared this group with those patients without cae and atherosclerosis in terms of common coronary heart disease (chd) risk factors. methods : this ...

results mean age of patients was 59.47 (sd = 12.48) years, of which 75 (75.8%) were male and 24 (24.2%) were female. based on univariable analysis, white blood cell (wbc) count, pain duration, lv function, maximal st-change, thrombus grade and eccentricity were identified as predictors of the no-reflow phenomenon. after multivariable logistic regression: wbc count and thrombus grade remained th...

background differentiating ischemic from nonischemic cardiomyopathy is important both prognostically and therapeutically, although it may be difficult clinically. objectives we aimed to determine the diagnostic power of cardiogoniometry (cgm) in the differentiation of the ischemic from the nonischemic etiology of left bundle branch block (lbbb). patients and methods we studied 37 patients with ...

in patients requiring coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg), usually at least one of the internal mammary arteries is used. this study evaluates the degree of atherosclerotic involvement of the internal mammary artery (ima) in patients undergoing cabg. during two months period, 79 patients (66 male and 13 female with a medium age of 58 years) undergoing myocardial revascularization had a biops...

conclusion our results indicate that dsct coronary angiography provides high diagnostic accuracy for the evaluation of cad patients during daily routine practice of a referral cardiovascular setting. background there are numerous studies that address the diagnostic value of dual-source computed tomography (dsct) as an alternative to conventional coronary angiography (cca). however, the benefit ...

background: practice of interventional cardiology procedures such as coronary angiography (ca) and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (ptca) has largely increased in recent years and is now changing to a matter of routine in many hospitals. the purpose of this study was to measure skin and organ doses in patients undergoing ca and ptca and to find a probable relation with cardiologi...