Many patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) have multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD) (1,2), yet interventional cardiologists can almost always identify a single lesion responsible for the infarction. After successful percutaneous coronary intervention of the infarct-related lesion (culprit PCI), there are 2 competing strategies available for STEMI patients with m...

The National Cardiovascular Database for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (NCVD PCI) Registry is the first multicentre interventional cardiology project, involving the main cardiac centres in the country. The ultimate goal of NCVD PCI is to provide a contemporary appraisal of PCI in Malaysia. This article introduces the foundation, the aims, methodology, database collection and preliminary re...

IntroductionThe Six-Minute Walk Test (6MWT) has been used for over thirty years to assess exercise capacity in patients with respiratory disease, and more recently heart failure. However, despite being a simple reproducible test of real-world capacity, its use ischaemic disease (IHD) is less well accepted. We sought review systematically the evidence surrounding 6MWT IHD.MethodsWe searched Medl...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence contrast-induced nephropathy and risk variables among patients undergoing multi-vessel percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Study Design: Prospective / Observational Place Duration: Department Interventional Cardiology, Peshawar Institute Cardiology in duration from November 2022 April, 2023. Methods: There were 168 both g...

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of calcitriol on Ischemia-reperfusion Injury (IRI) and inflammatory biomarkers in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTEACS) undergoing elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI). Methods: A total of 72 patients with NSTEACS were randomly divided into two groups: (1) the calcitriol-treated grou...

BACKGROUND In the SYNTAX (Synergy Between Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Taxus and Cardiac Surgery) trial, patients with 3-vessel or left main coronary artery disease (CAD) had improved long-term outcomes with coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery compared with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents (DES), improvements driven mainly by differences in my...

A polymer-free biolimus A9-coated stent (PF-BCS; BioFreedom™, Biosensors Interventional Technologies, Singapore) can elute the drug even without a polymer by retaining on rough surface of wall (1). Here we present case late neointimal regression 1–5 years after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We performed PCI for severe stenosis proximal right artery and implanted PF-BCS. The thicknes...

conclusions pci was accompanied by some improvement in left atrial deformation indices as assessed by tissue doppler imaging. revascularization can, therefore, improve patient outcome. results regarding changes in left trial functional parameters after pci, those such as the strain of the septal wall and the anterior and inferior walls and the strain rate of the anterior and lateral walls signi...

BACKGROUND Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for anomalous right coronary artery (RCA) arising from the left sinus of Valsalva (LSOV) is a technical challenge due to inadequate guiding catheter support to overcome the acute rightward course of the anomalous RCA. In this study we describe a novel technique for PCI for an anomalous RCA arising from the LSOV. METHODS Six patient cases wit...

Acute esophageal necrosis is uncommon in the literature. Its etiology is unknown, although cardiovascular disease, hemodynamic compromise, gastric outlet obstruction, alcohol ingestion, hypoxemia, hypercoagulable state, infection, and trauma have all been suggested as possible causes. A 67-year-old female underwent a coronary angiography (CAG) for evaluation of chest pain. CAG findings showed c...