INTRODUCTION The descending branch of the lateral femoral circumflex artery is an option for coronary artery bypass grafting. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the early patency and adaptation of lumen diameter using multidetector computed angiotomography. METHODS Thirty-two patients were selected to undergo coronary artery bypass grafting using the descending branch of the lateral circumflex artery, t...

A 49-year-old man with multiple coronary risk factors, including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia, was referred for coronary angiography for evaluation of mild dyspnea on exertion and atypical chest pains. An exercise nuclear stress test demonstrated mild, reversible ischemia in the mid and distal inferior wall. The patient subsequently underwent cardiac catheterization, whic...

Background: Managing posterior glenoid wear and retroversion remains a challenge in shoulder arthroplasty.Correcting glenoid version through asymmetric reaming (AR) with placement of a standard glenoid component and theuse of posteriorly augmented glenoid (PAG) components are two methods used to address this problem. Our objectiveis to report the radiographic outcomes of patie...

METHODS One hundred thirty-two patients with severe angina underwent TMR as sole therapy with a CO2 laser. Age, gender, ejection fraction, prior CABG, unstable angina and the severity of coronary artery disease (graded on the basis of a newly proposed Anatomic Myocardial Perfusion index, AMP) were each determined. Each vascular territory (left anterior descending artery [LAD] left circumflex ar...

coronary arteriography to assure that an adequate study has been obtained. Failure to recognize and properly demonstrate the anomaly can be hazardous to patient management. Two angiographic signs have proved reliable in recognizing the anomalous artery before its selective demonstration. These signs are a profile view of the artery behind the aortic root during left ventriculography (the -aorti...

background: vertebrobasilar arterial territory nourishes one-quarter of human brain. it constitutes some vital and strategic parts of the central nervous system. methods: a number of keywords (vertebral, basilar, artery, and territory) were searched in medline (ovid and pubmed) as well as google, proquest, scopus, cochrane library, and science direct online databases. only articles containing a...

Myocardial bridging (MB) is defined as the presence of an intramural course of a coronary artery, most likely caused by a defect in resorption of the musculature that encircles the epicardial arteries during morphogenesis. We present a case of the young man who died suddenly while playing professional football and whose cause of death was acute myocardial infarction associated with multiple myo...

BACKGROUND Knowledge of the anatomical variations of the profunda femoris artery and its circumflex branches is important during angiographic diagnostic procedures as well as during performing surgery in the femoral region. The aim of this study was to examine the original sites, distances and variations of the profunda femoris artery and its circumflex branches. MATERIALS AND METHODS The stu...

Traumatic posterior instability may occasionally cause a large osteochondral lesion when the anterior humeral head is compressed against the posterior glenoid rim. This is termed a reverse Hill–Sachs lesion. Such osteochondral defects may be very large in the case of chronic locked dislocations. Even in acute posterior disclocations, closed reduction may be difficult when the humeral head is lo...

Introduction: Coronary artery anomalies are rare clinical entities reported in 0.6% to 5.6% of diagnostic coronary angiographies. Anomalous origins of coronary arteries from distal segments are rarely reported. Presented herein is a coronary anomaly in which the circumflex artery (CX) originated as a continuation of the posterolateral branch of the right coronary artery (RCA) w...