Serum lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] was determined in 85 healthy controls (control group), in 49 patients with cerebrovascular disease (CVD group), and in 87 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI group). Lp(a) concentration was measured using a single radial immunodiffusion method. Because Lp(a) showed a skewed distribution, Lp(a) was plotted in each group on a box plot and analyzed using non...

background : myocardial infarction in young age is increasing. identifying risk factors could be important for health promotion. we studied classic atherosclerotic risk factors in premature myocardial infarction. methods : in this matched case-control study, which was conducted from 2005 to 2007 in birjand county, the east of iran, atherosclerotic risk factors ( hypertension , family history of...

Transient cerebral ischemic attacks (TIA) are an important warning symptom of threatening stroke from cerebral infarction (CI). A local treatment program aimed at identifying as many individuals with TIA as possible and treating them in a uniform manner is desirable. Platelet aggregation inhibitors with a combination of acetylsalicylic acid and dipyridamole (ASA + DP) has been compared with ant...

Cerebral infarction, a common central nervous system complication after adult cardiac surgery, is one of the main factors leading to poor prognosis surgery patients besides insufficiency. However, there currently no effective treatment for cerebral infarction. Therefore, early prevention and diagnosis postoperative infarction are particularly important. There many mechanisms during that play an...

OBJECTIVE Type 1 diabetes is associated with a markedly increased risk of stroke, but only a few studies on the incidence of stroke in type 1 diabetes exist. Therefore, we assessed the incidence of stroke in patients with type 1 diabetes and studied the impact of diabetic nephropathy (DN) and severe diabetic retinopathy (SDR) on this risk. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We studied 4,083 patients...

BACKGROUND Recurrent cardiovascular events following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are common. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of platelet aggregation, PFA-100 closure times and peak C-reactive protein (CRP), respectively, on the occurrence of death, myocardial infarction and ischemic cerebral events after an AMI. Furthermore, to examine the relationship between the pla...

OBJECTIVE Early progressive infarction (EPI) is frequently observed and related to poor functional outcome in patients with middle cerebral artery (MCA) infarction caused by MCA occlusion. We evaluated the perfusion parameters of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a predictor of EPI. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed patients with acute MCA territory infarction caused by MCA occlusion. EPI...

Background Gout is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular comorbidities and premature mortality. Many epidemiologic studies support association between gout diverse diseases. There has been no study on risks mortality in Korean patients large scale data. Therefore, we intended to investigate the each specific disease patient national insurance database. The purpose this gout. Objec...

Using the dog, which has been believed unsuitable for research on brain infarction because of an extensive collateral cerebral circulation, we have succeeded in producing at will ischemic foci, as determined from post-occlusion carbon perfusion, in the thalamus, cerebral mantle or entire cerebral hemisphere. This has been achieved by occlusion of various combinations of cerebral vessels at the ...

INTRODUCTION Cerebral vasospasm is a well-documented complication of aneurismal subarachnoid hemorrhage but has not been extensively studied in brain arteriovenous malformations (BAVMs). Here, our purpose was to identify risk factors for cerebral vasospasm after BAVM rupture in patients requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission. METHODS Patients admitted to our ICU from January 2003 to Ma...