introduction: although coronary endarterectomy is not an ideal procedure, it is the only available option for cardiac surgeons in some patients with diffuse coronary artery disease. based on the majority of conducted studies, the results of coronary endarterectomy (including survival, graft patency, and recurrence of the symptoms of myocardial ischemia) are less prevalent than standard coronary...

Introduction : Significant left main coronary artery stenosis jeopardizes the entire myocardium of the left ventricle and has the worst prognosis of any form of coronary artery disease. Coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) has been considered as the standard therapeutic approach for such patients. There are limited data on the safety and effectiveness of percutaneous coronary intervention (PC...

background: investigators frequently encounter continuous outcomes with plenty of values clumped at zero called semi-continuous outcomes. the gensini score, one of the most widely used scoring systems for expressing coronary angiographic results, is of this type. the aim of this study was to apply two statistical approaches based on the categorization and original scale of the gensini score to ...

Background & Aims: The clinical value of T wave inversion (TWI) in the lead aVL in diagnosing coronary artery disease (CAD) remains unclear. Hence, we aim to evaluate the association between TWI in the aVL lead and the severity and location of coronary artery stenosis in elective coronary angiography. Material and Method: Electrocardiograms (ECGs) of 167 consecutive patients undergoing electiv...

Introduction: Coronary artery disease secondary to atherosclerosis is the most common cause of mortality. Coronary angiography is the most precise method for determining the extent of disease in the coronary vascular bed. Arterial stiffness has been proposed as a marker of atherosclerosis in some studies. One of the noninvasive methods for the determination of arterial stiffness is Doppler echo...

Abstract Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a hereditary dislipidemia. Patients present with extremely high level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), which is due to mutation in the gene of LDL receptor. Homozygous patients (HoFH) whose incidence is 1 in 1.000.000 are at high risk of premature aortic valve stenosis, and coronary artery atherosclerosis. In homozygous individual...

results the prevalence’s of aa, ac and cc genotypes were 55.2%, 24.1% and 20.7% in cad patients and 51.6%, 40.9% and 7.5% in the control subjects, respectively. the frequencies of the c allele were significantly higher in cad patients compared with control groups (p < 0.05). logistic regression analysis revealed a significant association between the c allele and the risk of cad (or = 1.61, 95%c...

background cardiac rehabilitation (cr) can reduce risk factors and mortality rate and improve physical functions. coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) is commonly performed for patients with coronary disease. objectives the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of cr program on quality of life in patients with cardiac disease who had undergone cabg. patients and methods twenty p...