UNLABELLED Coronary artery anomalies are rare in population and most of them are found incidentally during coronary angiography. Percutaneous treatment of critical lesions on anomalous arteries may lead to difficulties due to their abnormal origin or course. Herein, we report a 65-year-old male patient presented with recent onset chest pain. Electrocardiogram and transthoracic echocardiography ...

Coronary stent fractures have been suggested as a potential new mechanism of restenosis. The mechanical properties of stents were designed not only to prevent vessel recoil, but also to resist the mechanical stress of vessel movement over millions of cardiac cycles. We present a case in which mechanical stress may have contributed to the fracture of a stent implanted in a saphenous vein graft (...

Coronary artery anomalies arise sporadically and are found in 0.3 to 1.3% [1] of patients undergoing coronary angiography, most consist of minor variations in the location of the coronary arterial origin and are commonly benign. In contrast, some coronary artery anomalies are well described as a cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality due to a specifically abnormal course, traditionally...

background: diagnosis of coronary artery disease (cad) in early stages is vital in decreasing mortality by reducing the risk factors. the aim of this study was to investigate the association between erectile dysfunction (ed) and cad. methods: a total of 200 patients were divided into four groups according to their angiography results: group 1 (g1, n = 59): patients with one-vessel disease (1-vd...

conclusions cgm is a non-invasive technique recently developed for quantitative three-dimensional vectorial analysis of myocardial activity and detection of ischemia and infarction. this technique is clearly more sensitive and more specific than a standard resting 12-lead ecg. results the coronary angiography showed a normal coronary artery in 263 patients (67.4%). a median of cgm score was 1 (...

The gold standard for diagnosis of CAD is the conventional coronary angiography, however, it is invasive and may be associated with complications. In addition, it provides little information on the early atherosclerotic wall changes that occurs in the coronary artery disease. Multislice CT coronary angiography has been introduced as a non invasive modality to detect coronary atherosclerosis and...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of coronary vessel wall alterations in the general population is not known. Therefore, the aim of our study was to determine the prevalence of coronary artery disease in persons in whom the underlying disease was not related to coronary artery disease and could therefore be regarded as a near normal population. METHODS We included 331 consecutive patients (173 men, 1...

Anomalous left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is a rare but very serious congenital coronary artery anomaly. Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) coronary angiography has recently become the gold standard for depicting anatomical variations and anomalies of the coronary arteries because the origin and course of anomalous arteries can be demonstrated very accurate...