although thallium-201 exercise scintigraphy has been established for the detection of myocardial ischemia and viability, little is known regarding the myocardial thallium-201 kinetics during angioplasty. herein, we report a 77-year old man with angina pectoris, in whom serial myocardial imaging after a single dose of thallium-201 was helpful in identifying not only the culprit lesion and myocar...

Abbreviations: ACT 5 activated clotting time; APTT 5 activated partial thromboplastin time; AT 5 antithrombin; AT-III 5 antithrombin III; CI 5 confidence interval; DVT 5 deep vein thrombosis; GP 5 glycoprotein; HIT 5 heparininduced thrombocytopenia; INR 5 international normalized ratio; LMWH 5 low-molecular-weight heparin; MI 5 myocardial infarction; NQMI 5 non-Q-wave myocardial infarction; OR ...

AIMS Some recent studies have reported-superior outcomes for diabetic patients following coronary bypass surgery compared with coronary angioplasty. However, the available data are conflicting, are based on relatively small numbers of diabetic patients, and have limited duration of follow-up. The aims of this study were to compare risk adjusted long-term survival in diabetic patients following ...

OBJECTIVES The Asymptomatic Cardiac Ischemia Pilot (ACIP) study showed that revascularization is more effective than medical therapy in suppressing cardiac ischemia at 12 weeks. This report compares the relative efficacy of coronary angioplasty or coronary artery bypass graft surgery in suppressing ambulatory electrocardiographic (ECG) and treadmill exercise cardiac ischemia between 2 and 3 mon...

Eberhard Grube, Ulrich Gerckens, Alan C. Yeung, Sascha Rowold, Nicole Kirchhof, Jerry and Native Vessels Using Porous Filter Protection Prevention of Distal Embolization During Coronary Angioplasty in Saphenous Vein Grafts Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 2001 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Gree...

Distal embolization of particulate matter complicates percutaneous coronary and peripheral interventions more often than had been recognized until recently. A number of distal protection devices are under development. The PercuSurge GuardWiretrade mark is a balloon occlusion thrombectomy device approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for saphenous vein graft intervention. A n...

Lipocalin-type prostaglandin D synthase (L-PGDS) is localized in the central nervous system and male genital organs of various mammals and is secreted as beta-trace into the closed compartment of these tissues separated from the systemic circulation. In this study, we found that the mRNA for the human enzyme was expressed most intensely in the heart among various tissues examined. In human auto...

Percutaneous coronary laser thermal angioplasty was successfully performed before conventional balloon angioplasty in a 55 year old white man with a 90% left anterior descending artery stenotic lesion and angina at rest (Canadian Heart Association class IV). The lesion was reduced to 50% residual stenosis using a 1.7 mm laser-heated metallic capped fiber and two pulses of 8 W of argon laser ene...

Four patients who had stenosis of a single major coronary artery which was treated by percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty are described. Three had exercise induced myocardial ischaemia complicated by ventricular tachycardia, fibrillation, and sinus bradycardia, respectively. Asystole developed in a fourth patient who had spontaneous chest pain. After successful percutaneous translumi...