OBJECTIVE Preprocedural levels of C-reactive protein predict mid-term mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention for the treatment of unprotected left main coronary artery stenosis. However, there are no data regarding the impact of C-reactive protein on mid-term mortality in patients with unprotected left main coronary artery stenosis treated with coronary artery bypass graft. METHOD...

background: erythropoietin (epo) is known as a regulating hormone for the production of red blood cells, called erythropoiesis. some studies have shown that epo exerts some non-hematopoietic protective effects on ischemia-reperfusion injuries in myocytes. using echocardiography, we evaluated the effect of epo infusion on reducing ischemia-reperfusion injuries and improvement of the cardiac func...

Cardiac rehabilitation improves functional status and quality of life after a myocardial infarction (AMI), coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). It is currently the recommendation of the National Heart Foundation that all such patients be referred for rehabilitation. Previous pilot data indicate that overall only 22% of patients participat...

Cardiac adversity is by far the commonest cause of mortality in patients with diabetes.to study angiographic extents, number coronary vessels, and type lesions(A, B, C)and comparison findings between diabetic nondiabetic patients. The included all Syrian who underwent a cardiac catheterization from 8 March to September 2022 at Tishreen University Hospital Latakia. It 455 patients; 181 them wer...

We report for the first time a case of a 54 years old man with a fatal motorcycle accident due to an external bleeding compression of left internal mammary artery graft to the left anterior descending artery. The possibility of cardiac failure in trauma caused by external compression or traumatic injury of the graft should be considered in people who previously underwent coronary artery bypass ...

A 14-year old boy was admitted with an anomalous origin of the right coronary artery (RCA) from the left sinus of Valsalva, with an interarterial course of the narrow proximal segment. He underwent coronary ostial augmentation and main pulmonary artery translocation to the left pulmonary artery. In the post-cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) period, he developed thrombotic occlusion of the RCA result...

background: our aim was to forward an effective therapeutic approach by comparing efficacy and psychological states between patients with senile ischemic heart failure undergone icu and conventional therapies. methods: we selected 64 patients from hospital of traditional chinese medicine of rizhao (shandong, china) between june 2013 and june 2014. the patients had ischemic heart disease, and we...

et al. T graft with the right internal thoracic artery to left internal thoracic artery versus the left internal thoracic artery and radial artery: flow dynamics in the internal thoracic artery main stem. A new pattern for using both thoracic arteries to revascularize the entire heart: the pi-graft. Effects of heart rate on phasic Y-graft blood flow and flow reserve in patients with complete ar...