Coronary aneurysms are typically seen in association with Kawasaki disease and only in rare instances, they are reported to be congenital or idiopathic. Here we report a case of a five year old boy who was found to have an idiopathic right coronary artery aneurysm. He presented with complaints of recurrent respiratory tract infections. His examination and investigations did not reveal any of th...

impaired fasting glucose identifies individuals at high risk of progression to diabetes but the role of ifg as a coronary artery disease risk factor, independent of its progression to diabetes and its association with other coronary artery disease risk factors ,is unclear. a cross-sectional study was conducted to evaluate the hypothesis that impaired fasting glucose increased the likelihood of ...

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...

dobutamine stress echocardiography (dse) has been widely used as a diagnostic and prognostic modality in the management of stress. dse is associated with limited complications and adverse effects on the health of patients. in this case report, we described a 42-year-old female patient with dobutamine-induced coronary artery spasm with history of exertional dyspnea, which had deteriorated recent...

background coronary artery disease is the single most important cause of mortality and morbidity in diabetic patients. electrocardiographic stress test is a non-invasive modality to screen significant coronary involvement in minimally symptomatic diabetics. objectives we investigated the positive predictive value (ppv) of this test in comparison with coronary angiography. materials and methods ...

percutaneous coronary angioplasty (ptca) of a coronary stenosis without documented ischemia at noninvasive stress testing is often performed, but its benefit is unproven. coronary pressure– derived fractional flow reserve (ffr) is an invasive index of stenosis severity defined as the ratio of maximal blood pressure in a stenotic vessel to the normal maximal pressure in the same vessel. ffr is a...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the association of stress, coping strategies and quality of relationship as independent variables with coronary heart diseases. 75 subjects (25 acute coronary inpatients, 25 chronic coronary inpatients, and 25 normal men) in three groups-who were matched for age, sex, education, income, marital status, occupation, and residential ownership, were sele...

background: more diagnostic techniques require a better understanding of the forces and stresses developed in the wall of the left ventricle. the aim of this study was to differentiate significant coronary artery disease (cad) patients using a non-invasive quantification of myocardial wall stress in the diastole phase. methods: sixty male subjects with sinus rhythm (30 patients with significant...

background: early clinical and retrospective angiographic evaluations indicated that in patients with acute myocardial infarction (mi), vulnerable plaques most often represented a mild luminal stenosis. more recent studies drawing upon prospective angiograms, however, have demonstrated that in majority of patients with acute mi, the underlying stenosis is significant.   methods: twenty-eight pa...