Objectives: To observe the frequency of acute renal failure after percutaneous coronary intervention and cardiac catheterization. Patients and Methods: This is a retrospective study, comprising 200 patients undergoing cardiac catheterization and percutaneous coronary intervention at Aga Khan University Hospital. Patient aged above 18 years and not on regular dialysis was included in the study.P...

Objective(s): Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy refers to cardiac muscle dysfunction caused by liver cirrhosis. Seemingly, free radicals and inflammatory factors play a critical role in the pathophysiology of cardiomyopathy. Curcumin has the anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anticancer properties . However, the therapeutic indications of this compound are limited due to its low absorption, rapid metab...

BACKGROUND Short hospital stays for patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACSs) reduce the opportunity for risk factor intervention during admission. After discharge, cardiac rehabilitation can decrease the recurrence of coronary events by up to 25%. However, it remains underused. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine whether a nursing intervention focused on individual ACS pati...

BACKGROUND Mortality among patients admitted to hospital after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is high. Based on recent scientific evidence with a main goal of improving survival, we introduced and implemented a standardised post resuscitation protocol focusing on vital organ function including therapeutic hypothermia, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), control of haemodynamics, bl...

conclusions music therapy is a safe, simple, inexpensive, and non-invasive nursing intervention, which can significantly alleviate patients’ anxiety during coronary angioplasty. patients and methods this was a randomized controlled trial, conducted in the catheterization laboratory unit of baqiyatallah hospital, in tehran, iran. a sample of 64 patients, who were planned to undergo coronary angi...

Background: Diagnostic cardiac catheterization is a common procedure in coronary artery disease. Patients’ movement and activities are limited because of potential risks; therefore, they need bed rest. The current study aimed at investigating the impacts of changes in body position and earlier ambulation on comfort, bleeding, and ecchymosis after the diagnostic cardiac catheterization. M...

patients and methods this retrospective study used a database of a cr ward of a hospital in iran. the demographic and clinical information of 574 patients participating in the cr program from april 2005 through april 2010 were analyzed. in order to determine the predictors of anxiety, binary logistic regression was performed. results after adjustment for gender, age and education, the results s...

Andreas Gruentzig pioneered coronary angioplasty, but we are probably indebted to him for far more than this. He instigated a more creative approach to percutaneous intervention, thus inspiring other ‘‘revolutionaries’’ such as Amplatz, Lock, Bonhoeffer and Cribier, who extended the field of cardiac intervention to territories other than that of the coronary circulation. Structural heart diseas...