The heart disease that affects millions of people worldwide is coronary artery disease. It is caused by a narrowing or blocking of the arteries due to plaque which restricts blood flow, and reduces the amount of oxygen to the heart. Angiogram as a tool, which represents an X-ray examination of the blood vessels in the heart, is traditional tool that aid physicians in the treatment of disease. T...

H eart attack (acute myocardial infarction or sudden cardiac death related to disease of the large arteries supplying the heart) and ischemic stroke (focal neurological deficit secondary to cerebrovascular disease of the large and small arteries supplying the brain or emboli from the heart or aorta) are among the foremost serious health problems in the Western hemisphere. Because coronary arter...

A single left coronary artery with right coronary artery arising from either left main stem (LMS) or left anterior descending artery (LAD) or circumflex artery (Cx) is an extremely rare coronary anomaly. This is the first report of separate origins of proximal and distal RCA from LAD and circumflex arteries respectively in a patient with a single left coronary artery. This 57 year old patient p...

H eart attack (acute myocardial infarction or sudden cardiac death related to disease of the large arteries supplying the heart) and ischemic stroke (focal neurological deficit secondary to cerebrovascular disease of the large and small arteries supplying the brain or emboli from the heart or aorta) are among the foremost serious health problems in the Western hemisphere. Because coronary arter...

BACKGROUND High-resolution MRI has the potential to noninvasively image the human coronary artery wall and define the degree and nature of coronary artery disease. Coronary artery imaging by MR has been limited by artifacts related to blood flow and motion and by low spatial resolution. METHODS AND RESULTS We used a noninvasive black-blood (BB) MRI (BB-MR) method, free of motion and blood-flo...

Coronary angiography demonstrates only collateral arteries that are already in use (spontaneously visible collaterals). Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) provides an opportunity to uncover collaterals ready to become functional in case of occlusion of the recipient artery (recruitable collaterals). The incidence of recruitable collaterals and their relation to the distal pre...

The article presents data on heart damage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), features of the development ischemic and non-ischemic disease a significant increase risk adverse cardiovascular events. Patients RA are characterized by an increased developing myocardial infarction, failure, rhythm disturbances, sudden cardiac death, general death. possibility fairly rapid dysfunction from m...

background coronary heart disease (chd) is the leading cause of death worldwide. research indicates that coronary atherosclerosis is the most frequent cause of chd. evidence is scarce concerning the clinical efficacy of fibrinogen or neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (nlr) measurement in risk-stratifying patients with chronic stable angina. conclusions nlr and fibrinogen predicted cad, independent of...

Anomalous origin of coronary arteries is generally asymptomatic and a rare disease. However, some cases can cause severe life-threatening events such as myocardial ischemia, arrhythmia, and acute myocardial infarction. We describe a case of a single coronary artery arising from the right sinus of Valsalva in a 48-year-old female patient with a complaint of stable angina pectoris and palpitation...