OBJECTIVE To evaluate corrected thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) frame count (CTFC) in patients with angiographically normal coronary arteries and diabetes mellitus, a condition known to be associated with microvascular dysfunction. METHODS Patients who underwent coronary angiography in Gazi University Hospital, Ankara, Turkey between January 2000 and January 2005 were studied. Co...

Knowledge of morphometric quantities of coronary arteries in infants is an increasingly vital component in managing congenital and acquired heart disease. Because of considerable heterogeneity of coronary vasculature, what is considered atypical and aberrant or insignificant anatomy is often unclear. The purpose of our present study is to define normal infant anatomy. This was done by focu...

UNLABELLED Myocardial infarction with normal coronary arteries typically occurs in patients under 50 years of age. There is usually no history of angina or previous myocardial infarction, and risk factors for ischemic heart disease are frequently absent. We report a 27-year-old heroin user with normal coronary arteries and inferior wall infarction secondary to infective endocarditis. The left v...

C ELLULIAR INFILTRATION of the adventitia in atheromatous arteries was noted by Allbutt,l Ophuils,2 and Gerlis,3 who described the histologic characteristics of cellular aggregates in the adventitia of coronary arteries, and concluded that they were unrelated to the degree of coronary artery disease. He also stated that adventitial cellular infiltration was restricted to the coronary arteries, ...

OBJECTIVES In the present study, we analyzed the clinical outcome of patients with multivessel coronary artery disease in whom at least one vessel was treated by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and at least one other vessel was deferred on the basis of fractional flow reserve (FFR) measurements during the same session. BACKGROUND Myocardial FFR is an established tool for assessing th...

T HE EXTENSIVE clinical utilization of coronary angiography and coronary artery surgery in recent years has heightened interest in the anatomy and pathology of the coronary arterial tree. Much new information has indeed been amassed concerning the patterns of distribution of the coronary arteries, the size and extent of interarterial coronary anastomoses, the nature, location, and extent of cor...

BACKGROUND The prognosis for women with chest pain and angiographically normal coronary arteries is believed to be totally benign. Previous studies, however, did not account for the delay of a decade or so in the development of coronary artery disease that women may experience. METHODS AND RESULTS This study assessed long-term follow-up of 42 women with de novo angina, evidence of reversible ...

THE NEED for methods to detect and measure atherosclerotic lesions in the coronary arteries before the onset of clinical manifestations of coronary heart disease is well recognized by clinicians and epidemiologists.' Since coronary artery lesions are the principal factors in coronary heart disease, they should be more strongly correlated with clinical disease than are the commonly used risk fac...

60-80% of patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) the lower extremities present coronary artery (CAD); there are no reports in Mexico said relationship. PAD is undervalued; also secondary to this, do not wander, causing CAD go undetected; In Mexican population, a high percentage arteries calcification has been identified, which altogether predominant cardiovascular risk factors, makes i...

Retrograde coronary artery flow was observed angiographically in 43 patients with aortic stenosis and/or regurgitation. In the 24 patients with pure or predominant aortic stenosis, retrograde flow was seen in all 24 during end-systole. In the eight patients with pure aortic regurgitation, retrograde flow was seen mainly during end-diastole (6/8). Among the 11 patients with stenosis and regurgit...