background : medical operation is an anxious factor that causes physiological reactions in body which consequently increases respiratory rate, heart rate and blood pressure. the aim of this study is assessing the effect of reflexotherapy on vital signs of patients before coronary artery bypass surgery in shahid chamran hospital of isfahan. methods : fifty volunteer patients candidated for coron...

BACKGROUND Controversy persists regarding the use of coronary endarterectomy (CE) in patients with severe coronary artery disease. We compared the comorbidities and perioperative characteristics of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with and without CE. METHODS This study was performed in two private hospitals in Shiraz, Iran from May 2010 to December 2011 on 967 patie...

Coronary artery bypass graft surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention are the treatment options in patients with ischemia and multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD). Comparisons of coronary artery bypass graft and percutaneous coronary intervention have provided conflicting information. For years, experts have debated over the optimal treatment for patients with multivessel CAD. Curren...

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...

Background: Artificial coronary artery dissection is observed occasionally during percutaneous coronary intervention. However, “spontaneous” coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is not common and we tried to clarify its characteristics. Methods and Results: We reviewed the serial diagnostic coronary angiograms of 21,500 patients retrospectively. Sixty-two patients showed linear, longitudinal defec...

right ventricular failure due to right coronary artery disease, right ventricular hypertrophy, stunning, abnormal septal motion, myocardial infarction, or non-homogeneous distribution of cardioplegia is an uncommon but serious complication of open heart surgery. we report a patient with severe right ventricular hypertrophy secondary to severe mitral valve stenosis and another patient with detac...