AIMS Pre-infarction angina is associated with better outcome after myocardial infarction. The aim of this study was to assess whether pre-infarction angina is associated with decreased no-reflow after coronary recanalization. METHODS AND RESULTS Twenty-three patients underwent intracoronary myocardial contrast echocardiography during the acute phase of anterior myocardial infarction after suc...

BACKGROUND Cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and cardioplegic arrest has been associated with myocardial edema attributable to vascular permeability, which is regulated in part by thrombin-induced alterations in cellular junctions. Aprotinin has been demonstrated to prevent activation of the thrombin protease-activated receptor, and we hypothesized that aprotinin preserves myoca...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between the initial microvascular perfusion pattern, as assessed by intracoronary myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE), immediately after restoration of TIMI (thrombolysis in myocardial infarction) (TIMI) grade 3 flow during acute myocardial infarction, and the extent and timing of functional recovery in the area at risk. SETTING Referral centre for int...

Infertility is a very disastrous side effect in young females, especially in traditional male-dominated societies. The aim of this talk is to discuss the possible ways for fertility preservation in both man and woman. Another aspect is to how to predict women at threat of premature ovarian failure. It will also illustrate the association of cytochrome P450 (CYP2C19) polymorphism with ovarian to...

Under such names as isolated myocarditis (Sellentin, 1904), Fiedler's myocarditis (Fiedler, 1899), and myocarditis pemiciosa (Boikan, 1931), a rare myocardial disorder of unknown origin has been described which is characterized by progressive heart failure ending fatally after a course lasting weeks or months. In still rarer cases the duration of the illness is measured in days or hours. No age...

_____________ _ Inadequate right heart protection during cardiac surgery with extracorporeal circulation is a complex problem. Rewarming of the right heart via collateral coronary blood flow, ambient room air, surgical lights and the proximity of the heart to other mediastinal structures, as well as inadequate initial cooling are some of the factors sited as causes of reduced myocardial protect...

conclusion osem3d may provide better image quality and higher contrast than other methods for small animal imaging with the new myocardial imaging agent, [18f] fptp. results the location and size of myocardial infarction on pet images correlated closely with that observed with ttc staining. among the four reconstruction methods, osem3d provided the best assessment of infarct size (r2 = 0.994, p...