A 42 years, hypertensive lady presented with chest pain of 2 hours duration. On examination, her vital parameters were settled and there was no gross cardiovascular abnormality. Electrocardiogram showed acute anterior myocardial infarction. Troponin I was positive for myocardial necrosis. Transthoracic echocardiogram revealed hypokinetic left ventricular apex and apical half of interventricular...

background: coronary disease is the most common cause of death in the world. because of common risk factors, atherosclerotic stenosis of coronary and carotid arteries occurs together. this study evaluated the prevalence of carotid stenosis in diabetic candidates for angiography methods: in a cross-sectional study, 152 diabetic candidates for angiography referred to cardiology clinic of shariati...

the left ventricular aneurysm is one of the most significant complications of myocardial infarction and is defined as the expansion of the ventricular wall. the coronary artery aneurysm is characterized by an abnormal dilation of the localized portion of the coronary artery, and its main cause is atherosclerosis. we herein report an unusual case of coronary artery and left ventricular aneurysms...

kawasaki disease is believed to be the commonest vasculitis of medium vessels in asian children. however, the majority of children with kawasaki disease continue to remain undiagnosed perhaps because of the lack of awareness amongst pediatricians. the clinical features of kawasaki disease can be confused with other common conditions such as scarlet fever, stevens johnson syndrome, measles fever...

large intercoronary communications in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease constitute a very rare coronary artery anomaly in which there is a readily visible connection between the 2 coronary arteries with a unidirectional or bidirectional blood flow; consequently, this anomaly may be misinterpreted as a functioning collateral vessel, indicative of an unrecognized proximal coronar...

coronary heart disease has been one of the main threats of human health. coronary angiography is taken as the “gold standard” for the assessment of coronary artery disease. but sometimes, the images are difficult to interpret visually because of the crossing and overlapping of the vessels in the angiograms. vessel extraction from x-ray angiograms has been a challenging problem for several years...

Coronary artery aneurysm is an uncommon disease. We present a case of an unusual huge saccular coronary aneurysm of the left anterior descending coronary artery detected by 64-slice multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) coronary angiography, which initially presented as a mediastinal mass on chest X-ray. The true size of the aneurysm would have been underestimated by coronary angiography be...

We report the case of a 66-year-old man with a left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery aneurysm. Cigarette smoking and hepatitis C virus infection were in his clinical history. Coronary angiography performed in 2002 showed a LAD aneurysm, a 50% stenosis of the right coronary artery, and a 30% stenosis of the left main artery (Figure 1, a through c). The ECG in 2002 was normal (Figure 2bi...

origination of the right coronary artery (rca) from the left anterior descending (lad) artery is a case of single coronary artery. it is an extremely rare coronary artery abnormality and usually an incidental finding during coronary angiography. a 73-year-old man with a medical history of hypertension arrived with chest pain. medical therapy started for st elevated myocardial ischemia. during h...