this is a case of severely stunned left ventricle which occurred after a non-st elevation myocardial infarction in a 76-year-old woman who was a known case of three-vessel disease. her symptoms and cardiac function responded well to revascularization.

conclusions inhalation aromatherapy with lavender aroma can reduce anxiety in patients with myocardial infarction. consequently, healthcare providers, particularly nurses, can use this strategy to improve postmyocardial infarction anxiety management. results the study groups did not differ significantly regarding baseline anxiety mean and demographic characteristics. however, after the administ...

background coronary heart disease (chd) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in pakistan. the temporal trends in the risk factors for myocardial infarction (mi) and the impact of socioeconomic status on these risk factors remain ambiguous. objectives the objectives of the present analysis were to investigate the potential association between various risk factors and mi in north punj...

background: butterworth, gaussian, hamming, hanning, and parzen are commonly used spect filters during filtered back-projection (fbp) reconstruction, which greatly affect the quality and size accuracy of image. materials and methods: this study involved a cardiac phantom in which 1.10 cm thick cold defect was inserted into its myocardium wall and filled with 4.0 μci/ml (0.148 mbq/ml) 99mtc conc...

myocardial bridging with systolic compression of the left anterior descending coronary artery (lad) may be associated with myocardial ischemia. in symptomatic myocardial bridging unresponsive to medical treatment, surgical unroofing of the left lad can be performed. little information is available about the long-term prognosis of patients with this coronary anomaly after the surgical unroofing,...

introduction: leptin, secreted from adipose tissue may have some correlation with coronary artery disease according to some reports in literature. the mean concentration of plasma leptin in patients with normal and abnormal myocardial perfusion imaging (mpi) and relation of leptin levels, independently to abnormality in mpi after correction for body mass index (bmi) was evaluated. methods: as a...

background: due to the positive relation between platelet size and platelet reactivity, a high value of the mean platelet volume (mpv) is an independent risk factor to predict acute myocardial infarction (ami) and its adverse outcome. few data are available to determinate the prognostic value of mpv in st-elevation myocardial infarction (stemi) patients treated with percutaneous coronary interv...

background: the role of temperature changes, as an environmental risk factor, in the human health status has been investigated in recent studies. accordingly, the present two-year study was conducted to evaluate the incidence of myocardial infarction (mi) in warm and cold seasons in ali-ibn abi talib hospital, rafsanjan, iran. materials and methods: in this descriptive and cross-sectional study...

introduction: in patients with coronary artery disease (cad) noninvasive evaluation for detection of ischemia is important to avoid invasive interventions like angiography. exercise stress test is conventionally the first study used in evaluation of cad. considering the noninvasive nature of the myocardial perfusion scan, we decided to compare its accuracy with stress test. methods: patients wi...