background: controversy persists over the potential benefits/harms of opium consumption in coronary heart disease. this study investigated the association between 12 months' major adverse cardiac events (mace) and pre-procedural opium consumption among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (pci). methods: retrospectively, 1545 consecutive men who underwent pci between 21 st   j...

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of chronic total occlusions (CTOs) is a rapidly developing field. In the present review, we summarize the most important CTO PCI related literature published in 2013.

OBJECTIVE Critical stenosis of left main coronary artery (LMCA) has always remained a challenge for interventional cardiologists. Conventionally Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) is done for these patients but recently Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) is also being tried more frequently, but data of PCI is scarce in this regard. Our objective was to determine the safety and technic...

The year 2013 was rich of new developments in cardiology, and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in particular. This overview article will focus on contributions in the following areas: training for PCI, appropriateness and indications; access site selection, risk scores, peri-procedural myocardial infarction; trial results and long-term follow-up; PCI for specific patient and lesion subs...

The aim of this randomized prospective study was to evaluate the quality life (QoL) using "Seattle Angina Questionnaire" (SAQ) in patients with chronic total occlusion (CTO) coronary arteries treated either percutaneous intervention (PCI) or optimal medical therapy (OMT), only OMT.

Background: To investigate the predictive value of age, creatinine, and ejection fraction (ACEF) score for cardiac death in patients aged ≥75 years diagnosed with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) at 1 month year after emergency percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

The year 2013 was rich of new developments in cardiology, and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in particular. This overview article will focus on contributions in the following areas: training for PCI, appropriateness and indications; access site selection, risk scores, peri-procedural myocardial infarction; trial results and long-term follow-up; PCI for specific patient and lesion subs...

The case of a 40-year-old male with dextrocardia who presented with ST Elevated Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) is reported. Coronary angiogram was performed after due manipulation and then successful primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of Left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery was done. His 9 months follow up primary PCI in a patient with angiogram revealed patent stent in p...

conclusions we found that the use of clopidogrel in patients undergoing pci had favorable effects on the suppression of hs-crp. this effect appears to be heightened and more apparent in some group of patients with co-morbidities such as diabetes and hypertension. results six hundred-fifty patients including 386 (59.4%) male and 264 (40.6%) female subjects were enrolled in the study. the mean hs...

conclusions this study shows that pci in symptomatic post cabg patients follows by high successful and low complication rate and positive impression on their cardiac symptoms and could reduce the need for redo cabg. it seems that there is no difference that pci is performing on svg or native vessel, the intervention itself improves the patients’ quality of life. patients and methods in this stu...