BACKGROUND Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) activity and von Willebrand factor (VWF) release are associated with lesion initiation in atherosclerosis. Diabetes can complicate coronary artery disease (CAD) due to the production of advanced glycation end products. This study evaluated PON1 activity and VWF levels in non-post-acute coronary syndrome, stable CAD (SCAD) patients without diabetes. MATERIAL/MET...

Although there is increasing number of reported spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) recently, this is the first successful operative case of myocardial revascularization on triple-vessel SCAD. Emergency coronary artery bypass grafting was performed on a 42-year-old female presented with acute myocardial infarction, who had failed thrombolysis with on-going angina and acute heart failure.

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) and woven coronary artery anomaly (WCAA) are relatively rare. A few of the previously reported woven coronary artery cases have involved in a single coronary artery. We present an unusual woven case involving all coronary arteries and two patient with SCAD. We have also reviewed the literature related to these disease, as they resemble one another.

Spontaneous cervical arterial dissection (SCAD) is a non-traumatic tear or disruption in the wall of the internal carotid arteries or the vertebral arteries. It accounts for about 25% of strokes in patients aged under 45 years. Awareness of its clinical features and advances in imaging over the last two decades have contributed to earlier identification of this condition. SCAD has become the co...

The usage of the package is illustrated for three classification algorithms: pamr (Prediction analysis for Microarrays, [3], implementation in pamr -Rpackage), rf boruta (Random forests with the Boruta algorithm for feature selection, [2], implementation in Boruta-R-package) and scad (Support Vector Machines with Smoothly Clipped Absolute Deviation feature selection, [4], implementation in the ...

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is a rare, life-threatening condition that usually manifests as an acute myocardial infarction. Diagnosing SCAD with conventional coronary angiogram can be challenging, particularly if the true lumen is severely narrowed. Our case highlights the challenges in performing successful percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with SCAD. Intra...

S OF PAPERS 195 M8 Pretreating primary macrophages (Mɸ) with Bacillus subtillus but not mannan oligosaccharide increases nitric oxide production after Salmonella enteritidis challenge. Marta Viguie*UG, Kimberly Livingston California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA Direct-fed microbials (DFM) including probiotic and prebiotic additives have been shown to improve growth and feed...

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is an uncommon cause of acute coronary syndrome which may be related to lethal condition. Although several modalities including medical therapy have been suggested, agreement on optimal treatment has not yet been determined. We describe a case of SCAD which was presented as ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, and treated successfully with me...

We consider the problem of simultaneous variable selection and estimation in partially linear models with a divergent number of covariates in the linear part, under the assumption that the vector of regression coefficients is sparse. We apply the SCAD penalty to achieve sparsity in the linear part and use polynomial splines to estimate the nonparametric component. Under reasonable conditions, i...

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is a rarely reported cause of myocardial infarction (MI), arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD). It predominantly affects young women. The pathological mechanism has not been fully clarified yet. Most of such cases have been attributed to fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD). However, several other diseases and conditions have been associated with SCA...