non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) is the leading cause of chronic liver disease in the united states and other industrialized countries, and the reported prevalence in the developing countries is also rather high. this disease is associated with a high rate of morbidity and mortality and damage to the other organs. the cardiovascular system is, perhaps, the most vulnerable organ to nafl...

Introduction: Coronary artery disease secondary to atherosclerosis is the most common cause of mortality. Coronary angiography is the most precise method for determining the extent of disease in the coronary vascular bed. Arterial stiffness has been proposed as a marker of atherosclerosis in some studies. One of the noninvasive methods for the determination of arterial stiffness is Doppler echo...

Abstract Background Human T-lymphotropic virus 1 (HTLV-1) is etiologically associated with the chronic inflammatory neurodegenerative disease HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) Annexin A1 (AnxA1) an anti-inflammatory protein proposed neuroprotective and anti-neuroinflammatory functions. We hypothesized that ANXA1 gene expression may be dysregulated in HTLV-1-inf...

Background and Objective: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the most common diseases today. Among the diagnostic methods, angiography is the main and gold standard in the diagnosis Since angiography is an invasive procedure, this procedure complications range widely from minor problems with short term sequelae to life threatening ones may cause irreversible damage or even death. Materials...

background according to the increase of patients with coronary artery disease, paying more attention to the quality of life seems to be important. one of the factors affecting the quality of life is spiritual health. spiritual health as one of the main aspects of health is usually ignored. objectives the current study was performed to determine the relationship between spiritual health and qual...

The lifelong infection with the human T lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) has been associated a variety of clinical manifestations; one less-explored is HTLV-1-associated pulmonary disease. Imaging lung damage caused by HTLV-1 hyperinflammatory cascade can be similar to sequelae from TB infection. Our study aims describe lesions HTLV-1-positive patients without past or current active and evalu...

percutaneous coronary angioplasty (ptca) of a coronary stenosis without documented ischemia at noninvasive stress testing is often performed, but its benefit is unproven. coronary pressure– derived fractional flow reserve (ffr) is an invasive index of stenosis severity defined as the ratio of maximal blood pressure in a stenotic vessel to the normal maximal pressure in the same vessel. ffr is a...

conclusion we conclude that coronary calcium scoring provided useful information in the management of patients. in cacs less than 100, it has a npv of 87% in excluding significant stenosis in patients with the risk of cad but it does not have enough diagnostic accuracy for surely excluding coronary stenosis, so we should perform a combination of cacs and coronary ct angiography for patients. re...