inflammation plays a major role in coronary artery disease (cad). currently, it is unclear, whether cytomegalovirus (cmv) infection is associated with the risk of the atherosclerosis. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of anti- cmv antibodies in cad and non cad patients undergoing artery bypass surgery. sera from 157 patients who underwent coronary angiography were tested for...

elevated total plasma homocysteine (thcy) levels constitute a risk factor for coronary artery disease (cad). a possible relationship was investigated between admission plasma homocysteine level and the angiographic severity and extension of coronary artery disease in patients with cad. this study looks at the relationship between total plasma homocysteine and severity of coronary artery disease...

  Introduction: Aortic valve sclerosisis considered as a manifestation of coronary atherosclerosis. Recent studies demonstrated an association between aortic valve sclerosis and obstructive coronary artery disease. The purpose of this study was to evaluatethe correlation betweenaortic valve sclerosis andobstructive coronary artery disease and the extent of coronary artery disease in patients ho...

objective: to determine the risk factors, clinical characteristics, surgical management and outcome of pseudoaneurysm secondary to iatrogenic or traumatic vascular injury. m et h o d s : this was a cross-sectional study being performed in department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery skims soura during a 4-year period. we included all the patients referring to our center with primary diagno...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is defined as myocardial damage developing a result of its organic and functional changes, leading to impaired blood flow through the coronary arteries. An important pathogenetic component CAD atherosclerosis. Currently, key aspects molecular relationship between inflammation atherosclerosis are being actively studied, immunometabolic theory discussed, along with a...

background: coronary artery disease (cad) is the major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. the aim of this study was to explore the effect of resveratrol (res) on canonical β-catenin/wnt and forkhead box o (foxo) pathways in cad patients.method: we performed this study on 10 metabolic syndrome patients with three-vessel cad and 10 sex-aged matched healthy subjects. the effects of res on...

the cd30 antigen seems to play a costimulatory role in maintaining the physiological balance between t-helper (th)1/th2 immune responses. in this study, plasma and in vitro soluble cd30 (scd30) secretion was investigated in patients with coronary artery disease (cad) as a plausible marker of dysregulated immune response. twenty one patients with angiographically confirmed cad and 31 healthy con...

introduction : significant left main coronary artery stenosis jeopardizes the entire myocardium of the left ventricle and has the worst prognosis of any form of coronary artery disease. coronary-artery bypass grafting (cabg) has been considered as the standard therapeutic approach for such patients. there are limited data on the safety and effectiveness of percutaneous coronary intervention (pc...