severe coronary artery disease often coexists with peripheral vascular atherosclerosis. the assessment of the supra-aortic circulation is, therefore, of clinical relevance. we herein describe a case of coronary artery disease treated with surgical revascularization using the internal mammary artery and thereafter the progressive atherosclerotic disease of the native coronary arteries as well as...

conclusions in most cases, the conus artery can be visualized in cardiac ct. a description of the conus artery should be a part of the standard clinical coronary ct angiography description. objectives to examine whether it is possible to visualize the conus artery in multi-slice computed tomography (ct). patients and methods in 79 consecutive patients (aged 56 ± 12.9 years; 13 women), 64-slice ...

background: the incidence of stroke after coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) is between 0.9% and 6.7%, which significantly increases in-hospital and out-hospital costs. this study was designed to evaluate the prevalence of significant carotid stenosis and its risk factors in cabg. methods: in total, 2044 consecutive patients undergoing elective cabg were investigated through a pre-operative...

kawasaki disease (kd) is an acute vasculitis syndrome of unknown etiology. it occurs in infants and young children, affecting mainly small and medium-sized arteries, particularly the coronary arteries. generalized microvasculitis occurs in the first 10 days, and the inflammation persists in the walls of medium and small arteries, especially the coronary arteries, and changes to coronary artery ...

length of hospital stay (los) is a key indicator for hospital management. reducing hospital stay is a priority for all health systems. we aimed to determine the length of hospital stay following coronary artery bypass surgery (cabg) based on its clinical and non-clinical factors. a cross-sectional study of 649 consecutive patients who underwent coronary artery bypass graft surgery was conducted...

objective: the main goal of this study is to compare stressful life events and mental health in coronary heart disease (chd) patients and non-patients. method: in this research, 120 participants (n=68 male, n= 52 female) were divided into two groups of patients (n=60) and non-patients (n=60). they were selected from vali asr hospital of meshginshahr (iran) and completed the general health quest...

detection of causes of sudden natural death is a major problem of physicians and exact inspection of rare causes of sudden death reduces numbers of white autopsies and helps to well performance of justice. anomalous origin of coronary arteries are one of these rare cases that mostly in infants leading to death due to ischemia and heart failure , and sometimes survive until adulthood and attenti...

  Background and Objective: Ischemic heart disease (IHD) following atherosclerosis is the most common cause of cardiac deaths world wide. We aimed to investigate the pathologic features of atherosclerosis in non cardiac death cases to have an estimate of atherosclerosis prevalence in Mashad (North east of Iran). Patients and Methods : This descriptive (cross sectional) study was done, during ...