objective(s):  coronary artery disease (cad) which may lead to myocardial infarction (mi) is a complex one. great effort has been devoted to identification of genes that increase susceptibility to cad or provide protection. a 21-bp deletion in the mef2a gene, which encodes a member of the myocyte enhancer factor 2 family of transcription factors, has been reported in patients of a single pedigr...

Objective(s):  Coronary artery disease (CAD) which may lead to myocardial infarction (MI) is a complex one. Great effort has been devoted to identification of genes that increase susceptibility to CAD or provide protection. A 21-bp deletion in the MEF2A gene, which encodes a member of the myocyte enhancer factor 2 family of transcription factors, has been reported in patients of a single pedigr...

echocardiography is a non-invasive diagnostic technique which provides information regarding cardiac function and hemodynamics. it is the most frequently used cardiovascular diagnostic test after electrocardiography and chest x-ray. however, in a patient with acute chest pain, transthoracic echocardiography is essential both for diagnosing acute coronary syndrome, zeroing on the evaluation of v...

Little is known about the association between autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) and coronary artery dissection (CAD). We suggest that the genetic disorder in ADPKD is the main cause of instable artery vasculature. Our case also shows that CAD can be missed in the acute phase. Therefore, we recommend additional investigation in patients with ADPKD presenting with acute chest p...

please cite this article as : taherpour z, seyedian m, alasti m. simultaneous right coronary artery spasm in a patient with anterior st-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a case report. novel biomed 2013;1:29-33. simultaneous occlusion of two vessels causing infarction at different territories is an uncommon finding. we report simultaneous right ventricular and anterior st-segment elevati...

Congenital absence of left circumflex artery is a rare congenital anomaly of the coronary arteries. The prevalence of the anomaly in different studies ranges from 0.6% to 1.3%. Of these, 80% are benign and asymptomatic and 20% are clinically important. We report a 56-year-old man presented with acute resting chest pain who was diagnosed as having acute anterolateral infarction accompanied by el...

this article describes coronary artery bypass grafting by avlliath jay akrishnan et al. one of the most common reason for coronary artery bypass grafting is narrowing coronary arteries because of atherosclerosis. atherosclerosis causes chest pain (angina pectoris), myocardial infarction and sudden death. the aim of coronary artery bypass grafting is to release pain, prevention of myocardial inf...