background: according to the angiographic findings, 3%-8% of atherosclerotic coronary artery patients suffer from coronary artery ectasia (cae). we conducted this study to estimate the prevalence of cae among patients who underwent angiography and compared this group with those patients without cae and atherosclerosis in terms of common coronary heart disease (chd) risk factors. methods : this ...

conclusions lepr q223r polymorphisms may confer a significant risk of nafld and coronary atherosclerosis. the a allele in the k109r polymorphism might be considered an independent risk factor for coronary atherosclerosis in nafld patients. objectives to investigate the association of lepr polymorphisms at q223r and k109r with the risks of nafld and coronary atherosclerosis in the chinese han po...

objective(s): apolipoprotein e genotype (apoe) polymorphism affects lipid levels and coronary artery disease (cad) risk. the aim of this study was to study the association of the apolipoprotein e genotypes with coronary artery disease in the iranian population.   materials and methods: the apolipoprotein e genotype in dna samples extracted from 66 cad+ patients and 61 control subjects by restri...

background non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) is a growing diagnosed condition which causes a wide spectrum of liver disorders. there is a lot of evidence introducing nafld as a risk factor for coronary artery disease (cad) but there is substantial challenge on the independency of this correlation. conclusions according to the results of the current study, the prevalence of nafld among t...

cardiovascular disease remains the principal cause of death in the modernized world.   several novel noninvasive imaging techniques have been recently developed to improve diagnosis of cardiac and coronary disease.   of these advances, multidetector computed tomographic (mdct) angiography has evolved most dramatically to transform computed tomography from a single-slice trans-axial modality to ...

background : the aim of this study was to detect fungi in atherosclerotic plaques and investigate their possible role in atherosclerosis. methods : coronary atherosclerotic plaques specimen were obtained from patients with atherosclerosis. direct exami-nation, culture, histopathology study, pcr and sequencing were performed to detect/identify the mycotic elements in the plaques. age, sex, smoki...

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...

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 octo...