this study was conducted to determine whether precordial st segment depression in admission electrocardiogram (ecg) in patients with acute phase inferior myocardial infarction (mi) eligible for thrombolytic therapy and subsequent angiographic evaluation, influences the incidence of left anterior descending artery (lad) disease. 31 consecutively admitted patients were entered in our study. 20 pa...

acute inferior myocardial infarction (mi) frequently involves the right ventricle (rv).1-3 we assessed the prognostic impact of rv myocardial involvement in patients with inferior mi. one hundred seventy patients were admitted to the cardiac care unit of madani heart hospital (tabriz-iran) with the diagnosis of inferior mi with (group1) or without (group2) the simultaneous involvement of rv dur...

Aortic coarctation is a rare but dangerous condition. Presence of aortic dissection in addition to coarctation is significantly rarer and more life-threatening. Here, we present a case of acute inferior MI due to aortic dissection complicating a native aortic coarctation. A 17-year-old boy was admitted to our emergency department due to severe chest pain and loss of consciousness. His ele...

Abstract Background: Early diagnosis of right ventricle (RV) involvement in inferior myocardial infarction (Inf MI) is very critical. This study was performed to evaluate the clinical findings of Inf MI with or without RV infarction. Methods: From September 2010 to September 2012, 195 patients with definite diagnosis of Inf MI were evaluated in the Department of Cardiology, in Babol, north of...

BACKGROUND New surgical strategies to restore the saddle shape of the mitral annulus are expected to increase annuloplasty effectiveness. Preoperative and postoperative configuration of the curved annulus, however, is difficult to quantify with 2-dimensional echocardiography. We sought to investigate the geometric deformity in the mitral annulus in ischemic mitral regurgitation (MR), comparing ...

BACKGROUND The location of acute myocardial infarction (MI) is an important prognostic factor for risk stratification of patients with first ST-segment elevation MI (STEMI). The main goal of this study was to compare the severity and extension of coronary involvement in inferior and anterior MI. METHODS This study reviewed angiographic reports of 579 patients with a first anterior wall STEMI ...

acute myocardial infarction (mi) during pregnancy is rare and mi due to prinzmetal's angina is much rarer. we present a 35-year-old, obese, multigravida, and pre-eclamptic woman, who developed acute anterior wall mi at the 30th week of gestation. on coronary angiography, the second obtuse marginal branch was totally occluded and the right coronary artery (rca) was normal. three days later, she ...

There is little information available concerning the influence of right bundle branch block (RBBB) on the prognosis of patients with inferior myocardial infarction (MI). In this study we evaluated the influence of RBBB on the short-term prognosis of patients with inferior MI. Our study subjects were 1,265 hospitalized patients with Q wave MI. Patients were divided into 4 groups based on the pre...