acute coronary syndromecardiac arrestchronic total occlusionGensini scoreEvaluate the differences in coronary artery disease (CAD) burden between patients with ischemic resuscitated, ischemic refractory VT/VF OHCA events and N/STEMI.#Refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients presenting with initial ...
The findings thatdecreasethe probability of coronary artery disease in these studies are chest pain that is nonanginal (i.e., pain unrelated to activity, unrelieved by nitroglycerin, or otherwise not suggestive of angina, LR = 0.1), pain duration of longer than 30 minutes (LR = 0.1), and...
will order the least invasive test possible to determine whether coronary artery disease is present. Although heart catheterization is the gold standard to define the anatomy of the heart and to confirm heart disease diagnosis (either with partial or complete blockage or no blockage), this is an ...
We present an atypical manifestation of coronary artery disease (CAD) in Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD). CASE PRESENTATION: A 40-year-old female with FMD, bilateral renal artery stenosis (post left renal artery angioplasty), renal failure on dialysis, and hypertension, presented with chest pain and...
This cohort study examines the prevalence of epicardial coronary artery disease and coronary microvascular dysfunction in hospitalized patients with heart
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading killer of women in the US. After menopause, mortality rates from CAD in women nearly equal those of men. Yet the clinical picture in women is different enough from that in men that it can obscure the correct diagnosis. Women are 10 years older...
What is heart disease (coronary artery disease)? Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and often can be attributed to lifestyle factors that increase the risk of atherosclerosis or narrowing of arteries. Theheartis like any other muscle in the body. It needs an ad...
did not have techni- cally favorable targets due to a small circumflex artery and unknown extent of dissection of the LAD. She was started on optimal medical management for ischemic cardiomyopathy as well as anticoagulation to prevent fu- ture embolic events. A computerized tomographic an- giogram...
Since cardiovascular disease,peripheral artery disease, andstrokeshare the same risk factors, a patient who is diagnosed with one of the three has increased risk of having or developing the others. QUESTION In the U.S., 1 in every 4 deaths is caused by heart disease.See Answer ...
Case presentation 3 - A smoker with hypertension and family history of coronary artery diseaseJ. Mehilli