Quality of life (QoL) is a multifactorial concept that assesses physical and mental health. We prospectively studied the quality of life of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery using the Short-Form 36-item questionnaire (SF-36)
Patients’ exclusion criteria include (1) positive cardiac troponin I (cTnI) prior to percutaneous coronary angiography; (2) coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) lesion; (3) chronic total occlusion (CTO); (4) in-stent restenosis; (5) severe calcification; (6) left main coronary artery disease...
Inflammation and neurohormonal activation play a significant role in the adverse outcome seen in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and the development of cardiogenic shock (CS), which is associated with a mortality rate up to 50%. Treatment with anti-inflammatory drugs such as tocilizumab, an inte...
Patients with a history of valvular heart disease, patients with a projected lifespan of fewer than six months, patients without proper post-PCI antiplatelet medications, and patients with a history of previous coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) due to dissimilarities in the pathophysiology of ...
Endoscopic vein harvesting (EVH) is an alternative technique to obtain the saphenous vein for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery. We aimed to evaluate the early and mid-term outcomes of patients with EVH in CABG. This cohort study included co
European Journal of Medical Research 2017, 22(Suppl 1):S3 I will discuss recent advances in the field of cardiology, and how the management of the patients has changed in the last decade. What are the recent advances in Interventional Cardiology? What is the future of research in Cardiology?
ContextThere have been recent calls for using hospital procedural volume as a quality indicator for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, but
Other plausible explanations may include greater cardiology input on the use of thrombolytic therapy or primary angioplasty in the prehospital ECG group or patients being selectively transported to medical facilities more familiar with indications for reperfusion therapy, once acute myocardial infarction is ...
Several studies have demonstrated that hypercoagulability of APLS patients predisposes to high rates of thromboembolic events as well as high rate of restenosis of the coronaries and the grafts after percutaneous interventions or CABG respectively, causing significant morbidity and mortality [6, 7]. ...
with a cut off at >10% in normal and <10% in abnormal response, the need for PTCA or CABG differed significantly, with a greater tendency of AMI in the patients with a poor response. Considering the total event rates, the flow mediated post-ischaemic endothelial vasodilatation response measur...