... Abbreviations: Cx, left circumflex coronary artery; LAD, left anterior descending coronary artery; LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction; RCA, right coronaryartery a Indicates patients who received ... coronaryartery disease that was treated with either the SES or the PES METHODS Patient Population The study population consisted of 204 consecutive series of all patients who had undergone coronary ... overall clinical outcomes compared with outcomes associated with SES treatment Also, in the multivariate analysis, after adjusting for clinical variables, we found that PES use was a predictor of...
... (to the coronary- artery calcium score + 1).24 Coronary- artery calcium scores were also grouped as follows: (no calcification) , to less than 10 (minimal calcification) , 10 to 100 (mild calcification) , ... reserved Estrogen Ther apy and Coronary- ArteryCalcification Table Coronary- Artery Calcium Scores after Trial Completion, According to Score Category.* Coronary- Artery Calcium Score Conjugated ... and coronary- artery calcium shortly after the WHI trial of conjugated equine estrogens ended The goal of the WHI CoronaryArtery Calcium Study (WHI-CACS) was to determine whether the coronary- artery...
... mortality after coronaryartery bypass surgery Lancet 2003, 362:604-609 Connerney I, Shapiro PA, McLaughlin JS, Bagiella E, Sloan RP: Relation between depression after coronaryartery bypass surgery ... support that ANS dsyregulation predicts outcome following a CABG operation Thus, in our subsequent research questions we examined whether markers of ANS activity predicted in-hospital length of ... 12month outcome: A prospective study Lancet 2001, 358:1766-1771 Krannich JA, Weyers P, Lueger S, Herzog M, Bohrer T, Elert O: Presence of depression and anxiety before and after coronary artery...
... Abbreviations: Cx, left circumflex coronary artery; LAD, left anterior descending coronary artery; LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction; RCA, right coronaryartery a Indicates patients who received ... coronary stent trials: a case for standardized definitions Circulation, 2007; 115: 2344– 2351 Ellis SG, Vandormael MG, Cowley MJ Coronary morphologic and clinical determinants of procedural outcome ... and reduces the rates of clinical and angiographic restenosis in patients with symptomatic coronaryartery disease (CAD; 4) Also the safety and efficacy of Paclitaxel-eluting stent (PES; Taxus,...
... postoperative outcome; that different thresholds of cTnI according to the procedure type should be considered to predict a poor outcome; and that the accuracy of cTnI to predict a poor outcome may ... Baseline characteristics of patients undergoing coronaryartery bypass graft, valve surgery, or combined cardiac surgery Characteristic Coronaryartery bypass graft (n = 225) Valve surgery (n ... per se does not lead to a major release of Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Critical Care Vol 11 No Fellahi et al Table Postoperative outcome in patients undergoing coronary artery...
... associated with poor outcomes in patients with HCAP The SCAP score is as accurate as, or better than, other current scoring systems (for example, CURB-65 and PSI) in predicting adverse outcomes in patients ... accuracy of each scoring index in predicting different patient outcomes (3-day ICU admission, 14-day ICU admission and 30-day mortality) An area of 0.50 implies that the scoring index is no better than ... Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) were also calculated as well with their 95% confidence intervals for all the scoring indices The Hanley-McNeil...
... with coronarycalcification Circulation 1997; 96: 1755–1760 39 Doherty TM, Tang W, Dascalos S, et al Ethnic origin and serum levels of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 are independent predictors of coronary ... associations between lower cholecalciferol levels and plasma renin activity, blood pressure, coronaryarterycalcification and prevalent cardiovascular disease (36-41) In conclusion, serum levels of ... of coronary disease (1,22) However, a large prospective study found no benefit of tocopherol supplemantation in preventing CAD Levels of tocopherol were reported to be decreased in coronary artery...
... 2009, 144 negative predictive value Its potential use in the evaluation of symptomatic patients suspected to suffer from coronary disease/ischemia is discussed Key words: coronaryartery disease, ... disease/ischemia is discussed Key words: coronaryartery disease, ECG analysis, CoronaryArtery Stenosis Introduction Coronaryartery disease (CAD) is the single leading cause of death in the developed ... http://www.medsci.org Int J Med Sci 2009, 147 coronaryartery sclerosis of >70% in a single or multiple vessels, with the exception of the left main coronary artery, where ≥50% was considered obstructive...
... various aspects of coronaryartery function and structure with prevalent genetic factors Gene Polymorphism and Coronary Heart Disease 11 Fig The risk factors contributing to coronaryartery disease ... Preface CoronaryArtery disease is one of the leading causes of death in industrialized countries and is responsible for one out of every six deaths in the United States Remarkably, coronaryartery ... accomplished through the coronaryartery networks which serve to furnish blood supply to the cardiac muscle, while the second is attained through a network of blood veins Fig The coronaryartery network...
... Course of CoronaryArtery Disease", systemic vasculitis ( "Coronary Artery Disease and Systemic Vasculitis: Case Report and Review"), professional stress ("Occupational Stress and CoronaryArtery ... Suffered from Acute Coronary Syndrome 225 Mohaddeseh Behjati Part CoronaryArtery Disease and Comorbidities 259 Chapter 12 Impact of Thyroid Dysfunction on Natural Course of CoronaryArtery Disease ... Part Chapter Treatment for CoronaryArtery Disease 149 Evaluation of Anti-Ischemic Therapy in CoronaryArtery Disease: A Review 151 Marwan S.M Al-Nimer Chapter 10 Coronary Arterial Drug-Eluting...
... Pathophysiology of CoronaryArtery Disease Chapter Epidemiology of CoronaryArtery Disease John F Beltrame, Rachel Dreyer and Rosanna Tavella Chapter Gender Differences in CoronaryArtery Disease ... epidemiology of coronaryartery disease Coronaryartery disease (CAD) is the global leading cause of death and may manifest clinically as an acute coronary syndrome such as AMI, or a chronic coronary ... Atherosclerotic coronary syndromes Coronary atherosclerotic disease involves the epicardial coronary arteries and may manifest as an acute or chronic coronary syndrome Acute coronary syndromes...
... methods (a) Fully-automatic coronaryartery centerline extraction methods; (b) semi-automatic coronaryartery centerline extraction methods; and (c) interactive coronaryartery centerline extraction ... For a number of coronaryartery centerline extraction applications it is not important to extract the whole coronary artery; only extraction up to a certain distance from the coronary ostium ... framework for coronaryartery extraction methods should focus on the complete coronary tree An obvious approach for such an evaluation would be to annotate the complete coronaryartery tree in...
... with investigations utilising intracoronary streptokinase (47, 48) With intracoronary streptokinase, the occluding thrombus could be dissolved and the coronaryartery be reperfused in many patients ... percutaneous coronary intervention (22, 23) Pre-treatment with clopidogrel prior to coronary intervention proved to be beneficial in patients with stable angina and those with non ST-elevation acute coronary ... 4-7) The finding that most myocardial infarctions were caused by thrombotic occlusion of a coronaryartery was of outstanding importance for the development of fibrinolysis (5) Fibrinolysis as...
... [4,5] as well as in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) [6,7] Despite the obvious benefits from anti-platelet therapy in coronary disease, low response to clopidogrel has ... http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/7/1/42 Effects of platelet inhibiting treatment in coronaryartery disease When investigating possible effects of platelet-inhibiting treatment with Repeated ... visit was significant ***p < 0.001, ns = not significant Comparisons between patients with coronaryartery disease and controls The factors were further analysed by One-sample t-test for differences...
... commitment to rehabilitation and their clinical outcomes The specific questions asked were: 1) Does patient rehabilitation effort correlate with clinical outcome and patient satisfaction?; 2) Do patient ... compare the outcome scores between various patient populations These results are shown in Table Results Overall, the level of commitment to rehabilitation was shown to predict each of the outcome ... shown by Dohnke et al [20] to be important in providing optimal outcomes after total hip arthroplasty Their study evaluated the clinical outcome of 1,065 total hip arthroplasty patients for whom a...
... Patients with coronaryartery disease (CAD) and refractory or recurrent retrosternal symptoms have a reduction in life expectancy and HRQL compared to patients with stable coronaryartery disease ... least 50% narrowing of the coronary vessels in angiography unsuitable for revascularization in the estimation of an interventional cardiologist; lack of epicardial coronaryartery spasm during coronarography; ... exact test (for multiway tables) and the unpaired Student t-test PCI-percutaneous coronary intervention; CABG -coronary artery by-pass graft; BMI-body mass index; WHR-waist to hip (circumference) ratio;...
... rates of adverse outcomes, their risk of ischemic cardio vascular events — outcomes that statins seem most likely to prevent — may occur less frequently than in other patients with coronary disease ... reductions in both biomarkers that were less than the median (P=0.001) conclusions For patients with coronaryartery disease, the reduced rate of progression of atherosclerosis associated with intensive ... morbidity and mortality associated with coronary of medicine disease.7-9 However, the precise mechanism underlying the association between CRP levels and adverse outcomes remains incompletely described...
... Numerous studies have compared the outcomes of two competing interventions for multivessel coronaryartery disease: coronary- artery bypass grafting (CABG) and coronary stenting However, little ... vessels With or without proximal LAD artery 0.003
... 56 Coronary disease on angiography 61 61 Angina pectoris 70 71 Percutaneous coronary intervention 42 41 Coronary- artery bypass grafting 38 40 Percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary- artery ... older Coronaryartery disease documented by at least one of the following: Myocardial infarction at least mo before enrollment Coronary- artery bypass grafting or percutaneous transluminal coronary ... the Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation (HOPE)15 and the European Trial on Reduction of Cardiac Events with Perindopril in Stable CoronaryArtery Disease (EUROPA),16 patients with coronary or...