Coronary artery ectasia
Significance of red cell distribution width measurement for the patients with isolated coronary artery ectasia
... Coronary artery ectasia (CAE) is a common finding of coronary angiography, which is characterized by abnor- mal coronary dilatation and defined as dilated coronary artery ...
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Original Article Correlations among plasma insulin concentration, insulin sensitivity and coronary artery ectasia
... and coronary artery ectasia ...negative coronary angiography were assigned to the control ...and coronary artery calcification ...between coronary artery ...
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Original Article Associations of the insulin level and insulin resistance with the severity of coronary artery ectasia
... in coronary artery ectasia (CAE) and the association of insulin with the severity of ...or coronary arteriosclerosis (n=80), or healthy controls (n=80) undergoing coronary angiography ...
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Coronary angiographic and clinical characteristics of patients with coronary artery ectasia; an experience from sri lanka
... In the present study 27.10% patients with CAE suffered from diabetes. Similarly, a study conducted by Sultana et al [14] on Pakistanis’ found that their prevalence of diabetes in ectatic patients was 26%. However, ...
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Recurrent acute coronary syndrome in a patient with right coronary artery ectasia: a case report
... Coronary artery ectasia (CAE) is characterized by an abnormal dilatation of a coronary arterial segment of at least ...normal coronary ar- ...undergoing coronary angiography ...
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Coronary Risk Factors in Patients with Coronary Artery Ectasia : A Case-Control Study from Iran
... Considering that smoking is a confirmed risk factor in cardiovascular diseases; it was also investigated in this research, where no significant difference was observed between the study and control groups (33% vs. ...
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Successful Percutaneous Treatment of Coronary Artery Ectasia with Drug Eluting Stent
... Coronary artery ectasia is well-known but relatively uncommon finding with prevalence ranging from ...5.3%. Coronary artery ectasia has been associated with atherosclerosis in ...
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Characteristics of coronary artery ectasia and its association with carotid intima-media thickness and high sensitivity C-reactive protein
... between coronary artery ectasia (CAE) and markers of ...1611 coronary angiograms were prospectively examined to find out patients with ...stenotic coronary artery disease (CAD) ...
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Role of QRS fragmentation in 12-lead surface ECG in prediction of isolated epicardial coronary artery ectasia and its anatomical distribution in patients without acute coronary syndromes
... In conclusion, our study showed that fQRS is an inde- pendent predictor for the presence of isolated CAE and can be used to predict its anatomical distribution. Our results if proved in other studies with larger number ...
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Analysis of Clinical profile, angiographic pattern of Coronary Ectasia in Coronary Artery Disease patients
... isolated ectasia is not a benign entity can present with myocardial infarction during follow up ...of Coronary Artery ...Intervention Coronary Artery in ectatic segment Bye pass ...
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Diagnostic accuracy of left ventricular longitudinal function by speckle tracking echocardiography to predict significant coronary artery stenosis. A systematic review
... Patients hospitalized with acute chest pain The study of Shimoni et al. [27] included 97 consecutive patients, hospitalized with chest pain and suspected CAD, who had LVEF > 50 % and normal regional LV systolic func- ...
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Higher numbers of circulating endothelial progenitor cells in stroke patients with intracranial arterial stenosis
... [23]. On the other hand, Yoshihara et al. [30] observed no differences in circulating CD34+ cells in patients with major cerebral artery occlusion (or sever stenosis), and Sobrino et al. [31] showed that elevated ...
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Myocardial production and release of MCP 1 and SDF 1 following myocardial infarction: differences between mice and man
... Influence of Timing and Patient Demographics After MI To ensure that the time post-MI that the samples were taken did not influence our results, we plotted the trans-myocardial gradients of SDF-1a and MCP-1 versus time ...
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Predictors of Severe or Moderate Coronary Artery Disease in Asymptomatic Individuals with Extremely Low Coronary Calcium Scores
... Materials and Methods: The 1175 asymptomatic persons with zero or very low (<10) CAC scores were analyzed for CAD stenosis using coronary computed tomography angiography. Moderate and severe CADs were defined ...
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Obesity, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular prognosis: from the Partners coronary computed tomography angiography registry
... Notwithstanding these results, our study must be inter- preted in the context of its inherent limitations. First, a retrospective design in a tertiary referral center may result in selection bias. Similarly, the patients ...
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Single coronary artery incidence in 215,140 patients undergoing coronary angiography
... the coronary arteries involved: In group I, a SCA courses as the RCA, circumflex (LCX) or as the left anterior descending artery (LAD), or a single LMCA is divided into 2 bran- ches as the LAD and LCX, and ...
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MITRAL INSUFFICIENCY DUE TO ANOMALOUS ORIGIN OF THE LEFT CORONARY ARTERY FROM THE PULMONARY ARTERY
... alous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery functioning as a coronary arteriovenous fistula. : The problem of the anoma-[r] ...
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Successful Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Atherosclerotic Coronary Lesion with Anomalous Origin of the Right Coronary Artery
... of coronary artery ...chemia. Coronary computed tomography indicated that the RCA originated from the left coronary sinus and passed between the aorta and the pulmonary artery (Figure ...
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Midterm results of left coronary artery reimplantation through the transverse sinus of the pericardium in adult Bland-White-Garland syndrome
... the non-facing sinus. Collaterals were noted around the left main trunk, and the LCA ostium was located far from the aorta; therefore, aggressive mobilization of the left main trunk was not considered to be sufficient to ...
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Assessing cardiovascular risk in chronic kidney disease patients prior to kidney transplantation: clinical usefulness of a standardised cardiovascular assessment protocol
... for coronary artery stenosis of 50%; and 75%, 71%, 45% and 90% respectively for stenosis greater than ...ary artery disease (stenosis >70%) in patients with ...
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