coronary lesions
Role of fractional flow reserve in guiding intervention for borderline coronary lesions
... borderline lesions inducing myocardial ischemia, a series of studies [10–13] re-explored the guiding significance of this index in interventional ...no coronary events, and the average Canadian ...
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Long Coronary Lesions: Challenging Cases for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
... The introduction of drug eluting stents (DES) enkindled new hopes and paved the path for long term optimum management of long coronary lesion. Initial experience with first DES, Cypher sirolimus-eluting stents ...
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Novel drug-eluting stents in the treatment of de novo coronary lesions
... Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Transcatheter Cardiovascular Thera- peutics, and Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Asia Pacific from July to September ...
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LPA rs10455872 polymorphism is associated with coronary lesions in Brazilian patients submitted to coronary angiography
... the GG and CC homozygous genotypes are low. Student’s t-test was performed for comparing the age, body mass index (BMI), biochemical data, blood pressures, and angio- graphic data means according to LPA polymorphisms. ...
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The Effect of Sex and Anthropometry on Clinical Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Complex Coronary Lesions
... Long lesions, Chronic Total Occlusion InterVention with drUg-eluting Stents), we compared 333 pairs of men and wom- en matched by propensity scores, all of whom underwent intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided PCI ...
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Classical determinants of coronary artery disease as predictors of complexity of coronary lesions, assessed with the SYNTAX score
... Our analysis examines the relationship of SS with tradi- tional cardiovascular risk factors in a selected population of patients undergoing coronary angiography from the CIR- CULATING CELLS study. We demonstrate a ...
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Intravascular ultrasound-guided percutaneous coronary intervention in left main coronary bifurcation lesions: a review
... the coronary vessel wall, whereas conventional IVUS images are formed only by the envelope (amplitude) of the RF backscatter ...81 coronary lesions, OCT identified 40 TCFAs (49%) and 41 ...
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Individuals with prediabetes identified by HbA1c undergoing coronary angiography have worse cardiometabolic profile than those identified by fasting glucose
... of coronary lesions, Fra- mingham Risk Score above 20%, arterial hypertension, and dyslipidemia showed a linear and positive associ- ation with N, PD, and DM categories divided by HbA1c (Table ...
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Assessment of Intermediate Coronary Artery Lesion with Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) versus Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS)
... The capabilities of IVUS imaging in facilitating the revascularization decision process based on the contribution of the lumen diameter stenosis to ischemia has only been reported in retrospective analyses and is in ...
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Kawasaki Disease: Effect of Treatment on Coronary Artery Involvement
... Treatment with aspirin was associated with a low incidence of coronary lesions, but there was no significant difference from the incidence in the group treated with antibiotics only. Inf[r] ...
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Analysis of the characteristics of coronary artery lesions in patients with obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome and influencing factors
... vessel lesions showed that alcohol consumption and AHI are risk factors for single-vessel lesions and age is a risk factor for multi-vessel ...single-vessel coronary lesions, and in ...
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Sinus Node Ischemia—A Unique Presentation
... right coronary artery in 59% cases, the left coronary artery in 38% and has a dual supply in 3% cases ...percutaneous coronary intervention due to side branch loss, embolization of thrombus, or ...
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Everolimus-eluting stents: update on current clinical studies
... The PLATINUM Workhorse trial, a prospective, mul- ticenter, randomized, single-blind trial was designed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Promus Element EES for the treatment of patients with up to two de ...
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Predictors for intravenous immunoglobulin resistance and coronary artery lesions in Kawasaki disease
... Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute, self-limited, systemic vasculitis that predominantly affects children younger than five years, and is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children [1]. The pathogenesis of KD ...
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Anti-inflammatory effect of resveratrol in human coronary arterial endothelial cells via induction of autophagy: implication for the treatment of Kawasaki disease
... in coronary aneurysms in 25% of patients, and even under intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) treatment, 10 – 20% of children will have IVIG resistance and increased risk of developing coronary arteritis ...of ...
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Stent Dislodgement During Coronary Angioplasty Complicated by Left Main Thrombosis: Application of VA-ECMO in The Catheterization Laboratory
... left coronary revascularization, it was decided to remove the wire; however, during this maneuver, an unexpected resistance was ...different coronary wires (Intermediate, Abbott Vascular; Whisper, Abbott ...
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Next-generation drug-eluting stents in coronary artery disease: focus on everolimus-eluting stent (Xience V<sup>®</sup>)
... native coronary artery lesions, and with a maximum of two lesions per epicardial ...with coronary artery lesions ...with coronary artery lesions (Spirit V Diabetic study), ...
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Fractional Flow Reserve Is Not Associated with Inflammatory Markers in Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease
... As a negative control group, 16 healthy individuals aged .40 years without known coronary artery disease or atherosclerosis were included. All participants provided written informed consent prior to participation. ...
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Decreased type II/type I TGF beta receptor ratio in cells derived from human atherosclerotic lesions Conversion from an antiproliferative to profibrotic response to TGF beta1
... vascular lesions are growth stimulated by TGF- beta1 and markedly increase collagen ...vascular lesions, receptor-variant cells would be allowed to grow in a slow, but uncontrolled fashion, while ...
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Correlation of trans fatty acids with the severity of coronary artery disease lesions
... In this study, a search for markers of oxidative stress was conducted both in plasma and erythrocytes. The use of erythrocytes is complementary to the plasma as it pro- vides information about the effects of the ...
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