coronary desease

Purpose: The effect of chronic limb threatening ischemia (CLTI) on advanced cardiac disease, which requires surgical treatment, has rarely been reported. The purpose of this study was to review the outcomes of cardiac surgery in patients with CLTI and determine the risk factors, with a particular focus on the severity of CLTI. Patients: The baseline characteristics and outcomes of 33 patients who were treated for CLTI and underwent cardiac surgery were retrospectively analyzed...

Sitosterolemia is an inherited metabolic disorder characterized by increased levels of plant sterols, such as sitosterol. This disease is caused by loss-of-function genetic mutations in ATP-binding cassette (ABC) subfamily G member 5 or member 8 (ABCG5 or ABCG8, respectively), both of which play important roles in selective excretion of plant sterols from the liver and intestine, leading to failure to prevent absorption of food plant sterols. This disorder has been considered to be extremely rare. However, accumulated clinical data as well as genetics suggest the possibility of a much higher prevalence...

It is set that in 26.9% patients with coronary desease there are the depressed disorders. The easy degree of depression was observed in 61.1% persons, maskable depression--in 27.8% persons, middle degree of depression--in 11.1% persons. For such patients the decline of heart rhythm variability, increase of sympathetic tone, violation of day's rhythm of vegetative nervous system, prevalence of humoral influence on a heart rhythm were revealed.

The study included 2 groups of patients with arterial hypertension and coronary heart disease treated by traditional therapy or its combination with melatonin. All 31 patients aged 41-70 years underwent measurement of AP and pulse rate in morning and evening hours. Correlation analysis between hemodynamic parameters and weather factors (curtsey of Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowaves) was performed. The study revealed 64 significant correlations in patients given traditional treatment...

We report a case of a young HIV-infected woman treated for more than ten years by highly active antiretroviral therapy, presenting a peroperative acute coronary syndrome caused by a hypertensive episode after systemic resorption of locally applied epinephrine during a functional endoscopic sinus surgery. Since patients with multiple risk factors for coronary artery desease seems to be more susceptible to complications of epinephrine injection, this reminds us of the higher cardiovascular risk for HIV patients with long term treatment...

UNLABELLED: Diabetes mellitus is very frequent disease. The prevalence of coronary artery disease is higher in diabetic than in non-diabetic patients. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the main cause of morbidity and mortalitiy in patients with Diabetes mellitus. The aim of this study was to evaluate usfulnes of myocardial perfusion scintigraphy in diabetic patients for detection of coronary artery disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS: this study included 15 patients with verified diabetes mellitus...

Weight gain is associated with the use of many psychotropic medications, including antidepressants, mood stabilizers, antipsychotic drugs, and may have serious long term consequences: it can increase health risks, specifically from overweight (BMI = 25-29.9 kg/m2) to obesity (BMI > or =30 kg/m2), according to Body Mass Index (BMI), and the morbidity associated therewith in a substantial part of patients (hypertension, coronary heart desease, ischemic stroke, impaired glucose tolerance, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, respiratory problems, osteoarthritis, cancer); according to patients, psychosocial consequences such as a sense of demoralization, physical discomfort and being the target of substantial social stigma are so intolerable that they may discontinue the treatment even if it is effective...

This study was designed to examine changes of hemorheological parameters in patients with CHD and hypercholesterolaemia (wide range of plasma total cholesterol level from 5.6 to 9.8 mmol.l-1) subjected to lipid lowering therapy with statins (simvastatin, 10.0-20.0 mg/day, dosage was dependent on an initial level of total cholesterol). Twenty female subjects were enrolled in this research program. Both prior to and following drug treatment for eight weeks, hemorheological measurements included plasma viscosity, high and low shear whole blood viscosity, hematocrit, RBC aggregation and rigidity...

In acute myocardial infarct (AIM) incomes to a local disturbances in contractility: hypokinesia, akinesia, diskinesia, asynchronia. With repeated AIM esspecially in high oclussive coronary disease incomes to diffuse disturbance in contractility of myocard, with disorder in systolic and diasystolic function of heart. The aim is to point on significance of clinical and haemodynamic parameters in revealing heart weakness in AIM. By retrograded analysis in our study was embraced 86 patients deseased from AIM, average age of 58...

AIM: To assess the role of estimation of coronary reserve in coronary sinus by transesophageal doppler during dipyridamole stress test for diagnosis of hemodynamically significant left coronary artery stenoses. MATERIAL: Patients with angiographically proven left coronary artery stenoses (n=29) and 25 healthy volunteers. METHODS: Coronary reserve was calculated as 1) ratio of peak to basal diastolic coronary flow velocity (V(p)CR), and 2) ratio of volume coronary blood flow velocity before and during hyperemia (VBF CR)...

Activity of erythrocyte superoxide dismutase (RBC-SOD), levels of serum malondialdehyde (MDA), plasma 6-keto-prostaglandin F 1 alpha (6-keto-PGF 1 alpha) and thromboxane B2(TXB2) were measured in 30 healthy subjects and 57 coronary heart desease (CHD) patients inoluding 21 cases complicated with diabetes and 36 without. Their characteristics of Syndrome Differentiation and typing were observed. The results showed that the activity of RBC-SOD, 6-keto-PGF 1 alpha in CHD patients were significantly lower than those in the healthy subjects, but the levels of TXB2, MDA were significantly higher...

Forty-nine patients with chronic left bundle branch block and a normal frontal axis were compared with 53 patients with left bundle branch block and left axis deviation. The following clinical variables were more frequent (P less than 0.05) in patients with left axis deviation: greater age, exertional angina, congestive heart failure, cardiomegaly, cardiac functional class II to IV, coronary artery disease and presence of organic heart disease. Absence of organic heart disease (primary conduction disease) was seen only in patients with a normal axis...