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Coronary Calcification and Coronary Artery Disease

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2010
Gottlieb et al. ([1][1]) report computed tomography (CT) calcium scores in 291 patients (73% male) being referred for coronary angiography. The majority (95%) had either intermediate or high pre-test probability of coronary disease, and 42 (19.6%) had presented as emergencies with unstable angina.
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Long-term outcome in patients with prosthetic valve endocarditis: results from a single center in Turkey

Türk Kardiyoloji Derneği Arşivi, 2016
Objective: Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) is associated with increased mortality and morbidity. Information regarding the long-term outcome of PVE is scarce in Turkey.
Yeşim Güray, Esra Gücük İpek, Burak Acar, Mevlüt Serdar Kuyumcu, Fatih Uçar, Habibe Kafes, Lale Asırcıklı, Gizem Çabuk, Burcu Demirkan, Ümit Güray   +9 more
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A comparison of balloon-expandable-stent implantation with balloon angioplasty in patients with coronary artery disease. Benestent Study Group.

New England Journal of Medicine, 1994
BACKGROUND Balloon-expandable coronary-artery stents were developed to prevent coronary restenosis after coronary angioplasty. These devices hold coronary vessels open at sites that have been dilated. However, it is unknown whether stenting improves long-
P. Serruys, P. de Jaegere, F. Kiemeneij, C. Macaya, W. Rutsch, G. Heyndrickx, H. Emanuelsson, J. Marco, V. Legrand, P. Materne, J. Belardi, U. Sigwart, A. Colombo, J. Goy, P. van den Heuvel, J. Delcán, M. Morel   +16 more
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The Coronary Collier

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2010
Galiwango et al. ([1][1]) recently provided a beautiful coronary computed tomographic angiographic illustration of a rare anomaly, which they termed “the coronary collier.” Although this single coronary artery variant (arising from the right coronary cusp and coursing the entire ...
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Quadrifurcation of Left Coronary Artery – An Extremely Rare Variation that can Lead to Acute Coronary Artery Syndrome

Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences, 2020
Coronary arteries present many variation and those variations have been well documented. Some of the variations of these arteries are life threatening since they compromise the myocardial irrigation and also pose challenges in per cutaneous cardiac ...
Satheesha B Nayak, Soumya KV
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A Review of Neurogenic Stunned Myocardium. [PDF]

, 2017
Neurologic stunned myocardium (NSM) is a phenomenon where neurologic events give rise to cardiac abnormalities. Neurologic events like stroke and seizures cause sympathetic storm and autonomic dysregulation that result in myocardial injury.
Agrawal, Akanksha, Biso, Sylvia, Figueredo, Vincent M., Kishlyansky, Marina, Wongrakpanich, Supakanya, Yadlapati, Sujani   +5 more
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A rare cause of pulmonary hypertension: bilateral pulmonary artery involvement and stent restenosis due to Takayasu arteritis

Türk Kardiyoloji Derneği Arşivi, 2014
A 53-year-old female patient was admitted with dyspnea and fatigue. On transthoracic echocardiography, systolic pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) was measured as 90 mmHg, and right heart catheterization revealed pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Gülten Taçoy, Adnan Abacı, Baran Önal, Şeminur Haznedaroğlu, Ramazan Akdemir   +4 more
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Time trends in survival and readmission following coronary artery bypass grafting in Scotland, 1981-96: retrospective observational study [PDF]

, 2002
Improvements in coronary revascularisation techniques and an increase in the use of percutaneous interventions1 have led to a rise in the number of coronary artery bypass grafting operations in older patients with more severe cardiac disease and worse ...
Boyd, J.H., Capewell, S., Chalmers, J.W., Finlayson, A.R., MacIntyre, K., McMurray, J.J., Pell, J. P., Redpath, A.D., Stewart, S., Walsh, D.   +9 more
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Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection : The Phantom Menace [PDF]

, 2016
Articles © The authorsWe present a case of a 66-year-old lady with chest pain, without dynamic 12-lead electrocardiographic (ECG) changes and normal serial troponin. Coronary angiography revealed a linear filing defect in the first obtuse marginal branch
Abdulkareem, Nada, Farag, Mohamed, Gorog, Diana A, Spinthakis, Nikolaos   +3 more
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Prevention of cardiovascular events and death with pravastatin in patients with coronary heart disease and a broad range of initial cholesterol levels.

New England Journal of Medicine, 1998
BACKGROUND In patients with coronary heart disease and a broad range of cholesterol levels, cholesterol-lowering therapy reduces the risk of coronary events, but the effects on mortality from coronary heart disease and overall mortality have remained ...
A. Tonkin, P. Alyward, D. Colquhoun, P. Glasziou, P. Harris, D. Hunt, A. Keech, S. MacMahon, P. Magnus, D. Newel, P. Nestel, N. Sharpe, J. Shaw, R. Simes, P. Thompson, A. Thompson, M. West, H. White, S. Simes, W. Hague, S. Caleo, Jane Hall, Andrew J Martin, S. Mulray, P. Barter, L. Beilin, R. Collins, J. McNeil, P. Meier, H. Willimott, D. Smithers, P. Wallace, J. Baker, M. Hobbs, D. Sullivan, N. Anderson, G. Hankey, J. Watson, M. Arulchelvam, S. Chup, J. Daly, J. Hanna, A. Leach, M. Lee, J. Loughhead, H. Lundie-Jenkin, J. Morrison, S. Netting, A. Nguyen, H. Pater, R. Philip, G. Pinna, D. Rattos, S. Ryerson, V. Sazhin, R. Walsh, A. Claque, M. Mackie, J. Yallop, K. Boss, M. Shepard, J. Leach, M. Gandy, J. Joughin, J. Seabrook, R. Abraham, J. Allen, F. Bates, I. Beinart, E. Breed, D. Brown, N. Bunyan, D. Calvert, T. Campbell, D. Condon‐Paoloni, B. Conway, Lucy A. Coupland, J. Crowe, N. Cunio, B. Cuthbert, N. Cuthbert, S. D'arcy, P. Davidson, B. Dwyer, J. England, C. Friend, G. Fulcher, S. Grant, K. Hellestrand, M. Kava, L. Kritharides, D. McGill, H. McKee, A. Mclean, M. Neaverson, G. Nelson, M. O'Neill, C. Onuma, F. O'Reilly   +98 more
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