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Percutaneous coronary intervention versus coronary-artery bypass grafting for severe coronary artery disease.

open access: yesNew England Journal of Medicine, 2009
BACKGROUND Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) involving drug-eluting stents is increasingly used to treat complex coronary artery disease, although coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) has been the treatment of choice historically.
P. Serruys   +14 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Monitoring the performance of residents during training in off-pump coronary surgery. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
OBJECTIVE: Control charts (eg, cumulative sum charts) plot changes in performance with time and can alert a surgeon to suboptimal performance. They were used to compare performance of off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery between a consultant and four ...
Angelini, Gianni D   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Sirolimus-eluting stents versus standard stents in patients with stenosis in a native coronary artery.

open access: yesNew England Journal of Medicine, 2003
BACKGROUND Preliminary reports of studies involving simple coronary lesions indicate that a sirolimus-eluting stent significantly reduces the risk of restenosis after percutaneous coronary revascularization.
J. Moses   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Inflammatory Markers Associated With Subclinical Coronary Artery Disease: The Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
BackgroundDespite evidence for higher risk of coronary artery disease among HIV+ individuals, the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. We investigated associations of inflammatory markers with subclinical coronary artery disease in 923 ...
Bahrami, Hossein   +10 more
core   +2 more sources

Coronary computed tomography angiography of spontaneous coronary artery dissection: A case report and review of the literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Patient: Male, 23 Final Diagnosis: Spontaneous coronary artery dissection Symptoms: Chest discomfort • chest pain Medication: — Clinical Procedure: Coronary computed tomography angiography Specialty: Radiology OBJECTIVE: Rare disease BACKGROUND ...
Bhalla, Sanjeev   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Association of obstructive sleep apnoea with long-term cardiovascular events in patients with acute coronary syndrome with or without hypertension: insight from the OSA-ACS project

open access: yesBMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2023
Background A close relationship exists between obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and hypertension. However, the impact of hypertension on the prognostic significance of OSA in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) remains unclear.Methods This is a ...
Wen Hao   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inflammation, atherosclerosis, and coronary artery disease.

open access: yesNew England Journal of Medicine, 2005
ecent research has shown that inflammation plays a key role in coronary artery disease (CAD) and other manifestations of atherosclerosis. Immune cells dominate early atherosclerotic lesions, their effector molecules accelerate progression of the lesions,
G. Hansson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Inter-observer agreement of the Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS^{TM}) in patients with stable chest pain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Purpose: To assess inter-observer variability of the Coronary Artery Disease - Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) for classifying the degree of coronary artery stenosis in patients with stable chest pain.
Abdel Razek, Ahmed Abdel Khalek   +3 more
core   +1 more source

A Recurrent CNN for Automatic Detection and Classification of Coronary Artery Plaque and Stenosis in Coronary CT Angiography [PDF]

open access: yesIEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2018
Various types of atherosclerotic plaque and varying grades of stenosis could lead to different management of patients with a coronary artery disease. Therefore, it is crucial to detect and classify the type of coronary artery plaque, as well as to detect
M. Zreik   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Prevalence of Noncommunicable Diseases’ Risk Factors Among Secondary School Students in Eastern Iran in 2013 [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of School Health, 2016
Background: Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the main causes of mortality and disability in the world. In order for a campaign against NCDs’ risk factors it is necessary to estimate the extent of their prevalence for their decrease through appropriate
Elaheh Yari   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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