Aim Although the clinical significance of screening tests is still controversial for the professional sportsmen and elite athletes or special occupational status e.g. military, aviation, altitude climbers we claim that…
Objective The University Group Diabetes Program (UGDP) study showed sulfonylureas may bring more harm than benefit to diabetic patients. Since then there has been no strong evidence proving sulfonylureas can…
Background Ten to thirty percent of angina like chest pain patients appears to have normal coronary arteries. Depression and anxiety disorders are most common mental disorders that accompanied to chest…
Background Inflammation markers may play a part in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and inflammatory reaction may play a role in-stent restenosis (ISR) after stent implantation. The aim of the our…
Introduction In most revascularization studies, severe lesions were defined >70% stenosis and revascularization was generally performed to > 2.25 mm diameter epicardial arteries in these studies. However, Syntax score takes into…
Purpose The aim of this study is to investigate the mid and long term MACCE (major advers cardiac and cerebral events) ratio of the patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention…
Objective Paraoxonase (PON) is a high-density-lipoprotein associated enzyme with antioxidative and anti-atherogenic properties. Few studies have evaluated the PON activity in coronary artery disease (CAD) before and after revascularization therapy….
Objectives It has been demonstrated in animal studies that increased oxidative stress negatively affects left ventricular diastolic function. But there is no sufficient data about relation between the oxidative stress…
Aim Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been recently emerged diagnostic imaging tool to assess coronary lesions. However, there is a few data related to OCT in coronary intermediate lesion. Therefore,…
Objective Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) is a well-established diagnostic tool. The sensitivity and specificity of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) MPS to detect significant coronary lesion (coronary stenosis of…
