Objective Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) is safe and effective treatment of urinary tract calculi. While serious side effects are rare, transient cardiac arrhytmias may be seen in ESWL treatment….
Introduction Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome might have a deleterious effect on ventricular repolarization, reflected by an altered frontal planar QRS/T angle. Material-Method We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of a…
Introduction Coronary collaterals are interarterial connections that develops to provide blood flow to an obstructed coronary territory. Survival depends on those collaterals when a large region is at risk. Case…
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) as a treatment of coronary artery disease can be a simple, rapid procedure with a clear benefit for the patient, but it could also become a…
A 69 year old man admitted to the hospital due to the chest pain and he diagnosed with inferior MI. In the patient’s history, we learned that right coronary artery…
Case 1 A 48-year-old male patient applied to the hospital with the complaint of dyspnea and pain in the left arm started suddenly 1 h ago. He informed of excessive…
Some percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) may be challenging due to unsuccessful advancement of balloon across the coronary artery lesion. The reasons of this challenge may be severe coronary artery calcification,…
Stent thrombosis after PCI is a catastrophic problem and occurs about % 1-2 of total PCI cases. Although the incidence of ST is relatively low, prognosis of ST is dismal;…
Coronary artery anomalies, which are rare and asymptomatic, are usually detected incidentally during angiography or autopsy. The incidence has been estimated as 1-2% in the adult population. We would like…
Background/Objectives Transradial access (TRA) is being increasingly used for both diagnostic and interventional cardiac procedures. Use of TRA offers many advantages: decreased bleeding, vascular complications, reduced length of hospital stay,…
