Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been considered as the ideal tool for the evaluation of atherosclerotic plaques. Circulating trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO), which is a metabolite of the dietary lipid phosphatidylcholine, has…
Animal and imaging study evidence favors early reperfusion for acute myocardial infarction. However, in clinical trials, the effect of symptom-onset-to-balloon (S2B) time on clinical outcomes in patients with ST-segment elevation…
The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) has been proved as a reliable inflammatory marker for the atherosclerotic process and as a predictor for clinical outcomes in patients with various cardiovascular diseases. A…
Native triglycerides (TG) deposited in the human vascular wall is not measurable or visible in vivo to date. We discovered that by exciting fluorescence at 345 nm and emitting at 420…
The study was aimed to compare the characteristics and inhospital and 12- and 36-month outcomes of men and women <40 years with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The analysis involved 932 patients…
Patient-reported health status is highly valued as a key measure of health care quality, yet little is known about the extent to which it is determined by subjective perception compared…
To assess the safety and efficacy of deferred versus complete revascularization using a fractional flow reserve (FFR)–guided strategy in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM), we analyzed all DM patients who…
The goal of this analysis was to evaluate the ability of insulin resistance, identified by the presence of prediabetes mellitus (PreDM) combined with either an elevated triglyceride (TG >1.7 mmol/l) or body…
We tested the hypothesis that cardiometabolic syndrome (CMS) is associated with subclinical atherosclerosis in men and that moderate-to-high levels of cardiorespiratory fitness (fitness) attenuate this relation. Our study population (n =…
We report a case of focal myocarditis in a young boy mimicking acute ST-segment elevation MI. He presented with chest pain and the EKG changes were consistent with infero-laeral ST-segment…
