Background Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is a powerful predictor of prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease. The effect of PCI with coronary stent implantation on left ventricular (LV)…
Background Bleeding post-PCI has been recognized to be a complication that has a high incidence of morbidity and mortality. Costs to the hospital associated with these complications are very high….
Background The influence of coronary chronic total occlusions (CTOs) on the outcomes of patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery (CABG) remains unclear. Objective We analyzed the impact of coronary CTOs on…
Background Different demographic subgroups may have different prevalence, diagnosis, disease progression and treatment outcomes for some diseases. Although cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one killer of women, women have…
Aim The aim was to determine the relationship between platelet activation (represented in PMPs CD 63 and CD 62) and the severity of PAD. Patients and methods This is a…
Background Atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of mortality. So far, interventional management of atherosclerosis has been physical like angioplasty, atherectomy and stenting. Physical interventions rarely remove the…
Background The influence of drug-eluting stents (DES) on atherosclerotic lesion progression or regression is not well characterized. We used a balloon preinjury, familial hypercholesterolemic swine (FHS) model to study the…
Background A novel coronary imaging and navigation system (IC-PRO Guidance, Paieon Medical, Israel) was developed to enable the operator identification of balloon/stent location in real time based on fluoroscopic images….
Aim Appropriate stent expansion is an important predictor of the long-term procedural success. The low opacity of current stents is a major obstacle in imaging their silhouette. Postdeployment image enhancement…
Background The aim of our study was a Doppler assessment of coronary flow reserve (CFR) in the right coronary artery (RCA) in CAD patients with single-vessel RCA stenosis and patients…
