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High-Frequency Rotational Angioplasty
1991
In 19 patients with significant coronary artery disease, PTCR was used instead of PTCA. The PTCR was successful in all patients, but in nine patients additional PTCA was successfully performed. Coronary luminal narrowing could be reduced from 78 ± 19% to 32 ± 14% after rotablation and by combined treatment to 21 ± 14%. Only in one patient did coronary dissection occur; the patient was sent to surgery and had an uneventful outcome. No vessel perforation was observed. In one patient peripheral diagonal branch occlusion occurred. All vessels were open according to 24-control coronary angiography. Restenosis (>70% stenosis) occurred in 4/15 patients controlled after 6 months, mainly in those wi…
CT coronary angiography at an ultra-low radiation dose (< 0.1 mSv): feasible and viable in times of constraint on healthcare costs
2013
Computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA) has reached very high standards both in terms of diagnostic performance and radiation dose reduction. This commentary follows a report on CTCA using less than 0.1 mSv in selected patients. This is an extraordinary accomplishment, both for technology and for medicine. The difficult task is now to implement this tool in clinical practice so it can play the best possible role. CTCA can improve diagnostic pathways, can save money for healthcare systems and could even improve pharmacological therapy. All of this may happen, but it will require the combined effort of all the experienced operators in this field, including the referring clinicians. In…
Utility of Multi-Slice Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography to Evaluate Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Patency
2007
Immediate decision making in a case of iatrogenic dissection of left main coronary artery: A successful synergetic treatment
2016
Defining Kawasaki disease and pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome-temporally associated to SARS-CoV-2 infection during SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in…
2021
Abstract Background There is mounting evidence on the existence of a Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome-temporally associated to SARS-CoV-2 infection (PIMS-TS), sharing similarities with Kawasaki Disease (KD). The main outcome of the study were to better characterize the clinical features and the treatment response of PIMS-TS and to explore its relationship with KD determining whether KD and PIMS are two distinct entities. Methods The Rheumatology Study Group of the Italian Pediatric Society launched a survey to enroll patients diagnosed with KD (Kawasaki Disease Group – KDG) or KD-like (Kawacovid Group - KCG) disease between February 1st 2020, and May 31st 2020. Demographic, clini…
When Periods Stop: Long-Term Consequences of PCOS
2009
INFLUENCE OF INTRA-CORONARY ENHANCEMENT ON DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY WITH 64-SLICE CT CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY
2008
We assessed the effect of intra-coronary attenuation on diagnostic accuracy using 64-slice computed tomography coronary angiography (CT-CA). We enrolled 170 patients with suspected coronary artery disease who underwent conventional coronary angiography (CA) and 64-slice CT-CA (100 ml of Iomeprol 400 mg I/ml at 4 ml/s). The study population was divided into two groups (85 patients each based on median attenuation of 326 HU) based on mean arterial attenuation; group 1 with low attenuation and group 2 with high attenuation. Diagnostic accuracy for the detection of significant coronary artery stenosis was determined for both groups using CA as reference standard. Overall, 163 significant stenos…
Low N-Terminal pro-B-type Natriuretic Peptide (NT-proBNP) longitudinally predicts elevated anxiety in depressed patients with coronary artery disease
2016
Risk Factors in Peripheral Artery Disease Associated with Coronary Artery Disease
2019
Abstract Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a partial or complete occlusion of one or more arteries leading to a suppression of blood flow and ischemia. In the process of stenosis, numerous processes are described, among which, the most common being atherosclerosis, affecting the arteries of the inferior and coronary limbs. In the 60 patients investigated angio-coronarographically in the Emergency County Clinical Hospital of Sibiu with PAD, the prevalence of high blood pressure (HBP) and smoking was observed, among the risk factors, and 73.3% had one or more coronary lesions. The association of diabetes mellitus (DM) with PAD has shown an increase in the number of coronary lesions. There …