The first survey of the Saudi Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry Program: Main results and long-term outcomes (STARS-1 Program).

Background: Prior acute coronary syndrome (ACS) registries in Saudi Arabia might not have accurately described the true demographics and cardiac care of patients with ACS. We aimed to evaluate the clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes of a representative sample of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in Saudi Arabia.

Methods: We conducted a 1-month snap-shot, prospective, multi-center registry study in 50 hospitals from various health care sectors in Saudi Arabia.

Physiological evaluation of the provisional side-branch intervention strategy for bifurcation lesions using instantaneous wave-free ratio.

Background: The provisional side-branch intervention strategy remains the gold standard approach for repair of coronary bifurcation lesions. We performed this study to evaluate the clinical and functional outcomes of using the instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) for physiological assessment in provisional side-branch repair of bifurcation lesions.

Methods: Fifty patients with coronary bifurcation lesions were equally divided into two groups: (I) an iFR-guided side-branch intervention group and (II) a conventional group, in which the operator selected a different interventional method.

Atrial myxoma related myocardial infarction: Case report and review of the literature.

Atrial myxomas are the commonest primary cardiac tumors and usually affect the left atrium. Patients with atrial myxomas present with intracardiac obstruction, embolization to the pulmonary and systemic circulation, or constitutional symptoms. The coronary arteries' involvement in myxomatous embolization, although rare, has been described to cause acute myocardial infarction (AMI).

Clinical presentation and short-term outcome of acute coronary syndrome in native young Saudi population.

Objectives: To investigate acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in the young Saudi population in Aseer Region, southwestern Saudi Arabia.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed our database between January 2006 and May 2009, 924 patients were diagnosed to have ACS. Among them 107 patients (11.

Very late stent thrombosis in a bare-metal stent, 9 years after implantation.

Very late bare-metal stent thrombosis occurring beyond one year after stenting is uncommon. We report a case of bare-metal stent thrombosis presenting as acute myocardial infarction. The patient's stent was implanted 9 years ago, however, he was not adherent to his antiplatelet therapy (aspirin).