Publications by authors named "Ala'Eldin A Ababneh"
Article Synopsis
- The study found that diabetes mellitus (DM) patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) have higher mortality rates and more prevalent high levels of endothelin 1 (ET-1), a vasoconstrictor linked to both conditions.
- In a group of 815 patients, higher plasma ET-1 levels were noted in DM patients necessitating revascularization procedures, particularly percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
- Short-term follow-up revealed that, although 132 of the patients experienced cerebro/cardiovascular events, those who underwent PCI had a lower event risk compared to other revascularization methods.
Background: Recent advances in the treatment of primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH), and in surgery to correct tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), have rekindled interest in evaluating right ventricular (RV) volume and ejection fraction (EF). The purpose of this investigation was to determine the accuracy of RV functional parameters assessed by single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) equilibrium radionuclide angiography (ERNA).
Methods And Results: Twenty-eight patients with PPH (n = 15) or TOF (n = 13) (aged 28 +/- 14 years; 57% male) were analyzed by means of SPECT ERNA algorithms that automatically identified mid-RV tomographic planes, generated regions isolating the right ventricle from other structures, and presented RV-segmented regions as a cinematic display.