Does Garlic Supplementation Control Blood Pressure in Patients with Severe Coronary Artery Disease? A Clinical Trial Study.

Background: Hypertension is one of the major risk factors for cardiovascular morbidities, including coronary artery disease (CAD).

Objectives: With interest on the important role of hypertension in the progression of CAD, this study was designed to estimate the effect of garlic powder tablets on the blood pressure (BP) in patients with severe CAD.

Methods: A randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trial was conducted on 56 CAD patients, aged 25 - 75 years old.

Effect of garlic powder tablet on carotid intima-media thickness in patients with coronary artery disease: a preliminary randomized controlled trial.

Background/objectives: This study was designed to investigate whether garlic powder tablets in adjunct to conventional medical treatment could have an effect on carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) and plasma lipoproteins and lipids in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD).

Subjects/methods: A randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trial was conducted on 56 patients with CAD between the ages of 25 and 75 years. The patients were randomly divided into two groups: garlic group (n = 27), receiving garlic powder tablet (1200 µg allicin/tab) twice daily and the placebo group (n = 29), receiving placebo for 3 months.

Right ventricle functional parameters estimation in arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia using a robust shape based deformable model.

Assessment of cardiac right-ventricle functions plays an essential role in diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD). Among clinical tests, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is now becoming the most valid imaging technique to diagnose ARVD. Fatty infiltration of the right ventricular free wall can be visible on cardiac MRI.

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy and open-heart surgery at the same time.

Background: Abdominal procedures in patients with coronary artery disease or severe valvular disease have high risk of mortality and morbidity.

Aims: In order to prevent bile peritonitis after cardiac surgery, to reduce the hospitalization course, and to decrease the mortality and morbidity after the surgery, laparoscopic cholecystectomy and open-heart surgery were performed at the same time.

Methods: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy and open-heart surgery were performed on two patients who had been referred to Cardiothoracic Ward of Modarres Hospital, Tehran, Iran.