[Outcome of myocardial revascularisation in patients fifty years old and younger].

Introduction: Most patients that undergo coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) are around 70 years of age when operated on. We investigated the outcome of CABG in patients 50 years and younger, focusing on early complications, operative mortality and long-term survival.

Material And Method: A retrospective study on 1626 patients that underwent CABG in Iceland 2001-2012.

Comparison of 30-day and 5-year outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention versus coronary artery bypass grafting in patients aged≤50 years (the Coronary aRtery diseAse in younG adultS Study).

Data on the outcome of young patients after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are scarce. Data on 2,209 consecutive patients aged≤50 years who underwent CABG or PCI were retrospectively collected from 15 European institutions. PCI and CABG had similar 30-day mortality rates (0.

[Prevalence of abnormal electrocardiographic patterns in Icelandic soccer players and relationship with echocardiographic findings].

Unlabelled: An abnormal electrocardiogram (ECG) is common among young athletes but the underlying cause is unclear. Therefore it is hard to predict how accurate ECG is when screening for sudden cardiac death (SCD) in elite athletes.

Objective: 1) to determine the prevalence of abnormal ECG patterns, among soccer players, especially in relation to age and 2) to link ECG patterns with echocardiographic findings in order to find out whether the ECG can predict disease and/or physiological changes.

[Screening for risk factors of sudden cardiac death in young athletes].

Objective: Sudden cardiac death in young athletes is relatively uncommon and is usually caused by occult underlying cardiovascular disease. Studies have indicated that preparticipation screening may reduce the incidence of sudden death. Our aim was to study the feasibility of standardized preparticipation screening in young competitive Icelandic athletes.

Diagnostic accuracy of 64-slice multidetector CT for detection of in-stent restenosis in an unselected, consecutive patient population.

Objectives: To investigate the diagnostic accuracy of 64-slice multidetector computed tomography (64-CT) for detection of in-stent restenosis (ISR) in an unselected, consecutive patient population.

Background: Detection of in-stent restenosis by cardiac CT would be a major advance for the evaluation of patients suspected of having ISR. However, the diagnostic accuracy of current generation 64-CT in this context is not fully established.

[Diagnostic accuracy of 64-slice computed tomography compared with coronary angiography].

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy (sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV)) of 64-slice multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) compared with quantitative coronary angiography (QCA) for detection of coronary artery disease (CAD).

Material And Methods: Sixty-nine patients participating in a study of coronary in-stent restenosis were investigated. After a 64-slice MDCT scan patients were evaluated by QCA.