A Novel Electrocardiographic Marker for Predicting Total Mortality in Ischemic Stroke: Frontal QRS-T Angle.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between mortality and the frontal QRS-T angle (FQRS-TA), obtained by calculating the absolute difference between the QRS and T waves electrocardiographically (ECG), in patients diagnosed with ischemic stroke (IS).

Methods: This research is a retrospective and cross-sectional study. The diagnosis of IS was confirmed through brain imaging and physical examination.

Comparison of serum lipoprotein(a) levels in young and middle-aged patients presenting for the first time with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a single-centre study.

Background: Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a) ] is associated with coronary artery disease due to its atherogenic and thrombogenic nature. In this study, we aimed to compare the level of Lp(a) in young and middle-aged patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).

Methods: This retrospective study included 287 patients aged 20-65 years who presented to the emergency department for the first time due to STEMI.

The relationship between length of stay in intensive care unit and Tpeak-Tend and Tpeak-Tend/QTc ratio in COVID 19 patients with acute coronary syndrome.

Background: Patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can develop cardiac injury resulting in cardiac arrhythmias, myocarditis, and acute coronary syndrome (ACS). In this study, we aimed to investigate whether COVID-19 infection affects ventricular repolarization parameters such as Tpeak-Tend interval (Tp-e), QT interval, corrected QT (QTc), Tp-e/QT, and Tp-e/cQT in patients with ACS.

Methods: The study consisted of two groups.

Changing face of pulmonary embolism with COVID-19.

Aim: This study aimed to describe the baseline characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients with pulmonary embolism, and to examine the Geneva score, pulmonary embolism severity index (PESI), radiological and biochemical findings.

Methods: From March 2020 to June 2021, the files of 41 COVID-19 patients with pulmonary embolism were accessed.

Results: Mean D-dimer value was 6.

Anomalous the Left Main Coronary Artery Originating from the Right Coronary Artery.

The coronary anomalies are rarely seen in clinical practice. A 47-year-old female patient presented to hospital with chest pain on exertion. The coronary angiography and cardiac tomography showed the anomalous origin of the left main from the right coronary artery.

Intercoronary continuity: a case report.

Intercoronary continuity is a rare variance of coronary circulation. The importance of this rare anomaly is unknown. We present this rare anomaly in a patient with acute myocardial infarction.

Broken guidewire fragment.

Advances in technology and greater operator experience have increased the success rate of percutaneous coronary intervention while lowering the complication rates. The broken guidewire is a rare complication of percutaneous coronary intervention. We present this rare complication in a patient who was medically treated.

The incidence of coronary anomalies on routine coronary computed tomography scans.

Objective: This study aimed to assess the incidence of coronary anomalies using 64-multi-slice coronary computed tomography (MSCT).

Methods: The diagnostic MSCT scans of 745 consecutive patients were reviewed.

Results: The incidence of coronary anomalies was 4.

Spontaneous left main coronary artery dissection treated with primary stenting.

Spontaneous left main coronary artery (LMCA) dissection is an unusual cause of myocardial ischemia and sudden death. It is defined as an intramural hematoma of the media of the vessel wall. A 56-year-old male who underwent a two-vessel bypass ten years previous presented with chest pain for two hours.

A new stenting technique for bifurcation lesions a nine-patient case series.

Aims: This study describes and reports preliminary outcomes using kissing T-stenting and small protrusion (K-TAP), a novel modification of traditional T-stenting and small protrusion (TAP).

Methods And Results: Nine patients who were treated with K-TAP between May 2008 and February 2012 at two hospitals were retrospectively included in this study. The primary endpoints were angiographic success, procedural success, and the composite 30-day and long-term occurrences of major adverse cardiac events (MACEs), which consisted of death, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, repeated percutaneous coronary intervention of the target vessel, and non-Q-wave and Q-wave myocardial infarctions.

Percutaneous revascularization of total or subtotal left main occlusion in the setting of acute myocardial infarction.

Objectives: We evaluated the effect of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for total or subtotal left main coronary occlusion (LMCO) in the setting of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), together with clinical features, outcome, and prognostic determinants.

Study Design: Between March 2008 and June 2010, PCI was performed for total or subtotal thrombotic LMCO in eight patients with AMI. All the patients were males with a mean age of 55.

A case of twin circumflex arteries associated with acute myocardial infarction.

A circumflex (Cx) artery originating from the right coronary artery is one of the most common congenital coronary anomalies and is usually thought to be benign. Twin Cx arteries represent a very rare congenital anomaly with only three reported cases. Herein, we present a case of twin Cx arteries originating from the left main and right coronary arteries, respectively.

A rare congenital coronary artery anomaly: anomalous of the left anterior descending coronary artery arising from the right coronary artery and review of the literature.

Most coronary anomalies are clinically asymptomatic. However some of them may present with chest pain, syncope, heart failure and sudden death. Anomalous left anterior descending artery arising from right coronary artery is a very rare coronary anomaly.

Influence of different echocardiographic imaging modes on the assessment of anterior mitral leaflet thickness.

Background And Aim Of The Study: The study aim was to compare fundamental imaging (FI) measurements with harmonic imaging (HI) measurements and surgical measurements (SM) in the assessment of mitral anterior leaflet thickness.

Methods: Forty-three patients scheduled to undergo mitral valve replacement were included. Before surgery, routine echocardiography was performed in all patients using an instrument fitted with a 2.

A new echocardiographic approach in assessing pulmonary vascular bed in patients with congenital heart disease: pulmonary artery stiffness.

Objective: The state of pulmonary vascular bed in congenital heart disease is the predictor of the patients clinical condition, prognosis and outcome of surgical intervention. This study aims to investigate the condition of pulmonary vascular bed analyzing pulmonary artery stiffness by means of Doppler echocardiography.

Methods: Thirty-three patients (16 females, mean age 26+/-15 years) with various congenital heart diseases such as atrial septal defect (20 patients), ventricular septal defect (10 patients), patent ductus arteriosus (2 patients), atrioventricular septal defect (1 patient) were enrolled in this study.