High on-clopidogrel treatment platelet reactivity in Thai patients with chronic stable angina scheduled for percutaneous coronary intervention.

Objective: To determine the prevalence, clinical profile, and risk factors of high on-clopidogrel treatment platelet reactivity in Thai patients with chronic stable angina scheduled for percutaneous coronary intervention.

Material And Method: The patients were prospectively recruited from the consecutive patients undergoing coronary angiography and planned for elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Ten ml of blood samples were cautiously drawn from the antecubital vein of the patients to determine the hemoglobin and platelet count.

Prognostic value of normal dobutamine stress echocardiography in renal transplant candidates.

Background: Renal transplant candidates are at high-risk for cardiovascular events. No definite screening tool has been recommended for the pre-operative evaluation.

Objective: The authors studied the prognostic value of normal dobutamine stress echocardiography in this population.

Dobutamine stress echocardiography for the evaluation of coronary artery disease in Thai population: Siriraj experience.

Objective: No previous report of dobutamine stress echocardiography in the Thai population has been available. The present study seeks to document the protocol, indications, results and safety of dobutamine stress echocardiography performed at Siriraj Hospital.

Material And Method: The authors studied 421 [mean age 67.

An abnormal systemic and regional hypercoagulable state in patients with mitral stenosis.

Mitral stenosis still remains a major problem in Southeast Asia including Thailand. It contributes to the morbidity and mortality related to thromboembolism which was associated with the left atrial thrombus. However, the pathogenesis of left atrial thrombus in these patients is not completely understood.