Subtle Changes in Myocardial Work Indices Assessed by 2D-Speckle Tracking Echocardiography Are Linked with Pathological LV Remodeling and MACEs Following an Acute Myocardial Infarction Treated by Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.

The goal of this study was to assess whether subtle changes in myocardial work indices may predict left ventricular (LV) remodeling and major cardiac events (MACEs) in patients with a first ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction (STEMI) and preserved LVEF after successful myocardial revascularization with PCI. Methods. Consecutive STEMI patients in sinus rhythm and with an LV ejection fraction ≥ 50% following a successful PCI were recruited.

Myocardial Work Evaluation-A Useful Non-Invasive Method to Predict Coronary Artery Sub-Occlusion in a Patient with Unstable Angina and Multiple Myocardial Revascularization Interventions.

Background: While lifestyle changes, management of coronary artery disease (CAD) risk factors, myocardial revascularization procedures, and medication can improve a patient's prognosis, de novo native coronary lesions and in-stent restenosis (ISR) remain significant clinical concerns. ISR is more frequent with a bare-metal stent than with a drug-eluting stent and has been documented in around 12% of DES patients. Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) manifests as unstable angina in about 30% to 60% of ISR patients.

[A study of the microelements in the dental plaque].

In a total of 49 patients, of which 7 were controls, and the other had chronic superficial parodonthopathies, deep chronic mixed parodontopathies and gingivitis, a quantitative analysis was done of microelements from the dental plaque. Neutron activation analysis, chemical and chromatographic methods were used for evidencing the presence of Fe, Mn, Zn, Mg, Co, Ca, Na, and K ions in the dental plaque. Significant changes were noted with regard to the Fe, Zn, and Ca contents of the dental plaque in patients with deep and mixed parodonthopathies.

[Immunofluorescence studies in the pathogeny of parodontal disease].

One of the current question in this field is that of the possibility for parodontal disease to be an autoimmune disease. There is no clear answer as yet in the specialized literature, and no coherent and complete concepts. Starting from the existing data the authors have carried out immunological studies in patients with parodontal disease, considering the chronic, recidivating aspects of this disturbance, even after a complex therapy, and removal of pathological structures.

[Acupuncture as a bioenergetic reequilibration means in the treatment of chronic mixed marginal parodontopathies].

The authors discuss the use of acupuncture in the treatment of chronic mixed marginal parodontopathies as an eventual means of bioenergetic reequilibration. The various studies carried out for some time by the Department of Odontology and Parodontology of the Bucharest Faculty of Stomatology have demonstrated the lateration of electrical bioresistance in certain acupuncture points in the cephalic extremity at the level of the gingival mucosa in pathologic parodontal states. This suggested the possible applicability in chronic mixed marginal parodontopathies of acupuncture instead of the known means of biostimulation.