Background: Necrotizing fasciitis is a life-threatening soft tissue infection characterized by rapid tissue necrosis, often leading to sepsis and multisystem organ failure. Necrotizing fasciitis can rarely occur as a post-procedural complication, particularly following cardiac catheterization or angiography. This case report presents the clinical presentation and management of a 64-year-old female with a history of chronic endocarditis and valvular involvement who developed necrotizing fasciitis after femoral coronary angiography.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the gold standard approach to ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI). Fibrinolysis followed by PCI has been recommended. The current study aims to investigate the no-reflow phenomenon incidence in patients undergoing post-thrombolytic therapy PCI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) is the gold standard approach to restore blood flow in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI); however, the no-reflow phenomenon as a potential complication of PPCI can worsen the outcomes. It has been hypothesized that adjunctive prophylactic intracoronary infusion of low-dose fibrinolytic might improve the PPCI outcomes; however, this theory is a matter of debate. The current study aims to investigate the value of adjunctive prophylactic intracoronary low-dose alteplase to prevent the no-reflow phenomenon in patients with STEMI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: In recent years, transradial cardiac catheterization has become the preferred method. However, it can result in a significant complication known as radial artery occlusion (RAO). The medical management of RAO remains controversial, especially with the emergence of novel oral anticoagulants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Contrast-associated nephropathy (CAN) is a sudden decrease in kidney function following contrast media administration. Considering the importance of CAN in the patient's outcome and the high prevalence of this complication in cardiac catheterizing centers, this study was designed to investigate the prevalence and the related risk factors of CAN in patients undergoing angioplasty in Chamran Heart Hospital, Isfahan, Iran, from January 2022 to June 2022.
Methods: The inclusion criteria were adult patients above 18 admitted for elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
Background: With the onset of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, hospitalization and treatment of non-covid patients decreased worldwide. The aim of this study is to evaluate the admission and treatment of patients with coronary artery diseases (CADs) by examining coronary Cath labs activities in some centers of Iran during the COVID-19 period.
Methods: A retrospective, multi-center survey was conducted in four cites in Iran which participated in National Persian Registry Of CardioVascular diseasE (N-PROVE).
Aims: We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies to characterize the current literature and help determine the long-term outcomes after transcatheter ASD closure in adults.
Methods And Results: Two investigators searched the manuscript databases for all eligible studies in accordance with the considered keywords. The pooled prevalence of each event according to the meta-analysis and considering the weight calculated for each study included 10.