Cardiorenal multimorbidity in hospitalized cardiology patients: The Hellenic Cardiorenal Morbidity Snapshot (HECMOS) study.

Purpose: Cardiovascular disease is commonly accompanied by renal dysfunction. Multimorbidity in hospitalized patients impacts unfavorably on prognosis and hospital stay. We aimed to illustrate the contemporary burden of cardiorenal morbidity across inpatient cardiology care in Greece.

Anti-Diabetic Therapy, Heart Failure and Oxidative Stress: An Update.

Diabetes mellitus (DM) and heart failure (HF) are two chronic disorders that affect millions worldwide. Hyperglycemia can induce excessive generation of highly reactive free radicals that promote oxidative stress and further exacerbate diabetes progression and its complications. Vascular dysfunction and damage to cellular proteins, membrane lipids and nucleic acids can stem from overproduction and/or insufficient removal of free radicals.

Inferior myocardial wall ischemia on SPECT-MPI in patients with non dominant right coronary artery and non significant coronary artery disease.

Background: The impact of a non-dominant right coronary artery (NDRCA), on single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI)has not been clarified.

Methods And Results: We compared SPECT-MPI results of consecutive patients without significant (diameter stenosis ≥50%)coronary artery disease (CAD) and a NDRCA (Group-1), with those of patients from our database without CAD and a dominant RCA (Group-2). All patients were subjected to SPECT-MPI with I.

Randomised comparison of JUDkins vs. tiGEr catheter in coronary angiography via the right radial artery: the JUDGE study.

Aims: The aim of this study was to compare the performance of the Tiger-II with Judkins 3.5L/4R catheters in coronary angiography (CAG) via the transradial approach (TRA).

Methods And Results: Consecutive patients undergoing non-urgent CAG via the right TRA were randomised to either the Tiger-II (Terumo) or Judkins (3.