Long-term effects of invasive treatment in patients with a post-thrombolytic Q-wave myocardial infarction.

Objectives: The aim of the present study was to assess the effect of a deferred invasive treatment strategy on long-term outcome in patients with a post-thrombolytic Q-wave myocardial infarction and inducible myocardial ischemia.

Design: Patients (N=751) with post-thrombolytic Q-wave myocardial infarction and inducible ischemia (angina pectoris or silent myocardial ischemia) were randomized to a deferred invasive treatment (balloon angioplasty or coronary bypass surgery) or medical treatment. Vital status and non-fatal cardiac events defined as hospitalization caused by acute cardiac events were recorded for a median of 11.

Maintaining a physiological blood glucose level with 'glucolevel', a combination of four anti-diabetes plants used in the traditional arab herbal medicine.

Safety and anti-diabetic effects of Glucolevel, a mixture of dry extract of leaves of the Juglans regia L, Olea europea L, Urtica dioica L and Atriplex halimus L were evaluated using in vivo and in vitro test systems. No sign of toxic effects (using LDH assay) were seen in cultured human fibroblasts treated with increasing concentrations of Glucolevel. Similar observations were seen in vivo studies using rats (LD50: 25 g/kg).

Weight loss in animals and humans treated with "weighlevel", a combination of four medicinal plants used in traditional arabic and islamic medicine.

Weighlevel, a mixture of extract of four plants used in traditional Arabic and Islamic medicine as well as in European herbal medicine, was prepared and assessed for its safety and efficacy in weight loss. Leaves of Alchemilla vulgaris, Olea europaea and Mentha longifolia L., as well as seeds of Cuminum cyminum, were used.

Revascularization compared to medical treatment in patients with silent vs. symptomatic residual ischemia after thrombolyzed myocardial infarction--the DANAMI study.

Aims: The aim was to compare the effect of revascularization to conservative treatment in patients with residual silent and with residual symptomatic ischemia following acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The study was a subanalysis of the DANAMI (DANish AMI) randomized study of invasive vs. conservative treatment in patients with inducible ischemia after thrombolysis in AMI.

Target vessel revascularization following percutaneous coronary intervention. A 10-year report from the Danish Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty Registry.

Objective: To present the rate of target vessel revascularization (TVR) in a consecutive and unselected national population over 10 years.

Design: From 1989 to 1998 all percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) performed in Denmark were recorded in the Danish PTCA Registry.

Results: From 1989 to 1998 the annual rate of PCI rose from 46 to 753 per million inhabitants.

[Percutaneous coronary intervention in Denmark from 1989 to 1998. Results from the Danish PTCA registry].

Introduction: During the ten-year period 1989 to 1998, all percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) in Denmark were recorded in the Danish PTCA Registry. The purpose was quality control based on treatment activity, severity of illness, technique employed, success rate, and complications.

Material And Methods: For each PCI procedure a number of 144 parameters were recorded in a national database.

Complete arterial coronary revascularisation using radial artery conduit for double thoracic artery inlet flow: arterial sling operation.

Background: Coronary artery bypass graft surgery with arterial revascularisation of all diseased coronary vessels is considered highly efficient because arterial grafts have an excellent long-term patency compared with venous grafts. However, problems to reach the infero-lateral wall with the in situ internal thoracic arteries usually require alternative techniques. We present the first results of a new surgical principle using a free radial artery segment to complete the arterial coronary revascularisation and concomitantly connect the internal thoracic arteries.