Hybrid approach in patients with recurrent brachial artery embolism: adjunctive tissue plasminogen activator infusion following embolectomy.

Acute ischemia of an upper extremity occurs less frequently than vascular events of the leg and accounts for 15%-32% of all cases. Embolectomy provides prompt and effective treatment in the majority of cases. Recurrence of embolism and failed reperfusion can result in poor outcomes, even extremity loss.

Focussed microarray analysis of apoptosis in periodontitis and its potential pharmacological targeting by carvacrol.

Objective: The objective of this study was to perform a landscape analysis of apoptosis-related genes/proteins and to study the differential gene expression by analysing array data from periodontitis patients and, second, to evaluate the anti-apoptotic effects of carvacrol, a monoterpenoid phenol, in vitro.

Design: A gene/protein interaction network model 'APOP' was developed by using the Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins (STRING) version 9.05.

Role of anticardiolipin antibodies in the pathogenesis of prosthetic valve thrombosis: An observational study.

Background: Prosthetic valve thrombosis (PVT) is serious complication of valvular replacement surgery, and increased levels of anticardiolipin antibodies (aCL) are associated with thrombosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of aCL in the development of PVT.

Patients And Methods: We studied the aCL IgM and IgG levels in 114 patients with PVT and 80 healthy patients with prosthetic valves without PVT or a history of thrombosis.

Electron microscopic evaluation of internal thoracic artery endothelial morphology in diabetic coronary bypass patients.

Background: Diabetes is a well- identified major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. This study was performed to evaluate the effect of diabetes and impact of glycemic control on internal thoracic artery (ITA) morphology by electron microscopy.

Methods: Thirty patients scheduled for coronary artery bypass grafting were enrolled in this study.

Long-term prognosis of mild functional tricuspid regurgitation after mitral valve replacement.

Objective: Functional tricuspid regurgitation (FTR) is the most common type of tricuspid insufficiency and occurs approximately in 30% of patients with mitral valve disease. The major etiologic factor in the triggering of right ventricular dilation and thus causing functional tricuspid regurgitation, is pulmonary artery hypertension secondary to mitral valve disease. We aimed to analyze long-term outcomes of patients with mild tricuspid regurgitation at the time of mitral valve replacement.

Effects of non-dipper blood pressure pattern on left ventricular rotational mechanics in hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a speckle tracking study.

We aimed to evaluate the effects of non-dipper BP pattern on left ventricular (LV) rotational mechanics in hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) with the utility of two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (2D-STE). Eighty-six hypertensive patients with T2DM were enrolled. All patients underwent 2D-echocardiography and 24-h-ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.

Direct innominate artery cannulation in surgery for annuloaortic ectasia.

Introduction: The selection of the ideal cannulation site is still one of the major concerns in ascending aortic surgery. In the last decade, many surgeons have chosen to utilize antegrade cerebral perfusion in hypothermic circulatory arrest. In this study, we aimed to evaluate arterial cannulation techniques in patients who underwent root replacement for annuloaortic ectasia.

Three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiographic evaluation of cor triatriatum in adults.

We present the cases of two adult patients with cor triatriatum due to left atrial membrane with atrioventricular septal defect and right atrial membrane. Two-dimensional and real-time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography were performed. These noninvasive modalities provided a comprehensive anatomic and hemodynamic evaluation of the anomaly.

The protective effect of L-carnitine on hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats.

Background/aims: Ischemia-reperfusion injury may occur during liver transplantation and remains a serious concern in clinical practice. This study was designed to study the potential benefit of L-carnitine on experimental warm hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats.

Materials And Methods: Forty-five male Wistar Albino rats were divided into three groups; Group 1 sham-operation without ischemia-reperfusion (n=15); Group 2, ischemia-reperfusion (n=15); and Group 3, which was administered L-carnitine (200 mg/kg, intraperitoneal, for 4 days) prior to ischemia-reperfusion (n=15).

Prolidase activity in patients with coronary artery aneurysm.

Decreased collagen biosynthesis and increased collagenolysis may induce aneurysmal progress in arterial walls. Prolidase plays a role in collagen synthesis. In this study, we sought to evaluate whether there is a correlation between nonatherosclerotic coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) and prolidase activity.

[Comparison of standard Euroscore, logistic Euroscore and Euroscore II in prediction of early mortality following coronary artery bypass grafting].

Objective: EuroSCORE is the most widely used risk prediction system. Standard EuroSCORE, which had been published in 1999, was revised as a Logistic EuroSCORE in 2003. Further, it was reconsidered and published as EuroSCORE II in 2011.

MMPREDOX/NO interplay in periodontitis and its inhibition with Satureja hortensis L. essential oil.

Satureja hortensis L. is an aromatic plant with antibacterial and antibiofilm activities against periodontopathogens. Here, we attempted to find out whether the antioxidant properties of S.

Spontaneous triple coronary artery dissection.

Multivessel spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is extremely rare, and to the best of our knowledge, triple-vessel dissection has been reported in only 7 patients to date. We present the successful surgical treatment of the triple coronary artery dissection in a 57-year-old man. The patient had aortic valve replacement simultaneously.

High salivary estrogen and risk of developing pregnancy gingivitis.

Background: Estrogen regulates the cellular functions of several tissues that may disturb the host response against bacteria. The present aim is to evaluate the contribution of estrogen to the severity of gingival inflammation during pregnancy.

Methods: Salivary estrogen levels from 30 pregnant and 24 non-pregnant females were related to their periodontal health parameters, including visible plaque index (VPI) and bleeding on probing (BOP) from six sites per tooth.

Isolated right superior vena cava draining into the left atrium.

A 10-year-old male was admitted to our institution with complaints of mild cyanosis and dyspnea. Transthoracic echocardiography and angiography revealed a right superior vena cava (SVC) draining into the left atrium. At the time of surgery, the right SVC was connected to the right atrium.

Agronomic importance of first development of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) under semi-arid conditions: II. Seed imbibition.

Due to the slowness growth and weakness of the first developments of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), it could not combated with weeds and easily caught up by Ascochyta blight (Ascochyta rabiei (Pass) Labr.) disease.

Ecophysiological responses to stresses in plants: a general approach.

Stress (abiotic and biotic) factors reflect and specify the plant morphology and called as "stress" and have negative effect(s) on growth, development, quality, quantity and can reduce average plant productivity by 65 to 87%, depending on the plants and stage(s) and also give various permanent or temporary damage(s) according to length of exposed period, violence/density, developmental stage, age, etc. Researches have revealed that despite the advanced technology levels the fundamental basis of stress have not been understood comprehensively. Firstly taken response(s) has/have not yet fully understood and secondly any "resistance" or "tolerance level of a variety/species" because of their complex structure(s).