Long-term clinical outcomes of patients with unprotected left main bifurcation lesions treated with 2-stent techniques.

Background: Currently available evidence suggests that outcomes are less favorable when left main (LM) bifurcation lesions are treated with 2-stent techniques compared with a single-stent technique. We aimed to evaluate the long-term outcomes of the 2-stent techniques for treating unprotected LM bifurcation lesions in Chinese patients.

Methods: We enrolled 301 consecutive patients treated with drug-eluting stents (DES) implantation using 2-stent techniques for unprotected LM bifurcation lesions (MEDINA 1, 1, 1, 70.

Fish consumption and incidence of heart failure: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.

Background: The association between fish consumption and heart failure (HF) incidence is inconsistent.

Methods: We performed a systematic search of Pubmed and Embase (from 1953 to June 2012) using key words related to fish and HF. Studies with at least three categories of fish consumption reporting both relative risk (RR) and corresponding 95% confidence interval (CI) for HF incidence were included.

[Clinical outcome of patients undergoing emergent coronary artery bypass grafting following failed percutaneous coronary intervention in stent era].

Objective: To explore clinical outcomes of patients undergoing emergent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) following failed percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the stent era.

Methods: Eleven patients who underwent emergent CABG following failed PCI from January, 2002 to December 2010 were enrolled. The in-hospital follow-up included cardiac deaths, Q-wave myocardial infarction, kidney failure, and cerebrovascular events.

Current treatment status in patients with severe aortic valve stenosis and outcome of long term follow-up at advanced age: a Chinese single center study.

Background: Surgical aortic valve replacement is the standard treatment for patients with severe aortic stenosis, but some registries have indicated that 30% to 60% of these patients are not treated surgically, usually due to advanced age and/or comorbidities. This single center study in China investigated the current treatment status in the patients with severe aortic stenosis and evaluated the long term clinical outcome in advanced age patients whether or not undergoing aortic valve replacement.

Methods: Clinical data of 867 consecutive patients with severe aortic stenosis between January 2000 and December 2006 were retrospectively analyzed.

[Long-term clinical outcome of patients with diabetes and chronic total occlusion underwent drug-eluting stents implantation].

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the long-term clinical outcome of patients with diabetes mellitus and chronic total occlusion (CTO) underwent drug-eluting stents (DES) implantation.

Methods: Data of 143 consecutive eligible patients from January, 2006 to May, 2007 were retrospectively analyzed. The endpoint of the study was the major adverse cardiac events (MACE), including death, myocardial infarction, target lesion revascularization.

[Analysis of acute myocardial infarction one month after stent implantation].

Objective: To study the possible causes of ST-elevated acute myocardial infarction (STEAMI) occurring one month after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Methods: One hundred and ninety two patients aged from 40 - 79 years who had a successful previous PCI and also received primary PCI due to STEAMI in this hospitalization were included in this study. The AMI-related lesions and previous angiographic findings such as the number of lesions, the degree of the stenosis, the type of stents and the acute results of last PCI, etc.

The accelerated post-infarction progression of cardiac remodelling is associated with genetic changes in an untreated streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat model.

Aims: The mechanism by which diabetes mellitus exacerbates myocardial injury and the incidence of heart failure after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), remains unclear. We studied the severity of cardiac dysfunction and time-dependent gene expression in a hyperglycaemic rat model with AMI.

Methods And Results: The diabetic model was produced by injection of streptozotocin in Sprague-Dawley rats.

ST-elevated acute myocardial infarction happening 1 month post stent implantation: late thrombosis in-stents or new lesions?

Background: ST-elevated acute myocardial infarction (STEAMI) happening in the first month post percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is almost related to acute thrombosis or subacute thrombosis in-stents. This study aimed to investigate the possible causes of myocardial infarction one month later.

Methods: Patients who had a history of successful PCI, and received coronary angiography or re-PCI due to STEAMI were included in this study.