Coronary artery disease in renal transplant recipients: an angiographic study.

Background: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality in renal transplant recipients (RT). Coronary artery disease (CAD) in such patients is poorly studied.

Methods: During 2012-2017, 50 patients with a renal graft (functioning for a minimum of 6 months) were subjected to coronary angiography in our institution.

The impact of financial crisis on coronary artery disease burden in Greece.

Background: Economic crisis poses an immense threat to public health worldwide and has been linked to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Greece is facing a distinctive recession over the recent years. However, the exact impact on coronary artery disease (CAD) burden has not been adequately addressed.

A Heartbreaking Renal Transplantation: Is Norepinephrine the Culprit to Blame?

Introduction: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM), also known as "broken heart syndrome," "apical ballooning syndrome," and "stress-induced cardiomyopathy," was first described in Japanese patients in 1990 by Sato et al. TCM is an increasingly recognized syndrome characterized by transient and reversible systolic dysfunction of the apical and middle segments of the left ventricle. This syndrome resembles acute myocardial infarction in the absence of evident coronary artery occlusion.

Complete stent fracture 1 year after LIMA PCI due to LIMA and subclavian artery dissection.

Stent platforms are prone to fracture while incidental data are demonstrating a potential unfavorable outcome. Predisposing factors usually involve long lesions and tortuous vessels requiring more than one stent. This issue is magnified when it involves a periprocedural iatrogenic left internal mammary artery (LIMA) and subclavian artery dissection.