The effect of cardiac shock wave therapy on myocardial function and perfusion in the randomized, triple-blind, sham-procedure controlled study.

Background: Recent triple-blind sham procedure-controlled study revealed neutral effects of the cardiac shock wave therapy (CSWT) on exercise tolerance and symptoms in patients with stable angina. Current data about the effects of CSWT on global and regional myocardial contractility and perfusion is limited. Hereby we report the results of an imaging sub-study that evaluated the capacity of CSWT to ameliorate myocardial ischemia induced during dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) and cardiac single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).

A High Prevalence of Intracranial Stenosis in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease and the Diagnostic Value of Transcranial Duplex Sonography.

Background: According to the data from the population-based Rotterdam study, intracranial carotid artery calcification detected by computed tomography is very common and contributed to 75% of all strokes. The aim of the present study was to estimate the prevalence of intracranial stenosis (IS) using noninvasive transcranial color-coded duplex sonography (TCCS) in neurologically asymptomatic patients with coronary artery disease (CAD).

Methods: Three hundred and eighty-nine patients with angiographically-confirmed, severe CAD were included prospectively.

Cardiac shock-wave therapy in the treatment of coronary artery disease: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Aim: To systematically review currently available cardiac shock-wave therapy (CSWT) studies in humans and perform meta-analysis regarding anti-anginal efficacy of CSWT.

Methods: The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, Medline, Medscape, Research Gate, Science Direct, and Web of Science databases were explored. In total 39 studies evaluating the efficacy of CSWT in patients with stable angina were identified including single arm, non- and randomized trials.

The impact of surgical ventricular restoration on ischemic mitral regurgitation.

Objective: The aim of current study was to evaluate and compare the changes in clinical status and mitral regurgitation (MR) grade and long-term postoperative survival after left ventricle surgical restoration (SVR) operations.

Material And Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the data of 139 patients suffering from ischemic heart disease and left ventricular aneurysms or large akinesia, who underwent SVR and coronary artery bypass grafting without MR surgical correction between 1999 and 2006. The mean long-term postoperative follow-up was 3.

[Late outcomes of on-pump and off-pump redo coronary artery bypass grafting].

Unlabelled: Benefits of off-pump surgery are still widely debated in the literature comparing with conventional coronary artery bypass grafting. The aim of our study was to compare the late outcomes of patients who underwent on-pump redo coronary artery bypass surgery with those who had off-pump redo coronary artery bypass surgery.

Material And Methods: Two groups of patients were compared.

[Follow-up results after left ventricular geometry and volume restoration operations in patients with postinfarctic aneurysm].

Unlabelled: Fifty patients underwent surgery due to reconstruction of the left ventricular volume and geometry together with heart revascularisation since 1999.02 till 2002.05 of Clinic of Heart Surgery, Vilnius University and Vilnius Heart Surgery Center.