The use of bioresorbable vascular scaffold Absorb BVS® in patients with stable coronary artery disease: one-year results with special focus on the hybrid bioresorbable vascular scaffolds and drug eluting stents treatment.

Background: The number of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) with bioresorbable vascular scaffolds (BVS) is in-creasing because these procedures offer additional benefits compared to PCI with classical drug eluting stents (DES) made of permanent metallic prostheses.

Aim: To present the current experience of using BVS in a real life scenario in patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD), with a special focus on the assessment of safety and effectiveness of the hybrid strategy (single stage BVS and DES implantation).

Methods: We performed a one-arm prospective registry, which enrolled patients with stable CAD in five interventional cardiology centres in Poland.

Novel paclitaxel-eluting, biodegradable polymer coated stent in the treatment of de novo coronary lesions: a prospective multicenter registry.

Objectives: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a biodegradable polymer coated, paclitaxel eluting stent (Luc-Chopin(2)) based on 9-months angiographic and 12-months clinical follow-up results.

Background: First-generation drug-eluting stents utilize nonbioabsorbable polymeric coatings, whose persistent presence in the arterial wall may negatively affect long-term outcomes. Bioabsorbable coatings with a degradation period matched to that of the drug elution may be a better alternative, clinically and economically.

[Effect of long-term cardiac training on lipids concentration in patients with chronic heart ischemic disease treated with simvastatin].

Unlabelled: Dyslipidemia worsens a prognosis in patients with chronic heart ischemic disease, who underwent myocardial infarction. Therefore, new methods, besides drugs, are being sought, for optimizing a serum concentration of lipid fractions.

The Aim: An effect of 6-month of ambulatory long-term cardiac rehabilitation on the lipidogram fractions concentration in patients with chronic heart ischemic disease treated with simvastatin, as well as a correlation between lipids changes and cardiac training intensity was assessed.

[Hypotensive effect of 6-months cardiac rehabilitation in elderly patients].

Unlabelled: Both effective treatment of arterial hypertension and prevention from its complications are considered very important issues, especially in a population of elderly people, in whom hypertension occurs along with other risk factors, resulting in increase of incidence of myocardial infarction and stroke.

The Aim: There were assessed an influence of 6-month ambulatory cardiac rehabilitation on level of resting and peak systolic and diastolic arterial pressure in elderly patients with chronic ischemic heart disease (IHD) and arterial hypertension (AH), likewise relations between the pressure alterations and the age of the examined patients.

Material And Method: A group of 70 patients with IHD and AH treated invasively was subjected to a rehabilitation program.

[Age and effects of long-term cardiac training in patients with ischemic heart disease].

Unlabelled: Ongoing with age decline of physical capacity reflects permanent processes of aging occurring in organism. It leads to a successive reduction of physical activity level, resulting with time in restrictions of independent life ability, which then causes anxiety and progressing social isolation.

The Aim: Evaluation of relation between age and effort tolerance in patients with chronic ischemic heart disease and comparison of cardiac rehabilitation effects in two patient groups at significantly various age.

[Effect of ambulatory supervised cardiac training on arterial hypertension in patients with coronary artery disease and arterial hypertension].

Unlabelled: Arterial hypertension is one of the most common health problems occurring in highly developed countries. It was proved that long-term and regular physical activity results in hypotensive effect.

The Aim: A goal of the present study was to assess an influence of six-month ambulatory cardiac rehabilitation on arterial pressure level in patients with coronary artery disease and hypertension as well as analysis of correlation between pressure values alterations and intensity of cardiac training.

[Interrelation between arterial hypertension and body mass index in patients with concomitant ischemic heart disease treated with cardiac rehabilitation].

A goal of the study was to investigate the interrelations between body mass index (BMI) and arterial pressure level and its alterations induced by a long-term cardiac rehabilitation. In the patients with arterial hypertension with concomitant ischemic heart disease (IHD). The study group consisted of 73 patients (46 males and 27 females), with age range 54-64 years (the mean: 59.

PRimary coronary angioplasty versus thrombolytic therapy. Comparison of mortality in the acute phase of myocardial infarction - a single centre experience.

Background: Patency of an infarct-related artery may be achieved by the use of primary coronary angioplasty or thrombolysis. In spite of the growing number of reports dealing with this topic, controversies exist as to the superiority of either of these therapeutic options. Moreover, the role of primary angioplasty has not yet been clearly defined in the guidelines of the Polish Cardiac Society.