[Clinical restenosis in diabetic patients treated with drug eluting stents for de novo lesions].

Unlabelled: We evaluated immediate and mid-term clinical and angiographic results in diabetic patients with percutaneous coronary intervention with deployment of drug eluting stents.

Methods: Between November of 2004 and June of 2005 percutaneous coronary interventions were performed 860 with the deployment of 112 drug eluting stents to 42 diabetic patients. The mean of stents was 2.

[Binary restenosis post-cutting balloon ptca before stenting].

Unlabelled: The goal of the study is to describe our experience in percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty with cutting balloon, evaluating the immediate and mid-term outcomes. The cutting balloon is a device used as a strategy to promote plaque rupture and to allow for its distribution.

Methods: This is a descriptive study to evaluate the clinical and angiographic restenosis rate (Binary restenosis).

[Long-term results of mitral percutaneous valvuloplasty with Inoue technique. Seven-years experience at the Cardiology Hospital of the National Medical Center "Siglo XXI", IMSS].

Unlabelled: Since the last decade, percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty with Inoue catheter is considered the treatment of choice for selected patients (mobile valve, no calcification and minimal subvalvular disease) with rheumatic mitral stenosis.

Objective: We present the seven-year follow-up experience of 456 patients treated with this technique in the catheter laboratory of the Cardiology Hospital in National Medical Center SXXI.

Material And Methods: It is a retrospective, transversal and observational study performed with data obtained from January 1994 and December 2000, with a follow-up of 58.

[Short-term results of rescue angioplasty in patients with acute myocardial infarction and failure of thrombolysis treatment].

Unlabelled: The present study is aimed at describing the short-term assessment of clinical and angiographic results in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated with rescue percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (RPTCA).

Methods: We reviewed retrospectively, from January 2001 to July 2004, the interventional procedures performed in patients with coronary heart disease. From a total of 3,258 patients we selected 32 (0.

[Results after placement of coronary stents in protected and not protected coronary trunk vs revascularization surgery].

Introduction: We analyzed the clinical and angiographic results, as well as the follow-up of patients with left coronary trunk disease (LCT) subjected to percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) with stenting and compared them with those subjected to myocardial revascularization surgery (MRV).

Material And Methods: From May 1998 to October 2003, 3,680 procedures were performed in 2,900 patients; 30 of them were selected to form group PTCA, 17 protected with stenting and 13 not protected, as they were not suited for surgery due to inappropriate bedding and rejection by the patient. Another group of 30 patients (MRV) with coronary bypass, average of 3.

[Myofibroblast tumor].

Objective: Our objective was to present a case of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the colon.

Background: Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors are uncommon. They originate from soft tissues, their appearance is more frequent in childhood and your adulthood and these tumors are composed of myofibroblastic cells, leukocytes, and plasmatic cells.

[Gallbladder ascariasis with acute hepatitis. Conservative treatment].

We report two cases of gallbladder ascaridiasis associated with acute hepatitis, its clinical evolution with conservative treatment, making diagnosis by both laboratory and ultrasono-graphic studies. Case 1: was a male in his early forties who experienced symptoms of acute hepatitis and cholecystitis within a time lapse of 72 h of evolution. When laboratory tests and ultrasound (US) were done, an ascaris inside gallbladder was corroborated.

[Mitral percutaneous valvuloplasty with Inoue balloon. Long-term results at the National Medical Center " 20 of November" ISSSTE Mexico].

Unlabelled: Balloon mitral valvuloplasty has, over the last 15 years, become an established interventional procedure for patients with pliable non-calcified mitral stenosis. In this article we describe the long-term outcome of 100 patients from our hospital (National Medical Center "20 de Noviembre" ISSSTE, Mexico City), who were treated with this procedure. Average follow-up was 38.

[Alternatives to chronic cardiac stimulation in patients with mechanical tricuspid prosthesis and atrioventricular block].

One of the complications of tricuspid valve replacement (TVR) is the complete heart block (CHB). In these patients an epicardial permanent pacemaker is frequently used but its insertion is another major operation and higher thresholds are needed. Two patients are reported, both women, with rheumatic heart disease and TVR who required a permanent pacemaker because they developed CHB.