Comparison of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy, Fibrosis and Dysfunction According to Various Disease Mechanisms such as Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus and Chronic Renal Failure.

Background: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) has been known as an important predictor of prognosis of cardiovascular disease. Carboxy-terminal propeptide of procollagen type I (PIP) is related with myocardial fibrosis. We sought to analyze the differences in the characteristics of LVH, myocardial fibrosis, and LV functions among hypertension (HBP), diabetes mellitus (DM) and chronic renal failure (CRF).

Long-term percutaneous coronary intervention rates and associated independent predictors for progression of nonintervened nonculprit coronary lesions.

After successful percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), unpredictable coronary events occur that are caused by in-stent restenosis and the progression of preexisting nonculprit coronary lesions. However, little is known about the long-term clinically driven PCI rates for the progression of nonculprit coronary lesions discovered during culprit-lesion PCI or its independent predictors, including several biomarkers. In this study, the clinical and angiographic data of 1,395 PCI patients treated from January 2004 to May 2007 were retrospectively analyzed.