A successful treatment for a lesion of chronic total occlusion with contralateral angiography in a single radial access.

A 50-year-old man was admitted due to effort chest pain. Coronary angiogram showed a total occlusion of LAD. The 5-French JL 3.

Relationship between the bone density estimated by cone-beam computed tomography and the primary stability of dental implants.

Objectives: The aims of this study were to objectively assess bone quality with density values obtained by cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) and to determine the correlations between bone density and primary stability of dental implants.

Material And Methods: Eighteen Straumann implants were inserted into 18 fresh femoral heads of swine. The bone densities of implant recipient sites were preoperatively determined by the density value using CBCT.

The clinical and hemodynamic factors that influence the concentrations of biomarkers of myocyte injury measured by high sensitive assay PATHFAST.

Background: Subclinical myocyte injury plays an important role in the progression of congestive heart failure. However, the clinical and hemodynamic factors that influence the concentrations of biomarkers of myocyte injury have not been clarified.

Methods: Blood was sampled during diagnostic cardiac catheterization from 108 consecutive patients without acute coronary syndrome and acute cardiac decompensation.

Persistently increased serum concentrations of cardiac troponin in patients with acutely decompensated heart failure are predictive of adverse outcomes.

Background: Persistently increased serum concentrations of cardiac troponin (cTn) are a prognostic marker in patients suffering from chronic congestive heart failure (CHF), but the significance in acute cardiac decompensation is unclear.

Methods And Results: Serial blood samples were collected from 52 patients presenting with acute cardiac decompensation in the absence of an acute coronary event. Serial serum concentrations of cTnI, creatine kinase (CK)-MB, and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) were measured by rapid assay.

[Infusion therapy at outpatient clinic in chronic end-stage heart failure].

Objectives: To determine whether drug infusions at ambulatory clinic in patients with end stage congestive heart failure are safe and reduce the period of hospitalization.

Methods: Between May 2000 and November 2006, 21 ambulatory patients with end stage congestive heart failure were treated with infusions of the natriuretic peptide, carperitide (6 patients, 43 infusions of mean 0.033 microg/kg/min for mean 3.