Relationship between device displacement distance toward the caudal side during standing and pocket position laterality.

Background: The displacement of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) toward the caudal side during standing after CIED implantation could cause lead dislodgement. This study investigated the relationship between supine pocket position and standing CIEDs' displacement distance after the implantation.

Methods: After CIED surgeries performed at 2 hospitals between 2012 and 2020, 134 patients underwent postoperative chest x-rays in the supine and standing positions during hospitalization.

Statin therapy may prevent restenosis after successful coronary intervention, independent of lipid-lowering effect and CRP level.

Background: As statins have the anti-atherosclerotic pleiotropic effects, we retrospectively examined the effects of statins on restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Methods: We reviewed consecutive 341 patients who underwent successful PCI and follow-up angiography six months after the procedure between January 2002 and December 2004. Statins were initiated in 207 patients (statin group), but not in the other 134 (control group).

Fatal case of amiodarone-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome in a patient with severe left ventricular dysfunction due to extensive anterior acute myocardial infarction.

We here report a case of 71-year-old man with acute extensive anterior myocardial infarction, who was complicated with ventricular tachycardia (VT) even after successful percutaneous coronary intervention. As intravenous administration of nifekalant terminated VT, we started oral administration of amiodarone (day 1). We gave 400 mg of amiodarone a day for the first week and 200 mg a day from the second week.