Rare occurrence of simultaneous coronary artery perforation and intracoronary thrombus formation following angioplasty.

Both coronary artery perforation and intracoronary thrombus formation are life-threatening complications of percutaneous coronary interventions, which rarely occur simultaneously during angioplasty. We herein report a case of stent-related, left circumflex artery perforation, and subsequently acute left main artery thrombosis after the leakage was embolized with 7 microcoils. Intracoronary thromboectomy and systemic anticoagulant therapy were carefully used with good results.

Association of glomerular filtration rate with arterial stiffness in Chinese women with normal to mildly impaired renal function.

Objective: Both decreased glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and arterial stiffness were considered as risk factors for atherosclerosis. Previous studies have suggested the association between central arterial stiffness and the degree of GFR loss. Whether decreased GFR contributes to peripheral artery stiffness remains controversial.

[Clinicopathologic analysis of myocardial infarction with or without left ventricular aneurysm formation in the elderly patients].

Objective: To analyze the clinic-pathologic features of elderly myocardial infarction patients (> 60 years) with and without left ventricular aneurysm formation.

Methods: Between January 1980 and October 2009, 107 myocardial infarction patients were divided into aneurysm group (n = 31) and non-aneurysm group (n = 76) according to autopsy results and the clinic-pathologic features of the two groups were compared.

Results: Previous angina pectoris history was significantly less in aneurysm group than in non-aneurysm group [45.