Relationship between Arterial Calcifications on Mammograms and Cardiovascular Events: A Twenty-Three Year Follow-Up Retrospective Cohort Study.

Purpose: Breast arterial calcifications (BAC) have been associated with cardiovascular diseases. We aimed to examine whether the presence of BAC could predict the development of cardiovascular events in the very long term, as evidence has suggested.

Patients And Methods: We conducted a 23-year follow-up retrospective cohort study considering women specifically studied for breast cancer.

Preserved cardiorespiratory function and NT-proBNP levels before and during exercise in patients with recent onset of rheumatoid arthritis: the clinical challenge of stratifying the patient cardiovascular risks.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with an increased risk of myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure. In RA patients, elevated NT-proBNP levels have been reported to be a prognostic marker of left ventricular dysfunction. In this study, we evaluated cardiorespiratory functional capacity and NT-proBNP levels before and during cardiopulmonary exercise test in early RA (ERA) patients.

[Occlusion of patent ductus using the Rashkind system. Initial experience].

Three patients were submitted to the Rashkind device technique for closure of a patent ductus arteriosus. The percutaneous transvenous technique was employed in every cases. A 12 mm prosthesis was utilized in one case and 17 mm prostheses in the other two cases.

[Mammary-coronary anastomosis: a new technique of approach through the brachial route for angiographic study and angioplasty].

Purpose: A new technique of mammary artery catheterization, by a brachial artery approach, utilizing a pre-molded conventional Sones catheter is described.

Methods: In a series of 300 patients, 308 procedures were performed. Three hundred internal mammary-coronary anastomosis were studied.