[A case of crescentic glomerulonephritis developed under oral anastrozole treatment].

A 69-year-old postmenopausal woman who was prescribed anastrozole for 10 months after surgical removal of her breast cancer, was referred to our hospital for acute renal failure. Because it was possible that her renal failure was related to her treatment with anastrozole, the treatment was immediately discontinued. After renal biopsy was performed to examine her renal failure, she was diagnosed as crescentic glomerulonephritis, probably related with the treatment of anastrozole.

Coronary plaque characteristics that indicate distal embolization during percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with stable angina-virtual histology intravascular ultrasound study.

Distal embolization (DE) is a serious complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with stable angina. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the coronary plaque characteristics that indicate DE during PCI in patients with stable angina using virtual histology intravascular ultrasound (VH-IVUS). Three hundred and sixty-four consecutive stable angina patients who underwent PCI were enrolled in this study.

Gender differences in coronary plaque characteristics in patients with stable angina: a virtual histology intravascular ultrasound study.

The purpose of this study was to compare culprit coronary plaque characteristics between female and male patients with stable angina using virtual histology intravascular ultrasound (VH-IVUS). The target population consisted of three hundred and sixty-four consecutive patients with stable angina who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) after VH-IVUS. The baseline characteristics and VH-IVUS results were compared between 72 female and 292 male patients.

[Coronary ectasia resulting in thrombotic coronary occlusion after warfarin interruption: a case report].

A 68-year-old man taking aspirin and warfarin for ectatic right coronary artery complained of chest pain and was admitted to our hospital with acute myocardial infarction. He had discontinued taking warfarin due to nail bleeding for a month. Coronary angiography revealed total occlusion at segment 3 of the ectatic right coronary artery with massive thrombus.

[Coronary artery embolism from ruptured plaque in the left main trunks with difficulty in detection of culprit lesion: a case report].

A 60-year-old man complained of severe chest pain and was emergently admitted to our hospital with a dignosis of anterior acute myocardial infarction. Emergent coronary angiography revealed significant stenosis in segment 7 and filling defect in segment 11 without flow delay. Haziness was observed in segment 5.