Background: In a prospective study design, we sought to assess the effect of dipyridamole on coronary flow parameters in patients with isolated coronary artery ectasia (CAE) as compared to subjects with normal coronaries.
Methods: We enrolled 30 patients with ectasia of the left anterior descending (LAD) artery (study group), and 10 subjects with normal coronaries (control group). All subjects underwent transesophageal echocardiography to record flow velocities in the proximal LAD coronary artery, and velocity time integrals were calculated.
Background: We sought to assess coronary flow parameters in patients with isolated coronary artery ectasia (CAE) as compared to subjects with normal coronaries.
Methods: Consecutively, we enrolled 30 patients with ectasia of the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery (study group), and 10 subjects with normal coronaries (control group). All patients underwent transesophageal echocardiography to visualize the LAD.
Aims: We sought to explore the immediate and long-term outcome of combined percutaneous valvuloplasty of the mitral and/or aortic and/or tricuspid valves in a series of patients with rheumatic valvular stenosis.
Methods And Results: A total of 11 patients (three underwent percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty [PMV], percutaneous aortic valvuloplasty [PAV] and percutaneous tricuspid valvuloplasty [PTV], six underwent PMV and PAV, and two underwent PMV and PTV) were enrolled. PMV was performed by the standard double balloon technique.