Vasoconstrictor component of atherothrombotic culprit lesions in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.

Objective: The vasoconstrictor component of atherothrombotic culprit lesions in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients has not been fully investigated. This study was aimed at assessing the vasoconstrictor component of atherothrombotic culprit lesions in patients with STEMI receiving primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Methods: A group of 100 patients with STEMI were enrolled prospectively.

"Angiographic late catch-up" phenomenon after sirolimus-eluting stent implantation.

Background: Although several randomized trials have shown that sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) substantially reduces in-stent restenosis, recent studies have suggested the possibility of late catch-up after SES implantation. We investigated long-term angiographic outcomes after SES implantation in real-world practice.

Methods: This study was conducted on 195 patients with 253 lesions who underwent the first and long-term angiographic follow-up after SES implantation.

Relationship between symptom-onset-to-balloon time and long-term mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated with drug-eluting stents.

Background: Time from hospital arrival to reperfusion in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) has been predictive of in-hospital mortality. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between symptom-onset-to-balloon time and long-term mortality in patients with STEMI in the drug-eluting stent (DES) era.

Methods: A series of 393 patients with STEMI treated with DES from 2005 to 2007 was stratified according to risk profile and preprocedural Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) flow grade, and clinical, angiographic, and follow-up data were collected.

T-S model based indirect adaptive fuzzy control using online parameter estimation.

A parameter estimation scheme with an appropriate adaptive law for updating the parameters is designed and analyzed based on the Lyapunov theory for the general MIMO Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy models. The parameters of the Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models can be estimated by observing the behavior of the system and with the online parameter estimator, any type of fuzzy controllers works adaptively to the parameter perturbation. In order to show the applicability of the proposed estimator, an existing fuzzy state feedback controller is adopted and indirect adaptive fuzzy control design with the proposed estimator is shown.