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Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: Myocardial Viability Assessment and Revascularization

…have shown that meaningful improvement in global LV ejection fraction (LVEF) after revascularization is most likely when a relatively large amount of hibernating or stunned…

No-Reflow Phenomenon During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Prevention and Treatment

…Occlusion or impaired perfusion in a vessel supplying a large viable territory is more likely to produce rapid hemodynamic deterioration than a similar angiographic abnormality…

Periprocedural Myocardial Infarction After PCI and CABG

…coronary artery disease, or diffuse disease. No reflow represents impaired antegrade myocardial perfusion in the absence of a flow limiting epicardial stenosis. It is associated…

Abscess incision and drainage

…malignancy differential Surgeon or mammography Sole of the foot Deep compartments Orthopaedic surgeon Close to large vessels, in the groin or on the neck Bleeding…

Statin Intolerance and Statin-Associated Muscle Symptoms

…Statins inhibit 3 hydroxy 3 methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase, the rate limiting enzyme in cholesterol synthesis. Reduced hepatic cholesterol production increases hepatic LDL receptor expression…

Fractional Flow Reserve and Non-Hyperaemic Pressure Ratios

…microvascular dysfunction or diffuse epicardial disease. Concordantly normal FFR and CFR are associated with an excellent prognosis, whereas discordant measurements require interpretation in the context…

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease

…stenoses. Higher scores indicate more diffuse or technically complex disease and are associated with a greater relative advantage for CABG over PCI in multivessel disease…

Coronary Anatomy and Segmental Classification for the Clinician

…adjacent reference segment presumed to be relatively normal. This assumption may be incorrect when atherosclerosis is diffuse, leading to underestimation of the overall disease burden…

Refractory Angina: Options When Standard Therapy Fails

…among patients with CAD following advances in anti ischaemic treatment and coronary revascularization. Consequently, more patients survive with severe, diffuse CAD that is no longer…

Cardiac amyloidosis

…amyloidosis [8, 15]. AL Amyloidosis: This is a plasma cell dyscrasia in which abnormal plasma cells produce misfolded immunoglobulin light chains [8, 19]. Light chains…

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