Background: Ischemic heart disease is considered the most common cause of death, worldwide. It accounts for 1.8 million deaths annually in Europe alone. According to the center for disease control (CDC) it’s the most common cause of deaths in Egypt accounting for more than one fi...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2022/v11i4306
Aim: This study aimed to compare between the effect of pharmacoinvasive strategy (PI)& primary percutaneous coronary intervention (P-PCI) according to PCI related delay (door to ballon) on the mortality and morbidity during in-hospital stay and after 30-day follow up. Moreove...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2020/v32i730455
Background: Kissing Balloon Inflation (KBI) technique was the first technique for percutaneous intervention in bifurcation lesions. It's the standard strategy in the two-stent procedure. Its benefit in one-stent approach remains uncertain. Several trials comparing KBI strategy wi...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2020/v32i930488
Background: PCI necessitates the usage of iodinated contrast agent which in some cases is accompanied by CIN and the potential for worse outcomes. The current study aimed to use the CHA2DS2-VASc score with its simple and available components as a predictor of risk of developing C...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2024/v13i1393
Background: Localized or widespread non-obstructive lesions of the epicardial coronary arteries, with a luminal dilatation 1.5 times that of the neighbouring normal segments or vessel diameter, have been identified as CAE. This research was performed to determine prevalence and p...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2023/v12i3324
Background: The use of drug-eluting stents (DES) resulted in innovative progress in the field of interventional Cardiology. Nowadays, the most common indication for coronary stenting is acute coronary syndromes (ACS) due to the better clinical consequences of PCI compared with co...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2022/v34i2131567
Background: Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) complicated with cardiogenic shock is still associated with a significant death rate. Other interventions, including intra-aortic balloon counter pulsation and medical therapy, failed to improve prognosis in large-scale randomised stu...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2022/v11i430217
Background: The goal of reperfusion therapy in acute myocardial infarction is to swiftly and persistently reperfuse the at-risk myocardium. Traditional reperfusion treatments include thrombolysis and primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), with the latter being the opti...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2022/v34i244898
Objective: To evaluate the incidence, clinical and angiographic predictors of no reflow phenomenon in patient undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Methods: This prospective observational cross-sectional study was carried out on 748 patients who underwent p...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2022/v34i224831