INTRODUÇÃO: A dissecção espontânea de artéria coronária (SCAD do inglês spontaneous coronary artery dissection) é uma causa não aterosclerótica de síndrome coronariana aguda que acomete preferencialmente mulheres jovens. De fisiopatologia ainda não completamente conhecida, pode manifestar-se...
INTRODUCTION: Acute coronary syndromes are a major health problem worldwide. The Speckle Tracking Imaging has been proposed as ad-junctive for diagnosis and prognosis purposes in the context of NSTE-ACS. Purpose: We sought to determine the regional myocardial strain in ischemic versus non-ischemic segmen...
COVID-19 caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 led to the pandemic, causing unprecedented health and social crisis worldwide. Acute coronary syndromes patients, especially when coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is needed, may present with higher severity risk if affected by COVID-19. Extra...
BACKGROUND: Left ventricular diastolic function is an important prognostic marker in acute coronary syndrome. However, classifcation of the dysfunction grade using isolated echocardiographic parameters remains difcult. Therefore, it is necessary to combine multiple data in diagnostic algorithms. The purp...
IMPORTANCE The effects of loading doses of statins on clinical outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and planned invasive management remain uncertain. OBJECTIVE To determine if periprocedural loading doses of atorvastatin decrease 30-day major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in pat...
