SUMMARY OBJECTIVE Coronary collateral development (CCD) predicts the severity of coronary heart disease. Hemogram parameters, such as mean platelet volume (MPV), eosinophil, red cell distribution width, and platelet distribution width (PDW), are supposed novel inflammatory markers. We aimed to compare ...
Resumen Las comunicaciones acumuladas en las últimas semanas dejan claro que no existe un acuerdo para definir la mejor estrategia de tratamiento en los pacientes con un síndrome coronario agudo (SICA). En los pacientes que se presentan con un infarto agudo del miocardio con elevación del segmento ST ...
Abstract Background: High platelet reactivity (HPR) during therapy with acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) is a poor prognostic factor in acute coronary syndromes (ACS). The prevalence of HPR during ACS is greater than that reported in stable diseases. However, it is unclear whether this prevalence of HPR is a ...
Resumen Los aneurismas de las arterias coronarias se definen como una dilatación localizada que excede el diámetro normal en 1.5 veces. Esta es una condición poco frecuente, su incidencia varía del 0.3 hasta el 5.3% de las angiografías coronarias. Los aneurismas que exceden cuatro veces el diámetro...
Coronary heart disease can manifest as stable or unstable forms, being these variations
differentiated mainly by the underlying pathophysiological cause, their clinical presentation
and the risk associated to each of these clinical presentations. In the unstable form, nowadays
known as acute coronary syn...
OBJECTIVE: To discuss the positive rate of ventricular late potential (VLP) between patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and patients with acute non NSTEMI. METHODS: One hundred and sixty-three cases of acute myocardial infarction (90 patients with STEMI and 73 with NSTE...