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Author(s): Kazuma Ohyama , Yasuharu Matsumoto , Hiroaki Shimokawa Added: 3 years ago
Coronary Artery Spasm and Adventitial Inflammation Coronary artery spasm plays an important role in the pathogenesis of a wide range of ischaemic heart disease, not only in variant angina, but also in other forms of angina pectoris and myocardial infarction.1,2 Recent studies have demonstrated that coronary spasm is also as frequently noted in European people as in Asian people.3 We have… View more
Author(s): Kensuke Nishimiya , Yasuharu Matsumoto , Hiroaki Shimokawa Added: 3 years ago
Vasa Vasorum The coronary arterial wall generally consists of the tunica intima, tunica media and tunica adventitia. In particular, the coronary adventitia harbours the vasa vasorum (VV),which has a diameter of 50–300 μm and plays an important role as a network of nutrient blood vessels to the arterial wall (Figure 1).1–3 The VV is enhanced in association with arterial wall thickening when the… View more
Author(s): David E Allie , Chris J Herbert , Craig M Walker Added: 3 years ago
Despite the recent introduction of vascular closure device (VCD) technology, vascular access site complications remain the leading source of morbidity and costs after the approximately eight to eight-and-a-half million percutaneous catheter-based procedures performed annually worldwide.1 VCD trials consistently demonstrate increased patient satisfaction, early ambulation, and decreased hospital… View more
Author(s): Marcos Garcia-Guimarães , Teresa Bastante , Paula Antuña , et al Added: 3 years ago
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) can be defined as the acute development of a false lumen within the coronary artery wall that may lead to flow limitation by compression of the true coronary lumen. This definition of SCAD excludes coronary dissections that are secondary to atherosclerotic disease, produced by the extension of an aortic dissection, iatrogenic or related to a trauma.1… View more
Author(s): Hector M Garcia-Garcia , Patrick W Serruys Added: 3 years ago
To date, cardiologists have alleviated the symptoms of patients with significant lesions in the coronary angiography by stenting or coronary artery bypass grafting. While normal-looking coronary segments in angiography have been regarded as ‘disease-free’ and mild/moderate stenoses as ‘non-treatable’, today that we know that from these non-significantly diseased areas may potentially arise acute… View more
Author(s): David E Allie , Chris J Herbert , Craig M Walker Added: 3 years ago
Despite the recent introduction of vascular closure device (VCD) technology, vascular access site complications remain the leading source of morbidity and costs after the approximately eight to eight-and-a-half million percutaneous catheter-based procedures performed annually worldwide. VCD trials consistently demonstrate increased patient satisfaction, early ambulation, and decreased hospital… View more