Giant coronary artery aneurysms: review and update

PD Crawley, WJ Mahlow… - Texas Heart …, 2014 - meridian.allenpress.com
Giant coronary artery aneurysms are rare, with a reported prevalence of 0.02% to 0.2%.
Causative factors include atherosclerosis, Takayasu arteritis, congenital disorders …

Coronary artery ectasia is related to coronary slow flow and inflammatory activation

ND Brunetti, G Salvemini, A Cuculo, A Ruggiero… - Atherosclerosis, 2014 - Elsevier
Aim To evaluate possible links between coronary flow anomalies, inflammatory activation
and coronary artery ectasia (CAE). Methods Fourteen consecutive patients with CAE …

Coronary artery ectasia is associated with the c. 894G> T (Glu298Asp) polymorphism of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene

AA Yalcin, IF Akturk, O Celik, M Erturk… - The Tohoku Journal of …, 2014 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Coronary artery ectasia (CAE) is characterized by inappropriate dilation of the coronary
vasculature. The underlying mechanisms of CAE formation are not yet entirely known. A …

[HTML][HTML] Association between traditional risk factors and coronary artery ectasia: a study on 10057 angiographic procedures among iranian Population

AR Amirzadegan, G Davoodi, A Soleimani… - The Journal of Tehran …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Whether coronary artery ectasia (CAE) is a unique clinical finding or results
from other clinical entities is still unknown. We aimed to determine the CAE prevalence …

Coronary collateral circulation in patients of coronary ectasia with significant coronary artery disease

PC Hsu, HM Su, HC Lee, SH Juo, TH Lin, WC Voon… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Objectives Patients with coronary ectasia (CE) usually have coexisting coronary stenosis
resulting in myoischemia. Coronary collateral plays an important role in protecting …

Primary PCI for the treatment of ectatic infarct-related coronary artery.

A Campanile, FB Sozzi, D Consonni… - Minerva …, 2014 - europepmc.org
Aim There is lack of information on the outcome of patients treated with primary angioplasty
for lesions located in an ectatic coronary artery segment in the setting of acute myocardial …

[PDF][PDF] Relation of diabetes to coronary artery ectasia: A meta-analysis study.

QJ Huang, J Liu, MH Chen, JJ Li - Anatolian Journal of …, 2014 - jag.journalagent.com
Objective: Previous studies have shown a significant negative association between diabetes
and abdominal aortic aneurysm. However, the relation of diabetes to coronary artery ectasia …

Patterns of coronary artery ectasia and short-term outcome in acute myocardial infarction

U Boles, Y Zhao, R Rakhit, MF Shiu… - Scandinavian …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Objective. To assess the relationship between hematological inflammatory signs,
cardiovascular risk (CV) factors and prognosis in patients presenting with acute myocardial …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical features of coronary artery ectasia in the elderly

QJ Huang, Y Zhang, XL Li, S Li, YL Guo… - Journal of Geriatric …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective To investigate the incidence, imaging and clinical characteristics in elderly
patients with coronary artery ectasia (CAE). Methods A retrospective analysis was …

Prolidase activity in patients with coronary artery aneurysm

V Bakuy, M Gursoy, F Hokenek, A Gedikbasi… - …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Decreased collagen biosynthesis and increased collagenolysis may induce aneurysmal
progress in arterial walls. Prolidase plays a role in collagen synthesis. In this study, we …