Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of fatality and disability worldwide
regardless of gender. Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in population across …

Objective: To assess various biochemical markers of myocardial damage. Methods and
Results: Before routinely using any test as a biochemical marker of myocardial damage, the …

Study objectives To compare cardiac troponin I (cTnI), cardiac troponin T (cTnT), and
creatine kinase MB (CKMB mass) in patients with and without new Q wave on the ECG …

P ERIOPERATIVE myocardial infarction (PMI) is one of the major problems during coronary
artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG). Its incidence is reported to be between 2% and 82 …

Objective To investigate the protective activity of tanshinone in a rat model of myocardial
ischemia-reperfusion and determine its effect on the expression of Bcl-2 and Bax in …

Anesthetic care of the cardiac surgery patient is a continuum, beginning with the
preoperative visit and ending when the patient is ambulatory and breathing well on the …

Background: Cardiac troponin I (cTnI) has been shown to be a specific marker for
myocardial injury in cardiac surgery. The object of this prospective study was to determine …

Ischaemic heart disease represents the most common of the serious health problems in the
contemporary society and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is the major cause of …

Background Steroid receptor coactivator-interacting protein (SIP) inhibits the activation of
nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) by interacting with p65. The occurrence of acute pancreatitis …

of coronary artery bypass grafting Page 1 Perioperative mortality and morbidity of coronary
artery bypass grafting Dhun Sethna, MD, and Joachim Postel, MD Cedars Medical Center …