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Masoud Pourmoghaddas ,Hamid Sanei ,Aliakbar Tavassoli ,Mohammad Shojaei
BACKGROUND: Doppler echocardiography has been proposed as an appropriate non-invasiveassay to estimate left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP). The aim of present researchwas to estimate the LVEDP in patients with ischemic heart disease by echocar... see more
Fariborz Nikaeen ,Masoud Pourmoghadas ,Hasan Shemirani ,Seid Ahmad Mirdamadi ,Mojtaba Akbari
BACKGROUND: The association between epicardial fat and coronary in-stent restenosis hasnot been evaluated. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the relationship ofechocardiographic epicardial fat thickness (EFT) with restenosis in drug eluti... see more
Farshad Roghani ,Azam Hemmat ,Alahyar Golabchi
BACKGROUND: Treatment of significant coronary artery disease with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) seems better than angioplasty balloon; because the incidence of restenosis is lower in this method, however, a serious complication of PCI i... see more
Alireza Khosravi ,Masoud Pourmoghaddas ,Kourosh Asadi ,Ahmadnoor Abdi ,Ali Gholamrezaei
BACKGROUND: There is a lack of data in our society on the outcomes, complications, and prognostic factors in patients with coronary artery disease who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We evaluated the success rate, early and late outcom... see more
Mahin Hashemipour ,Mahnaz Soghrati ,Mohammad Malek Ahmadi ,Mojgan Soghrati
BACKGROUND: Central obesity is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Preventive interventions from childhood are necessary due to the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity. Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference... see more
Roxana Sadeghi ,Morteza Safi
Almost 4% of all patients with venous thrombosis have upper extremity deep vein thrombosis(UEDVT) and the incidence of UEDVT increases over time. The frequency of post-thromboticsyndrome (PTS) after UEDVT is not low and upper extremity PTS is a potentiall... see more
Aliakbar Tavassoli ,Masoud Pourmoghaddas ,Mahmood Emami ,Mostafa Mousavizadeh ,Tohid Emami Meybodi
INTRODUCTION: Dextrocardia situs inversus refers to the heart being a mirror image situated on the right side of the body. Distorted cardiac anatomy provides technical difficulties during fluoroscopy-guided transcatheter procedures. This is even more diff... see more
Hamid Sanei ,Masoud Pourmoghadas ,Mansour Sholevar
BACKGROUND: Considering that determining the effect of both contrast dye injection and balloon inflation on electrophysiological parameters would help us to predict the ischemic event during PTCA, the aim of this study was to determine the effects of thes... see more