Ventricular tachycardia? | Author : Beatrice Kühn | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :A 59-year-old patient presented with “suspicion of ventricular tachycardia” because of “abnormalities in the long-term ECG”. Cryoablation of the slow path had already taken place beforehand, in the case of slow-fast atrioventricular nodal reentry tachycardia. |
| Percutaneous Intervention in Acute Renal Attack | Author : A Q M Reza | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :A young patient with renal infarction presented with right lower abdominal pain due to renal artery thrombosis is a rare clinical condition that warrants epidemiologic, clinical, angiographic, and prognostic importance. The patient’s condition was acute and was featured with abdominal pain, leukocytosis, and minimal renal impairment.
The case presented here enabled us to widened our vision with patients presented with abdominal pain should warrant clinical suspicion about renal infarction although this is a rare clinical entity. |
| Direct or Direct-Like Stenting in Acute Stemi with High-Grade Thrombus: A Clinical Case Series | Author : Rohit Mody | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :We consider herewith acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction cases having high grade thrombus who underwent direct stenting or direct like stenting of the culprit vessel in those a drug-eluting stent was not crossable directly or distal landing zone was not visible directly after successful guidewire navigation in distal true lumen. All the 4 patients had presented with acute STEMI and high-grade thrombus on angiography. All of them were treated with percutaneous coronary intervention incorporating either direct stenting or direct like stenting. All had a very good angiographic outcome with TIMI 3 flow and MBG >/= 2. In most patients with acute STEMI and high-grade thrombus, direct or direct-like stenting is possible, it simplifies the procedure with almost nil on table complications.
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Direct and direct-like stenting in patients with high grade thrombus with STEMI is possible in most of the patients. It resulted in TIMI 3 flow and MBG 2 in all our patients. None of them had no-reflow phenomenon.
Lay Abstract
In any case of ST-elevation MI, time is one of the most important aspects. In this process, it is important to minimize the damage to the heart muscle. Therefore, we need to open the culprit artery in a timely and urgent fashion to restore the blood flow to the heart muscle as quickly as possible. During this restoration of the blood flow, we need to minimize the distal embolization of the clot which may be detrimental to the heart muscle. Here, we describe the cases where we have done stenting directly without touching the clot and that resulted in minimal embolization and better outcomes. |
| Early Outcomes Following off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery under General Anaesthesia with and without High Thoracic Epidural Analgesia: A Comparative Study | Author : Chaitali Sen Dasgupta | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Introduction: Reduction of postoperative morbidity by providing optimal pain relief and improving overall quality of care is an important goal of modern anaesthesia practice. The aim of this prospective, randomized, open, controlled study is to investigate the impact of high thoracic epidural analgesia on early clinical outcomes in patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) surgery.
Methodology: After obtaining the institutional ethics committee approval and written informed consent from all patients, 80 patients of either sex, aged 40 – 70 years, scheduled for elective primary OPCAB surgery were randomized into two groups. Group I received 4 mL of an epidural bolus of 1% ropivacaine and fentanyl 100 µg followed by ropivacaine 1% and fentanyl 5 µg/mL infusion for 72 h at 3–5 mL/h postoperatively. Analgesia in the Group II was provided with a continuous IV fentanyl infusion. Patients were given rescue analgesic (inj Tramadol intravenous) when VAS score is >40 in the postoperative period.
Results: VAS score, need for rescue analgesics and incidence of postoperative arrythmia were significantly lower in Group I specially for first twenty four hours postoperatively. Time for extubation and length of postoperative ICU stay were found similar in both the groups. Incidence of other outcomes found to be not significant.
Conclusion: The pain scores, analgesic requirements and incidence perioperative arryrhmias were significantly less in Group I compared to Group II, but we could not be able to find any significant difference in time for extubation and length of ICU stay, neither in incidence of postoperative MI, CVA, renal failure, blood transfusion and death. |
| Pathological Electromyogram (EMG) Signal Analysis Parameters | Author : S. M. Debbal | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Clinical analysis of the electromyogram is a powerful tool for diagnosis of neuromuscular diseases. There fore, the detection and the analysis of electromyogram signals has he attracted much attention over the years. Several methods based on modern signal Processing techniques such as temporal analysis, spectro-temporel analysis ..., have been investigated for electromyogram signal treatment. However, many of these analysis methods are not highly successful due to their complexity and non-stationarity. The aim of this study is to analyse the EMGs signals using nonlinear analysis. This analysis can provide a wide range of information’s related to the type of signal (normal and pathological). |
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