经桡动脉心导管术诊断和治疗冠状动脉疾病的临床研究

目的:观察经桡动脉介入诊治冠心病的安全性和有效性。方法:对1503例患者进行了经桡动脉途径介入诊治,其中包括心绞痛患者1218例,心梗患者268例,二尖瓣和/或动脉瓣手术前对冠状动脉进行解剖学评估17例,观察患者手术安全性、成功率以及与经桡动脉手术相关的并发症发病率。结果:介入治疗成功率为93.1%(1400/1503),手术失败的主要原因为桡动脉穿刺失败(39例),严重桡动脉痉挛(42例),右锁骨下动脉不同程度的弯曲(18例),近端严重狭窄(14例)。术后有14例患者出现严重并发症(瞬时缺血性病变),60例出现有症状的窦性心动过缓,43例出现静脉血栓,77例出现血肿,88例出现桡动脉梗阻。结论:经桡动脉途径是一种安全、有效、患者更容易接受的冠心病介入诊治方法。     

Renovascular Hypertension: Pathophysiology,Diagnosis, and Treatment

Renovascular hypertension can result from renal artery lesions involving the main renal artery, or its branches. It is generally felt that the elevation of blood pressure results from excessive systemic vasoconstriction secondary to enhanced renin secretion by one or part of one kidney. Renin secretion is enhanced because of constriction of the renal artery and resultant intrarenal ischemia. Clinically patients cannot be distinguished from those with essential hypertension and diagnosis must be made with arteriography although urography and isotope renography may suggest the diagnosis. Surgical cure can be predicted if differential renal vein renin ratios lateralize but a non-lateralizing study does not necessarily mean that surgery will fail. In properly selected patients, surgical results are excellent.     

血管内超声在冠状动脉疾病诊断和介入治疗中的应用

冠状动脉造影是目前公认的诊断冠状动脉病变和指导冠脉介入的金标准。然而,随着介入手术的发展,冠脉造影在评价冠脉病变方面存在的缺陷逐渐显露出来,已不能完全满足临床医生的需要。血管内超声以其优越的图像质量和空间分辨率在冠心病介入领域发挥独特的作用。作为冠脉造影的有效补充,血管内超声不仅能提供管腔和血管的直径信息,还能告知术者斑块负荷、斑块构成和血管重塑等,明确冠状动脉临界病变的性质、严重性和稳定性。此外,血管内超声还可以判断病变是否可以延迟血运重建,指导经皮冠状动脉介入的治疗策略和评估支架植入效果,有效地预防手术并发症。本文从血管内超声的概况,在冠状动脉疾病诊断和介入治疗等方面的应用进展进行了综述。     

Catecholamine Phenotyping: Clues to the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Pathophysiology of Neurogenetic Disorders

Abstract: One purpose of clinical neurochemistry has been to indicate "activities" of catecholamine systems, by assaying levels of the effector compounds or their metabolites in body fluids such as plasma, cerebrospinal fluid, urine, or microdialysate. This review discusses a new purpose: relating specific catecholaminergic phenotypes to neurogenetic disorders. Distinctive catecholamine patterns in several neurogenetic conditions reflect enzyme deficiencies as direct or indirect effects of gene mutations. These neurochemical patterns can provide potentially important clues to the diagnosis, treatment, and pathophysiology of neurogenetic disorders. Linking genetic abnormalities with molecular mechanisms and clinical manifestations of disease represents a useful new direction in clinical neurochemistry.     

Coronary Artery Disease with Single Coronary Artery

The authors have reviewed the literature in search of the coexistence of single coronary artery with significant coronary artery disease. Two cases of single right coronary artery are described. In both, the anomalies were unsuspected and diagnosed roentgenographically in life. Both patients had angina pectoris, positive graded-exercise stress tests, and hemodynamically significant obstruction or occlusion to the coronary arteries. In neither case was the stenosis proximal or amenable to bypass surgery.     

Ergonovine-Provoked Esophageal Spasm During Coronary Angiography

In many patients with chest pain of esophageal origin, findings are normal on routine esophageal manometry and dysmotility develops only upon provocation with ergonovine maleate. Unfortunately, ergonovine may induce myocardial ischemia in patients in whom coronary artery spasm did not occur during previous provocative testing in a cardiac laboratory—limiting its clinical usefulness. We have recorded esophageal pressure simultaneously with ergonovine infusion during angiography in ten patients without significant arterial stenoses. In two patients their usual chest pain developed associated with esophageal spasm and without changes in coronary vessels. Simultaneous performance of angiography and manometry enhanced the diagnostic yield of provocative testing by showing esophageal motility changes. This method may detect significant changes in the esophageal motility, is easy to carry out and does not interfere with angiography. It maximizes the information gained from a single provocative test and avoids the risk of ergonovine infusion outside of a cardiac laboratory.     

脉搏波传导速度在冠心病诊断及冠状动脉狭窄程度评估中的临床应用

目的:研究臂踝脉搏波传导速度(baPWV)在冠心病患者中的诊断价值,并观察臂踝脉搏波传导速度改变(baPWV%)对冠状动脉狭窄程度评估的作用,为临床诊疗提供依据。方法:选取2013年7月-2015年9月我院预行冠状动脉造影患者463例,根据冠状动脉造影情况将入选者分为冠心病组(n=262)和非冠心病组(n=201),冠心病组根据SYNTAX评分将患者分为轻、中、重度组,所有入选者均行baPWV和baPWV%检查,并分析其与SYNTAX评分的相关性。结果:冠心病组baPWV和baPWV%均显著高于非冠心病组,比较差异具有统计学意义(P0.05);重度组baPWV和baPWV%显著高于中度组和轻度组,中度组baPWV和baPWV%显著高于轻度组,比较差异具有统计学意义(P0.05);相关性分析显示:baPWV%与SYNTAX评分呈正相关关系(P0.05)。结论:baPWV和baPWV%对冠心病具有一定诊断价值,且baPWV%与SYNTAX评分呈正相关关系。     

C-Reactive Protein for Predicting Prognosis and Its Gender-Specific Associations with Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension in the Development of Coronary Artery Spasm

Background

While hypertension is negatively associated with coronary artery spasm (CAS), scarce data are available on diabetes mellitus in relation to CAS. In addition, outcome prediction in patients with CAS is challenging due to the lack of appropriate biomarkers. Therefore, we sought to identify the roles that gender, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), diabetes mellitus and hypertension play in CAS development and prognosis.

Methodology/Prinicpal Findings

Patients (350 women and 547 men) undergoing diagnostic coronary angiography with or without proven CAS but without obstructive stenosis were evaluated at long-term follow-up (median 102 months). Diabetic women and diabetic men with low hs-CRP levels had a low and high risk of CAS (odds ratio [OR]: 0.16, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.01–1.88 and OR: 5.02, 95% CI: 1.03–24.54, respectively). The ORs of CAS in both women and men with the highest hs-CRP tertile (>3 mg/L) reduced from 4.41 to 1.45 and 2.98 to 1.52, respectively, if they had diabetes mellitus, and from 9.68 to 2.43 and 2.60 to 1.75, respectively, if they had hypertension. Hypertension had a more negative effect on CAS development in diabetic than non-diabetic women, which was not observed in men. The highest hs-CRP tertile was an independent predictor of adverse outcomes. Patients with the highest hs-CRP tertile had more coronary events than patients with the lowest hs-CRP tertitle (p = 0.021, log-rank test).

Conclusions

Diabetes mellitus contributes to CAS development in men with low hs-CRP levels, but not in women. There are negative effects of diabetes mellitus and hypertension on CAS development in patients with high hs-CRP levels and especially in women. Elevated hs-CRP level independently predicts adverse outcomes.     

Diagnosis of Coronary Heart Diseases Using Gene Expression Profiling; Stable Coronary Artery Disease,Cardiac Ischemia with and without Myocardial Necrosis

Cardiovascular disease (including coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction) is one of the leading causes of death in Europe, and is influenced by both environmental and genetic factors. With the recent advances in genomic tools and technologies there is potential to predict and diagnose heart disease using molecular data from analysis of blood cells. We analyzed gene expression data from blood samples taken from normal people (n = 21), non-significant coronary artery disease (n = 93), patients with unstable angina (n = 16), stable coronary artery disease (n = 14) and myocardial infarction (MI; n = 207). We used a feature selection approach to identify a set of gene expression variables which successfully differentiate different cardiovascular diseases. The initial features were discovered by fitting a linear model for each probe set across all arrays of normal individuals and patients with myocardial infarction. Three different feature optimisation algorithms were devised which identified two discriminating sets of genes, one using MI and normal controls (total genes = 6) and another one using MI and unstable angina patients (total genes = 7). In all our classification approaches we used a non-parametric k-nearest neighbour (KNN) classification method (k = 3). The results proved the diagnostic robustness of the final feature sets in discriminating patients with myocardial infarction from healthy controls. Interestingly it also showed efficacy in discriminating myocardial infarction patients from patients with clinical symptoms of cardiac ischemia but no myocardial necrosis or stable coronary artery disease, despite the influence of batch effects and different microarray gene chips and platforms.     

Microsurgical Treatment of Hemifacial Spasm

Five cases of idiopathic hemifacial spasm have been successfully treated by operative manipulation of arterial branches compressing the VIIth nerve in the posterior fossa. Terminology, clinical presentation, pathology and therapeutic approaches to hemifacial spasm are discussed. Hearing loss due to operatively induced vascular impairment of the inner ear, a complication in our first case, should be avoidable.Our experience indicates that hemifacial spasm reflects mild chronic compression of the facial nerve. The proposed mechanism is transaxonal excitation between afferent and efferent fibers.