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The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine 03/2013; 28(2):247-50.
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ABSTRACT: Renal insufficiency (RI) has been reported to be associated with unfavorable clinical outcomes in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). However, little data is available regarding the impact of moderate to severe RI on clinical outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) undergoing PCI.
Between March 2003 and July 2007, 878 patients with AMI who underwent PCI were enrolled. Based on estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) using the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) equation, patients were divided into two groups: eGFR <60 mL/min·m(2) (moderate to severe RI, group A) and eGFR ≥60 mL/min·m(2) (normal to mild RI, group B). The primary endpoint was all-cause mortality at 1-year after successful PCI. The secondary endpoints were non-fatal myocardial infarction (MI), target lesion revascularization (TLR), target vessel revascularization (TVR), stent thrombosis (ST) and major adverse cardiac events (MACE) at 1-year.
In group A, patients were more often male and older, with diabetes and hypertension. Compared to patients in group B, group A showed significantly higher incidences of all-cause mortality, cardiac mortality, non-fatal MI and MACE. The needs of TLR and TVR, and the incidence of ST were not significantly different between the two groups. Independent predictors of 1-year mortality were eGFR <60 mL/min·m(2), male gender, older age and a lower left ventricular ejection fraction.
In patients with AMI, moderate to severe RI was associated with mortality and MACE at 1-year after successful PCI. In addition, eGFR <60 mL/min·m(2) was a strong independent predictor of 1-year mortality.
Korean Circulation Journal 06/2011; 41(6):308-12.
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Yun-Kyeong Cho,
Seung-Ho Hur,
Hyun-Tae Kim, In-Cheol Kim,
Hyoung-Seob Park,
Hyuck-Jun Yoon,
Chang-Wook Nam,
Hyungseop Kim,
Seong-Wook Han,
Yoon-Nyun Kim,
Kwon-Bae Kim
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ABSTRACT: Recent intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) studies of sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) and paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES) have demonstrated a significant reduction in neointimal hyperplasia (NIH) based on simple coronary lesions. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of SES and PES using IVUS in complex coronary lesions.
Eighty-seven patients in whom 95 drug-eluting stents (66 SES and 29 PES) were implanted in complex coronary lesions were enrolled in this study. Case selection was based on the availability of IVUS and quantitative coronary angiographic (QCA) examinations at the index procedure and at follow-up. The neointimal volume index (volume/length: NIVI) and percent neointimal volume (% NIV) were calculated. The longitudinal length of stented segments without IVUS-detectable NIH was also evaluated.
The baseline patient demographics were similar between the SES and PES groups. At follow-up, no significant differences were observed in the vessel, plaque, or stent volume indices between the two groups. However, the NIVI and % NIV were significantly lower in the SES group (p<0.01). The longitudinal length of stented segments without IVUS-detectable NIH was significantly higher in the SES group (p<0.01). The net gain was significantly larger in the SES group (2.3+/-0.7 vs. 2.0x0.6 mm, p=0.025), while the rate of major adverse cardiac events was similar between the two groups.
Although SES showed significantly greater suppression of NIH at follow-up, both stents were highly effective at inhibiting NIH in complex coronary lesions.
The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine 12/2009; 24(4):323-9.
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In-Cheol Kim,
Seung-Ho Hur,
Nam-Hee Park,
Dong-Hwan Jun,
Yun-Kyeong Cho,
Chang-Wook Nam,
Hyungseop Kim,
Seong-Wook Han,
Sae-Young Choi,
Yoon-Nyun Kim,
Kwon-Bae Kim
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ABSTRACT: Coronary angiography (CAG) is an invasive diagnostic procedure, which could lead to procedure related complications. One of the well known post-procedural complications is cerebral embolic infarction with or without symptoms. Silent embolic cerebral infarction (SECI) has clinical significance because it can progress to a decline in cognitive function and increase the risk of dementia in the long term. The aim of this study was to detect the incidence and predictors of SECI after diagnostic CAG using diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI).
A total of 197 patients with coronary artery disease who underwent DW-MRI for evaluation of intracranial vasculopathy before coronary artery bypass graft surgery were retrospectively enrolled in the present study. DW-MRI was performed within 48 h after diagnostic CAG. SECI was diagnosed as presence of focal bright high signal intensity in DW-MRI. Patients were divided into groups according to presence/absence of SECI (+ SECI vs. - SECI, respectively). The clinical and angiographic characteristics were analyzed and independent predictors were evaluated.
Of the 197 patients, SECI occurred in 20 patients (10.2%) after diagnostic CAG. Age, female gender, frequency of underlying atrial fibrillation, extent of coronary disease, and fluoroscopic time during diagnostic CAG were not different between the + SECI and - SECI groups. Left ventricular ejection fraction was significantly lower in the + SECI group than in the - SECI group (45.9 ± 8.5% vs. 51.4 ± 13.1%, p=0.014) and performance rate of internal mammary artery (IMA) angiography was significantly higher in the + SECI group compared with the - SECI group (85% vs. 37.2%, p<0.001). By multivariate analysis, performing IMA angiography was the only predictor of SECI (OR=14.642; 95% CI=3.201 to 66.980, p=0.001).
The incidence of SECI after diagnostic CAG was not infrequent. Diagnostic CAG with IMA angiography may increase the risk of SECI.
International journal of cardiology 11/2009; 148(2):179-82. · 7.08 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: A 79-year-old man was followed in our hospital for 4 years following primary percutaneous coronary intervention at another hospital to deploy two stents at the left anterior descending coronary artery for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). At the first visit in our hospital, echocardiography revealed a small ventricular septal defect (VSD, 0.8 to 1.0 cm) in the apicoseptal wall with an aneurysm that was probably the result of the AMI. There was no hemodynamic decompensation, and because the patient refused surgical correction we instead placed him under close follow-up observation in the outpatient clinic. A second follow-up echocardiography 6 months later still revealed a VSD. However, after 3 years the VSD murmur was no longer audible and follow-up echocardiography showed the defect to be nearly closed.
Echocardiography 06/2008; 25(7):781-3. · 1.24 Impact Factor
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Neurocomputing. 01/2002; 48:1009-1014.
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Developments in Applied Artificial Intelligence, 15th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering, Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE 2002, Cairns, Australia, June 17-20, 2002, Proceedings; 01/2002
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Appl. Intell. 01/2001; 15:131-143.
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ABSTRACT: Autoassociative single-layer neural networks (SLNNs) and
multilayer perceptron (MLP) models have been designed to achieve
English-character image recall and classification. These two models are
trained on the pseudoinverse algorithm and backpropagation learning
algorithms, respectively. Improvements on the error-correcting effect of
these two models can be achieved by introducing a feedback structure
which returns autoassociative image outputs and classification tag
fields into the network's inputs. The two models are compared in terms
of character image recall and classification capabilities. Experimental
results indicative that the MLP network required longer learning time
and a smaller number of weights, and showed more stable variations in
noise-correcting capability and classification rate with respect to the
change of the numbers of stored patterns than the SLNN
Neural Networks, 1991. 1991 IEEE International Joint Conference on; 12/1991
