Percutaneous coronary intervention is the most prevalent method for coronary artery
revascularization. Initial interventions using balloon angioplasty had limited efficacy because …

Despite ongoing advances in percutaneous revasculariza-tion, coronary artery bypass grafting
(CABG) continues to be performed in a large number of patients, with 400 000 operations …

Heat shock protein 27 (HSP27) is traditionally viewed as an intracellular chaperone protein
with anti-apoptotic properties. However, recent data indicate that a number of heat shock …

Background If primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is performed promptly, the
procedure is superior to fibrinolysis in restoring flow to the infarct-related artery in patients …

How an atherosclerotic plaque evolves from minimal diffuse intimal hyperplasia to a critical
lesion is not well understood. Cellular proliferation is a relatively infrequent and modest event …

Objectives : We compared a strategy of tenecteplase (TNK)-facilitated angioplasty with one of
TNK alone in patients presenting with high-risk ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction …

Neovascularization in the walls of coronary arteries is associated with the presence of
atherosclerotic plaque. The mechanisms responsible for the formation of these intraplaque …

Chlamydia pneumoniae TWAR has been associated with coronary heart disease by
seroepidemiologic studies and direct detection of the organism in atheromatous lesions of coronary …

Objective— The persistence of myeloid-derived cells in the artery wall is a characteristic of
advanced atherosclerotic plaques. However, the mechanisms by which these cells are …

Heat shock protein 27 (HSP27) shows attenuated expression in human coronary arteries as
the extent of atherosclerosis progresses. In mice, overexpression of HSP27 reduces …