Abstract
scholarly articles on cardiology Journal of Cardiology & Cardiovascular Therapy is an Open Access, international peer reviewed journal launched from Juniper Publishers. Cardiology is a branch of medicine deals with the disorders of heart that keeps cardiologists up to date with advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.
Highlights
Ischemic heart disease (IHD) causes major morbidities and represents 53% of all death worldwide [1]
The study population consisted of 50 patients who had coronary artery disease with different presentations and planned for coronary angiography. 72% of study participants were men and the mean age was 56.3 years
73 plaques were detected by using Intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS) (63 with plaque burden more than 40% with remaining 10 with plaque burden less than 40%)
Summary
Ischemic heart disease (IHD) causes major morbidities and represents 53% of all death worldwide [1]. Patients may complaint of chronic stable angina, unstable angina, prinzemtal angina or acute myocardial infarction. It may be asymptomatic (silent ischemia) or complicated with heart failure, cardiac arrhythmia or sudden cardiac death [2]. The degree of coronary luminal narrowing is universally used to aid in the diagnosis as well as designing the therapeutic interventions [3]. Intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS) is the invasive gold standard method for anatomical assessment of coronary lesion. It allows visualization of the cross-sectional image of coronary artery and this modality helps to quantify plaque burden, artery size and luminal stenosis [4]
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