Pranas Šerpytis, Sigita Glaveckaitė, Eglė Butkutė, Agnė Jucevičienė, Rokas Šerpytis Abstract Myocardial infarction is the leading cause of death in many countries around the world. The use of troponin in clinical practice as „gold standard” improved diagnostic of myocardial infarction without coronary artery occlusion. In 2007, the Task Force for the Universal Definition of Myocardial…
Evelina Marija Blažytė, Viltė Gabrielė Samsonė, Daina Krančiukaitė – Butylkinienė, Jūratė Dementavičienė Abstract In this study, we analyzed patients with coronary heart disease who underwent brain magnetic resonance tomography in order to determine cerebral vascular lesions associated with coronary heart disease and to evaluate the results. Retrospective study was carried out at Vilnius University Hospital,…
Donatas Austys, Eglė Bulotaitė, Nomeda Rima Valevičienė, Rimantas Stukas Abstract Background. Previous studies have revealed that a large accumulation of visceral adipose tissue, including epicardial 47 adipose tissue (EAT), increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. However, contradictory results are presented: several studies have demonstrated a significant relationship between coronary artery disease and EAT accumulation, while…
Pranas Šerpytis, Audronė Beržiūnaitė, Vilma Matelytė, Živilė Lileikienė, Agnė Andruškienė Abstract Aim of study: to investigate the frequency of bleeding events by age, sex, location, accompanying diseases, drug combinations, and distribution of deaths among bleeding patients by gender for patients with acute myocardial infarct hospitalized to Vilnius university hospital Santariškių klinikos Cardiologic intensive care unit…
Pranas Šerpytis, Vytautas Juknevičius Abstract Tako-tsubo, or stress cardiomyopathy is an increasingly recognized type of primary acquired cardiomyopathy occurring commonly after a recent stressful event and characterized by transient myocardial systolic dysfunction that is mainly confined to the apical region of the left ventricle. The clinical presentation closely resembles that of an acute coronary syndrome,…
Pranas Šerpytis, Romualdas Gurevičius, Rita Gaidelytė, Aistė Žebrauskaitė, Vida Žvironaitė, Egidijus Berūkštis, Dmitrijus Kačiurinas Abstract The Aim of the Research: This study aims to analyse the cases of myocardial infarction and hospital mortality from it in Lithuania during the period 2001-2011. Methodology: We used data of Lithuania Institute of Hygiene data base SVEIDRA. Were collected…
