International journal of cardiology
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Letter Case Reports
An unusual cause of shock in a patient with liver abscess.
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Although full metal jacket using drug-eluting stent (DES) for a single coronary artery disease has sparsely been described before, there is no report of safety and efficacy of complete metal jacket from left main (LM) to three major coronary arteries. We report a complete metal jacket case using 10 paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES; Taxus, Boston Scientific) for a triple vessel diffuse de novo coronary diseases who refused coronary artery bypass graft.
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To investigate the effects and safety of autologous peripheral blood stem cell (PBSCs) transplantation by intracoronary infusion in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). ⋯ Autologous PBSCs transplantation by intracoronary infusion is feasible and safe, and it can improve left ventricular function in the 6-month follow-up.