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Background: The study aimed to evaluate clinical outcomes in patients with coronary artery diseases (CAD) who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), to identify the factors associated with clinical outcomes and survival among such patients, to explore the procedure related complications, and to assess restenosis and stent thrombosis rates following PCI.Methods: This retrospective, single-center, observational study was conducted at a tertiary-care center in India, which included patients with CAD undergoing PCI from January 2016 to December 2016. Angiographic and clinical success and complications related to both procedural and vascular access were noted. Patient were followed-up for clinical outcomes up to 6-months. Primary outcome of the study was all-cause mortality. Secondary outcome measures were cardiovascular mortality, and event free survival, angina, cardiovascular events and restenosis and stent thrombosis.Results: A total of 831 patients were included of which majority were males (83.5%). Smoking was found in 33.7%, diabetes in 35.6%, and hypertension in 37.7%. At 6-months, follow-up was obtained for 711 patients. The clinical composite endpoint seen in 9.8% of patients. Angina (13.2%), acute coronary syndrome (3.1%), stent thrombosis (1.0%), in-stent restenosis (3.9%), cardiovascular and all-cause mortality (2.7%), heart failure (7.3%) and stroke (1.7%) were reported at 6-months follow-up.Conclusions: The PCI in a tertiary-care centre leads to low rates of periprocedural events and low rates of clinical outcomes at 6-months follow-up. Moreover, left ventricular ejection fraction was shown to be major predictor for cardiovascular mortality in post-PCI patients. Hypertension was significantly associated with stroke post-PCI.
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Introduction:Ankle injuries comprise a major group of lower limb trauma. Many of these injuries can be treated by manipulative reduction and conservative treatment and some of these yield satisfactory results, so present study was undertaken to know the effectiveness of surgical management of ankle fractures. Method:42 surgically treated dis-placed fractures are included and studied in detail of age, sex, occupation, type of fracture, mode of injury, type of treatment, Clinical evidence of fracture union, Radiological evidence of fracture union, Relation of talus in the ankle mortise, Range of mobility of the ankle, Residual disability and pain, Ability to walk and time of return to duty and complications were noted. Result:42 cases were surgically treated, most of the patients were operated on an emer-gency basis within 24 hours of injury. Based on the mechanism of injury Pronation-External Rotation (30.9%) and Based on Ao Classification Type B -B2 (53.3%) were the major type of fractures. In the majority of cases, Malleolar screws type of implants used.In overall the final status of patients is good (ability to walk).Conclusion:Displaced ankle fractures need accurate open reduction and internal fixation and postoperative immobilization for 6 weeks. This will suffice to get good results. Post-operative rigid immobilization and protected weight bearing for 12 weeks is mini-mal to achieve good union followed by physiotherapy to restore the maximum range of movements
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Background: Degenerative Lumbar Disc (DLD) is common cause for lower back ache (LBA) Early diagnosis is most important in the treatment of DLD. The present study aimed to find out the role of MRI in the detection of degenerative disc diseases (DDD). Materials and Methods: This study was conducted in the Department of Radiodiagnosis, Kannur Medical College. A total of 50 patients were included in the study. The study population was subjected to MRI study. Images were collected and used for the analysis. Results: In 50 patients, 34 showed DDD. Maximum patients showed annular disc bulge. Conclusion: Our study evaluated and concluded that MRI plays major role in the detection of DDD.