Are lipid clinics urgently required in the Iranian public health system?
Our findings confirmed the effectiveness of a Lipid Clinic in the management of lipid profile and cardiovascular risk of dyslipidemic patients.
Pretreatment of bovine pericardial patches with the antibiotics bacitracin or cephalexin has no detrimental effect on early patch healing, with similar neointimal thickness, cellular infiltration, and numbers of M2 macrophages compared with control patches. These results suggest that the host vessel response to patch angioplasty using pericardial patches is adaptive remodeling (eg, arterial healing).