Ethnopharmacological relevance: Lagerstroemia speciosa (L.) Pers., commonly known as banaba and locally known as bungur, is widely used in Indonesia and other countries as a folk remedy for various chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and hypertension. L. speciosa (L.) Pers. has been used and evaluated on conditions associated to liver diseases by altering cholesterol absorption, lipid me…
Epmyema thoracis is associated with high mortality ranging between 6% to 24%. The incidence of empyema is increasing in both children and adults; the cause of this surge is unknown. Most cases of empyema complicate community- or hospital-acquired pneumonia but a proportion results from iatrogenic causes or develops without pneumonia
This paper represents the first description of the use of oral lumbrokinase in the treatment of chronic coronary artery disease with objective assessment using MPI. Oral lumbrokinase improves regional myocardial perfusion in patients with stable angina.
Approximately 3.7 million people died from acute coronary syndrome worldwide in 2012. Acute coronary syndrome, also known as myocardial infarction or unstable angina pectoris, is caused by a sudden blockage of the blood supplied to the heartmuscle. Percutaneous coronary intervention is often used for acute coronary syndrome, but previous systematic reviews on the effects of drug-eluting stents …
The most dreaded complication with percutaneous coronary intervention with stents, either bare-metal or drug-eluting stents is stent thrombosis (ST) and it has a significant detrimental effect on the outcome for the patient. The initial attempts at intervention with bare-metal stents had much higher rates of ST compared with what is currently prevailing in the modern interventional world. Signi…
DLBS1033 adalah enzim protease fibrinolitik yang bekerja menghidrolisis fibrin atau fibrinogen dan menstimulasi plasminogen menjadi plasmin. Plasminogen activator (e-PA) pada DLBS1033 mirip dengan tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA), sehingga memungkinkan adanya aktivitas trombolitik terhadap fibrin.
The medicinal value of earthworm has been widely known since the history of Asian ancient medicine. This present study aims to determine the mechanism of action and effect of a standardized extract of Lumbricus rubellus named as DLBS1033. The fibrinogen degradation, antiplatelet aggregation, and ex vivo antithrombotic assay using human blood were performed to study antithrombotic activity. F…
Primary percutaneous coronary intervention is the gold-standard treatment for acute coronary artery occlusion. This is primarily diagnosed by ST segment elevation on an ECG accompanying ischaemic-sounding chest pain.
The groups were statistically similar with regards to baseline clinical and demographic features. The values of C-reactive protein, white blood cell and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio values were found to be statistically significantly higher in study group versus control group, but none of them were considered as an independent predictor of peripheral arterial disease according to multivar…
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a chronic atherosclerotic process that causes narrowing of the peripheral arterial vasculature, predominantly of the lower limbs. It has an estimated worldwide prevalence of up to 10%, increasing to nearly 30% in patients more than 50 years of age.1 Critical limb ischemia (CLI), the most severe manifestation of the disease, can result in limb loss, or even …