objective(s): atherosclerosis is a chronic immune-inflammatory disease that generally leads to ischemic heart disease. ghrelin has several modulatory effects on cardiovascular system. in this study, we investigated the effect of ghrelin on aortic intima-media thickness, size and the number of adipocyte cells in obese and control mice. materials and methods:this study was conducted on 24 male c5...

introduction: cardiovocal hoarseness (ortner’s syndrome) is hoarseness of voice due to recurrent laryngeal nerve involvement secondary to cardiovascular disease. recurrent laryngeal nerve in its course (especially the left side) follows a path that brings it in close proximity to numerous structures. these structures interfere with its function by pressure or by disruption of the nerve caused b...

abstract: introduction: currently, cancers are among the important and main problems of health system in iran and around the world. in young men under 20 to 35 years of age, malignant masses of testis are the most common tumours. the main pathologic feature of these masses is germ cell tumour and about half of them are seminoma. since seminoma is very prevalent in the forth decade, being affect...

background: echocardiography is the most common test used for the evaluation of aortic regurgitation (ar). however, the role of echocardiography as an available and inexpensive method in the quantification of ar by the left ventricle to right ventricle stroke volume ratio (lv/rv sv ratio) has not been completely investigated. methods: between june 2005 and december 2007, 132 consecutive patient...

balloon angioplasty for aortic coarctation was introduced in 1979 for the fust time.1 this procedure soon became the choice treatment for restenosis of operated coarctation,2-5 but remains controversial for native (unoperated) coarctation. however, it seems to be rapidly becoming the intervention of choice for relief of unoperated coarctation as well. in this study, we evaluate the outcome of t...

this study was conducted to monitor the rate of inpatient mortality and its associated factors following open reconstruction of abdominal aortic aneurysm (aaa) in a tertiary hospital in tehran, iran. this retrospective study was a chart review of 112 patients undergoing open in­frarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery in one of the main tertiary hospitals in tehran, iran. baseline data (demog...

the brucellosis with multi-organ involvement in a patient with a history of the composite aortic graft ( bentall procedure) and hepatitis b infection is rare. a 35-year-old man presented to us with fever and loss of consciousness. four years ago, he was idu and underwent cardiac surgery because of endocarditis. recently lumbar spondylodiscitis was diagnosed. the wright (1/320) and coombs wright...

background: coarctation of the aorta (coa) is a defect that accounts for 5-8% of all congenital heart diseases. balloon angioplasty as a treatment for coa is increasingly performed, with endovascular stents having been proposed as a means of improving the efficacy and safety of the procedure. the aim of this study was to evaluate the systolic blood pressure gradient at rest and during maximal e...