A 30-year-old male visited the Cardiology Department of our hospital with dyspnea and palpitation complaints. 2/6 systolic murmur at the pulmonary focus and fixed split S2 were detected on auscultation. Right branch bundle block was observed on electrocardiography. On transthoracic echocardiography, the right heart cavities were dilated. SVASD was detected on transesophageal echocardiography. I...

Case summary A 5-month-old intact female Scottish Fold cat was presented for cardiac evaluation. Careful auscultation detected a slight systolic murmur (Levine I/VI). The findings of electrocardiography, thoracic radiography, non-invasive blood pressure measurements and conventional echocardiographic studies were unremarkable. However, two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography revealed ...

Atrial septal aneurysm is an uncommon occult cardiac source of cerebral embolism. It is usually asymptomatic, and clinical cardiologic examination and electrocardiography fail to reveal its presence. We report a case of a 34-year-old woman with sudden right hemiplegia and aphasia from occlusion of the left carotid siphon in whom an atrial septal aneurysm was detected by two-dimensional echocard...

Background Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune mediated gluten sensitive enteropathy and characterized by a wide range of clinical manifestations. The study aimed to compare Doppler tissue echocardiography findings between children with celiac disease and healthy children. Materials and Methods This case-control study was performed on 186 celiac and healthy children aged 6- 19 years.  Celiac d...

Pulsus alternans, the alternating strong and week pulses which occur in patients with severe heart failure, was first described by Traube in 1872. Since then various methods, both invasive1,2 and non-invasive3,4, have been used to study this phenomenon. This study demonstrates the utility of using simultaneous electrocardiography (ECG) and Doppler echocardiography to document pulsus alternans, ...

  Inroduction: Heart failure (HF) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the cases of Beta-thalassemia major. The purpose of this study was to estimate HF prevalence in these patients and to assess the survivability of those who were treated with intensive chelating therapy.   Design and methods: This cross sectional study included 72 beta-thalassemia major cases, the mean age at t...

Background: Takotsubo syndrome and myasthenic crisis can be triggered by physical stress. We present the case of a woman who developed following radiocontrast media-induced anaphylaxis.Case Report: A 39-year-old presented with diplopia ptosis. After chest computed tomography scan, her consciousness was stupor oxygen saturation decreased. Electrocardiography showed ST elevation, cardiac enzyme l...

Seventy-eight patients with chronic nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation were studied by transesophageal echocardiography with regard to the left atrial ap¬ pendage function and its relation to the coarseness of atrial fibrillation on electrocardiogram. These 78 pa¬ tients (52 men and 26 women; mean age, 66± 10 years; range, 40 to 94 years) were classified into two groups according to the presence ...