rupture of the free wall of the heart is one of the dangerous complications of myocardial infarction that usually results in death of the patient. only a few limited number of cases have been reported to have survived for a long period after myocardial infarction, free cardiac wall rupture and the following pseudo aneurysm. in this case report, a rare case of pseudo aneurysm following silent mi...

background: cardiac dysfunction due to chronic anemia and hemosiderosis are the major causes of death among patients with thalassemia intermedia. this study was performed to compare the cardiac function in thalassemia intermedia patients with normal subjects by means of echocardiography. materials and methods: this was a case-control study performed on 22 patients affected by thalassemia interm...

background: primary intra cardiac tumors are rare. in this article, we present papillary fibroelastoma of mitral valve chordae. case presentation: a 35-year old man presented with atypical chest pain and palpitation. physical examination and electrocardiogram were normal. transesophageal echocardiography (tee) revealed a mass of 1015 mm attached to chordae of anteromedial papillary muscle of m...

abstract background prolonged p-wave duration and p-wave dispersion indicate interatrial conduction disturbance and early predict arrhythmia especially atrial fibrillation. iron deposition in the atrial tissue might prolonged the atrial conduction time, and this study evaluated the p-wave prolongation and increased p-wave dispersion in these patients. materials and methods fifty patients with m...

introduction brugada syndrome (brs) is an autosomal-dominant inherited cardiac arrhythmia that occurs due to sodium channelopathy and increases sudden cardiac death due to episodes of polymorphic ventricular tachyarrhythmia. it is characterized by st-segment elevation in the right precordial leads and right bundle branch block (rbbb) pattern. we herewith present a case of brugada syndrome with ...

abstract background: acute coronary syndrome is one of the major cardiovascular diseases that leads to a significant amount of morbidity. the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of cardiac rehabilitation on quality of life in patients with acute coronary syndrome. materials and methods: this was a clinical trial study conducted on 50 patients with acute coronary syndrome ...

background: cardiac syndrome x is a relatively common disorder, and still not much is known about the causative factors or its pathophysiology, which makes it difficult to cure. due to its chronic nature and debilitating symptoms, many patients have significantly reduced quality of life (qol).the purpose of this study was to assess the impact of phase iii cardiac rehabilitation (cr) and relaxat...

introduction: obesity is common in patients with cardiovascular disease (cvd) and the vast majority of patients entering into cardiac rehabilitation program (crp) are obese. regarding the gender differences, the risk of developing coronary heart disease (chd) is recognized to be different between obese men and women. so, the purpose of this study was to explore the effect of crp in functional c...