Twelve newborn infants of poorly-controlled diabetic mothers were transferred from outlying maternity hospitals for neonatal intensive care. Respiratory distress and cardiomegaly were the presenting signs. Ten infants were large for dates (macrosomic) and had echocardiographic evidence of myocardial hypertrophy, reduced ejection time, and systolic anterior movement of the mitral valve (in 6 inf...

INTRODUCTION The cardio-thoracic ratio (CTR) and the transverse cardiac diameter (TCD) on Plain chest radiography are the two parameters commonly used to diagnose cardiomegaly and heart disease. A CTR of greater than 50% on a PA film is abnormal and normally indicates cardiac or pericardial disease condition, whiles an increase of TCD from 1.5 to 2cm on two consecutive radiographs, taken at sho...

Twenty-seven patients presented in the puerperium with cardiomegaly, abnormal 'ECG, and congestive cardiac failure and were considered to have peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM). The incidence of PPCM was significantly higher in women over 30 years of age, in women in their third or subsequent pregnancy, and in the presence of twins or toxemia. Within 6 months, 14 patients had normal sized hearts...

Cardiovascular diseases are among the major health problems that likely to benefit from promising developments in quantum machine learning for medical imaging. The chest X-ray (CXR), a widely used modality, can reveal cardiomegaly, even when performed primarily non-cardiological indication. Based on pre-trained DenseNet-121, we designed hybrid classical–quantum (CQ) transfer models detect cardi...

SINCE the original report of Hunter,' cardiovascular disease has been recognized as an integral feature of the Hurler syndrome (gargoylism, lipochondrodystrophy). Hunter noted cardiomegaly and both systolic and diastolic murmurs in the older of two brothers with this syndrome who died at age 20 of "dropsy."2 Other publications3-5 have continued to record cardiac murmurs, cardiomegaly, and prema...

A patient suspected of Covid-19 pneumonia, in whom pneumonia lesions were first detected by chest computed tomography, was further evaluated transthoracic echocardiography due to cardiomegaly. Transthoracic revealed a large right atrial-related ruptured pseudoaneurysm. Contrast-enhanced tomography ruled out bilateral multiple lung nodules and pulmonary embolism associated with mural thrombus th...