UNDER conditions of chronic hypoxia, Van Liere reported enlargement of the heart and an increased heart weight-body weight ratio in rats. Using different technics, Takeuchi, Gremels and Starling and Stickney, Northup and Van Liere all reported dilatation of the heart in experimental acute hypoxia. Kerwin surveyed radiographically large numbers of Peruvian natives living at high altitudes in the...

UNDER conditions of chronic hypoxia, Van Liere reported enlargement of the heart and an increased heart weight-body weight ratio in rats. Using different technics, Takeuchi, Gremels and Starling and Stickney, Northup and Van Liere all reported dilatation of the heart in experimental acute hypoxia. Kerwin surveyed radiographically large numbers of Peruvian natives living at high altitudes in the...

UNDER conditions of chronic hypoxia, Van Liere reported enlargement of the heart and an increased heart weight-body weight ratio in rats. Using different technics, Takeuchi, Gremels and Starling and Stickney, Northup and Van Liere all reported dilatation of the heart in experimental acute hypoxia. Kerwin surveyed radiographically large numbers of Peruvian natives living at high altitudes in the...

Objective(s): Association of adolescent emotional stress (ES) with the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) at older age was investigated. Materials and Methods: 21 female rats were divided into three groups of 7 each; ES, foot-shock, and control. Chronic ES was induced by exposing the rats to witness foot-shock of their neighboring...

ultrasound is one of the preferred modalities for evaluation of the parathyroid glands. this study was undertaken to determine the accuracy of high resolution ultrasound for secondary hyperparathyroidism in patients with chronic renal failure. from march 2008 to march 2009, ninety-one hemodialysis patients were examined by high resolution ultrasound (14 mhz) of the parathyroid glands in compari...

A male infant with high-output heart failure who had been found to have a hepatic arteriovenous malformation by ultrasound imaging was referred to our center (Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Islamic Republic of Iran) for further evaluation. Computed tomography angiography revealed a large hepat...

of Necropsy Diagnosis: Acute pulmonary cedema, tumour of the left atrium. There was no sign of pericarditis or excess of pericardial fluid. The heart did not seem to be enlarged to any extent. There was a pedunculated papillomatous tumour, shiny and white in colour, arising from the inter-atrial septum of the left atrium and projecting through the mitral orifice into the left ventricle (Fig. 1)...

A 52-year-old woman with nonspecific left leg pain was examined by Tc-99m methylene diphosphonate (MDP) bone scintigraphy. The patient had been a marble quarry worker for 10 years and had developed chronic congestive heart failure secondary to pneumoconiosis. Her hemoglobin analysis and hematologic findings were interpreted as being consistent with sickle cell beta+ thalassemia and also hypersp...

pericardium in children, the two most important of which are? (i) that adherent pericardium is the most common cause of enlarged heart in children, and (2) that this sequence of pericarditis is much more serious in its nature than valvular disease, and that children in whom it is present will probably never reach adult life. These facts are not new; but although known to those who have had expe...

Physical Examination. Inspection.?I found the patient reclining on the mud floor with her head supported by a woman. Her legs were extended. She was in great agony. The abdomen was enlarged up to the xiphoid cartilage. Palpation.?Abdomen was tense and tender. Foetal parts not palpable. Percussion.?Distinct fluid thrill present. Liver and spleen normal. Auscultation.?Foetal heart sounds and uter...