A male, aged-25 years; -was admitted to the hospital with the complaint of breathlessness . on exertion and palpitation. He gave a history of "rheumatism in his boyhood but the history was not well defined. He was also having a moderate degree of temperature for about a month. On examination the heart was found enlarged (apex beat in the sixth interspace H inches external to the nipple line) with

Glomerulomegaly is a histologic finding present in idiopathic pulmonary hypertension, congenital cyanotic heart disease, morbid obesity associated with sleep apnea syndrome, sickle cell disease, and polycythemic states. This study examines the case of a 34-yr-old woman with idiopathic pulmonary artery hypertension who presented with nephrotic-range proteinuria. Kidney biopsy revealed enlarged g...

a lump in her left axilla which broke down discharging pus for a week. The discharge reappeared 10 days prior to admission to the hospital. Two days before her admission, she noticed a swelling on the left side of the left breast. On local examination, there was a sinus in the left axilla extending 3 inches deep from the skin, discharging a whitish thick fluid. Adjacent to the sinus, there was ...

1. Structural changes in the thymus during the evolution experimental renal hypertension were investigated to determine their possible role in the genesis of hypertensive vascular disease. 2. The thymus, adrenal glands and the progression of hypertensive vascular lesions were investigated in rats during the first 30 days after occlusion of the aorta between the two renal arteries. 3. Hypertensi...

Nuchal translucency (NT) measurement between 11 and 14 weeks' gestation is an undisputed marker for aneuploidies. When conventional karyotyping is normal, enlarged NT is a strong marker for adverse pregnancy outcome, associated with miscarriage, intrauterine death, congenital heart defects, and numerous other structural defects and genetic syndromes. The risk of adverse outcome is proportional ...

A 25 YO woman presents to the clinic complaining that over the past few months she has difficulty performing many physical tasks due to severe muscle weakness, and frequently feels "hot and sweaty", even when the weather is cool. She also says she can feel her heart pounding all the time and has developed tremors and difficulty swallowing. Physical examination reveals a BP of 180/90, a pulse of...

BACKGROUND The pathologic diagnosis of isolated myocarditis without pericardial involvement is uncommonly encountered in systemic onset Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (soJIA). CASE An eleven year-old boy with soJIA died suddenly while being treated with the interleukin 1 (IL-1) receptor inhibitor, anakinra. His autopsy revealed an enlarged heart and microscopic findings were consistent with my...

We study a new class of $H_v$-structures called Fundamentally Very Thin. This is an extension of the well known class of the Very Thin hyperstructures. We present applications of these hyperstructures.

A healthy 28-year-old woman developed full-blown pulmonary oedema in the 36th week of gestation. Echocardiography revealed a globally enlarged heart with reduced systolic function. A remarkable dinical response with regain of normal ventricular function was noted with early medical intervention. This case report illustrates peripartum cardiomyopathy, a unique form of dilated cardiomyopathy affe...