the study was carried out on 1300 in patients in isfahan medical school teaching hospitals during the last ten years. 1) 13.6% of patients complained pf pericardial pains but nothing wrong with their hearts. 2) more false pericardial pains were seen among young patients rather than c.h.d. in addition to these more false precardial pains among women with comparing to men. 3) the severity of c.h....

conclusions: pe may be developed as late as weeks after cardiac surgeries. pe after palliative cardiac surgeries is not uncommon. low doses of aspirin and corticosteroids are usually effective for treating this complication. objectives: our aim was to assess the prevalence, risk factors, time course and therapy response of pericardial effusion (pe) after cardiac surgeries in children. patients ...

Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), as a metabolic regulator, was shown to be secreted by adipose tissue and associated with metabolic syndrome (MS) and coronary artery disease (CAD). Pericardial fat, as a visceral fat, was found to be a significant predictor of CAD. We investigated the relationship between serum HGF levels and pericardial fat volume (PFV) in individuals aged between 40-65 years wi...

Fatty degeneration of the human heart was first reported by the French cardiologist Corvisart more 200 years ago in 1806, while the first distinction of epicardial/pericardial fat from intramyocardial fat was made by the German physician scientist Virchow in 1858. Interest in these observations and their cardiovascular consequences continue to grow as techniques for noninvasive assessment of pe...