Introduction: The increasing number of pregnancies can be dangerous for mother and baby. And  third and fourth pregnancies, increases risks for pregnancies. But given the lack of studies in this field, present study aimed" Comparison  pregnancy Rating with neonatal Characteristics in women with preeclampsia "to do. Methods: This study is descriptive analytical. The research samples the availab...

(Semi) supine exercise testing has an established role in the evaluation of patients with valvular heart disease and can help clinical decision making. Stress echocardiography has the advantages of its wide availability, low cost, and versatility for the assessment of disease severity. However, exercise-induced changes in valve hemodynamics, left ventricular outflow obstruction and pulmonary ar...

BACKGROUND Thalassemia intermedia is a variety of beta thalassemia which shows clinical symptoms somewhere between asymptomatic carriers and thalassemia major. Cardiac dysfunctions due to chronic anemia and hemosiderosis are the major causes of death in these patients. The purpose of this study is to evaluate cardiac function in these patients by echocardiography. MATERIALS AND METHODS This c...

surgery for heart diseases during pregnancy, especially necessitating cardiopulmonary bypass, is believed to trigger maternal and fetal risks and should be performed only when medical therapy has been unsuccessful to alleviate the cardiac decompensation. a 33-year-old pregnant woman in her 33rd week of gestation was admitted to our hospital. she had rheumatic mitral valvular stenosis and had un...

BackgroundCardiac involvement which leads to congestive heart failure (CHF) is a major cause of death in patients with thalassemia major due to hemosiderosis and chronic anemia. Although the left ventricular (LV) systolic function in patients with thalassemia major has been considerably studied, LV diastolic function has not been assessed adequately. In this current study we used Doppler echoca...

The present study aimed to evaluate hemodynamics and right ventricular function in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) using transthoracic echocardiography and to compare these results with measurements obtained using right‐sided heart catheterization (RHC). A total of 75 patients with PH were examined using echocardiography and RHC. Patients were divided into the following two groups acc...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive disease with high morbidity and mortality rates. Research has shown that PAH has a prevalence rate of 10-79% in thalassemia major patients. This cross-sectional study was carried out in 2014 to determine the prevalence and risk factors of PAH in all thalassemia major patients of over 18 years of age in Ilam, Iran. A cardiologist measured sy...

Thalassemia major is the most common monogenetic disorder worldwide, manifested as chronic hemolytic anemia. This condition leads to need for blood transfusion be monitored an iron overload that may stored in several tissues and organs, including cardiomyocytes, might cause a broad spectrum of cardiac toxicities such heart failure conduction delays, myocarditis, arrhythmias. Non-invasive imagin...

background obstructive sleep apnea (osa) is a common sleep disease. it is associated not only with hypertension but also with other cardiac complications. thus, the early detection of cardiac disorders is very useful. objectives we sought to evaluate different echocardiographic parameters. patients and methods this cross-sectional study was done on 55 patients with osa. the patients were divide...

Although improvements in the treatment of thalassemia with transfusion and chelation therapy have been achieved, iron overload because of repeated red blood cell transfusions continue to cause organ dysfunction. The prognosis is determined by the degree of involvement of heart disease, mortality in these patients is mainly because of heart failure.1 In this case, cardiac hemosiderosis due to th...