the relationship between congenital heart disease (chd) and growth retardation is well documented. we investigated the growth condition of iranian children with several types of congenital heart disease (chd) and compared it with worldwide researches. growth condition was investigated in 469 patients with important chd aged from 1 month to 18 years. the patients were divided into two groups; in...

a 67-year-old male suffering from depressive symptomatology was admitted to the inpatient clinic at firat university school of medicine; and his psychiatric evaluation revealed major depressive episode according to dsm-iv. he developed chest discomfort, chest pain and shortness of breath of acute onset accompanying pulseless ventricular tachycardia (vt) leading to cardiac arrest following sertr...

a role of adenosine in pathogenesis of syndrome x has recently been postulated. previous studies suggest that aminophylline (an adenosine receptor blocker) improves exercise tolerance in this disorder. present study was performed to examine the efficacy of theophylline in syndrome x and to determine the incidence of cardiovascular risk factors and clinical, ecg and angiographic findings in thes...

introduction a sudden loss of consciousness followed by abnormal movements can be ictal or syncopal in origin. transient response by the brain to sudden decrease of blood flow may cause sudden loss of consciousness followed by abnormal movements that mimic seizure. dysrhythmia is one of the important and critical reasons of such events that should be differentiated from seizure. case presentati...

cardiac laceration from blunt thoracic trauma is not a common presentation. the rate of mortality due to this injury is very high since it is not diagnosed and treated immediately. in this study, we present the case of a 65-year-old man with blunt cardiac trauma, causing right atrial rupture and pericardial tamponade. successful management of this patient was firstly done with initial pericardi...

in this investigation, 25 adult new zealand white rabbits randomly selected from both sexes and studied.coloured latex injection and corrosion cast methods were applied on the materials. this study was carried out to disclose the distribution of the cardiac veins of the new zealand white rabbits. the veins that drain the heart were found to be the great cardiac vein, the middle cardiac vein, th...

In bovine medicine, electrocardiography has been mainly used for detection of cardiac dysrhythmias, as deep penetration of the Purkinje fibers in the myocardium in large animals, including ruminants, makes it unsuitable for determination of chamber enlargement. For detection of cardiac dysrhythmias, large electrocardiographic configurations and clear separation of the duration of the phases of ...

Background Patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot (rTOF) have impairments in cardiac mechanics (strain and dyssynchrony). However, the relationship between cardiac strain, dyssynchrony, and cardiac function (measured by ejection fraction) in patients with rTOF has not been explored comprehensively in a large population. We hypothesized that measures of cardiac mechanics are associated with ...

A large autopsy study of 500,000 people reported the incidence primary cardiac and pericardial tumors to be 0.0022% [1]. Primary mesothelioma (PPM) is a rare type malignant mesenc...