Of 80 consecutive admissions to a general hospital for drug overdose, 10 had taken one or other of the tricyclic antidepressants. All 10 had abnormalities of cardiac conduction as shown by prolonged Q-T(e) intervals, and eight had S-T segment and T-wave changes. Five of the 10 patients had arrhythmias and two of these died. Continuous electrocardiographic monitoring is recommended in patients w...

Activity of total lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and that of the heat-stable isozyme (LDH-1) was measured by the method of Strandjord and Clayson in the serum of 62 cardiac patients with congenital and valvular heart disease before and after cardiac catheterization and at follow-up examination after cardiac surgery. A universal elevation of both total and heat-stable LDH was found in patients with...

OBJECTIVE Although there has been an increasing interest in diagnosing cardiac and pericardial diseases using electrocardiogram-gated cardiac computed tomography (CT), radiologists tend to neglect or overlook many incidentally detected abnormalities on conventional, nongated chest CT. The objective of this study is to describe the imaging appearance and clinical significance of such cardiac or ...

background: echocardiography is one of the diagnostic tools that can be applied at the bedside, along with avoiding transporting critically ill patients. this prospective observational study was designed to assess the clinical applicability of the transthoracic echocardiography (tte) device by noncardiologist intensivists. materials and methods: intensivists performed a limited tte examination ...

OBJECTIVE Cardiac manifestations of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) may include hypertension, congenital heart disease, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The aim of this study was to evaluate cardiac abnormalities in patients with NF1. METHODS Sixty-five NF1 patients (mean age: 9±4.48 years) were retrospectively studied. Standard electrocardiography and echocardiography were performed in all pa...

Patients with tetralogy of Fallot are at risk for ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. These abnormalities associated pulmonary regurgitation, right enlargement, a substrate discrete, slowly-conducting isthmuses. Although these arrhythmic events rare, their prediction is challenging. This review will address contemporary assessment prevention strategies. Numerous variables have bee...