Acute myocarditis is a rare disease with a very diverse etiology. It produces a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations and in some cases has a fulminant course. The degree of echocardiographic impairment of myocardial contractility is also highly variable, ranging from no abnormalities to a severe deterioration in systolic function. The pattern of the condition may be diffuse or focal, and it...

PURPOSE To obtain information about scleral thickness in different ocular regions and its associations. METHODS The histomorphometric study included 238 human globes which had been enucleated because of choroidal melanomas or due to secondary angle-closure glaucoma. Using light microscopy, anterior-posterior pupil-optic nerve sections were measured. RESULTS In the non-axially elongated grou...

In this study, we have compared scintigraphic and echocardiographic data in order to investigate whether increased septal perfusion represents asymmetrical septal hypertrophy (ASH), which is a symptom followed in the scintigraphy of myocardial perfusion. The study consists of a total of 186 patients (120 females and 66 males with an average age of 59.45 ± 11.54 years) who had normal myocardial ...

Apolipoprotein E-knockout (apoE-KO) mice have been used for studying atherogenesis, but the in vivo features including cardiovascular function have not yet been reported. This study aimed to noninvasively evaluate cardiovascular lesions in 6 apoE-KO mice and 6 control (C57BL/6) mice using transthoracic echocardiography performed using an originally developed linear scanner that permits a high-s...

Background: Cardiac dysfunction due to chronic anemia and hemosiderosis are the major causes of death among patients with thalassemia intermedia. This study was performed to compare the cardiac function in thalassemia intermedia patients with normal subjects by means of echocardiography. Materials and Methods: This was a case-control study performed on 22 patients affected by thalassemia int...

eNOS (endothelial NO synthase) plays a critical role in the development of ventricular remodelling and cardiac hypertrophy. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether three common variants in NOS3 (the eNOS gene) are associated with the risk of LVH [LV (left ventricular) hypertrophy] in patients with essential hypertension. Three NOS3 genetic variants, -T786C (rs2070744), eNOS4a/...

Longitudinal heat conduction is an important parameter in the cryogenic field, especially in cryogenic heat exchangers. In the present work, the parasitic effect of tube wall longitudinal heat conduction on temperature measurement has been studied in cryogenic laminar hydrogen flow. The effects of various parameters such as wall cold end temperature, wall thermal conductivity, gas volumetric fl...

The purposes of this study were to demonstrate that echocardiography can be used to demonstrate the systolic wall thinning of acutely ischemic myocardium, and to compare the effects of nitroglycerin and nitroprusside on systolic thinning, wall stress and perfusion of ischemic myocardium. In 37 dogs, the ratio of end-systolic-to-end-diastolic posterior wall thickness fell from 1.30 +/- 0.02 to 0...

Background and aim Given the importance of evaluating the maxillary sinus lateral wall thickness (LWT) to avoid complications during surgery, the aim of this study was to examine LWT as well as the effect of residual ridge height (RH), edentulous region, type of edentulism, age and gender on it. Methods In this cross-sectional study conducted in 2016, 150 samples of the CBCT imaging archives ...