Fatty masses of the heart are relatively uncommon. This report is about an extremely rare case of cardiac lipomatosis that implicates both ventricles and inter-atrial septum. The patient was a 27-year-old female who was accidentally diagnosed during a routine physical examination. Trans-thoracic echocardiography (TTE) discovered a large homogenous bi-lobed, non-encapsulated echogenic mass. Magn...

OBJECTIVE The liver has been used as a reference organ for the assessment of abnormal (18)F-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose ((18)FDG) in the body. Some researchers found that hepatosteatosis significantly changed the hepatic (18)FDG uptake, while others did not. This study investigated whether the liver's (18)FDG uptake was affected by the diffuse fatty infiltration of the liver. MATERIAL AND METHOD...

Endotoxemia is a causal factor in the development of alcoholic liver injury. The present study aimed at determining the interactions of ethanol with different fat sources at the gut-liver axis. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were pair fed control or ethanol liquid diet for 8 wk. The liquid diets were based on a modified Lieber-DeCarli formula, with 30% total calories derived from corn oil (rich in po...

Ultrasound backscatter and attenuation in the liver were measured in patients with diffuse liver disease and in 35 volunteers who had no history of liver ailments. Measurements were done using radiofrequency (RF) echo signals derived from a clinical scanner; a reference phantom was scanned to account for effects of gain, transmit-receive frequency response and transducer beam patterns on echo d...

Many of atypical antipsychotic drugs are associated with adverse metabolic effects, including fatty infiltration of the liver. This study aimed at studying the histological evaluation of the role of atypical antipsychotic drugs (olanzapine and aripiprazole) in adult male albino rats. Sixty adult male albino rats were divided equally into three groups. Group I served as a control while groups II...

PURPOSE omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids have anti-inflammatory properties and can be beneficial in the treatment of inflammatory diseases, such as ulcerative colitis. Dextran sodium sulphate (DSS) colitis in rats appears to mimic nearly all of the morphological characteristics and lesion distributions of ulcerative colitis. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the efficacy of...

Purpose Previous research has demonstrated increased stiffness in the multifidus muscle compared to other paraspinal muscles at fiber bundle level. We aimed compare single and passive mechanical properties of muscle: (1) 40 patients undergoing primary versus revision surgery (2) with mild severe fatty infiltration. Methods The degree infiltration was graded using patients' spine magnetic resona...

abstract aeration is conducted on the perennial grasses such as lawns to reduce soil compaction and enhances the growth as well as improves soil infiltration. in order to evaluate the effects of aeration and topdressing on water infiltration phenomenon in a perennial lawn a factorial experiment in a completely randomized design was conducted in the city of isfahan in june 2009. aeration, as the...