chylothorax in adult occurs most commonly in the wake of cardiac and thoracic procedures. injuries to the  common thoracic duct in the thorax or its branches in the mediastinum, injuries to the thymus tissues, dissection of the superior vena cava or ascending aorta, dissection of the aortic arch, disruption of the accessory lymphatics in the left or right thorax, and increased pressure in the s...

primary cardiac sarcomas are rare clinical entities with an incidence rate of 0.0001% in collected autopsy series and are regarded as very aggressive tumors. we herein describe a 21-year-old woman presenting with syncope, dyspnea, and abdominal distention. she suffered from massive ascites, plural effusion, and liver congestion demonstrated by abdominal sonography and chest x-ray. transthoracic...

background: catheter ablation is widely used for treatment of atrial fibrillation. the use of fluoroscopic and non-fluoroscopic mapping systems in catheter ablation is common. this study conducted to investigate the safety and effectiveness of navx non-fluoroscopic mapping system.   methods : in this study, the appropriate electronic databases including cochrane library and ovid medline searche...

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background: cardiac failure is the major lethal consequence of aluminum phosphide (alp) poisoning. this study was designed to determine the frequency of cardiac arrhythmias in patients with alp poisoning. methods: in this prospective cross-sectional study, patients with definitive history of alp poisoning treated at emergency department of allied hospital faisalabad, faisalabad, pakistan, from ...

patients and methods previously recorded data of 231 patients who underwent surgical closure of vsd between january 2009 and january 2012 at the rajaie cardiovascular medical and research center were retrospectively reviewed. vsd surgical repair was performed using continues suturing technique in group a patients (n = 163, 70.6%) and interrupted suturing technique in group b patients (n = 68, 2...

conclusions both pca techniques provided effective pain scores (< 3) after cardiac surgery; but generally, pca-paracetamol infusion has a better analgesic effect. results the trend of pain scores did not have any significantly difference between group r and group p except for hour 8 and hour 18 after surgery that vas was significantly lower in group p than group r (p = 0.031, p = 0.023, respect...

introduction a heart tumor in children is rare and the most primary tumor of the heart is rhabdomyoma. we report a case of cardiac mass diagnosed at 32th weeks of pregnancy while the mother had gestational diabetes mellitus. serial echocardiography revealed regression of the tumor; then follow up of the patient confirmed tuberous sclerosis.

patients and methods twenty-two young men (age = 23.34 ± 2.56 years, weight = 72.47 ± 12.01 kg, and height = 174.10 ± 5.75 cm) were recruited and randomly assigned into control (n = 10) and hiit (n = 12) groups. echocardiography was used to evaluate left ventricular mass (lvm), end-systolic volume (esv), end-diastolic volume (edv), interventricular septal wall thickness (ivswt), stroke volume, ...

introduction dilated cardiomyopathy (dcm) is the leading cause of heart failure and arrhythmia. case presentation a 47-year-old male, diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, died due to heart failure. during the screening of his family members, his 17-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son also had dilated cardiomyopathy. another daughter had died suddenly at the age of 12 years. conclusions we he...