1 Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey 2 Department of Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey 3 Infection Control Committee, Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey 4 Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey 5 Department of Pediatrics, Fac...

The electrocardiograms of 22 cases showing isolated right ventricular hypertrophy at autopsy were examined for changes suggestive of right ventricular hypertrophy. Only 5 of 22 cases fulfilled at least one of the criteria of Sokolow and Lyon and only three could be diagnosed as having right ventricular hypertrophy by the criteria of Myers, Klein and Stofer. Factors contributing to the developme...

Ehab Mohamed Rabei Metwali 1, 2*, Michael Paul Fuller 3, Salah Mohamed Hassan Gowayed 1, 2, Omar Abdel-Hakeim Almaghrabi 1 and Yahia Yosef Mosleh 1, 4 1 Biological Science Department, Faculty of Science, North Jeddah, King Abdul Aziz University, P. O. Box number 11508, Jeddah 21463, Saudi Arabia. 2 Botany Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt. 3 Depart...

The electrocardiograms in 32 patients with mitral valve disease have been compared with the pulmonary resistances, the pulmonary artery pressures, and the size of the mitral valve orifice. In patients with pure stenosis if the electrocardiogram showed the pattern of right ventricular hyper-trophy the total pulmonary resistance was usually 1000 dynes seconds cm.-5 or greater. If mitral insuffici...

HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY (HCM) is characterized by symmetric or asymmetric hyper-trophy of the left and/or right ventricle (table 1). * It is a primary disorder of heart muscle in which the site and extent of the hypertrophic process are important in determining the disease manifestations.' Ventricular (asymmetric) septal hypertrophy is the commonest form of HCM (table 1) and is characterize...