primary pleuropulmonary synovial sarcomas are rare soft tissue malignancies; combined metastatic involvement of the heart is extremely rare. in this case report, a 17-year-old female presented with a history of chest pain. chest radiographs revealed a round mass in the left upper hemithorax, and computed tomography (ct) showed a well-defined heterogeneous enhancing mass abutting the pleura. a c...

background and objectives:  helicobacter pylori cause a chronic gastric infection, and may cause extra gastrointestinal disease. the association between h. pylori infection and serum lipid profiles is still controversial. the aim of this study was to investigate any possible relationship between h. pylori infection and lipid levels. materials and methods: the subjects were 400 volunteer referr...

background: conducted researches show that psychological factors may have a very important role in the etiology, continuity and consequences of coronary heart diseases. this study has drawn the psychological risk and protective factors and their effects in patients with coronary heart diseases (chd) in a structural model. it aims to determine the structural relations betweenpsychological risk a...

background: myocardial infarction (mi) occurs due to heart muscle death that costs like human life, which is higher than the treatment costs. this study aimed to present an mi prediction model using classification data mining methods, which consider the imbalance nature of the problem. methods: we enrolled 455 healthy and 295 myocardial infarction cases of visitors to shahid madani specialized ...

Correspondence to: Dr Sara A Thorne, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TH, UK; [email protected] _________________________ H eart disease is the joint most common cause of maternal death in the UK. The most common cardiac causes of death involve cardiomyopathy and pulmonary hypertension (fig 1). Congenital heart disease (CHD) is infrequently associated with maternal ...

the relationships between forgiveness and d-type personality with hope in patient with coronary heart disease in urmia city     issazadegan a [1] , shykhi s [2] , banehasmishishevan sr [3] , salmanpour h [4]     received: 12 oct, 2011 accepted: 15 jan, 2012     abstract   background & aims : many studies have demonstrated the role of psychological and behavioral risk factors in the etiology and...

cardiotoxicity is one of the most important adverse event related to anthracycline therapy and can lead in about 1-5% of cases to the occurrence of heart failure. in a higher percentage of patients treated with these drugs asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction can occur, so that guidelines recommend a strict clinical and echocardiographic monitoring. however, the occurrence of left ventricu...

patients with valvular heart disease suffer from atrial fibrillation for more than 12 months after valve surgery and have a low probability of remaining in sinus rhythm. we performed an intra-operative procedure similar to surgical maze ііі procedure for conversion of this arrhythmia to sinus rhythm. we did this study to evaluate the efficacy of this procedure to restore the sinus rhythm in pat...