spontaneous coronary artery dissection (scad) is a rare and important cause of acute coronary syndrome and sudden cardiac death. various etiologies are thought to be responsible for this condition, among which underlying atherosclerosis seems to be the most common. scad is predominant in women and is usually diagnosed via coronary artery angiography. therapeutic interventions include medical th...

background: postoperative cognitive dysfunction (pocd) has been an important complication of cardiac surgery over the years. neurocognitive dysfunction can affect quality of life and lead to social, functional, emotional, and financial problems in the patient’s life. to reduce pocd, we sought to identify the association between cognitive dysfunction and perioperative factors in patients undergo...

background: this study was performed to evaluate periodontal status in patients with cardiovascular disease (cvd) and assessment of periodontal diseases prevalence in these patients. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, data on 100 patients were collected with mean age of 51 ± 11 years. the case group included of 50 patients with confirmed cvd who referred to ali-ibn abi talib ...

background pulmonary artery banding (pab) is a technique of palliative surgical therapy used by congenital heart surgeons as a staged approach to operative correction of congenital heart defects. materials and methods we report 5- year experiences from january 2011 to january 2016 of imam reza hospital center (a tertiary referral hospital in mashhad city, north east of iran) that consist of 50 ...

conclusions the patient underwent surgery several days later with complete resection of the tumor and coronary stent retrieval but his left ventricular ejection fraction remained poor after several months and he was referred for cardiac transplantation. introduction cardiac inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor is a rare tumor that can cause potentially fatal outcomes. case presentation we describ...

conclusions the identification of the beneficial cardiovascular effects of dhea (s) and a better understanding of the involved mechanisms should be helpful to develop new strategies or pharmacologic approaches for many lethal diseases in western countries. context dehydroepiandrosterone (dhea) and its sulfate ester, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (dhea-s) have been considered as putative anti-a...

Kawasaki disease is an acute inflammatory disorder of medium-sized arteries that predominantly affects cardiac coronary arteries and children under the age of 5 years. Cardiac involvement usually happens later than 10 days after the onset of illness. Most of cardiac complications are coronary artery abnormalities (ectasia or aneurysms) and subclinical myocarditis. Clinical myocarditis (symptoma...

introduction: in patients with cardiac artery disease, a myocardial perfusion scan, which is a non-invasive method, is utilized. this study is conducted to develop an advantageous software applicable to quantitative myocardial spect perfusion. material and methods: each cross-section of the left ventricle was segmented by applying a fuzzy clustering method. after obtaining the myocardial skelet...

various dermatoglyphic parameters like finger print pattern, atd angle, absolute ridge count & ab, bc ,cd, and ad ridge counts were observed in 150 cases of congenital cardiac disease, comprising of 72 cases of ventricular septal defects (vsd), 60 cases of atrial septal defects (asd), 9 cases of coarctation of aorta (coa) & 9 cases of tetralogy of fallot’s (tof). same dermatoglyphic parameters ...

Background: Kawasaki disease (KD) is one of the most prevalent vasculitis diseases in children and can bring about serious cardiovascular complications. Early detection of cardiac involvement in KD can play an essential role in managing and preventing the cardiac sequels. We aimed to evaluate the applicability and diagnostic accuracy of cardiac biomarkers including car...