introduction to define the clinical features, biochemical and histological findings and outcome of three forms of autoimmune hepatitis.   materials and methods in a cross sectional study between november 2001 to january 2008 in tehran and mashhad university of medical sciences, 61 children who diagnosed as aih (40 girls and 21 boys) have been analyzed for their clinical, serological, and histol...

asymptomatic after the unipolar lead was changed to a bipolar system. Monitoring artificial pacemaker function is an important application of ambulatory electrocardiography. Of 48 patients with suspected pacemaker malfunction reported by Iyengar et al., 24-hour monitoring detected failure in nine in whom routine examination, standard electrocardiograms, and pacemaker evaluation clinics failed t...

Turner, O.B.E., M.A., M.D., F.R.GP., F.R.C.P.E. (Pp. viii + 155; figs. 177. 20s.) Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1963. THIS book is a collection of articles on "Clinical Electrocardiography in General Practice" published by the author in the Practitioner in 1962. It is intended for those who wish to learn some of the elementary principles of a complicated subject. The value and limi...

serves as a corroborator of clinical observations, and not as the sole means of making the diagnosis, the criticism is not justified. This conclusion applies to electrocardiography that has now been established as a standard part of cardiovascular diagnosis. The publication of another edition of Dr. Maher's treatise within two years shows its popularity. The book begins with a brief resume of t...

Electrocardiography is the most commonly used diagnostic test in cardiology. Properly interpreted, it contributes significantly to the diagnosis and management of patients with cardiac disorders. Importantly, it is essential to the diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias and the acute myocardial ischemic syndromes. These 2 conditions account for the majority of cardiac catastrophes. It is appropriatel...

abstract background: type 2 diabetes mellitus is one of the psychosomatic disorders that stress playing an important role in causing, severity, and long term situation. the present study conducted to determine the association of personality type a and b to type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients’ referring to diabetes center. methods: in the descriptive correlation study, 50 diabetic type 2 patien...

BACKGROUND Although frequently used in the assessment of patients with falls, it is unclear whether 24-hour ambulatory electrocardiography contributes to their assessment in older persons. OBJECTIVE To identify electrocardiographic abnormalities in patients with recurrent falls and case controls, and determine whether 24-hour ambulatory electrocardiography identifies causal arrhythmias for fa...

In 1924, Willem Einthoven received the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine “for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram.” His colleague Sir Thomas Lewis, regarded by many as another father of clinical electrocardiography, was born in 1881, 21 years after Einthoven, and it is said that Lewis could not understand not being awarded the Nobel Prize together with Einthoven, or eve...

BACKGROUND Coronary arteriography is still widely accepted as a gold standard for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD), despite emerging methods such as multi-slice computed tomography. None of the presently available non-invasive diagnostic tests is perfect. The aim of the article was to make a comparison of the value and limitations of history, resting electrocardiography, exercise ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate cardiac findings in 31 Noonan syndrome patients. METHODS Thirty-one (18 males and 13 females)patients from 26 families affected with Noonan's syndrome were evaluated from the cardiac point of view with electrocardiography and Doppler echocardiography. RESULTS Twenty patients had some type of cardiac abnormality. The most frequent was pulmonary valve stenosis followed b...