PURPOSE To underline the crucial role of urgent echocardiography in the differential diagnosis of acute respiratory and/or circulatory failure in the postpartum period. CLINICAL FEATURES A 24-yr-old woman was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with a preliminary diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE) one week after Cesarean section. Neither computerized tomography nor Doppler sonography ...

INTRODUCTION Peripartum cardiomyopathy usually presents with systolic heart failure during the last months of pregnancy and up to five months postpartum. The disease is rare and can be fatal. CASE OUTLINE We report a 30-year-old female who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, with maturation and cytogenetic finding of t(8;21)(q22;q22),del(9)(q22) in January 2004. She was treated with ch...

A case of cardiomyopathy of pregnancy where death was due to profound cerebral ischaemia is reported. Two other similar cases are mentioned. Awareness of this syndrome may help the pathologist to establish the cause of coma and death in pregnancy when clinical studies have failed to indicate the cause. It is suggested that electrocardiography should be carried out in all cases of apparent cereb...

background: dilated cardiomyopathy (dcmp) is a myocardial disease characterized by dilated left ventricle or both ventricles and reduced contractility of the myocardium. in patients suffering from dcmp, the serum level of uric acid may increase. this research was designed to evaluate the effect of the serum level of uric acid on systolic and diastolic functions in patients with dcmp. methods: t...

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Dengue is a prevalent arthropod-borne viral disease in tropical and subtropical areas of the globe. clinical manifestations include asymptomatic infections; undifferentiated fever; dengue fever, which characterized by headache, retroorbital pain, myalgia, arthralgia; severe form denominated hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome, hemoconcentration, thrombocytopenia, bleeding tendency. However,...

toxic effects of monensin, a polyether antibiotic mainly used as a coccidiostat, have been described in a wide range of animals. the present study was performed to investigate the toxic effects of monensin in goats. seven adult goats were administered sodium monensin, 13.5 mg kg-1, daily for five consecutive days via gastric gavage. monensin toxicity was evaluated by clinical signs, serum bioch...

Apart from support of heart rate in patients of symptomatic bradycardia, in the last two decades, the indications of pacemakers have widened to prevent arrhythmias, optimise hemodynamic functions and suppress tachyarrhythmias. Pacemakers have been successfully used in Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy (HOCM) to reduce LVOT gradient and in improving cardiac output in patients of dilated ca...