AMONG CAUSES of cardiac enlargement Of obscure origin that confront the clinician and pathologist alike are subendocardial fibroelastosis, inflammatory myocardiopathies, glycogen-storage disease, amyloidosis, muscular subaortic stenosis,' asymmetrical hypertrophy of the heart,2 idiopathic myocardiopathy,3 and familial cardiomegaly. Familial cardiomegaly, originally named in 1949 by Evans,4 has ...

Carbamazepine (CBZ) has been reported to have an antidiuretic action, though it is not known how it produces this effect. This is a well recognized complication of CBZ therapy in adults. However this syndrome has been rarely observed in childhood. We present an epileptic child with fluid overload due to CBZ treatment who was referred with chest pain and cardiomegaly. Our patient developed fluid...

giant left atria are defined as those measuring larger than 8 cm and are typically found in patients who have rheumatic mitral valve disease with severe regurgitation. enlargement of the left atrium may create compression of the surrounding structures such as the esophagus, pulmonary veins, respiratory tract, lung, inferior vena cava, recurrent laryngeal nerve, and thoracic vertebrae and lead t...