Coronary artery disease (CAD) commonly occurs in individuals over the age of 45 years. Several studies categorize “young” with CAD or acute myocardial infarction as those below ages 40 and 45. The protection provided by young has slowly been eroded risk factors like smoking, obesity, sedentary lifestyle that are becoming more common among individuals. We report a case 21-yea...

Because of clinical observations suggesting that nitroglycerin may suppress premature ventricular complexes during acute ischaemia, a study was undertaken to assess the effect of nitroglycerin on the incidence of premature ventricular complexes in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Forty patients with acute myocardial infarction were studied. Twenty-six patients received 0.4 mg nitrogly...

We studied the prognostic role of ventricular premature complexes occurring during 1 hour of electrocardiographic monitoring of 416 men with effort angina who had never had myocardial infarction, and compared mortality over 5 years with that of 1739 men with infarction before first observation. Multivariate analyses of survival identified the presence of ventricular premature complexes in 1 hou...

hutchinson-gilford progeria syndrome (hgps) is a rare premature ageing disorder that is characterized by accelerated degenerative changes of the cutaneous, musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems. mean age at diagnosis is 2.9 years and generally leading to death at approximately 13 years of age due to myocardial infarction or stroke. orthopedic manifestations of hgps are multiple and shoulde...

abstract most pheochromocytomas are not suspected clinically while a high percentage of them are curable with surgery. we present the case of an adult cocaine-addicted male patient with an underlying pheochromocytoma and repeated myocardial infarctions. computed tomography showed a left round adrenal mass, also high 24-hour urine levels of catecholamines and metanephrines were detected from uri...

background: increased estimated body iron stores have been recently suggested to be associated with increased risk of acute myocardial infarction (ami); however the question of whether serum ferritin level as an indicator for estimating body iron is an independent risk factor for cardiac events is still questioned. in the present study, we assessed whether serum ferritin was associated with the...

conclusions supervised in-hospital exercise training was associated with improvements in saecg-measured electrical activity post-mi. results cardiac rehabilitation led to significant improvements in qrs duration (p < 0.001), square root of amplitude in the last 40 ms (p < 0.001) and duration of terminal signal with low amplitude (p < 0.001). cardiac rehabilitation also resulted in amelioration ...

Disturbances of impulse formation and conduction may occur anywhere in the human heart. The most common cardiac arrhythmia is the ventricular premature beat. Premature beats may be atrial, atrioventricular (A-V) junctional or ventricular in origin, and may be found in apparently healthy individuals. However, premature beats may become clinically significant if they occur too frequently, origina...