ventricular arrhythmias are one of the most important causes of annual deaths in the world, which may lead to sudden cardiac deaths. accurate and early diagnosis of ventricular arrhythmias in heart diseases is essential for preventing mortality in cardiac patients. ventricular activity on the electrocardiogram (ecg) signal is in the interval from the beginning of qrs complex to t wave end. vari...

BACKGROUND Multi-detector-row computed tomography (MDCT) has emerged as method for non-invasive imaging of the heart. AIM To investigate the frequency of the non cardiac findings in cardiac imaging with MDCT. METHODS A total of 191 patients underwent cardiac imaging with 64-slice MDCT over a period of 8 months. The detected abnormalities were classified in major (implying an immediate worku...

The feasibility of cross sectional imaging of the structure of the fetal heart was first described in 1980.1-3 Since then fetal echocardiography has been carried out in many pregnancies that are at increased risk of congenital heart disease, and more recently the study of one section of the fetal heart has been included in routine obstetric ultrasound examinations.4 These studies have yielded s...

There are a number of systemic diseases with cardiovascular manifestations in which echocardiography plays a valuable role for surveillance and follow-up of anticipated cardiovascular abnormalities. Systemic autoimmune disorders are frequently associated to cardiac involvement such as pericarditis, myocardi-tis, valvular abnormalities or ischemic coronary disease. Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is...

LEOPARD syndrome is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder involving a complex of malformations and other features, including lentiginosis, electrocardiographic conduction abnormalities, ocular hypertelorism, pulmonary valve stenosis, abnormal genitalia, growth retardation, and sensorineural deafness. The most common cardiovascular manifestations of this condition are pulmonary valve stenosis, ...

Ellis-Van Creveld syndrome is a very rare congenital disorder which its principal features are polysyndactyly, chondrodysplasia, cardiac abnormalities and ectodermal dysplasia. We report a 10-year-old girl with major manifestations of this syndrome who also had multiple brownish macules and patches on trunk and extremities with aortic and pulmonary stenosis in echocardiographic evaluations.

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa approximately 1% of all pregnancies are in woman with epilepsy. although, the majority of children born to women with epilepsy are normal, they are at increased risk for malformations. notably, the teratogenicity of antiepileptic drugs is a well-defined subject. the incidence of major malformations in offspring of mothers with epilepsy who were trea...

Twenty six perinatally acquired HAART naive HIV positive children asymptomatic for cardiac disease in age group of 1-9 years were evaluated for cardiac abnormalities by echocardiography. All children were classified according to the revised CDC classification for HIV infection in children. 20 (76.9 percent) patients had evidence of cardiac abnormalities on echocardiography. 18 (69.2 percent) pa...