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rhabdomyomata are probably the most common tumors that occur very rarely during infancy. in this paper, we report the case of a 49-day-old infant who was diagnosed by echocardiography examination with left ventricle outflow tract (lvot) obstruction caused by rhabdomyoma. the infant underwent surgical approach, and her mass was shaved. finally, she was discharged from hospital in good general co...

conclusions dyspnea may coincide with cardiac dysfunction and poor prenatal outcome in pregnant patients. in such cases echocardiography is a feasible screening tool. results fifty patients were enrolled with a mean age of 30.49 ± 6.34 years. 58% of them, had nyha class ii, 40% iii and 2% iv. pulmonary rales were diagnosed in 8% and palpitation in 80%, while all had normal lab tests. mean ef va...

background: severe and prolonged physical training is associated with morphological and physiological cardiac changes, often termed as the “athlete’s heart”. echocardiographic features peculiar to elite iranian athletes have not been previously described. the aim was to examine the echocardiographic characteristics of highly trained iranian athletes involved in three different sports.   methods...

mobile luminal mass of aortic arch is an unusual finding in patients with peripheral embolization. to search the source of these emboli, aortic arch mass should be considered. to our knowledge, transesophageal echocardiography (tee) can be a useful modality to demonstrate the nature and exact location of the mass. this report is illustrative of a large mobile aortic arch mass, histologically th...

echocardiography is considered the primary diagnostic tool for congenital heart diseases. the pediatric echocardiography diagnostic errors, consisting of false positive or discrepant diagnoses, picked up within a 2.5-year period in our pediatric echocardiography laboratory are presented herein. in this case report, the factors contributing to the diagnostic errors are categorized as cognitive s...

Background: Cardiac murmur and subsequently cardiac failure is one of the poor-performance causes in athletic horses. Attention to murmur character is vital during heart examination. Polo is a sport which demands very high stress on horses, which may result in more stress on cardiovascular system. Objectives: In this study we assume that high pressure on polo horses makes them more susceptible ...

BACKGROUND There is no current acceptable approach for intracardiac beating-heart interventions. We have adapted real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography with specialized instrumentation to facilitate beating-heart repair of atrial septal defects and mitral valve plasty to investigate the feasibility of real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography-guided cardiac surgery. METHODS In experiment I a...

Papillary muscles (PMs) were reported to be origin of ventricular arrhythmia (VA). Radiofrequency (RF) ablation was reported to be acutely effective in eliminating VA. However, the recurrence rate is high. Recently, cryoablation guided by intracardiac echocardiography, 3-dimensional mapping system, and image integration was introduced as alternative strategy for this challenging ablation. We pr...