Even though cardiac disease is not frequent in HIV infected children, it is associated with poor prognosis. Dilated cardiomyopathy is the most frequent heart disease associated with HIV infection. In HIV children the most frequent cardiac lesion is dysfunction and/or enlarged dimensions of the left ventricle. The pathogenesis is complex, the most important factor is HIV itself. Human immunodefi...

Microcystins are cyclic peptide toxins. Chronic intoxication with well-known members of the microcystin family--microcystins-LR--induces liver tumour formation, injury of kidney and heart. Despite worldwide distribution in the environment, the effects of microcystins-YR have not been studied extensively. The aim of the study was to evaluate whether microcystins-YR, in relatively low doses, have...

Enlarged Adenoids is a disease which results in the blockage of air passage of infants. These babies who are infected with adenoids will produce high snoring sounds while they sleep. For children suffering from adenoid, it‟s a heart breaking scene for a parent to see their small innocent baby could sleep only in a sitting position. The sound of snore produced by such babies is too loud, that it...

Each of these cases satisfies all or most of the following criteria for tricuspid atresia with diminished pulmonary blood flow: 1. Central cyanosis. 2. Electrocardiogram: (a) normal axis or left axis deviation, (b) preponderance of left ventricular activity over right ventricular activity. The three cases of dextrocardia had right axis deviation and preponderance of lateral ventricular activity...

In streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats, we previously showed an increased heparin-releasable (luminal) lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity from perfused hearts. To study the effect of this enlarged LPL pool on triglyceride (TG)-rich lipoproteins, we examined the metabolism of very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) perfused through control and diabetic hearts. Diabetic rats had elevated TG lev...