conclusions children with chd are at risk of severe complications with the involvement of other organs. long-term febrile illness should be taken seriously in these children. they need hospitalization and careful evaluation. case presentation a 6-year-old girl with a ventricular septal defect (vsd) was presented. echocardiography revealed large vegetation in the right ventricular outflow tract ...

backgroundcongenital heart diseases (chd) are the most common congenital anomaly in children and also the leading cause of mortality from congenital anomalies. various factors including smoking, drinking alcohol and addiction play role in development of congenital heart diseases. this study was conducted with the aim of investigation of the prevalence of addiction in parents of children with co...

background: extracardiac malformations can be seen in 20-45% of infants with congenital heart disease (chd). chromosomal abnormalities exist in 5-10% of patients with chd. the aim of this study was to assess the frequency of overt extra cardiac malformations in children with chd. methods: this descriptive epidemiologic study was conducted on 720 patients with chd referred to the pediatric cardi...

introduction: infective endocarditis (ie) causes serious complications in patients. congenital heart disease (chd) is an important underlying condition in children. case presentation: a 6-year-old girl with ventricular septal defect (vsd) was presented. echocardiography revealed large vegetation in right ventricular outflow tract near the pulmonary valve. the patient showed clinical symptoms of...

due to advanced treatments in the field of heart disease, cyanotic heart disease patients have a greater chance of survival, and nowadays many of them live until adolescence or middle age. one of the signs of this disease is blood hypoxia, which has acute and chronic effects on the cns. in this paper the effect of chronic hypoxia on children affected by cyanotic congenital heart disease (chd) i...

background : due to the increased prevalence of celiac disease in chromosomal anomalies and other congenital anomalies, this study was conducted to evaluate the seroprevalence of celiac disease (cd) in patients with congenital heart defects (chd). methods: this case-control study was done on 1002 children in two groups of chd patients (n=402) and controls (n=600). the serum tissue transglutamia...

phobia can lead to heart attack according to studies in the uk, risk of anemia in patients with phobia is increasing. the results of research on the 1457 men 40 to 67 years old are shown that the anxiety caused by phobia is highly dependent to ischemic heart disease.   before this study , patients that had suffered from a heart attack did not show higher levels of anxiety more than others. this...

background: ischemic heart disease (ihd) is the main cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and a considerable part of these patients attend to emergency departments, which increases the burden to these busy departments. the aim of this study was to develop a prediction model enabling prediction of all cause emergency department (ed) visits in patients with documented coronary stenosis in ...

introduction: the clinical and paraclinical characteristics of patients with congestive heart failure (chf) have been described by a number of previous studies, but very little information is available on this issue in iran. this study aimed to delineate the clinical and paraclinical characteristics of iranian patients hospitalized with chf. methods: during an observational, analytical, descrip...

diffuse hepatic inltration is an unusual form of hodgkin's disease (hd). its manifestation as progressive hepatitis or with hepatic failure is even rarer and can be difcult to diagnose. we aim to describe an unusual case of liver failure due to hd. a middle-aged woman with a 10 month history of daily febrile episodes, constitutional symptoms and strikingly high levels of serum ferritin was admi...