background: cardiac dysfunction due to chronic anemia and hemosiderosis are the major causes of death among patients with thalassemia intermedia. this study was performed to compare the cardiac function in thalassemia intermedia patients with normal subjects by means of echocardiography. materials and methods: this was a case-control study performed on 22 patients affected by thalassemia interm...

abstract hypoplastic right ventricular is a rare congenital heart disease. a few cases have been reported. we presented a case with hypoplastic right ventricular and multiple associated anomaly (ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect and pulmonary stenosis) in whom the main concern was whether biventricular repair or fontan type surgery would be the optimal management in this patient. ...

A 47 year-old female died after mitral valve replacement. Post-cardiopulmonary bypass right ventricle was not able to pump despite good left ventricular contractility. At microscopic examination, diffuse right ventricular fatty infiltration was found. We found no previous report of this pathology in patients with mitral stenosis

background : androgens have been shown to have diverse effects on the cardiovascular system. the aim of this study was to compare androgenic hormone levels in patients with different left ventricular ejection fractions (ef). methods : the study population consisted of 515 consecutive men who were referred for angiographic studies and whose results of echocardiography and coronary angiography we...

in order to identify left ventricular diastolic function in patients with betathalassemia major and normal systolic function by noninvasive m-mode and doppler echocardiography, an analytic study was designed in a university hospital in sari. we have studied 44 patients (23 men and 21 women), mean age 15.48±2.16 (range 12 to 20) and 43 age and sex matched control subjects. peak flow velocity in ...

conclusions large-scale studies on the healthy black african population could assess the relationship between diastolic dyssynchrony and changes in myocardial performance related to racial differences. results the frequency of some dyssynchrony markers was similar to that of other studies. the difference between maximal time-to-peak systolic velocity and minimal time-to-peak systolic velocity w...

Abstract Background Myocardial iron overload is the leading cause of death in patients with beta-thalassemia major. Combined therapy with deferiprone(DFP) and desferrioxamine (DFO)were suggested to be more effective than deferasirox(DFX) for removing heart iron. Deferasirox has recently been made available, but its long-term efficacy on cardiac function has not yet been established. Our study...

Background: The cardiac effects simultaneously occurring during experimental hypertension and diabetes have rarely been investigated. This study aimed at examining the effects of short-term renovascular hypertension and type 2 diabetes on cardiac functions. Methods: Five groups (7 each) of male Sprague-Dawley rats, including a control group, a diabetes (induced by Streptozocin and Nicotinamide)...

Les signes clectrocardiographiques classiques nc sont pas toujours suMisants pour ·le diagnostic de la tachycardie ventriculaire. Nous avons insiste d'une part sur !'importance diagnostique des complex de ca· ptures et d'auters part sur l'import.anre des procedcs nouveux Tels :  1- Enrcgishemcnt du potentiel du faisreau de  2- Stimulation references endocavitaire.