CONTEXT Many patients have palpitations and seek advice from general practitioners. Differentiating benign causes from those resulting from clinically significant cardiac arrhythmia can be challenging and the clinical examination may aid in this process. OBJECTIVE To systematically review the accuracy of historical features, physical examination, and cardiac testing for the diagnosis of cardi...

In this study, it was surveyed to know whether an oral single dose of oleuropein could mimic the cardiac preconditioning in rats’ hearts or whether its prolonged oral administration could protect the heart against the aconitine-induced arrhythmia in rats. Eighty male Wistar rats were divided into two series (n = 8 in each group). In the first series, all groups (except the control (Con) group) ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether a rapid access approach is useful for the evaluation of patients with symptoms suggestive of a new cardiac arrhythmia. DESIGN Prospective, descriptive study. SETTING Secondary care based rapid access arrhythmia clinic in West London, UK. PARTICIPANTS Patients referred by their general practitioner or the emergency department with symptoms suggestive of a n...

Objective: To investigate whether a rapid access approach is useful for the evaluation of patients with symptoms suggestive of a new cardiac arrhythmia. Design: Prospective, descriptive study. Setting: Secondary care based rapid access arrhythmia clinic in West London, UK. Participants: Patients referred by their general practitioner or the emergency department with symptoms suggestive of a new...

OBJECTIVE To review the efficacy of intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation (IABCP) in medically refractory ventricular arrhythmia. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of the outcome of patients with ventricular arrhythmia treated with IABCP after transfer between 1992 and 1997. SETTING Tertiary cardiac referral centre. PATIENTS 21 patients (mean age 58 years) who underwent IABCP for control of v...

hydatid disease commonly involves liver but in rare cases, it can involve cardiac structures. a 75-yr-old farmer from parsabad-moghan, northwestern iran was presented to the emergency room of tehran imam khomeini hospital, tehran, iran with dyspnea and without chest pain in 2014. a lesion compatible with hydatid cyst was found in echocardiography and confirmed by serology and mri. surgical trea...

Cardiac rhabdomyoma (CR) is the most common primary cardiac tumor in childhood. Although CRs are asymptomatic in many cases, they may cause arrhythmia, heart failure and fetal hydrops. Babies with arrhythmia in the neonatal period must be investigated for structural heart disease including CR. Cardiac rhabdomyoma may either present as an isolated tumor or may be related with tuberous sclerosis....

Sudden cardiac death continues to be a major public health problem. Ventricular arrhythmia is a main cause of sudden cardiac death. The present review addresses the links between renal function tests, several laboratory markers, and ventricular arrhythmia risk in patients with renal disease, undergoing or not hemodialysis or renal transplant, focusing on recent clinical studies. Therapy of hypo...

in this study, it was surveyed to know whether an oral single dose of oleuropein could mimic the cardiac preconditioning in rats’ hearts or whether its prolonged oral administration could protect the heart against the aconitine-induced arrhythmia in rats. eighty male wistar rats were divided into two series (n = 8 in each group). in the first series, all groups (except the control (con) group) ...