between i 9h i and 1993,30 cases of primary cardiac tumors were diagnosed at the imam khomeini hospital. 20 patients were female and 10 were male, with an average age of 32 years (ranging from 17 days to 65 years of age). the mean duration of symptoms before diagnosis was 6 months, with dyspnea and palpitation being the most common symptoms (60%) and cardiac' murmurs the most usual signs (...

Observing the motion of endocardial borders in echocardiographic cineloops is an important component for both the qualitative and quantitative analysis of regional left ventricular function. Consequently, using the computer to enhance endocardial border pixels is an important first step both for annotating and eventual computer analysis of echocardiograms. Previous work has demonstrated the via...

To find an association between smoking and the development of myocardial infarction in male patients above forty years of age presenting at the echocardiology department of Sudan heart center Khartoum. A prospective cohort study was carried out at the echocardiography department of Sudan Heart Center in Khartoum-Sudan between July 2012 and June 2014. The study population comprised a total of 16...

Cases of embolism after using hydrogen peroxide have been described in many circumstances in the operating room. Hydrogen peroxide is not more effective than other antiseptics; its potentially serious risk should not be unrecognized. The alternative use of saline seems very reasonable. The widespread use of hydrogen peroxide by practitioners is explained mainly by its antiseptic effect associat...

UNLABELLED Hypocalcemic cardiomyopathy in infants is characterized by heart failure in a previously normal infant with hypocalcemia without organic cardiac lesion. Vitamin D deficiency rickets is increasing in Middle East. In a six month study 136 cases of rickets were diagnosed in the main Children's Hospital in Almadinah but none of them showed evidence of cardiomyopathy. Concerned of missing...

CHEST, 75: 4, APRIL, 1979 PULMONARY ARTERY-BRONCHIAL FISTULA 515 signs in endocarditis following prosthetic valve replacement. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 58:554-557, 1968 3 Sutton CC, Wright JEC: Major detachment of aortic prosthetic valves. Br Heart J 32:337-343, 1970 4 Chandraratna PAN, Lopez JM, Hildner FJ, et al: Diagnosis of Bjork-Shiley aorticvalve dysfunction by echocardiography. Am Heart ...

Hypertensive disease is one of the urgent problems in modern cardiology. It known that a huge variety comorbid states influence development hypertensive disease, i. e. neurogenic hyperventilating syndrome. sign and marker suprasegmental vegetative structures disorders destabilize homeostasis, initiate specific pathological processes, which are base somatization disorders, including heart disord...

We present the case of a 47 year old patient with a history of bicuspid aortic valve disease, severe symptomatic stenosis and dilation of the ascending aorta who underwent an aortic root reconstruction using the Bentall procedure. Two years after surgery, asymptomatic until then, the patient experienced general discomfort with progressive dyspnea, orthopnea and atypical chest pain for 1 month. ...

The Task Force on Echocardiography in Emergency Medicine of the American Society of Echocardiography and the Echocardiography and Technology and Practice Executive Committees of the American College of Cardiology represented by William J. Stewart, MD, Pamela S. Douglas, MD, Kiran Sagar, MD, James B. Seward, MD, William F. Armstrong, MD, William Zoghbi, MD, Itzhak Kronzon, MD, Janel M. Mays, RN,...