objectives we investigated the menstrual bleeding pattern and its relationship with certain clinical findings in adult women with chd. patients and methods clinical data and menstrual bleeding pattern of adult women ≥15 years old who were referred to adult chd clinic between march and september 2014 were recorded. patients with syndromic congenital anomalies were excluded. results data of 304 w...

atrial septal defect (asd) is a common congenital anomaly that has low surgical mortality and morbidity. we report a very rare case of a low-lying asd, combined with the drainage of the inferior vena cava and the left superior vena cava into the left atrium. this combination was associated with an unroofed coronary sinus. we also describe an iatrogenic surgical diversion of the inferior vena ca...

Patients with congenital heart diseases (CHDs) are at increased risk of developing complications during anaesthesia. Improvements in medical and surgical management in recent decades have resulted in significantly more children with CHD surviving to adulthood. The aim of this article is to focus on broad classification of CHD and to provide an updated review on the current perioperative anaesth...

bifid cardiac apex is a rare anomaly of human hearts. we report of the case of a 34-year-old man with a previous history of ventricular septal defect (vsd) and subvalvular pulmonary stenosis. he had undergone pulmonary commissurotomy and vsd closure 22 years before he was referred to our center for evaluation of progressive dyspnea. transthoracic echocardiography revealed atrial septal defect (...

noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium is an embryonic cardiomyopathy that is increasingly being recognized. noncompaction of lv myocardium, right ventricular myocardium, or both can occur in isolation, in congenital heart diseases, in valvular heart diseases, in neuromuscular disorders, skeletal abnormalities and in endocrinologic abnormalities. clinical manifestations of ventricular non-...

Background Oral cleft is the most common orofacial congenital anomaly among live births. This anomaly at birth is one of the main causes of children disability and mortality.  Congenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the most common anomalies in oral clefts.  This study aimed to assess the incidence of congenital heart diseases anomalies in newborns with oral clefts. Materials and Methods This ...

Background: Congenital heart diseases are the second group of congenital anomalies in infants. These disorders are a major cause of death in the first year of a child's life. Early detection helps to treat these diseases better. In this study cardiology consultations of hospitalized infants in the neonatal intensive care unit were evaluated. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, two hundred ...

during a period of four years between june, is, 1988 to june, is, 1992 one hundred and fourteen patients with congestive heart failure (chf) were admitted to the pediatric department of taleghani general hospital. during the above period, 192 patients with heart disease were hospitalized at this department and chf was the cause of admission in 59.4% of them. congenital heart disease (cho) was t...

background and aims. in the presence of certain systemic diseases, oral microflora may aggravate the condition of the disease. microbial population in the oral cavity especially with heart disease can increase the risk of bacterial endocarditis. the aim of this study was to evaluate the rate of oral streptococcus mutans and the rate of caries in children suffering from heart disease. materials ...

Congenital heart diseases are the most common birth defects, occurring in more than 1% of newborns. The gene regulatory network of cardiac development has been revealed and some cases of congenital heart diseases have been shown to be associated with cardiac-specific gene mutations or related chromosomal abnormalities; however, almost all cases of congenital heart diseases are sporadic and the ...