Multimodality diagnosis of cardiac involvement in COVID-19 patients

Incidence of Cardiac Dysrhythmia in COVID-19 Patients Treated with Conventional Medications – A Brief Report of 58 Patients

Introduction: When World Health Organization (WHO) declared that Covid-19 is a pandemic, a wide range of drugs, including antiviral drugs and antibiotics have been taken to treat this disease. This study aimed to evaluate the incidence of cardiac dysrhythmias due to the conventional medications in 58 COVID -19 patients. Methods: This study is a cross-sectional analytical study was performed to...

Brain Natriuretic Peptides and Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide in Diagnosis of Cardiac Involvement in Major Thalassemia Patients

Background: Cardiac dysfunction is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in thalassemia patients. This study aimed to compare the effect of Brain Natriuretic Peptides (BNP) and Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP) with echocardiographic findings in early diagnosis of cardiac disease in major thalassemia patients. Materials and Methods: This study was performed on 80 patients amo...

The role of laboratory parameters in COVID-19 diagnosis

Introducing an index to predict lung involvement deficiency in hypertensive patients with COVID-19

Frequency of cardiac involvement among patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis

Background and aims: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an idiopathic chronic inflammatory disease mainly involves sacroiliac and axial joints; but it may also have extra-articular involvement. Accordingly, this study was designed to determine the frequency of cardiac involvement among patients with ankylosing spondylitis. Methods: This study was performed as a descriptive-analytical cross-se...