Assessment of left atrial function in patients with hypertensive heart disease.

  Background & Objective : Heart failure is a clinical syndrome and increases in rate by aging. Because changes in ECG and electrolytes are variable, specific and sometimes independent to the disease with different methods to be diagnosed, in this study we tried to find a way to diagnose them.   Materials & Methods: This is a retrospective descriptive-analytic study. Data was collected from dec...

بررسی شیوع لخته دهلیز و گوشک دهلیز چپ در بیماران مراجعه کننده با فلوتر دهلیزی بر حسب بیماری زمینه‌ای

Introduction: Most current evidence suggests the risk of left atrial and or auricular thrombi(LA &LAA) in patients with atrial flutter rhythm is similar to patients with atrial fibrillation, but there is still uncertainty in the risk level and the patient's need to receive anticoagulant therapy. Different studies report various frequencies for atrial thrombi and left atrial spontaneous echo-con...

Left Atrial Diastolic Dysfunction following Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation.

Radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA)-induced thermal injury may cause and/or worsen left atrial (LA) diastolic dysfunction leading to pulmonary hypertension and heart failure in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), the incidence of which is probably more common than is generally realized. Biplane 2-dimensional echocardiography coupled with tissue Doppler (velocity) imaging and Doppler-der...

بررسی بالینی و اکوکاردیوگرافیک تنگی دریچه میترال در بیماران مراجعه کننده به بیمارستان های امام خمینی و امیراعلم1

Rheumatic heart disease is a serious health problem in developing countries. The present study was conducted to evaluate clinical and echocardiographic findings of Mitral stenosis and their relationship with patients functional classes. We studied records of 400 patients with symptomatic mitral stenosis (71% female, mostly in 20s or 30s and 54% function class II) treated in two hospitals in Teh...

Investigating the Effect of Inflammation on Atrial Fibrillation Occurrence by Measuring Highly Sensitive C-reactive Protein (hs-CRP)

Introduction: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most prevalent cardiac arrhythmias that cardiologists and internists encounter. The goal of this article is to clarify an overview of the evidence linking inflammation to AF existence, which may highlight the effect of some pharmacological agents that have genuine potential to reduce the clinical burden of AF by modulating inflammatory pathways. Mat...