Abstract Background The number of pediatric patients who survive open-heart surgery has increased in recent years and the complications seen this patient group continue to decrease with each technological advance, including new surgical neuroprotective techniques improvement surgeons’ experience population. However, neurological complications, which are most feared difficult manage, require lon...

Cardiac sarcoidosis is a rare complication of pulmonary sarcoidosis, causing granulomatous inflammation the myocardium, ultimately resulting in infiltrative cardiomyopathy. Through fibrotic inflammation, cardiac predisposes patients to multiple complications, such as conduction abnormalities, ventricular arrhythmias, heart failure, and sudden death. Due adverse prognosis abnormalities these pat...

Gastrointestinal (GI) complications are an uncommon but potentially devastating complication of cardiac surgery. The reported incidence varies between .3% and 5.5% with an associated mortality of .3-87%. A wide range of GI complications are reported with bleeding, mesenteric ischemia, pancreatitis, cholecystitis, and ileus the most common. Ischemia is thought to be the main cause of GI complica...

The average age of patients undergoing cardiac surgery and the number of comorbidities they possess will continue to increase as surgical technology advances. Toxic/metabolic encephalopathy, hemispheric strokes, hypoxic injury, and peripheral nerve lesions all can occur as a result of cardiac surgery. Therefore, an understanding of the neurologic risk, recognizable syndromes, and preventative m...

BACKGROUND Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are the most common therapeutic products used for the management of inflammation and pain. However, their use is associated with gastrointestinal (GI), cardiovascular and renal complications. Although prevalence data regarding NSAID-induced complications are available worldwide, but none of the study has assessed the prevalence of GI, ca...

carney syndrome (cs) is an autosomal dominant multiple neoplasia syndrome that includes cardiac, endocrine, cutaneous, and neural tumors. cardiac myxomas can be seen in the course of cs. a 46-year-old female patient was admitted to our clinic with palpitation, cough, and exertional dyspnea. physical examination revealed pigmented lesions, especially scattered in the neck, chest, and extremities...

AIMS Data regarding pregnancy outcome in women with congenital heart disease (CHD) are limited. METHODS AND RESULTS In 1802 women with CHD, 1302 completed pregnancies were observed. Independent predictors of cardiac, obstetric, and neonatal complications were calculated using logistic regression. The most prevalent cardiac complications during pregnancy were arrhythmias (4.7%) and heart failu...