Background Cardiac disease is a leading cause of severe maternal morbidity (SMM). We sought to estimate the effects race and rural-urban status on cardiac-specific (“cardiac SMM”) in North Carolina. Methods This retrospective study used 2019 Carolina State Inpatient Database (SID). Diagnosis codes were identify births, comorbidities, modified World Health Organization (mWHO) cardiac category, o...

background: kawasaki disease is an acute febrile systemic vasculitis mainly affecting children under 5. its etiology is still unknown. kawasaki disease can only be diagnosed clinically as there exists no specific laboratory test that can tell if someone has it. the cardiac complications are, by far, the most important aspect of the disease. this study reports the signs and the symptoms of patie...

Abstract Approximately 50% of newborns with Down syndrome have congenital heart disease. Non-cardiac comorbidities may also be present. Many the principles and strategies perioperative evaluation management for patients disease apply to those syndrome. Nevertheless, careful planning cardiac surgery is required, evaluating both noncardiac disease, consideration risk pulmonary hypertension. In th...

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-section...

conclusions this case report underscores the role of fetal echocardiography in the prenatal diagnosis of cardiac disease and illustrates rhabdomyomas in a tuberous sclerosis patient. rhabdomyomas are histologically benign; however, they may cause severe arrhythmia even when they are regressing. case presentation our tuberous sclerosis patient developed arrhythmia unexpectedly while his tumors w...