Kawasaki disease is an acute inflammatory disorder of medium-sized arteries that predominantly affects cardiac coronary arteries and children under the age of 5 years. Cardiac involvement usually happens later than 10 days after the onset of illness. Most of cardiac complications are coronary artery abnormalities (ectasia or aneurysms) and subclinical myocarditis. Clinical myocarditis (symptoma...

Current evidence suggests cardiac involvement and electrocardiographic changes of increasing frequency with age in patients with myotonic dystrophy type 2 (DM2). Myocyte hypertrophy with concurrent fibrosis seems to be the anatomical correlate. Moreover, morphological and functional changes indicative of subclinical cardiomyopathy have been demonstrated by means of cardiac magnetic resonance im...

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune connective tissue disease characterized by vasculopathy and progressive fibrosis of the skin and visceral organs (gastrointestinal tract, heart, kidneys and lungs). Although the prevalence is low, SSc is a disease with high morbidity and mortality. Since pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) associated with SSc (SSc-PAH) and clinically evident cardiac i...

Background In patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), cardiac involvement is common. This cardiac involvement may have serious consequences and can contribute to worsening of patient’s outcome. Cardiac MRI is a sensitive, noninvasive diagnostic techniques that can identify subclinical myocardial abnormalities. We sought to detect LV regional dysfunction by using a CMR approach in RA patients w...

Covid-19 is a disease with clinical symptoms such as fever, cough, fatigue, and lung involvement. Patients involvement may be mortal cause some fatal complications. In this case report, the management of cardiac arrest following sudden severe pulmonary hemorrhage in patient mass was presented.

hydroxyproline level when the alkaline phosphatase level is of the order found in this patient. Further evidence of normal bone metabolism was obtained from the normal hydroxyproline excretion. There was no laboratory evidence to suggest hyperparathyroidism. The normal galatose-l-phosphate uridyl transferase level ruled out galactosaemia. Though a diagnosis of glycogen storage disease was consi...

A 27-year-old man who was known to have hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) underwent evaluation at our echocardiography laboratory for exertional dyspnea. Laboratory tests revealed leukocytosis (5.4  10/L) with marked eosinophilia (34.6%; normal range, 4%), in addition to an elevated level of tryptase (70 ng/mL; normal range, 13.5 ng/mL). Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography showed a...