Abstract Anorexia nervosa (AN) as a life-threatening eating disorder is linked to high mortality risk with many deaths attributable cardiovascular etiology. Cardiovascular complications in AN include structural well functional cardiac alterations, hemodynamic changes, and peripheral vascular abnormalities. Despite the fact that abnormalities are not identified major complication, several manife...

conclusions the young woman with turner syndrome have several risk factors for early coronary artery disease development. in such cases, dramatic results like sudden death or heart attack at an early age may occur in cases of insufficient follow-up and treatment. case presentation the patient, a 27-year-old female was admitted to the emergency room with chest pain at rest. she was diagnosed wit...

There have been several reports of cardiac abnormalities in patients with the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, but it is not certain whether these anomalies are part of the syndrome or whether they represent chance concomitants (McKusick, 1966). In an investigation in Southern England, 100 patients with this syndrome have been examined. The results of this survey, from the cardiac point of view, are pre...

Twenty three patients with fragile X syndrome underwent cardiovascular assessment. Echocardiography showed dilatation of the aortic root in 12 (52%) and mitral valve prolapse in five (22%), four of whom had an apical mid-systolic click on auscultation. Patients with fragile X syndrome have cardiac defects similar to those seen in other disorders of connective tissue such as Marfan's syndrome an...

A retrospective review of 86 neonates with candidemia hospitalized from January 1989 through June 1999 was conducted to determine the frequency of ophthalmologic, visceral, or cardiac involvement. Retinal abnormalities were observed in 4 (6%) of the 67 infants in whom indirect ophthalmoscopy examination was performed. Abdominal ultrasound abnormalities were detected in 5 (7.7%) of 65 infants. E...

Background Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection continues to be endemic worldwide. Whilst treatments are successful, it remains controversial whether patients receiving optimal therapy for HIV infection have structural, functional or biochemical cardiac abnormalities which may underlie the increased cardiac morbidity and mortality. Our main objective was to characterise myocardial abnor...

congenital left ventricular diverticulum is a rare cardiac malformation. two categories of congenital ventricular diverticulum have been identified with regard to their localization: apical and non-apical. apical diverticula are always associated with midline thoraco-abdominal defects and other heart malformations. non-apical diverticula are always isolated defects. diagnosis is established by ...

We prospectively studied 14 patients with the carcinoid syndrome to determine if two-dimensional echocardiography could detect the nature and extent of valvular abnormalities. Eight of the 14 patients had definite abnormalities of the right-sided cardiac valves. The tricuspid valve had a characteristic appearance, similar to previously described pathologic findings. The leaflets appeared diffus...

Fifty five patients suffering from blunt chest trauma were studied to assess the diagnosis of myocardial contusion using thallium 201 myocardial scintigraphy. Thirty-eight patients had consistent scintigraphic defects and were considered to have a myocardial contusion. All patients with scintigraphic defects had paroxysmal arrhythmias and/or ECG abnormalities. Of 38 patients, 32 had localized S...