(Abstracted from N Engl J Med 2021;385:107–118) Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) occurs in approximately 1 4000 births, and 85% of these cases have the defect on left side. The condition is associated with neonatal death due to respiratory failure pulmonary hypertension.

  Abstract   Objective: To evaluate the surgical treatment of total anomalous pulmonary venous   connection (TAPVC) and determination of predictors for postoperative death.   Methods: Between 1995 and 2005, 80 patients aged from 1 month to 12 years underwent surgical repair for supracardiac (39), cardiac (34), infracardiac (3) or mixed (4) type of TAPVC. Systemic pulmonary hypertension (PH) in ...

Background and Objective: COVID-19 was first seen in Wuhan-China in December 2019, and became a widely- spreadepidemic and caused a terrifying life-threatening problem in most societies of the world. In Iran, a declaration was made on  January 20, 2020, and all health systems were alerted of the disease threats. Materials and Methods: We collected all chest CT scans of 200 cases diagnosed as C...

CONTEXT Thirty percent of patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) develop pulmonary hypertension, a major risk factor for death in this population. A validated blood biomarker of pulmonary hypertension in SCD could provide important prognostic and diagnostic information and allow the exploration of the prevalence of pulmonary hypertension in participants in the 1996 Multicenter Study of Hydroxy...

Objective: Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) following systemic and chronic hypertension is one of the main causes of acute stroke leading to disability and death. Identifying the risk factors in ICH patients can be effective in reducing bleeding and the rates of mortality and disability in these patients. This study was carried out to investigate the factors associated with ICH.Methods: A t...

Platelet distribution width has been recognized as risk predictors of idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension. This study aims to investigate whether in-hospital platelet would be useful predict all-cause death in patients with severe hypertension due chronic lung diseases (CLD-PH). Early was measured 67 CLD-PH who were confirmed by right heart catheterization and followed up. Event-free sur...

background the evidence saying that the rate of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (sirs) is high in patients with advanced cirrhosis and portal hypertension, this could have negative outcome on patients prognosis. methods this prospective study included 109 cirrhotic patients who were admitted to imam khomeini hospital, affiliated with orumieh university of medical sciences, during 2011-2...

Hypertension is a disease that causes premature death especially among the elderly. However, awareness and participation of elderly are still low in efforts to control hypertension. Cadres families have roles as companions for carrying out activities, meeting daily needs, providing access good health services Therefore, it essential convey helpful information cadres families. no media can facil...

Abstract Background Hypertension is one of the leading causes death in developed and developing countries that need urgent strategies to implement interventions. Appropriate lifestyle modification practices are corner stone prevention control. Objective To assess associated factors among hypertensive patients. Methods A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted patients from 1 April 30...