background: myocardial infarction (mi) occurs due to heart muscle death that costs like human life, which is higher than the treatment costs. this study aimed to present an mi prediction model using classification data mining methods, which consider the imbalance nature of the problem. methods: we enrolled 455 healthy and 295 myocardial infarction cases of visitors to shahid madani specialized ...

Correspondence to: Dr Sara A Thorne, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TH, UK; [email protected] _________________________ H eart disease is the joint most common cause of maternal death in the UK. The most common cardiac causes of death involve cardiomyopathy and pulmonary hypertension (fig 1). Congenital heart disease (CHD) is infrequently associated with maternal ...

the relationships between forgiveness and d-type personality with hope in patient with coronary heart disease in urmia city     issazadegan a [1] , shykhi s [2] , banehasmishishevan sr [3] , salmanpour h [4]     received: 12 oct, 2011 accepted: 15 jan, 2012     abstract   background & aims : many studies have demonstrated the role of psychological and behavioral risk factors in the etiology and...

cardiotoxicity is one of the most important adverse event related to anthracycline therapy and can lead in about 1-5% of cases to the occurrence of heart failure. in a higher percentage of patients treated with these drugs asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction can occur, so that guidelines recommend a strict clinical and echocardiographic monitoring. however, the occurrence of left ventricu...

patients with valvular heart disease suffer from atrial fibrillation for more than 12 months after valve surgery and have a low probability of remaining in sinus rhythm. we performed an intra-operative procedure similar to surgical maze ііі procedure for conversion of this arrhythmia to sinus rhythm. we did this study to evaluate the efficacy of this procedure to restore the sinus rhythm in pat...

introduction: infective endocarditis is a rare, fatal ,with high morbidity in children, since infective endocarditis in children was not assessed in our conditions so our study was attempted.   material and methods: this cross-sectional  study  include 19 patients less than 18 years old  with endocarditis   were hospitalized in the department of pediatric cardiology( university of mashhad medic...

Dear Colleagues,   As Editor-In-Chief of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine (JCTM), it is my pleasure to introduce this official quarterly publication of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, which is an international, peer-reviewed, and English language journal. Our aim is to publish high quality integrating clinical and experimental research in the following fields: Respiratory medici...

Introduction: Previous cohort studies reported contradictory data on the association between subclinical thyroid dysfunction and coronary heart disease (CHD). Regarding this, the present study was conducted to illuminate this relationship. Materials and Methods: For the purpose of the study, 3,066 participants employed in a study conducted by Azizi et al. aged ≥ 20 years were subjected to thyro...