Cardiac metastases are uncommon in neuroendocrine tumors (NET). Features of patients with metastatic carcinoid tumor involving the heart have not been well described. Although described almost every organ, few reported cases confirmed cardiac involvement. The overall incidence myocardial among disease is about 4%. There limited knowledge on prevalence, clinical presentation, and management meta...

AIMS Fatigue is a common occurrence in cancer patients regardless of tumor type or anti-tumor therapies and is an especially problematic symptom in persons with incurable tumor disease. In rodents, tumor-induced fatigue is associated with a progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and increased expression of biomarkers of muscle protein degradation. The purpose of the present study was to deter...

Haemangioma is a benign tumor of vascular endothelial cells or their progenitors. In spring of 2016, an Acipenser baerii, (+3 years, 2.2 kg weight) was reffered to the Department of Aquatic Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz. After dissection it was found that the heart had a cobblestone appearance which was characterized by multiple dark red cysts...

Primary cardiac sarcoma is a rapidly progressive, aggressive tumor that very rare in the general population. Conservative treatment for this not effective. The only effective radical surgical removal of malignancy. However, if cannot be performed, heart transplantation (HT) becomes option. median survival recipients with preoperative 8.5 months. Globally, such operations are performed small num...

BACKGROUND Recently, we demonstrated the beneficial effects of engineered heart tissues for the treatment of dilated cardiomyopathy in rats. For further development of this technique we started to produce engineered tissue (ET) from mesenchymal stem cells. Interestingly, we observed a malignant tumor invading the heart with an inverse relationship between proliferation markers and connexin expr...

during a period of four years between june, is, 1988 to june, is, 1992 one hundred and fourteen patients with congestive heart failure (chf) were admitted to the pediatric department of taleghani general hospital. during the above period, 192 patients with heart disease were hospitalized at this department and chf was the cause of admission in 59.4% of them. congenital heart disease (cho) was t...

Rats bearing the Yoshida AH-130 ascites hepatoma showed enhanced fractional rates of protein degradation in gastrocnemius muscle, heart, and liver, while fractional synthesis rates were similar to those in non-tumor bearing rats. This hypercatabolic pattern was associated with marked perturbations of the hormonal homeostasis and presence of tumor necrosis factor in the circulation. The daily ad...

In view of the postulated role of cathepsin D in cachexia, investigations have been pursued on the host tissue response of cathepsin D activity in DBA/2 mice inoculated with 5 X 10(5) L1210 tumor cells. The results confirmed previous investigators' findings of the increase in cathepsin D activity (specific activity) in liver and muscle of tumor bearers. In addition, it was found that this incre...

Primary cardiac tumor in infancy is an uncommon condition which is rarely accompanied with congenital heart disease. Although these tumors are generally benign, the complication associated with it, such as arrhythmia, outflow tract obstruction, and heart failure, may result in early mortality, when combined with congenital heart disease. Early surgical treatment may reduce complication risk and...