Nephrotic syndrome is a glomerular disease commonly seen in paediatric population. The characterized by hypercoagulable state and risk of thromboembolic complications. Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) rare complication children associated with nephrotic an incidence 0.67/100000 very few case reports described. 12-year-old girl steroid dependent syndrome- minimal change disease, background recen...

BACKGROUND Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after pulmonary embolism is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Understanding the incidence of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after pulmonary embolism is important for evaluating the need for screening but is also a subject of debate because of different inclusion criteria among previous studies. We determined the...

OBJECTIVES Outcomes of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with severe mental disorders are largely unknown. We compared rates of stroke, fatal thromboembolic events and bleeding in patients with AF with and without mental disorders. DESIGN Nationwide registry-based cohort study. SETTING Denmark (population 5.6 million), 2000-2015. PARTICIPANTS Patients with AF with schizophrenia (n=534)...

Chagas disease has become globalized as a result of the migratory process infected patients to non-endemic areas. With considerable number individuals affected by disease, detection and treatment its chronic manifestations is relevant necessary issue. Growing attention been paid cardiomyopathy (CCC), which includes heart failure, malignant arrhythmias, conduction disturbances thromboembolic eve...

BACKGROUND Patients with pulmonary hypertension develop intimal plaques in large pulmonary arteries. OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that the composition of such plaques differs depending on whether the aetiology of the disease is thromboembolic or hypertensive. DESIGN Chronic thromboembolic and plexogenic pulmonary hypertension (primary and secondary (Eisenmenger syndrome)) were investiga...

hypertension in newborn infants, particularly those requiring intensive care, is becoming increasingly recognized, with prevalence of 0.2-3%. recent studies have established normative tables for blood pressure (bp) in both term and pre-term infants based on the gestational age, postnatal age, gender, weight and height, identifying the neonates at increased risk for early-onset cardiovascular di...