conclusions this case report underscores the role of fetal echocardiography in the prenatal diagnosis of cardiac disease and illustrates rhabdomyomas in a tuberous sclerosis patient. rhabdomyomas are histologically benign; however, they may cause severe arrhythmia even when they are regressing. case presentation our tuberous sclerosis patient developed arrhythmia unexpectedly while his tumors w...

brucella endocarditis is an uncommon but not rare manifestation of brucellosis in our country. we report six adult patients aged 20 to 45 years. two of our patients were female, and this is the first time that brucella endocarditis was reported in adult females. in five cases, aortic valve replacement was performed in addition to combined antibiotic therapy. one of them died due to immediate co...

background prolonged intensive care unit (icu) and hospital stay after cardiac surgery is vitally important and is influenced by both intraoperative and postoperative factors. objectives this randomized clinical trial study was designed to assess whether vitamin c supplementation could reduce the length of icu and hospital stay in post-cardiac surgery patients. patients and methods two hundred ...

conclusions in our center, prolonged length of stay in the icu correlated positively with euro score. the overall predictive performance of euro score is acceptable and provides both surgeons and intensivists with a good estimate of patient risk in terms of icu stay. background risk stratification models allow preoperative assessment of individual patients cardiac surgical risk and enable analy...

Introduction: Chest pain is a common complaint in children. In this retrospective study we investigated the clinical and etiological characteristics recurrence rates of chest large cohort patients. Material Method: This enrolled children under age 18 years who admitted to our pediatrics pediatric cardiology departments with chief pain. The medical files laboratory data patients were retrospecti...

the use of local anesthesia with lidocaine containing epinephrine in patients with cardiac disease is controversial in the literature. the aim of our study was determining the safety of use the local anesthesia contain epinephrine in patients with ischemic heart disease that undergoing reconstructive surgery. thirty two patients that had known ischemic heart disease and candidate to undergo rec...

introduction: the transmission chance of blood transmitted infections in heart patients underlying surgery and interventional measures due to repeated examinations and transfusions is to be taken into consideration. the important causes of chronic and deadly diseases in patients and healthcare workers are hepatitis c, hiv and hepatitis b infections that have recently attracted the attention of ...

5 cases of hydatid cysts of the heart underwent successful enucleation or removal of the cysts with the aid of cardiopulmonary bypass are being reported. their location, signs, symptoms, diagnostic procedures and consequences are being discussed. clinical, radiologic, electrocardiographic and coronary angiographic findings all confirmed the diagnosis. ah the patients had uneventful postoperativ...

background: extracardiac malformations can be seen in 20-45% of infants with congenital heart disease (chd). chromosomal abnormalities exist in 5-10% of patients with chd. the aim of this study was to assess the frequency of overt extra cardiac malformations in children with chd. methods: this descriptive epidemiologic study was conducted on 720 patients with chd referred to the pediatric cardi...

abstract background: acute coronary syndrome is one of the major cardiovascular diseases that leads to a significant amount of morbidity. the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of cardiac rehabilitation on quality of life in patients with acute coronary syndrome. materials and methods: this was a clinical trial study conducted on 50 patients with acute coronary syndrome ...