A 73-year-old man was admitted to the emergency room because of shock and loss of consciousness. Electrocardiography and echocardiography revealed myocardial infarction of the inferoposterior wall and cardiac tamponade. However, laboratory data showed mild inflammation without elevation of any cardiac enzymes. Under percutaneous cardiopulmonary support, coronary angiography showed stenosis of o...

To evaluate cardiopulmonary involvement in schistosomiasis mansoni, 246 patients from an endemic area of Brazil were examined; 152 had been previously treated for schistosomiasis. Based on stool examination and/or abdominal ultrasonography, the patients were divided into those with schistosomiasis (69%) and those in whom the disease was not present (31%). M mode measurements were similar in the...

Objective: To compare the left atrial function utilising speckle tracking echocardiography in patients with low-risk and high-risk non-valvular fibrillation.Methods: The descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted at cardiology department of Kafrelsheikh University Hospital, Egypt, from January 2021 to 2022, comprised fibrillatin participants group I, II, healthy controls III. After detail...

OBJECTIVE Using P-wave signal-averaged electrocardiography, we assessed the patterns of atrial electrical activation in patients with idiopathic atrial fibrillation as compared with patterns in patients with atrial fibrillation associated with structural heart disease. METHODS Eighty patients with recurrent paroxysmal atrial fibrillation were divided into 3 groups as follows: group I - 40 pat...

A 22-year-old man, occasional user of cocaine and smoker of 22 cigarettes/day, was referred to our center for chest pain. The physical examination and laboratory workup were normal. Electrocardiography showed right bundle branch block with Q-waves in V1, V2, and V3. The chest x-ray (Figure 1) revealed a round calcified image superimposed on the cardiac silhouette. On echocardiography, the left ...

A 45-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital after cardiac arrest (ventricular fibrillation); she had been defibrillated and intubated in the field. Electrocardiography revealed a pattern of inferior injury, but echocardiography showed no regional wall-motion abnormalities and a normal left ventricular ejection fraction. Our hypothermia protocol was instituted and cardiac catheterization wa...

To determine the mode of inheritance of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 193 first degree relatives (parents, siblings, and offspring) of 50 patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy were assessed by clinical examination, electrocardiography, M mode and cross sectional echocardiography, and necropsy when available. Thirty nine (20%) first degree relatives had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy--37% of pare...