Silicosis is considered to be among the occupational lung diseases and associated with sandblasting, mining, quarrying and tunneling. Acute silicosis is usually progressive diseaseand despite treatment with corticosteroids it leads to cardio-respiratory failure and death. Alveolar silicoproteinosis is one of it’s acute presentations due to exposure to silica dust and lungs filling with protei...

this is a mortality study in internal medicine wards of amir-alam hospital, since the beginning of 1374 to end of 1376. here, we reviewed, prevalence of disease lead to death, the ward and invasive interventions and duration of admission of patients before death. in this study, records of 85 patients were reviewed. 68.2% of patients were men and 31.8% women. mean of age was 61.6% with minimum o...

Ultrasonography at the Emergency Room (ER) becomes a useful tool for emergency doctors, especially when they need to attend diseases that require faster treatment. This is an ideal non-invasive exam which cheap and can be implemented in real time obtain instantly missing information. The quick recognition of causes cardiac instability will lead better results conditions such as cardio-pulmonary...

Dear colleagues, It is my pleasure to welcome you in the third issue of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine and I hope you find it interesting. In this issue, beside the valuable original articles and an interesting case report, a useful review article have been published concerning the role of nuclear medicine in the management of solitary pulmonary nodule.I am proud to announce you that Journ...

The canonical transient receptor potential channels (TRPCs) constitute a series of nonselective cation channels with variable degrees of Ca2+ selectivity. TRPCs consist of seven mammalian members, TRPC1, TRPC2, TRPC3, TRPC4, TRPC5, TRPC6, and TRPC7, which are further divided into four subtypes, TRPC1, TRPC2, TRPC4/5, and TRPC3/6/7. These channels take charge of various essential cell functions ...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: AD: Alzheimer Dementia; AMI: Acute Myocardial Infarction; PCI: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention; NCS: Neurocardiogenic syncope; POTS: Postural Tachycardia Syndrome; MCA: Middle Cerebral Artery; SUDEP: Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy; TTS: Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy; AED: Anti-Epileptic Drugs; SAH: Subarachnoid Hemorrhage; NPE: Ne...

Introduction Juvenile scleroderma (JS), represents a rarely seen group of connective tissue disease with multiple organ involvement. Although quite rare in childhood, cardio-vascular and pulmonary involvements are the most important mortality and morbidity factors. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), the most important sequelae of pulmonary involvement, could be determined by echocardiograph...

Ttiis is a useful book, in which the place of cortisone and other steroid drugs in the treatment of the rheumatic diseases is reviewed. The book falls naturally into two parts. The first section conisists of five chapters, and is concerned with the use of cortisone in rheumatoid arthritis. The second section consists of two chapters, the first of which decribes the general use of cortisone in d...