the relationship between congenital heart disease (chd) and growth retardation is well documented. we investigated the growth condition of iranian children with several types of congenital heart disease (chd) and compared it with worldwide researches. growth condition was investigated in 469 patients with important chd aged from 1 month to 18 years. the patients were divided into two groups; in...

background: coronary artery disease is one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality in developed countries. atherosclerosis begins in early childhood and progresses through life. with advances in pediatric cardiology, the prevalence of congenital heart disease in adults has increased in relation to children. a great deal of research has been conducted on serum glucose and lipid conc...

supravalvar mitral ring is a rare congenital heart defect of surgical importance. the condition is characterized by an abnormal ridge of the connective tissue on the atrial side of the mitral valve. it often substantially obstructs the mitral valve inflow. we herein introduce a case of a supravalvar mitral ring in a 17-year-old male, who was admitted to our hospital with cardiac syncope. he had...

background: coarctation of the aorta (coa) is a defect that accounts for 5-8% of all congenital heart diseases. balloon angioplasty as a treatment for coa is increasingly performed, with endovascular stents having been proposed as a means of improving the efficacy and safety of the procedure. the aim of this study was to evaluate the systolic blood pressure gradient at rest and during maximal e...

conclusions we explain embryologic origin, differential diagnosis, other associated anomalies and its treatment by reviewing literature. introduction midline cleft of mandible, classified as tessier 30 clefts is extremely rare, with less than 100 reported cases in the latest studies. variations in severity and associated malformations have been reported before. case presentation in this report,...

a secundum atrial septal defect is the most common congenital heart defect. transcatheter treatment of secundum atrial septal defects is a popular and less invasive alternative to surgery. procedural complications may occur in a wide spectrum, particularly device embolus as the most emergent one, but luckily they do not commonly occur in the clinical setting. mortality from adverse events relat...

abstract a 49-year-old man with lutembacher's syndrome associated with frontal meningioma referred to our hospital. he also suffered from exertional dyspnea. transthoracic echocardiography demonstrated mitral valve area of 1.48 cm2, moderate mitral stenosis, and left atrial dimension (lad) of 5.6 cm with no clot. tee revealed severe mitral stenosis, mitral valve area of 1.05 cm2 with wilki...

there is a number of syndromes, associated with proptosis, micrognathia, low-set ear and chest deformity. herein, we report a 9-year-old female with such phenotype who was presented with a vaginal neuroma. the result of karyotype showed 47xx, with extra marker chromosome 22. although such a manifestation had not been reported in the literature, it should be considered as a very rare manifestati...

background:  levels of anti-inflammatory cytokines in blood have a positive relationship with congenital heart disease (chd). we sought to assess the difference in serum cytokines levels between children with and without chd.  methods:  we recruited 60 patients with chd and 30 healthy children, from 2013 to 2014. patients with primary pulmonary hypertension; metabolic diseases; renal, endocrine...

aortopulmonary window (apw) is a rare congenital malformation. it results from an incomplete division between the ascending aorta and the pulmonary artery. we describe a 26-year-old male, who presented with a grade ii exertional dyspnea and palpitations. echocardiography revealed an apw with an ascending aorta aneurysm. he underwent surgery under cardiopulmonary bypass without aortic cross-clam...