The PIVS was originally described by Petros as a vault suspension procedure. It was presented as an alternative to the sacrospinous fixation, transabdominal sacropexy and McCull culdoplasty.1 As a day surgery procedure it had the potential to be used in a number of patients with medical conditions that made traditional surgery seem too risky to consider routinely. Within a short time of initial...

Abstract Introduction the septal perforating arteries of heart usually branch off from anterior and inferior interventricular supply septum conduction system therein. Aim we present case hypertrophic in a 71-year-old man who experienced dyspnoea which was initially misinterpreted as defect. Materials methods transthoracic echocardiography without with contrast, coronary angiography angioTC 3D r...

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an important predictor of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. To investigate the feasibility of the myocardial grayscale intensity (GI) normalized by displacement (d) to discriminate between healthy and hypertrophic myocardium in hypertensive patients, sixty hypertensive patients and sixty age and sex-matched healthy volunteers were involved in this stu...

BACKGROUND Animal studies have shown that shear deformation of myocardial sheets in transmural planes of left ventricular (LV) wall is an important mechanism for systolic wall thickening, and normal and shear strains of the LV free wall differ from those of the interventricular septum (IVS). We sought to test whether these also hold for human hearts. METHODS Thirty healthy volunteers (male 23...

Background: The late postoperative course for children with transposition of the great arteries (TGA) with an intact ventricular septum (IVS) is very important because the coronary arteries may be at risk of damage during arterial switch operation (ASO). We sought to investigate left ventricular function in patients with TGA/IVS by echocardiography. Methods: From March 2011 to December 2012, to...

background: β-thalassemia is a common autosomal recessive disorder resulting from over 200 different mutations of beta glo­bin genes. the aim of the present study was to identify the distribution and frequency of the most com­mon β-thalassemia mu­tations among the population of isfahan province in central iran. methods: the data presented here were derived from a total of 114 β-thalassemia chro...

We tried to assess relationships between echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), arterial pressure levels, and plasma norepinephrine concentration (NE) in 20 previously untreated stable hypertensive patients with LVH, and in 11 healthy normotensive control subjects. Interventricular septal (IVS) thickness, posterior wall (PW) thickness, and left ventricular mass index (LVMI) were ...

Dissection of the interventricular septum (IVS) is an extremely rare entity. An institutional echocardiographic database was retrospectively reviewed; 13 patients with a diagnosis of IVS dissection were found and confirmed by cardiac surgery. The purposes of the study were: to determine the value of transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) in establishing the diagnosis of IVS dissection, and to det...