ALTHOUGH TWO NINETEENTH CENTURY French pathologists1 2 and an early twentieth century German pathologist3 described cardiac pathological findings compatible with what we know today as "6asymmetrical hypertrophy of the heart," it remained for Donald Teare to bring attention to this entity in 1958.4 In nine cases of sudden death, Teare described a marked hypertrophy and thickening of the interven...

An experienced marathon runner died suddenly during a competitive race. At necropsy, ventricular hypertrophy but no asymmetrical septal hypertrophy was found. Histological studies showed features of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The coronary arteries were normal. We propose that the runner died from myocardial ischaemia, precipitated by marathon running on a background of hypertrophic cardiomyop...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy usually affects males. However, females are also affected in rare instances. Approximately 8% of female Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) carriers are manifesting carriers and have muscle weakness to some extent. We investigated the clinical features of 3 female patients with dystrophinopathy diagnosed by clinical, pathological, and genetic studies at our neuromuscul...

"Tumours of the heart and pericardium have evoked an extensive literature out of all proportion to their uncommon incidence and their relative unimportance as a cause of clinical heart disease." This opening sentence of Friedberg's chapter on cardiac tumours in Diseases of the Heart (Friedberg, 1949) fills a pathologist with diffidence in reporting eight cases that have been seen in the last si...

A 40 years old Afro-Caribbean woman from Nigeria living in Italy for a few months presented because of pelvic pain due to uterine myoma. In view of surgical treatment she had ECG, chest X-ray and standard blood test done. The ECG showed first degree atrio-ventricular block and pathologic Q waves in inferior leads. The radiograph documented some lung congestion. She was asymptomatic and the fami...

Background. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is an important medical, social, and economic problem due to the high prevalence of disease, which often leads disability significantly increases mortality in elderly people. One causes coronary heart disease (CHD) patients with type DM autonomic cardiovascular neuropathy, characterized by damage nervous system manifests itself a varying clinical pictur...

how to cite this article: keihanidoust z, shariat m, rahimian e, tehrani f, saddighi gh. comparative evaluation between diameter difference of the thumb and asymmetry of lateral cerebral ventricles in children with developmental delay: a  new finding. iran j child neurol. summer 2015;9(3):9-12. abstract objective anthropometry (measurement of body dimensions) has been used for clinical diagnosi...

Eighteen patients with an inflammatory pauciarticular peripheral arthropathy not typical of any known entity showed an asymmetrical pattern of disease, with a predilection for the lower extremities. Destructive joint changes and deformities were absent (mean follow-up 10 years). Although spondylitis and sacroiliitis were absent on x-rays, HLA-B27 antigen was found in 8 patients (44%). This anti...