introduction: the lack of adequate blood perfusion through different organs of the body, including the brain and skull, can be caused by any type of circulation abnormality. the purpose of this study is to compare cephalometric indices between infants under the age of 12 months who have congenital heart disease (chd) and normal infants. materials and methods: this case-control study was carried...

background: coronary arteriovenous fistulas (cavfs) are direct connections from one or more coronary arteries to cardiac chambers or a large vessel. they are mostly of congenital origin. the aim of this study was to describe clinical presentation and also delineate the course and management of cavf. methods: clinical data, chest x-rays, echocardiographic and angiographic evaluation of 40 patien...

we report a unique case of chronic dissection of the ascending aorta complicated with huge and thrombotic pseudoaneurysm in a patient with coarctation of descending aorta. preoperative investigations such as transesophageal echocardiography (tee) confirmed the diagnosis of dissection. intraoperative findings included a12 cm eccentric bulge of the right lateral side of dilated the ascending aort...

the aim of this study is to evaluate early and late results of surgery in children with congenital heart disease and decreased pulmonary blood flow, who underwent a palliative systemic-to-pulmonary shunt. during the past 9 years, 157 systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunts were performed in 130 patients (69 males, 61 females) with ages from 1 day to 31 years old. they had been evaluated for their c...

an association between chlamydia pneumoniae (c. pneumoniae) and cardiovascular disease has been demonstrated. in this study, we aimed to study this potential relationship in 105 iranian patients. coronary artery specimens from 105 iranian patients undergoing cabg were analyzed by pcr method for c. pneumoniae. serological evaluation for c. pneumoniae igg and igm was performed using elisa. 53 spe...

the use of local anesthesia with lidocaine containing epinephrine in patients with cardiac disease is controversial in the literature. the aim of our study was determining the safety of use the local anesthesia contain epinephrine in patients with ischemic heart disease that undergoing reconstructive surgery. thirty two patients that had known ischemic heart disease and candidate to undergo rec...

discussion children with congenital heart disease are at risk of acquiring gram-negative endocarditis even if they have not had other predisposing factors. case presentation in this study a ten-year-old boy with ventricular septal defect, who was not immune compromised and acquired klebsiella endocarditis is introduced. the patient had a favorable response to medical treatment and underwent a s...

conclusions the results of this study indicated that pmv predictors could be specific for each center and a good administration program is needed for each pediatric cardiac surgery center for the preoperative management of patients undergoing congenital heart surgeries. results a total of 300 patients, 56.7% male, were enrolled in this study. their mean age was 32 ± 40 months .the median durati...

women die of cardiovascular disorders even more than a combination of breast cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and lung cancer. recent data show that while 1 out of 2.6 women die of coronary artery disease (cad), only 1 out of 4.6 die from cancer. whereas some studies show an increase in the age-adjusted mortality of cad in both women and men, some other studies report an i...

background: inflammation and infectious agents such as chlamydia pneumoniae have been associated with cardiovascular disease. objective: to evaluate the serum high sensitivity c - reactive protein (hs-crp) and antibodies against chlamydia pneumoniae and chlamydial heat shock protein-60 (cp-hsp60) in patients with ischemic heart disease (ihd). methods: 62 patients with ihd having either acute my...