introduction: atrial fibrillation (af) is the most prevalent cardiac arrhythmias that cardiologists and internists encounter. the goal of this article is to clarify an overview of the evidence linking inflammation to af existence, which may highlight the effect of some pharmacological agents that have genuine potential to reduce the clinical burden of af by modulating inflammatory pathways. mat...

results: the average of dyssynchrony in eight cycles showed a positive correlation with dyssynchrony in target beat rr1/rr2 = 1. average of dyssynchrony in target beat was 46.77 msec, and average of 8 cycle was = 47.701, (p value = 0.776, pearson linear correlation 0.769). objectives: we proposed to evaluate intraventricular mechanical dyssynchrony by measuring time-to-peak systolic velocity be...

background: atrial fibrillation (af) after coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) is a common complication with potentially higher risk of adverse outcome and prolonged hospital stay. objective: to determine the impact of postoperative af (poaf) on long-term outcome in a large cohort of patients who underwent cabg. patients and methods: we conducted an observational cohort study of 989 patients wh...

we are presenting a case illustrating atrial fibrillation (af) following the use of methylprednisolone in a patient with pelvic and femur fracture. a 48- year- old man with no significant past medical history, was admitted to the emergency department after injury in a car accident. he suffered a multiple bone fracture with chief complaints of pain and shortness of breath. he was transferred to ...

background: atrial fibrillation (af) is prevalent among cardiac patients; and as the risk of thromboembolism is high in this arrhythmia, discrimination of the effective risk factors in producing left atrial (la) thrombosis is clinically important. the molecular structure of lipoprotein(a) [lp(a)] is very similar to plasminogen , so it can be hypothesized that the high level of lp(a) is a compro...

abstract background prolonged p-wave duration and p-wave dispersion indicate interatrial conduction disturbance and early predict arrhythmia especially atrial fibrillation. iron deposition in the atrial tissue might prolonged the atrial conduction time, and this study evaluated the p-wave prolongation and increased p-wave dispersion in these patients. materials and methods fifty patients with m...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was first recognized from pathologic studies in 1958 (1) and subsequently analyzed in detail from hemodynamic (2), echocardiographic (3) and electrophysiologic standpoints (4). It is characterized by a hypertrophied heart with a nondilated left ventricular chamber in the absence of any illness that induces an increased myocardial mass. It is frequently associated wit...

Atrial fibrillation occurred in 16 (10%) of 167 patients with idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis. The clinical and haemodynamic findings in these 16 patients are presented. Atrial fibrillation appeared late in the course of the disease, and its occurrence did not seem to be related to the severity of left ventricular outflow obstruction or to the amount of associated mitral regurgitatio...

This case refers to a 39-year-old woman with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and family history of sudden death (SD). In 1985, high rate atrial stimulation induced VF. In 1996 an ICD was implanted and she remained without arrhythmic events until November 2000 when the device reported one episode of atrial fibrillation degenerating into VF and terminated by the ICD. The VF induction mechanism ...