Delayed evaluation and management of penetrating cardiac injuries especially mortar fragments were performed in 30 war victims in the Shahid Rajai Heart Hospital, Tehran. All were men with a mean age of 20.7 years. Pleuritic chest pain was the most common symptom (53.3%), while physical examination was negative in the majority of cases (66.8%). 50 percent of the cases had pericardial effus...

The present study examined the antioxidant defense of glutamine on plasma and liver antioxidant status in broilers under PHS with respect to changes in the levels of lipid peroxidation marker malondialdehyde (MDA), total antioxidant status (TAS) and the activities of anti peroxidative enzymes [superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione dependent antioxidant enzymes glutathione peroxidase (GPX)]...

the cardiac action of phenoxybenzamine (dibenzyline) was studiedusing the maximum rate of pressure rise in the left ventricle as a measure of myocardial contractility. cardiac function was assessed by increasing the pressure load on the heart and measuring contractility as reflected by dp/dt. dibenzyline was found to change the cardiac response to pressure load. the rate of pressure increase in...

BACKGROUND Left ventricular myocardial performance index is a Doppler-derived parameter of nongeometrical ventricular function that measures both systolic and diastolic function of the left ventricle. The objective of this study was to compare prognostic value of left ventricular myocardial performance index with global left ventricle function in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft...

Fi uax 1. Apical four-chamber views from preoperative two-dimensional echocardiogram showing dropout of interventriculan/septal echoes (left panel). Peripheral venous D5W injection (middle panel) at first opacifles only right atrium and ventricle, with no right-to-left shunt and possible left-to-right shunt as indicated by negative contrast effect in the right ventricle. With a premature beat, ...

Eleven cases of double inlet left ventricle have been presented. Double inlet left ventricle is characterized by the tricuspid valve opening partly (partial type) or completely (complete type) into the morphological left ventricle. The morphological right ventricle is usually hypoplastic but may be normally formed. Even when the right ventricle is hypoplastic, both the sinus and the outflow por...