A 72-year-old female was found to have symptomatic hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy associated with significant aortic stenosis. She severe left ventricular outflow tract obstruction, asymmetric septal hypertrophy, systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve leaflet, and regurgitation. also moderate stenosis that made obstruction even worse which patient progressively not responding med...

pocket infection of a cardiac device is usually treated by removing the device and re - implanting it in a new site after complete treatment of the infection. this report illustrates a complicated case of pocket infection in the wake of the implantation of a permanent pacemaker (cardiac resynchronization therapy). the patient was treated conservatively through daily irrigation and dressing, bro...

introduction: the precise time of using percutaneous coronary intervention (pci) after fibrinolytic therapy for maximum efficiency and minimum side effects is still undetermined. therefore, the present study was designed to compare the outcome of myocardial infarction (mi) patients who underwent surgical intervention (angiography and pci) within 48 hours of thrombolytic therapy or after that. m...

effects of cardiac rehabilitation and relaxation therapy on anxiety and depression in patients with cardiac syndrome x refer to urmia medical science hospitals     feizi a [1] *, khalkhali hr [2] , dehghani mr [3] , sheikhi s [4] , ghaderi ch [5]     received: 13apr, 2012 accepted: 23may, 2012   abstract   background & aims : due to the uncertain etiology and adverse consequent of cardiac syndr...

Background: The most important problem in regular transfusion dependent β-thalassemia major is cardiac dysfunction due to iron deposition in it. The aim of this study was to evaluate correlation between serum ferritin levels and cardiac function in β-thalassemia major in Mofid Hospital. Materials and Methods: There were 112 β-thalassemia patients with a mean age of 13.55± 6.12 years, of whom 49...

asthma is one of the most common chronic inflammatory disorders in children. nonadherence to medical therapy is a major cause of poor clinical outcome the objective of this study was evaluating factors, which are resulted in nonadherence to medical therapy in children with asthma. in  this  descriptive study, 150 children with asthma  and  nonadherent  to  medication therapy were enrolled. gene...

In this issue of iJACC (JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging), Botvinick et al. (1) perform a complex study involving the performance of equilibrium radionuclide myocardiography with phase analysis during ventricular tachycardia. The authors identify specific characteristics that define tolerability of the arrhythmia in individual patients. Most of these discriminating factors in the 2 patient groups i...